Paul
Taking the trades led to overall losses
I was very impressed with Bravos’s YouTube free videos and subscribed in September (2025). When I joined I took every trade and followed every alert. I did this until the end of December when I saw that I was losing money overall and felt that although I had some winners (SMCI, AMAT, CAMTEK, NTRA, SPXS, ZS, GEV, SLV, CPER), I found that I was being overwhelmed by the losses. I lost money on the recommended trades for ETHA, EMCOR, TEVA, SQQQ, AMZN, MSFT, GEV, NVDA, ACMR, SCMI, ROKU, GILD, ISRG, NU, COPX, SPXS, VCYT, STE, and TSM. The winners did not make up for the losers. So in January, due to the losses, and my sense that the market overall was not in the expected uptrend, (the macro Bravos thesis that “Stocks Are Poised For A Risk On Move), I stopped executing the trades and started to simulate the results as if I were taking the trade alerts. I am very glad that I did not continue to trade the alerts since the beginning of January; I would have further losses. On the plus side, Bravos is very disciplined about keeping losses tight and they do take profits along the way when stocks rise (and the profit taking just before earnings announcements has been very effective recently when even good earnings have often been rejected by the market). I would guess on average my losses were kept to around 5-7% and never more than 9%. But in this choppy market for the last many months, frequent losses have added up. Breakouts have often been failing at resistance or falsely breaking out more often than not. Another plus is that Peter’s videos are fascinating and insightful on a macro level. Having said that, the thesis that markets should continue higher has not been borne out yet. It may well! But unfortunately over the last 6 months, the anticipated rise has not played out. I wonder if my timing has been unfortunate and that Bravos’s strategy is better suited to a steadily rising market, because the strategy is often based on anticipated breakouts. But, having said that, expertise in judging the market is what we pay for.




