Johnny Chronic

Putting Apex to the test to see how they treat a nobody

[Ash_Trades @_Ash_Trades_]

Day trading looks easy until you realize your biggest competition is your own impatience.

The market doesn’t destroy traders.

Overtrading does.
Revenge trading does.
Moving stops does.
Trading out of boredom does.

Most profitable traders are just disciplined enough to do nothing most of the time.

[DionTrades ✪ @DionTrades_]

The hardest year of my trading journey wasn't the year I lost $60,000.

It was the year after.

When I'd already taken the loan.

Already lost the money.
Already burned through every "easy fix."

And I had to keep going anyway.

Working 3 jobs.

Hiding from my family.

Doing the same thing every day with zero evidence it would work.

If you're in that year right now..

I see you.

Keep going.

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

@wolfpacreviews @callumparker_97 Still. Its in their rules that they can move you live after one payout so in order to have goals set for your trading you MUST assume they will. If they dont then the rest is gravy. But you have to assume the worst and plan for that.

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

I was about to buy some lucid or tradify accounts until I read the updated rules. Insane you just forfeit profits when moved live. Also have to assume if they "can" do something, they "will" do it. If they can move you live after one payout, they will. Why would anyone buy these?

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

Bro to bro

You don't need anyone to believe in you

I know it's a lonely journey

But let me tell you this....

A strong self belief is the strongest edge you can have in this life

You can see it in your mind? You can have it

Put in the work and God will bless you

Trust that

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

@nuttybartrading We have to assume prip firms "will" do what it says they "can" in the rules. Im pretty sure all of them now say they "can" move u live after 1 payout. So we have to assume they will. Cuz let's face it, Theyre all predatory businesses.

[The Honest Trader @TheH0n3stTrader]

- 12 hours per day staring at charts.
- no guarantee of making money.
- months of work with zero visible progress.
- missed social life.
- lost relationships.
- constant arguments with family.
- no weekends or holidays.
- poor sleep.

And they still call you ''lucky''.

[加密小象 @cryptoxiaoxiang]

今晚Trump和Xi会面之后的after party be like

[Marc Lehman @markflowchatter]

China trip off to a bang for $TSLA $AAPL

that's what Xi said

[Michael | Hypermarkets @itsmichaelluu]

Trump just landed in China with the most powerful CEO's for President Xi:

Get ready for SPY target $800+ (revised from $780).

🍎 Tim Cook — $AAPL
Apple manufactures ~90% of iPhones in China. Cook locked in a $600B US investment pledge to get tariff exemptions. He's there to cement it. This is his last major diplomatic act before retirement Sep 1.

🏦 Jane Fraser — $C
Citi is the bridge between US capital markets and Chinese state financing. Fraser is there to unlock cross-border lending, dollar clearing, and investment flows that could fund the next wave of AI infrastructure buildout.

⚡ Elon Musk — $TSLA
Tesla's Shanghai gigafactory is its most productive. Musk needs EV supply chain stability and rare earth access. China needs American tech optics. Mutual dependency, maximum leverage.

🌾 Brian Sikes — $CARG (private)
Cargill controls global grain and food commodity flows. A US-China ag deal runs through them. Soy, corn, wheat — China buys it all. Sikes is there to make sure American farmers win.

🪙 Larry Fink — $BLK
BlackRock manages $10T+ in assets. Fink has been pushing to expand in China for years. A deal that opens Chinese capital markets to US asset managers = generational AUM growth for $BLK.

✈️ Kelly Ortberg — $BA
China was Boeing's biggest customer before the trade war. Beijing slapped 125% tariffs on US planes in 2025. Ortberg is negotiating what could be the largest aircraft purchase deal in history. $BA lives or dies on this one.

💳 Ryan McInerney — $V
Visa still can't fully operate in China's domestic payments market — dominated by Alipay and WeChat Pay. McInerney is pushing for market access. A crack in that wall = billions in new volume.

🌐 Chuck Robbins — $CSCO
Cisco builds the physical backbone of the internet — routers, switches, data centers. AI infrastructure needs their hardware. Robbins is negotiating network equipment access in a market that's been closing its doors to US tech.

🧬 Jacob Thaysen — $ILMN
Illumina makes gene-sequencing machines. China is a massive biotech market but has been weaponizing genomics data. Thaysen is there to push for fair access while protecting US IP — the AI-biotech overlap is massive.

