The Man Who Outsmarted 90% Of Traders, And Became A US Investing Champion

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On this episode of Words of Rizdom, we are joined by Christian Flanders. Christian went from professional poker player to world-class trader, achieving 1300%+ returns in 2 years. Placing second in the Million-Dollar Division of the US Investing Championships.Christian breaks down how poker helped him understand risk, why trading became a battle against himself, how he survived brutal multi-year drawdowns, and what finally changed after years of struggling to find true consistency.We hope you enjoy this interview!Like, Subscribe & Enable Notifications 🔔New verified trader episodes every Thursday 3PM GMT / 10AM EST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Chart Academy: https://www.chartacademy.com/Chart Fanatics Live: https://www.youtube.com/@chartfanaticslive20% OFF Alpha Capital Group (Code: RIZ): https://link.alphacapitalgroup.uk/eq7m8X20% OFF Alpha Futures (Code: RIZ): https://link.alpha-futures.com/k9V5AzTradeZella (Code: RIZ10 for 10% OFF Monthly or WOR for 20% OFF Yearly): https://refer.tradezella.com/rizBEST Deals on all Prop Firms: https://propfirmtrader.com/ FREE Market Journal Newsletter: https://www.market-journal.comDownload This Playbook: https://www.chartfanatics.com🚀 Join Our FREE Trading CommunityDiscord: https://discord.gg/chartfanatics/Telegram: https://t.me/pocketsofrizdom━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙 Guest: https://twitter.com/CFlanders7🎙 Host: Words of Rizdomhttps://youtube.com/@wordsofrizdomhttps://instagram.com/wordsofrizdomhttps://x.com/wordsofrizdom https://www.instagram.com/realriziqbal━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Timestamps:00:00 - Intro06:03 - Early Trading Career & Professional Poker11:50 - Risk, Uncertainty & Trading Emotions16:07 - Biggest Trading Loss & Stop Loss Lesson21:33 - Overtrading, Pressure & Process Focus26:07 - 2024 Breakthrough & Trading Accountability28:42 - Win Rate, Risk Reward & Swing Trading Stats35:04 - All-Time High Breakouts & Position Sizing41:17 - Health, Discipline & Trader Performance46:29 - Self-Belief, Commitment & Burn The Ships49:15 - Letting Winners Run & Trailing Stops54:27 - Trade Journaling, Data & Reviewin