How To Trade Stocks: A Comprehensive Guide

Achieve triple-digit annual returns in the market

Shashank Vemuri
19 min readJan 29, 2022

Background

I started trading as a sophomore in high school when I learned about the stock market by talking to my microeconomics teacher, a former broker at the NYSE. This time in high school was crucial to my development because I had a lot of spare time and a deep desire to learn about the markets.

I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours studying charts, doing deep dives into market structure, and absorbing knowledge from mentors like Pradeep Bonde and Kristjan Qüllamaggie. I was lucky to find these people early on because they shaved years off my learning curve. I was not profitable, and in fact, I lost most of my money multiple times, but I kept trying repeatedly.

Most people fail at trading because they’re not built for constant failure. No one is. It’s a skill you learn when you have an inextinguishable passion. Looking back on it, it truly is bizarre to keep trying something with virtually no odds of success. But that’s what I did for years, and it was essential because I think I learned more about the stock market during that time than I would have ever thought possible.

The purpose of this post is to pull back the curtains of what I learned during my time studying the market. I want to get into a high-level overview of my process explaining everything from the setups I’m executing to what markets I actively trade in. I’ll also include…

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Shashank Vemuri
Shashank Vemuri

Written by Shashank Vemuri

Hey! I’m Shashank Vemuri, a software engineer, stock trader, and entrepreneur.

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