Trading as a Business

Alfredo Chaumer builds this book around a simple principle: trading only works if you treat it as an actual business.

His approach steps away from social media marketing and the promise of living off trading within a few months. Instead, he lays out several concrete ingredients — from a business plan to cost management and periodic results review — for building your activity with a long-term view rather than treating it as a one-off bet.

It's a short, niche, self-published book that doesn't try to replace a technical manual: you won't find entry strategies or indicators here. What it offers is the business structure many traders never stop to build, even after trading for years without a written plan.

It fits especially well if you've been trading for months or years without clear metrics or a results review, and need that push to professionalize your activity. For anyone trading with prop firms, the business mindset — consistency over one-off wins — is exactly what that environment demands.