Hairdresser Turned Trader
From Crypto Chaos to Confident Trader
Interview with IDTA Member Felicity T
Pro Trader and lead Trading Coach, Dani McLeod sits down with Felicity T to discuss her journey learning how to trade Futures with IDTA.
Felicity is part-time hairdresser and full-time farm girl from Inverell — hear her incredible journey into the world of trading. From jumping into crypto during one of its most volatile periods to becoming a confident futures trader, Felicity opens up about the highs, lows, and turning points that shaped her trading journey.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How Felicity’s rural lifestyle complements her trading goals
- Her raw entry into crypto and the valuable lessons it taught her
- What led her to choose IDTA for structured training and support
- The moment she discovered the trading style that suited her ADHD-driven mind
- Her honest advice to anyone starting out in trading
Transcript:
Dani: Hey, Felicity. How are you going?
Felicity: I’m well, Dani. How are you?
Dani: Very well thank you. Thank you for joining me. So let’s start with a little bit about you. What’s your background? Where you’re from?
Felicity: That’s a bit of a long story. I’ve done quite quite a few different things, in my life time. I like a bit of variety in changing things up. Currently living in Inverell. I have a little farm here where we have cattle, and I work part time hairdressing.
So I get a nice little balance of social life and farm life, the quiet life, which actually suits my lifestyle for my trading. So Awesome. So what got you interested into trading? I started out in the crypto market. It was a bit of a baptism of fire, I guess.
You know, the heart of everything and, you know, not even just being trained or knowing too much about it. You know, I just started off. And, yeah, China pulled out, boarding all their endorsements, which obviously caused the market to have, yeah, quite a crash. I actually really enjoyed it, though. That was sort of, like, my start of, like, alright.
This is interesting. This is actually quite challenging. And even though I lost money at the time, it was always something that, you know, I wanted to learn more about. And I thought, you know, moving to the country, it is actually really quite nice to be able to do something from anywhere, wherever you are, as long as you have an Internet connection. So that just sort of got my mind moving, yeah, towards trading and wanting to learn more.
And so I jumped online, and I thought, well, if I’m going to do this, I need to get trained properly. You know? I want to wanna learn as much as I can and be the best as I can, and that’s where I found IDTA. Amazing. So, yeah, crypto is a little bit different to futures.
Dani: Well, not necessarily different much. We’re actually moving towards potentially doing some more in the crypto space as well, so that’s awesome. So what specifically made you choose us to further your education on I guess training, and the support that was offered?
Felicity: Just having, yeah, options. You know, you can just start out basic, see if you like it, see if it’s for you. If you want to go further, you know, there’s further education that you offer and the support, you know, having a coach, talking one on one, staying accountable, and, you know, and then, I guess, just even the support group of what IDTA, offers online. So, you know, last year, obviously, I did a bit of speaking in the conference and just seeing everybody there. Like, everyone’s in the same boat, really.
Like, we’re all there for the same purpose, to learn to be the best that we can. So, yeah, I just felt like IDTA offered that for me.
Dani: Awesome. Yeah. Trading can be a very lonely journey. So to have a community behind you, I’m sure you can see that it’s a big help, to know that you’re not alone. Right? Was there a specific moment in your journey where everything just kinda clicked?
Felicity: Yeah. Actually, it took me a really long time, to get there.
I felt like I felt like to start off, you know, you think, okay. I’ll just do a course, learn the basics, do my time, and then off you go. And, you know, it’s you know, you do the education side of it. But I don’t think that, for me personally, I underestimated how much of a headspace that you need to have to be able to to trade. It’s not easy.
If it was, everybody would be doing it. So yeah. So for me, I think it has taken me quite a long time to figure out who I am, what kind of trader I am. I have changed my style so many times to finally figure out and not out what that is and what that looks like.
So it wasn’t until then that I sorted out my brain and just knowing, I guess, who you are. Like, I have very itchy little fingers, and I have eight a day. So, yeah, my brain works really quite fast. So I needed to recognize that, learn those things about myself to suit my style of trading. And then once that came together, I felt like that was my moment.
Dani: I was just gonna say that, like, you worked out your personality style and which market and time slot suits you. So you become the specialist of The US closed NQ. And so you get your trading out the way early morning. It’s done. You can start your day fresh.
Don’t have to think about trading anymore. So it’s really awesome how you’ve adapted what you recognized as yourself and your personality and what is gonna suit me best. And it was the faster paced market, smaller time frames as well, smaller risk, smaller world, but quite really reasonably balanced risk reward as well, I would say, from what I’ve seen of you. And I love that you you know your strategy has evolved over time to something that you’re really comfortable trading with now, but it has taken a bit of time, which is very normal, very normal. Traders need to figure out, you know, what works best for them, and you’ve done it.
You persisted. And, yeah, it’s really inspiring to see what you’re doing now for the city. So well done. Yeah. Would you say I mean, it’s a pretty no brainer question, but your confidence and your how you are interacting with the market, has that improved over time as well?
Felicity: It has. It came about through me really dialing it back. Like I said, I think it’s not just one of those things that you can just go and get and just be good at, like, straight away. Well, for me personally, maybe some people might be different, but it’s something that I, you know, I went out and I thought, yep. I’m ready.
I’m ready to do this. I feel good about this. Went and went on enqueue, and I probably went a little bit too gung hoed, too happy, and probably a little bit too cocky about it. And mother market bit me, and I learned quite a few lessons quite a few times, probably the hard way. And until I dialed it back, I actually went back to MNQ, and that’s how I actually found my strategy that I shared at the conference, you know, using the two minute time frames, compared to the five minute.
Wasn’t until I went back to MNQ, and I really started nodding out just, like, the really minor details in my market and learning the most about how how it moves. I always say it’s a she, how she moves. It is. It’s so important to understand, like, your market and what you’re, like, learning about its behavior, and it changes. Like, you’ve gotta learn to adapt and change with the nature of it nature of the beast.
You know, and just maintaining that state of equanimity to, you know, you lose a trade, so what? If you win a trade, so what? Like, easier said than done. But until I actually really took it back to the bare basics, and traded MNQ and got my confidence back up again, Yeah. That was that was a big part for me that’s helped me so much in my journey.
Dani: Amazing. So what would you go back and tell yourself before starting with IDTA if you could go back and tell yourself one thing?
Felicity: Be patient. Yep. If we’re not patient already, trading will teach us that, which is a beautiful skill to have in life anyway.
Dani: Right? So it’s a nice little side effect. Awesome. And would you recommend ITA to others?
Felicity: Absolutely.
Yeah. Like I said, you know, the support group, the community, the information you provide, the training, like, it really yeah. It really has got the best of the best to offer. So, actually, like, friends asked me, am I still trading? And I say, yeah.
You know? And, like and then people do get curious. People ask, like, oh, where did you start? And, you know, very similar questions to to what I’m getting asked now. So, yeah, and I say if you’re interested, like, look them up.
So yeah.
Dani: Love that. Thank you so much for joining me, and I wish you all the best, hon.
Felicity: Thank you, Dani