🅰️LF🪬

[$nipez @Snipezhq]

There's one person destroying your shot at money and success and it's not who you think. Not your competitors. Not your family. Not your friends. Not your haters.

It's your own doubts, fears, decisions you keep postponing, lack of skills, and lack of work ethic.

These five things will kill your progress faster than anything else on this list combined.

It's easy to blame other people for where you're at. But the truth is, it's fully your fault.

And honestly? That's a really good thing. Because it means you have full control to change your life and level up. Step one is owning that everything is on you, and that you have the power to fix it.

Imagine the version of you who worked so hard he didn't have time to doubt himself, because he was too busy taking action. Action kills doubt.

Imagine the version of you who stopped putting off decisions.

Imagine the version of you who was learning something new every single day, who didn't go to bed without leveling up his mind.

Imagine the version of you who looked his fears dead in the eye and confronted them anyway.

The best feeling in this world isn't the money. It's knowing you're developing your mind and making real progress.

You don't even want the car that bad. What you actually want is the person you become chasing it.

So every day, try to get a little better. Become the guy who can buy the Lambo, not because of the car, but because of who you had to become to get there.

Ask yourself: what would that version of me do daily? Who would he spend time with? What would he be thinking about? What skills would he be sharpening? Would his purpose be strong or weak? Would he waste hours gaming? Would he be drinking every weekend?

Know exactly who that future version of you is, and the path there gets obvious.

[Fred @fredtrades]

The traders pulling 10k+/month from prop firms understand one thing:

Speed matters.

Get in.
Risk aggressively when the setup is there.
Get funded.
Get paid.
Buy the next stack.
Repeat.

They treat evals like inventory in a business.

You treat yours like a newborn baby you're scared to drop 😭

[🪐IlohVerse @Iloh_1]

Sometimes, how good you eventually become depends on how willing you are to tolerate being bad at it in the beginning.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

$XAU

If you are wondering why Gold is pumping aggressively, its because the entire #TCT community just longed the extended #TCT accumulation schematic during todays london session.

Ending the week strong with a nice +5.8% realized gain here.

[Coach, JV @Coachjv_]

The middle class is being squeezed from every angle. Cost of living up. Wages stagnant. Debt rising. Time disappearing.
That’s not an accident… that’s a system.

There is a way out. But it’s not easy. It’s not sexy. It takes discipline, structure, and execution.

This is the exact framework I used to rebuild my life:

CAPL + DR (My System)

C — CASH FLOW (Your Lifeline)

If you don’t control cash flow, nothing else matters.

Most people chase money…
We build systems that produce money.

Your focus:
•Increase income (business, commissions, skills)
•Build cash-flowing assets (dividends, businesses, rentals)
•Stop relying on ONE source of income

Rules:
•First 10% goes into cash-flowing assets immediately
•Do NOT increase your lifestyle with income increases
•Cash flow > big bank balance

Cash flow is what buys your freedom of time.

A — ASSETS (Make Your Money Work)

Cash is losing value every day.
Assets multiply.

Once cash flow is strong, you deploy it into: (just examples of what I do)
•Bitcoin (store of value)
•XRP (infrastructure play)
•Stocks tied to the new system
•Real estate (if it cash flows and tax advantages)

Mindset shift:
Stop asking “how much did I make?”
Start asking “how many assets did I acquire?”

The wealthy don’t work for money… money works for them.

P — PROTECTION (Defense Mode)

This is where most people fail.

You grind… you build… then one event wipes you out.

Protection is:
•Proper insurance (life, health, asset protection)
•Emergency reserves
•Structuring your money so it can’t all be taken

Trust, LLC to hold legacy assets
In institutional grade custody.

For me:
•Cash value life insurance = family bank
•Metals, stable assets = protection layer

Offense builds wealth. Protection keeps it.

L — LEVERAGE (Multiply Wisely)

Now you play the game differently.

Leverage is NOT:
•Credit card debt
•Car loans
•Lifestyle flexing

Leverage IS:
•Using your assets to acquire MORE assets

Example:
•Borrow against your policy or assets
•Buy when markets are RED
•Pay yourself back

The rich use leverage to grow. The poor use it to survive.

DR - DE-RISK (This is the secret sauce)

This is what separates builders from gamblers.

Most people:
•Ride assets up
•Ride them all the way back down

We do the opposite.

When markets go GREEN (greed):
•Take profits
•Move into protection
•Build your storehouse

When markets go RED (fear):
•Deploy capital
•Use leverage strategically
•Buy assets at a discount

Buy the red. De-risk the green.”

HOW IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER
1. Build cash flow
2.Convert it into assets
3.Protect everything you build
4.Use leverage to multiply
5.De-risk constantly

Repeat for years.

THE TRUTH MOST PEOPLE WON’T TELL YOU
•This takes discipline most men don’t have
•You will have to sacrifice comfort
•You will have to outwork your environment
•You will have to become someone different

But on the other side…
•Time freedom
•Financial control
•A protected family
•A strong, stable ecosystem

FINAL TRUTH (Read This Twice)

The system isn’t broken.

