Yvan Byeajee has been trading for his own account since 2007. At first, he started doing it on a part-time basis and by mid 2009 it had transitioned to a full-time. Said this way, it might sound as if it was an easy path -- it wasn't! Yvan went through significant drawdowns -- both financial and emotional -- before he was able to return consistent profits from his trading operations. All these years of interacting and engaging with the markets have allowed him to see what makes a good approach to trading. Good trading is not a function of intelligence. If it was, every rocket scientist out there would become millionaires trading the markets. So it is something else. A proven edge and a risk management technique are important but psychology -- self-knowledge, self-regulation, and adaptability -- is what glues everything together. Most of Yvan's work centers around helping traders with that. Yvan is an amazon best-selling author. He was also featured in Dr Brett Steenbarger's book, Trading Psychology 2.0, where he shares his best trading practices. Dr Steenbarger is the author of several best-selling classics such is The daily trading Coach, The psychology of trading, etc. These days when he is not trading Yvan blogs at www.tradingcomposure.com. He has also contributed to blogs like newtraderu, zentrader, bizcommunity, tradeciety, etc.