How can the right mentor change your trading results?

How can the right mentor change your trading results?

The video says a mentor changed Vigs' trading by giving him structure, accountability and community instead of scattered self-teaching. Vigs credits direct coaching with turning months of losing trades into disciplined execution, but this is one trader's personal account, not a verified or typical outcome.

Vigs describes himself as someone with a varied background before trading: a rugby league referee who worked internationally, a personal trainer, and a part-time model for brands including Icebreaker and Farmers. He says none of that prepared him for the specific discipline trading demanded. According to the video, the shift he experienced came less from learning new chart patterns and more from having someone check his behaviour, hold him to a process, and answer questions before small mistakes became expensive ones.

It is worth separating two things the video blends together: Vigs' description of his own results, and any claim about what a mentorship does for traders in general. The video is a single first-person account. It is evidence of what one person says happened to him. It is not an audited performance record, and nothing in the transcript or in independently verifiable sources establishes that mentorship produces similar results for anyone else.

What was Vigs' trading experience before he found a mentor?

Before joining a mentorship, the video says Vigs learned trading from Instagram signal sellers and copy-trading bots, chasing get-rich-quick promises without risk management or market structure. He describes burning through his crypto savings over roughly three months before deciding trading "wasn't for him."

Vigs says he had been in crypto since around 2016, using it opportunistically rather than as a long-term investment, dollar-cost averaging in and cashing out to fund family trips. Around 2017 to 2018 he says he picked up some basic technical ideas informally, trend lines, candle patterns, head and shoulders setups, and learned how to set up exchange accounts. He says he did not treat any of this seriously until the end of 2024, when he was introduced to day trading through what he calls "the worst way possible": signal groups and copy-trading services promising to make subscribers rich.

According to the video, a couple of early wins convinced him he could trade on his own, but he had not learned risk management or market structure first. He says he kept losing, hid it from his partner, and by around March of the following year had decided to quit entirely after roughly three months of trying to find a workable strategy by following different accounts online.

What changed after Vigs joined a trading mentorship?

The video says Vigs found the mentorship through Instagram after his brother recommended it, followed it for about a month to judge whether it was genuine, then joined a program he describes as having around 180 members at the time. He completed the beginner and intermediate education in about two months.

Vigs says what convinced him to sign up was that the content he saw did not feel like a hard sell, and that he had already seen people post real withdrawals before committing his own money. He describes moving through the education material quickly, calling the strategy itself straightforward to learn even if applying it consistently took longer. During the period he describes, he says the group grew from roughly 180 members to close to 800.

Later, according to the video, Vigs reached out to offer to help newer members through the beginner material, drawing on his background as a sports tutor and coach development officer. He says this led to him being brought onto the mentoring team. This detail is presented in the video as part of Vigs' personal story and his role within that specific community; it is not evidence about outcomes for members generally, and this article does not treat it as one.

Why does mastering a strategy take longer than learning it?

Vigs says learning the market structure and strategy came quickly, but mastering execution and controlling behaviour under pressure took far longer. He attributes early inconsistency to trading during distracted moments, and attributes his best days to being fully focused before entering the market.

He describes a specific pattern: strong days, including what he calls an "80% day," happened when he was fully locked in, while losing days tended to follow moments when he opened his phone out of habit rather than because a real setup was present. He says this sometimes escalated into revenge trading, chasing back losses and eventually losing the account balance for that session. He frames this as a common behavioural trap rather than something unique to him.

According to the video, the tools that helped him close the gap between knowing a strategy and executing it reliably were journaling, back-testing and forward-testing, paired with an honest look at whether his stated win rate matched his actual recorded results. He also references a book on mindset that he says reframed how he approached quality over quantity in his trading, though he does not name the book or author in the transcript, so this article does not attribute a title.

Self-taught trading vs mentored trading: how do the two paths compare?

