Matt Kenah is Building Positive Momentum Every Day
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Matt Kenah is Building Positive Momentum Every Day.
If we only learn one thing from Matt Kenah, I hope it would be this: “The only goal we should have every day is to live to fight another one.”
Matt has lived this ethos and he has been repeatedly put to the test. And passed.
Starting out on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor as a runner just out of high school, Matt quickly rose the ranks to Arb Clerk and was earning great money as a young man in his early twenties.
But there was a growing discomfort within him that questioned what value he was bringing to the world. He thought there was more he could do.
So after three years in the Chicago trading pits, he left to pursue a higher calling in the Catholic Seminary. He studied to become a priest.
But on the eve of making a decision whether to embark on a voyage to Rome to further his education that would keep him abroad for at least two years, his mother was diagnosed with a serious bout of cancer.
There was no way Matt could leave the country with his mother about to face the biggest challenge of her life.
As Matt tells it: “God had other plans.”
And so at that point, he decided to pivot back to the Chicago trading pits and make a go at it in the markets.
It would be great if the story ended there with Matt finding tremendous success, but it wasn’t easy. In fact, Matt would suffer numerous financial losses along his path. One of which put him firmly back at square one, trading 1 and 2 lots, just to find and rediscover his rhythm and train himself in new habits and languages to succeed in a screen-based trading environment.
If you commonly find yourself in a trading rut (or worse), the wisdom Matt shares in this podcast will go a long way toward getting you back on the right track.
This is an episode you’ll likely bookmark and return to, as needed when times get tough.
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