Catalina Norena Valderrama @VIXGold: "“𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢..."

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“𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨.” 𝖩𝖺𝗆𝖾𝗌 𝖮'𝖲𝗁𝖺𝗎𝗀𝗁𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗌𝗒 I am writing this post for my copiers and followers to know more about the methodology I use to invest. I hope this can be helpful and interesting for you. My investment framework is based on 3 pillars: 👉 𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮-𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺: I make my decisions based on numbers. For this, I created a system to process and analyse information from multiple sources and apply it according to backtesting, trends and technical indicators. I am a firm believer that in order to make good decisions, you need to let the numbers do the talking. The rest is just speculation. This is the heart of my investment style. 👉 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: You might associate this word with endurance in bad times in the hope for things to get better at some point… I actually find this approach quite risky. Things can always get worse. Otherwise no company would ever go bankrupt. What do I mean by resilience? For me it is the ability to stick to a system. When pressure builds, investors start to: • Skip signals • Change position sizes inconsistently • Add discretionary overrides • “Wait for confirmation” When this happens, your system is no longer a system. Your system is only as good as the person managing it. And believe me, during difficult times, you might feel tempted to override it. That is when resilience kicks in. 👉 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: In his Stanford commencement speech, 𝖲𝗍𝖾𝗏𝖾 𝖩𝗈𝖻𝗌 said something that has always stayed with me: “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥.” The same is true in investing. When I talk about experience, I am not only referring to my long track record on eToro, but the diverse roles I have taken on throughout my career. I have worked in very diverse industries at major S&P 500-corporations, in different finance-related roles all having a strong impact on the business. To give you some examples, my experience allows me to read a press release and confidently break it down piece by piece; it allows me to understand difficult decisions business leaders need to take and how the investor relations department works in a major company. Writing this post has made me realise that I have never shared with you many of the key learnings my work experience has given me and how this has made me a better investor. This is something I am planning to change, and in the future, I want to share more about my work experience with you, as I think it can be very helpful in putting different aspects in their proper context. With that being said, thanks for reading. And remember, in order to be a good investor, you need a good combination of soft and hard skills. How you mix them becomes your own personal signature 💪 $SPX500 $NSDQ100 $SPY (State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF) $VXX (iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term FuturesTM ETN) $GOLD

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