The video frames self-teaching through free YouTube videos and paid signal services against structured mentorship with community feedback. Vigs describes the self-taught route as scattered and costly for him personally, while crediting the mentorship structure with clearer milestones, though outcomes for other traders are not documented here.

| Factor | Vigs' self-taught period (per the video) | Vigs' mentored period (per the video) | | --- | --- | --- | | Source of strategy | Signal sellers, copy-trading bots, scattered YouTube and Instagram content | A single structured curriculum split into beginner, intermediate and advanced stages | | Feedback loop | None described; wins and losses assessed alone | Direct check-ins with a mentor and peer feedback in a community | | Risk management | Not learned before trading live, per Vigs | Introduced as part of the structured education, per Vigs | | Accountability | Self-reported as absent, contributing to revenge trading | Described as milestone-based, with progress tracked stage by stage | | Community | None mentioned | Peer group Vigs says grew from about 180 to about 800 members | | Vigs' stated result | Burned through crypto savings over about three months | Says he became consistent enough to later mentor others |

This table reflects only what the video describes about one person's experience. It is not a study, and it should not be read as evidence that mentorship outperforms self-teaching for traders generally.

What do independent statistics say about retail trading risk?

ASIC Report 828 found that 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in the 2024 financial year, an independently verified regulatory statistic unrelated to any individual mentor or program. The BIS 2025 Triennial Survey separately recorded average daily OTC foreign-exchange turnover of US$9.6 trillion in April 2025.

These two facts come from independent sources, not from the video, and they say nothing about the mentorship Vigs describes or about his personal results. ASIC Report 828: Risky business shows that a majority of retail CFD investors in Australia lost money over a full financial year, which is the relevant backdrop against which any individual trader's account, mentored or not, should be read. The BIS 2025 Triennial Survey confirms the foreign-exchange market is enormous in scale, but market size says nothing about whether any individual participant, or any mentorship program, produces profitable results.

Nothing in either source measures mentorship outcomes, RihariFX, Ambitious Investing, or Vigs specifically. They are included here only as general, independently verified context for retail trading risk, separate from and not validating any claim made in the video.

What steps turn a mentor relationship into real progress?

The video describes progress as a sequence rather than a single decision: complete the foundational material, repeat it until it is automatic, track real execution honestly, and address behavioural patterns directly before increasing confidence or size. Vigs presents this as the order that worked for him.

1. Learn basic market structure and chart reading before risking money live, rather than starting with a live account.
2. Go through each education stage more than once. Vigs says rushing to the next stage before a concept is solid leads to a scattered understanding later.
3. Keep a trading journal and use back-testing and forward-testing to check whether a strategy is actually working, instead of relying on memory or feelings about performance.
4. Name specific behavioural patterns, such as revenge trading or trading out of boredom, and treat them as the problem to solve rather than the strategy itself.
5. Use community or mentor feedback rather than assessing wins and losses in isolation.
6. Reflect on and celebrate milestones stage by stage, according to Vigs, rather than moving on immediately after each one.
7. Revisit the underlying reason for trading during losing streaks. Vigs says keeping a clear "why" helped him keep going rather than spiralling after losses.

These steps describe what Vigs says worked for him, in the order the video presents them. They are not a guarantee of results for any other trader, and nothing here should be read as investment advice.

Is a mentor relationship a business, licensing, or performance claim?

No. Everything Vigs describes in the video is a personal account of his own trading journey and his own experience inside one mentorship. It is not evidence of licensing, regulatory status, typical member outcomes, guaranteed income, or investment returns, and none of those claims should be inferred from his story.

Where the video uses figures, such as membership numbers or Vigs' description of an "80% day," those are statements made in the video, not independently audited data. Readers should treat them the same way: as one person's telling of his own experience, useful for understanding what mentorship can involve, but not as a promise of what mentorship will produce for anyone else. Retail trading, including CFDs and forex, carries documented risk of loss, as shown by the ASIC statistic above, regardless of who is teaching or mentoring.