About Omera Trading

I’ll be straight with you — I didn’t grow up thinking the markets were for me. I did terribly at school, got written off early, and spent years assuming that trading was something reserved for the suits in London and on Wall Street. Turns out, I was wrong about that.

The markets have a place for everyone. It just takes time to find yours.

I’m Richard. I’m a swing trader based in the UK, trading US and UK equities. I came to this properly late, without a finance degree, without a mentor, and without a clue what I was doing at the start. What I did have was the stubbornness to keep going, and eventually — after a lot of expensive lessons — I developed a strategy that actually works for me. A top-down approach. Sector first, then the stock. Defined risk on every trade. No guesswork, no gambling.

That last bit matters more than anything else. Risk management and discipline aren’t the exciting part of trading, but they’re the reason some people are still here five years later and others aren’t.

Why Omera Trading Exists

Social media is absolutely flooded with trading content right now, and frankly most of it is garbage. Signal sellers. Fake screenshots. People who have never placed a real trade in their lives telling you what to buy. It’s doing real damage to people who are just trying to learn.

This is something different.

Omera Trading is a record of my actual trading journey — what I’m watching, what I’m thinking, how I analyse a setup, and yes, when things go wrong. I share my watchlists, my sector screens, my reasoning. Not so you’ll copy my trades, but because I think trading is better when people share ideas honestly rather than dress it up as some lifestyle brand.

I’m not selling signals. I’m not promising returns. I’m showing you how one real trader approaches the market, week in, week out.

What I Look At

My process starts at the top. I screen all eleven US market sectors before I ever look at an individual stock. If the sector isn’t set up, I move on. Once I find a sector with momentum, I work down to the best chart in that space — clean trend, defined risk, a reason to be in it beyond just a feeling.

I use both technical and fundamental analysis. The chart tells me when. The fundamentals tell me whether it’s worth the risk.

It took me years to build this into something consistent. I’m still learning. That’s the honest version.

For Anyone Starting Out

If you’re new to this and you’ve been led to believe it’s either dead simple or hopelessly complicated — it’s neither. It’s a skill, like any other. It takes time, it takes losses, and it takes a willingness to reflect on why something didn’t work rather than just moving on to the next trade.

My goal isn’t to hand you a strategy. It’s to show you what a real process looks like, encourage you to develop your own, and help you find where you fit in the market.

Because there is a place for you here. Took me long enough to figure that out for myself.