Technical Trading Analysis With Robert Roy Ep. 30 — Rob’s Trading Story, Trader Archetypes, and a Strong Month
This episode is a change of pace from the usual candidate-scan format, and it’s arguably the most personal entry in the run. Rob opens up about how he got into trading back in 1997, long before charting software looked anything like it does today, and there’s a genuine warmth to how he tells it — less a highlight reel and more an honest account of a beginner slowly figuring things out over years, not weeks. For viewers who’ve only seen him confidently calling out fib levels on a nightly scan, this origin story fills in the part of the picture that usually stays offscreen: the early mistakes, the slow build of a repeatable process, and the amount of time it actually took to get here.
From there, Rob breaks trading down into four broad archetypes — the scalper, the day trader, the swing trader, and the investor — and walks through what separates them, not as a hierarchy but as genuinely different games with different skill sets, time horizons, and temperaments. It’s a useful framing for newer viewers who might assume every trader is doing the same thing on a different timescale; Rob is clear that a good scalper and a good swing trader are often thinking about the market in almost opposite ways, and that trying to force one style into another’s mold is a common way people talk themselves out of results that were actually working.
The numbers Rob shares are specific and, notably, unflashy about it — up $8,534.76 for the month across 27 trades with an 85% win rate, largely trading single contracts against his fixed watchlist. He calls out Goldman Sachs and APP as particularly strong performers in that stretch, and uses Costco as an example of a higher-cost, higher-volatility name that behaves differently in the account than the cheaper, steadier names on his list. On the swing side, he walks through a handful of standout trades — Carvana netting $6,988 across four contracts, Meta bringing in $6,700, and a twelve-day SPY position adding another $1,653 — each one tied back to the same fib-based “look left” methodology he uses on the S&P chart, essentially asking what the chart did the last time it was at a similar level before deciding what it’s likely to do this time.
Rob also uses this episode to credit two people he trades alongside as fellow WealthBuilders coaches: Brandon Wendell, a CMT who specializes in RSI-based analysis, and Ryan Litchfield, who focuses on candlestick patterns combined with chart location. It’s a small moment, but it signals that Rob doesn’t present himself as a lone-wolf guru — he’s part of a broader coaching community with complementary specialties, which adds some credibility to the process he’s teaching rather than presenting it as one person’s unrepeatable magic touch.
The episode closes on an unexpectedly motivational note, with Rob leaning on a bystander-effect analogy — the idea that people are less likely to act when they assume someone else will — to nudge viewers toward actually doing the work rather than waiting on the sidelines, plus a short anecdote about mastering TradeStation the way a craftsman masters a tool through repetition. He wraps by pointing viewers toward free resources at tradinglikeaboss.com. For anyone who’s watched the more clinical candidate-scan episodes and wondered what’s actually driving Rob’s process, this is the episode that answers the “why,” not just the “how.”
