StockedUp.
Founded July of 2017
4,000 Members From 80 Different Countries.
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Who We Are
StockedUp is one of the fastest-growing international financial education and algorithmic trading companies of 2022. We have over 4,000 clients from all 50 states and 80 different countries. We offer a variety of stock trading strategy courses that teach people how to leverage the stock market to generate another source of income. For existing traders, we have multiple custom-coded stock market algorithms that help predict the movement of stocks and options. Our mission is to help as many people as possible to leverage the stock market in order to become financially free.
Our Story
Hey! My name is Mike D'Antonio. I am the Founder/CEO of StockedUp. I've been trading the stock market since I was 15 years old. I've taught over 4,000 people how to trade the stock and options market and have programmed numerous trading algorithms. Check out my story below!
By the time I got to 8th grade, I had a couple thousand in my savings account and was looking at how to grow that. Similar to most 8th grade boys, I enjoyed playing Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA). One day while playing GTA, I came across a virtual stock market and I was intrigued. I invested $20,000,000 virtual currency into an airline stock and made about $35,000,000 profit in an hour. From that second on, I was hooked. Stocks gave me an avenue to get my money to work for me instead of me having to work for money. Unfortunately, there was one major problem — I was 13 years old and I had to be 18 years old to have a brokerage account to trade stocks in real life. So, I went to my father and talked him into making a brokerage account for the both of us. Luckily, he agreed and we invested $2,000 into Apple ($AAPL). After a couple of months of holding Apple, we ended up making $100. I started researching the stock market, how it works, and what makes stocks go up and down.
Moving into my freshman year, I started to combine my coding knowledge from my Minecraft server business with my newfound stock trading strategy knowledge. I created my first stock trading algorithm that focused on catching the low-points on penny stocks. The algorithm would find a list of penny stocks that were likely to go up the next week. I simply had to place the orders for those penny stocks. The algorithm's job was to find penny stocks that fell rapidly and were ready to rebound back up. I offered this algorithm to some of the members in the StockedUp Facebook group. That algorithm worked well but due to the nature of penny stocks being as volatile and manipulated as they are, I needed to find a different security type to deploy the algorithm on. I kept researching new security types such as futures, forex, options, cryptocurrencies, and large-cap stocks. I was continuously looking for new ways to deploy my algorithm to find great setups and to help others with their stock trading strategies.
Finally, the summer going into sophomore year, I incorporated my company, StockedUp, and stopped playing all my high school sports. StockedUp was growing fast and I genuinely had a passion for what I was doing.
By the time Sophomore year started, my plan was to go into the futures market and trade E-mini S&P 500 Futures. I started messing around with code on a new stock trading strategy one day, backtested it, and saw amazing backtested results. This new stock trading strategy was showing projected returns of 300% per week! I felt as if I won the lottery and I just found the ultimate stock trading strategy. So, I coded the strategy to make it fully automatic. That way, I’d be making money 24/7.
After coding the stock trading strategy, I made it my first trading robot — a piece of software that trades completely automatically all day long. I decided to launch the software on my birthday! I launched the software, and I ended up losing half of my account value in 15 minutes. It was a disappointment for me to see my software fail, but it just pushed me to study harder. Looking back on it, I am so glad this happened because it strengthened my character, and forced me to get creative.
In the middle of the summer going into my junior year, I started to research options. I taught myself the options market and started messing around with a couple of algorithms for it. I was very interested in "straddle option spreads" because they gave the investor the ability to profit whether the underlying stock moved up or down. So, I started experimenting with new algorithms for the options market and started a strategy for the straddles. I collected data for some time, finished the strategy's rules, then started trading the straddles. I entered a small straddle position during my first week and made a 20% profit. I was happy and couldn't wait until next week's plays. Next week, I invested a little more into the straddles and made a 20% profit. It was relieving to see a strategy that worked, but I didn't start to celebrate yet. The next week, I invested even more into the straddles and made another 20% profit. I was on a roll. This trend continued for multiple weeks with a few small losses. But overall, I made all the money that I lost since 8th grade back. I continued to play the straddles and grew my account by the end of my junior year.
I am now to the point where I have grown my personal account, have developing numerous other great strategies for the stock and options markets, made invaluable connections with other traders, and helped educate others along the way. The StockedUp Facebook group has 4,000 members and is growing at a rapid pace. A lot of members like to follow the straddles that I post every week. The group has become an amazing place to discuss trading ideas, ask questions, and network. I have dedicated well over 10,000 hours of study to this industry and it is relieving to say that my dedication has paid off. I am glad I never quit.
Lessons Learned
Mindset > Strategy.
I can give you a list of the 10 stocks that have a 90% chance of going up next month and most new traders would still lose money. This is because the stocks can go down before they go up. Most new traders would sell their positions when they are down because they are scared they are going to lose more money. So, they panic, sell, and walk away with a loss. In reality, they should have held and let their investments develop. Sometimes you have to have the guts to hold a position even if it's down.
You will not win every trade.
No matter how good of a trader you become, you will never win every single trade. Some of the best traders in history only won 75% of the time.
It's not about how smart you are.
Keep it simple. If the stock market was for geniuses, you'd see a lot more smart people trading stocks actively. Trading stocks is a unique skill that is developed with experience.
Never quit.
Yes, I know, it sounds like a cliché. However, if you never quit, you will eventually find something that works. It took me hundreds of strategies/algorithms to find a couple that work. Looking back on my process, I am glad I never quit.