Isadora Reign

 There was a time when my entire “plan” for a trade fit into one sentence: “This looks good. I’ll just try a small position.” That one sentence cost me a lot of money. Before I rebuilt my approach, I traded like many retail investors do: reacting to price, headlines, and social media, telling myself I was being “opportunistic”. In reality, I wasn’t opportunistic. I was impulsive. Today, as part of my work with VERAXIS Global Business School, I help students move from emotional, scattered trading to structured, intentional decision-making. And it starts with something deceptively simple: a written trading plan. The real problem: not bad strategy, but no structure Most traders don’t fail because their ideas are terrible. They fail because their behavior is undefined . They enter without clear conditions. They exit based on fear or hope. They move stops when price moves against them. They size positions randomly. If you pause many traders mid-click and as...

  Three years ago, I sat in my Brooklyn apartment staring at a screen showing a devastating loss. The number was significant enough to make me question everything I thought I knew about markets. Today, that painful moment has become the foundation of my educational mission at VERAXIS Global Business School. This isn't a story about getting rich quick or finding the perfect trading strategy. It's about transformation through education, the power of proper mentorship, and why understanding risk matters more than chasing returns. The Wharton Graduate Who Thought She Knew It All I graduated from Wharton with honors, armed with theories, models, and the confidence that comes from academic excellence. The financial world seemed logical, predictable even. Supply and demand curves, efficient market hypothesis, portfolio optimization - I had mastered them all. My early career in New York's financial district reinforced this confidence. I was surrounded by brilliant minds, sophis...