{"id":6339,"date":"2012-10-18T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T01:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradingheroes.com\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2024-03-27T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:28:08","slug":"ttl-009-how-brian-mcaboy-leveraged-his-engineering-background-to-trade-and-coach-for-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradingheroes.com\/ttl-009-how-brian-mcaboy-leveraged-his-engineering-background-to-trade-and-coach-for-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"EP9 \/\/ How Brian McAboy Leveraged His Engineering Background To Trade And Coach For A Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XiIc0_sfPQg?rel=0&showinfo=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"post-aff-notice\">When you buy something through one of the links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/div><\/p>\n<p>Learning to trade profitably on your own can take a long time for some people, but if you have a mentor or coach helping you, the time can be reduced significantly.<\/p>\n<p>I have wanted to get a Trading Coach on the Podcast for awhile now and I am happy to present my first interview with a Trader\/Trading Coach.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6343\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6343\" title=\"brian-mcaboy-interview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brian-mcaboy-interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian McAboy &#8211; Trader and Trading Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brian McAboy used to be a Mechanical Engineer in the Manufacturing Industry, but he caught the trading bug and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>Just like every other Trader, he took his lumps early on in his career and wanted to understand how to be the best trader he could be.<\/p>\n<p>As he started trading profitably, he wanted to help others do the same and when the opportunity presented itself, he began coaching.<\/p>\n<p>Being an Engineer, he understood the benefit of creating documented processes and set about applying that to his trading and his coaching business.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important points that Brian brings up is that trading must be treated as a business.<\/p>\n<p>Many people think that trading is somehow different from opening a restaurant or selling t-shirts on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>While the products are very different, the basic principles of business still apply. 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