💡 Jim Anderson — $COHR
Coherent makes the fiber optics and photonics that power AI data centers. Every hyperscaler's GPU cluster runs on their components. A US-China data center buildout deal runs directly through $COHR.

🔬 Sanjay Mehrotra — $MU
Micron's DRAM and NAND chips were banned in China's critical infrastructure in 2023. Mehrotra is there to reverse that. Micron getting back into the China market = a multi-billion dollar revenue unlock overnight.

📡 Christiano Amon — $QCOM
Qualcomm generates ~60% of revenue from China. Their 5G chips power Chinese smartphones. Amon is protecting licensing agreements and pushing for next-gen AI edge chip access as the world's largest 5G market upgrades.

💰 Michael Miebach — $MA
Same play as Visa. Mastercard wants into China's domestic payments infrastructure. 1.4 billion consumers transacting digitally. Market access here isn't incremental — it's transformational.

🤖 Dina Powell McCormick — $META Meta is blocked in China. Powell McCormick is the diplomatic heavy former NSC, Goldman, now Meta's global affairs chief. She's not pitching Instagram. She's negotiating the terms under which American social AI platforms exist in a world where China controls the narrative stack.

🏛️ David Solomon — $GS
Goldman is the architect of cross-border M&A, IPOs, and sovereign deals. Solomon is the room where the money gets structured. Any deal announced this week — Goldman is in the middle of it.

⚙️ H Lawrence Culp — $GE GE Aerospace makes the engines that power commercial aviation. China needs American jet engines to keep its airlines flying. Culp is there to negotiate long-term engine supply deals worth tens of billions.

🏗️ Stephen Schwarzman — $BX
Blackstone has $1T+ AUM and deep China relationships — Schwarzman literally funded a scholarship program at Tsinghua University. He's the back channel. When the official talks stall, Schwarzman is the one making the call.

⚡ Jensen Huang — $NVDA
Huang joined the delegation at the last minute. NVDA chips are the oil of the AI economy. China is a $50B market opportunity he can't ignore. AI chip export rules are being negotiated at this summit. This is the most consequential man in Beijing right now.

This is all CEOs representing the entire US economic stack chips, capital, cloud, payments, planes, and AI.

The AI supercycle just went geopolitical. 🌏

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

@1MINUTETIP @Tradeify How much is your balance left in sim accounts and do you just forfeit that money? Was reading their rules and it seems this is the case but I'm not sure how it works?

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

@GandalfTrader @MatheWieme @ZamcoCapital @BrettSimba @Tradeify "moved live" aka getting fucked out of your remaining balance and starting at $0.

Can move you live after one payout. Why would anyone keep using these SCAM firms? am i missing something?

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

@Tradeify am I reading this correctly? If I have a lightning funded account and get moved live I just forfeit all profits in the account? Just For example. Have to make $9k to get payout. After $3k payout I get moved live. I lose the remaining $6k in the account?

[Fortune🔮 @FortuneOptions]

Nobody prepares you for how much work it takes to open yourself back up after you’ve been through the years of pain. Teaching yourself to believe in good outcomes again after that pain has hardened you is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, but good people exist. Real blessings exist. A better life exists. Let yourself receive it & embrace what you have went through.

[Johnny Chronic @1mLiQuiD]

@FortuneOptions @StonkChris Duuuude u got a crystal ball for real

[Trader Theory @tradertheory]

"So all you do is eat, sleep, trade and go to the gym?"

Me:

[naiive @naiivememe]

" 2026 will be my year "

May :

[𝒮𝒫 @Sholly_Pee1]

“Trading is so easy, it’s like taking candy from a baby.”

The baby :

[Luc @investingluc]

Suddenly, you're 5 years in with nothing to show for it. Then you turn the corner...and make back those 5 years of losses in 6 months.

This is the reality for most traders, me included. Years of mediocrity, breaking even, highs & lows, inconsistency...nothing working.

Years where nothing happens, then weeks where years happen. That's the power of compounding skills, experiences, and capital.

You’re delusional if you think you won’t have to pay market tuition...medical school is $500K, business mba is $200K, law school is $300K.

But you're just gonna waltz into the most competitive game in existence and beat the market in year one? or two?

Gotta pay the piper.