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50 Trades in 50 Weeks: One year of good ideas, dumb mistakes, and timeless trading lessons
50 Trades in 50 Weeks
One year of good ideas, dumb mistakes, and timeless trading lessons
Hi, I’m Brent Donnelly. This is 50 Trades in 50 Weeks .
Over the years, many have asked me for a detailed, start-to-finish walkthrough of my process and framework for selecting and executing trades. 50in50 uses the business school case study method to go through fifty(ish) real-time trades in detail.
The idea first came to life as a blog on Substack, and this two-book series is a permanent record of the weekly process that spanned from February 2022 to May 2023. Each week, I shared a new trade idea and walked readers through my thought process. Lessons include a wide range of topics like global macro, technicals, backtesting, correlation, narrative analysis, mindset, risk management, position sizing, and of course the psychology of successful trading.
50in50 lets you watch real trade ideas come to life in real time.
Each trade goes from start to finish, touching on aspects
Where did the idea come from? Why does it make sense?
Risk management
Psychology . How might this trade be ruined by mental errors and bias?
The alternative hypothesis
Data collection . Monitoring and tracking trades.
Learning . What have we learned?
50in50 is a 1-year “Introduction to Trading” class full of new ideas, tactics, and strategies for trading.
The books follow the trades over time and conclude with takeaways and the many lessons learned along the way. The target audience is traders with 0 to 5 years of experience , but professionals will find the series valuable, too.
One year of good ideas, dumb mistakes, and timeless trading lessons
Hi, I’m Brent Donnelly. This is 50 Trades in 50 Weeks .
Over the years, many have asked me for a detailed, start-to-finish walkthrough of my process and framework for selecting and executing trades. 50in50 uses the business school case study method to go through fifty(ish) real-time trades in detail.
The idea first came to life as a blog on Substack, and this two-book series is a permanent record of the weekly process that spanned from February 2022 to May 2023. Each week, I shared a new trade idea and walked readers through my thought process. Lessons include a wide range of topics like global macro, technicals, backtesting, correlation, narrative analysis, mindset, risk management, position sizing, and of course the psychology of successful trading.
50in50 lets you watch real trade ideas come to life in real time.
Each trade goes from start to finish, touching on aspects
Where did the idea come from? Why does it make sense?
Risk management
Psychology . How might this trade be ruined by mental errors and bias?
The alternative hypothesis
Data collection . Monitoring and tracking trades.
Learning . What have we learned?
50in50 is a 1-year “Introduction to Trading” class full of new ideas, tactics, and strategies for trading.
The books follow the trades over time and conclude with takeaways and the many lessons learned along the way. The target audience is traders with 0 to 5 years of experience , but professionals will find the series valuable, too.
562 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2023
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About the author
Brent Donnelly
8 books49 followersBrent Donnelly has been trading currencies since 1995 and is currently a senior FX trader at HSBC New York. He writes a widely read and highly respected macro and FX daily called AM/FX. Over the course of his career, he has been a market maker, trader, and senior manager at some of the top banks in foreign exchange. He has extensive experience trading spot FX, interest rate products, FX options, stock index futures, single name equities, and commodities.
Brent is a respected macroeconomic and currency analyst with the unique perspective of a senior risk taker. His work has been quoted by the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC.
Before joining HSBC, Brent was head of G10 Spot Trading at Citi New York and global head of G10 FX Trading at Nomura New York. He was also a portfolio manager at a major hedge fund in Connecticut for three years. He created and wrote a cartoon called “Daft Planet,” which aired on TV in Canada.
Brent is a respected macroeconomic and currency analyst with the unique perspective of a senior risk taker. His work has been quoted by the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC.
Before joining HSBC, Brent was head of G10 Spot Trading at Citi New York and global head of G10 FX Trading at Nomura New York. He was also a portfolio manager at a major hedge fund in Connecticut for three years. He created and wrote a cartoon called “Daft Planet,” which aired on TV in Canada.
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