Becky’s Trading Journey, Spring 2025
In January of 2025, Becky became the sole Market Mama with this podcast and goodness has it been a season for her! There has most certainly been her fair share of challenges during this time, but also significant growth and success! In this episode of the Market Mamas trader psychology podcast, Becky shares an update on her personal journey as a futures day trader, discussing the challenges and triumphs she has faced over the years. From learning trading from scratch to finding an advanced trading mentor who really elevated her skills, and starting a real-time trader psychology and growth podcast to navigating early profitability, it has been quite transformative few years!
In this episode’s conversation, Becky emphasizes the importance of emotional management, consistency in trading her process, and the need to reset and rebuild after setbacks. Even while achieving her largest payouts yet this year, she has still stumbled and needed to work diligently to rebalance! Her journey has been marked by two steps forward, one back, and likely that is not so rare of a trader journey story!
Becky reflects in this episode on her growth as a trader to this point, the significance of surrounding oneself with supportive individuals, and the power of compounding profits through smart trading strategies. As a prop funding company trader, Becky has really learned, pivoted, and adjusted with how to best capitalize on the opportunities that these funding companies provide over the past couple of years! Currently, Becky is successfully funded by and taking payouts from both TopStep and Bulenox trader funding companies. For any Bulenox traders, feel free to use her coupon code: MMAMAS that will get you the best available sale at any given time, often up to 91% off!
The conversation concludes with an optimistic outlook on her future as a trader and the importance of perseverance for long-term success. Sometimes hindsight is really such a beautiful lens to view growth through that can often get lost in the day to day hustle. As always, gratitude is a large factor in Becky’s psychological approach to life and trading! After watching, please let her know, how is your trading journey progressing? Let’s compare notes and evolve together traders!
Key Episode Takeaways:
Hosting the Market Mamas podcast has been a unique and exciting experience.
Day trading requires emotional management and consistency.
Surrounding yourself with supportive people is crucial to surviving in this game.
Resetting and rebuilding after setbacks is an extremely common part of the journey.
Perfection is not the goal; progress is what matters and compounds.
Trader maturity and happiness through this pursuit involves balancing life and trading.
Compounding profits with a defined process can lead to significant financial growth.
Recognizing the importance of a studied and repeatable process in trading is essential.
Don't quit; lean into what serves you in trading. And that might look different for each of us.
Our best trading days are ahead if we keep learning and growing.
“Perfection is not at all the goal. I just want to find and execute on my best trading setup each morning.”
~ Becky Gaskell, Market Mamas
Thank you to everyone who is subscribing to the podcast, reading the blogs, and providing me with feedback! I am truly grateful to be growing this Market Mamas podcast and community with you all! I love talking about my favorite subject - trading! Miss Market is abundant for those of us that embrace a growth mindset and pursue deliberate practice in learning her tells and our own tendencies. And trading absolutely can be an avenue for the wildest success. But not without diligent work for many many months and years. But to those who show up for the effort and dedication, you are my people and I would love to get to know you better! Please take a moment to shoot me a comment on https://www.market-mamas.com/contact!
Happy Trading & Let’s Go!