50 Trades in 50 Weeks: One year of good ideas, dumb mistakes, and timeless trading lessons

50 Trades in 50 Weeks
One year of good ideas, dumb mistakes, and timeless trading lessons

Hi, I’m Brent Donnelly. This is 50 Trades in 50 Weeks.

Over the years, many have asked me for a detailed, start-to-finish walkthrough of my process and framework for selecting and executing trades. 50in50 uses the business school case study method to go through fifty(ish) real-time trades in detail.

The idea first came to life as a blog on Substack, and this two-book series is a permanent record of the weekly process that spanned from February 2022 to May 2023. Each week, I shared a new trade idea and walked readers through my thought process. Lessons include a wide range of topics like global macro, technicals, backtesting, correlation, narrative analysis, mindset, risk management, position sizing, and of course the psychology of successful trading.

50in50 lets you watch real trade ideas come to life in real time.

Each trade goes from start to finish, touching on aspects like:

Where did the idea come from? Why does it make sense?
Narrative
Fundamental analysis
Technicals
Pattern recognition
Backtesting
Positioning and sentiment