Thread by @theBuoyantMan

If you really want to learn from someone on social media, you don't have to pay for their courses or any special access programs.

Like Ekalavya, you can consume with intent whatever your self-assumed Guru puts out in the form of content.

When you use a bit of common sense, reverse engineering, and connecting the dots as a practice with all that they post, you can figure out with 95-98% what they do, how they do it, why they do it, etc.

When I initially started moving towards systematic trading, I read all of @madan_kumar's tweet threads, blog posts, zerodha qna interview and its comments section, his threads on traderji forum, etc. Those have the best insights most of which he likely condenses in his workshops.

I also went back to the old tweets @bhatiamanu had put out since 2017 or so, on his entries and exits, and reverse engineered his methodologies (initially it was cash based leveraged trades, sort of a combination of price+volume breakout, and thereafter positional).

I had also read both the AMAs he'd put out on Reddit showing his P&L statement, going 300% both years between 2017 and 2019. I then went through his telegram channel for how he approached stop placement, money management, and other nuances.

The same goes for @david_perell and @fortelabs. All of June month, I spent time scouring through their past tweets and read every single one of their blog posts up until that point, taking detailed notes. Whatever I am doing now on Twitter is all thanks to them.

David Perell's course costs $6000. It's not priced for my threshold. His blog is 70% of his course, so I decided I'd consume everything he's put out, with intent, and find patterns that I can implement. That's what I have been doing, and it's working well so far.

I have no clue how much capital Madan or Bhatia trade with. I don't know many specifics of their style and trading. But from whatever I did, I gathered enough to be able to fill in the rest of the blanks and gaps by myself. It took a year of refining to get where I am now.

So, for anyone who can't afford to pay for workshops or mentorship, the mentors are out there, putting out valuable content. You only have to dig deep and connect the dots to make a coherent sense of the steps and sequence of things you must do with it.

If you look with intent, and read the books written by the great traders/investors, assume few people to be your guru, and put your intelligence into use in extracting the best from whatever they put out, you'll do much better.