Should I send in a copy of my trading journal with my resume?

Hi all,

I'm recently about to graduate from a non-target Australian university with pretty shitty grades. Been day trading for the past year and a half and have managed to make a living off it busting my ass in front of a screen for >14 hours a day. As a result I have 0 connections, 0 internships and 0 job prospects.

I can continue day trading but I'd also like to build connections as well as have a solid career. Currently looking at IB and Prop firms. I'm double majoring in Finance and Software Development.

I was thinking of cold emailing prop shops and I was wondering if it would be good to include a scan of all pages of my trading journal for the past six months? I mostly trade XBT swaps / forex / commodities

And if you guys had any other advice for me it would be greatly appreciated, I'm lost tbh

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Hey gandam, what a lonely thread. I'm here since nobody responded ...so maybe one of these discussions will help:

No promises, but thought I'd mention a few relevant users that work in the industry: @tradingchibulls" antlfgrnd @juked07"

Hope that helps.

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Isn't there a website that pulls trading data, and statistics from your broker and compiles it onto a few pages? That's pretty helpful. I think it's mainly used by people who want to get funded by OPM.

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