It’s working exactly how it was designed…
to keep people dependent, distracted, and in debt.

CAPL + DR is how you break out of that system.

No hype. No shortcuts. No saviors.

Just structure, discipline, and execution.

Warriors rise.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

If BTC is moving up on an increase in BTC.D and your altcoin is developing a high probability distribution schematic simultaniously

—> The moment BTC completes the accumulation schematic and your altcoin confirms a distribution = valid short

[Luke Belmar 👽 @lukebelmar]

We all know how the story ends. Christ Returns

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

When price is aggressively pushing up on the HTF without quality accumulation schematics or bottoming formations at the bottom, the move up is not sustainable.

Especially when you see obvious looking buyside liquidity above, the move up is mainly fueled by stoplosses and liquidations, not MM's stepping in and bidding price up.

It's called a typical short sqeeuze and they tend to be extremely violent, aggressive and short in duration.

It is important to note that understanding a move not being sustainable does not equal trying to short the upwards momentum. Don't short a short sqeeuze.

Look for long positions and profit of the aggressive bullish expansions. However be disciplined with take profit levels when price reaches your targets/resistance, trail stoplosses into profit, and when price showcases distributive price behavior --> look for reversal shorts back down and don't let the increased 'bullish' sentiment distract you from objective reality.

For example; from a HTF perspective right now on BTC, the low at 59K will get taken out. An individual low at 59K followed by a higher low, despite that higher low having it's own internal bullish PO3, is not enough for a macro bullish reversal. But that does not mean we can't profit massively of this move up, especially with altcoins most likely outperforming in the mean time.

Just stay level-headed, take profits at pre-determined targets, trail stoplosses into profits and don't start believing the people that are saying a single deviation below 74K will cause a macro reversal afte price just distributed for +250 days.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to overcome psychological barriers and develop the mindset required to actually win in trading.

After years of trading, I’ve come to believe it mostly comes down to one thing:

Dopamine regulation.

And I don’t mean the usual external dopamine triggers like social media, junk food, or entertainment. Plenty of consistently profitable traders still do those things. That’s not the real battle.

The real battle is the dopamine tied to your trades, especially the moment you hit take profit.

Trading creates emotional swings that most people will never truly understand. You can have a month where everything clicks, your execution feels effortless, your trades play out perfectly, and you make more than enough to stay on track for your yearly targets.

You could technically step away for weeks or months and still be perfectly fine and on track.

However you still show up every day.

Then suddenly the market slows down. A week goes by with no trades. Or you take a few losses. Or you win less than usual. And despite the fact that you are objectively still performing at a very high level and remain on track, something inside you starts to feel off. Irritation creeps in. Doubt appears. You feel like your edge disappeared overnight.

But the truth is: nothing actually changed.

Your brain is simply reacting to a massive dopamine drop after being used to very high peaks.

Subconsciously, you start searching for that feeling again, the emotional high of a winning trade. And that search is what makes trading feel stressful, intense, and unsustainable for so many people.

With experience, trading doesn’t become emotionless. You don’t magically become immune to wins and losses.

What actually changes is that you become more resistant to these dopamine fluctuations. The highs become calmer, the lows become quieter, and the emotional swings lose their power over your decisions.

And the moment that happens, trading actually becomes sustainable. You are not living a life solely consisting of ups and downs anymore.

It is consistent.

I want to make it clear that with consistent I do not mean your trading performance, that could already be consistent right now. I am talking about consistency emotionally, mentally and psychically.

That is when trading actually becomes enjoyable.

Wanted to create awareness on this topic since simply by actively making sure you are aware of this concept, you can decrease the amount of experience that is needed to already regulate your dopamine levels at a decent level.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

$BTC

Video elaboration on BTC's macro bearmarket bottoming formation.

In this video I don't tell you what I want to happen for BTC, I tell and teach what NEEDS to happen in order for price to deliver macro bullish reversals.

I advice you guys to watch the entire video, take notes and be on the correct side of the market from a HTF expectational orderflow perspective.

Later I will write an in-depth post with different phases and potential playbooks within, but first I wanted to share my thoughts via video so every single one of you will understand the post better later on.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

How to trade FOMC:

News events like FOMC are multi-layered manipulative schemes:

Data release takes place at 20.00 (UTC+1) and press conference speech starts at 20.30.

The data release at 20.00 causes an immediate liquidity injection and price will search for buy-and sellside liquidity —> expect local highs and lows to be taken out.

This is not the real move.

After the liquidity grab on the data release expect price to consolidate going into the speech / during the press conference speech.

The speech is not a data release and won’t cause an immediate liquidity injection. Instead around the end of the speech price will usually start it’s 2nd manipulative run —> this is where you want price to run into your key POI.

If price breaks MS after hitting your key POI —> expect an aggressive reversal to take place for the remainder of the day.

We ONLY apply this theory in trading environments where price is meeting our usual #TCT confirmations.

Example:

Price is within a #TCT distribution model, having two taps at the high and a clear 3rd tap POI.

Pre-FOMC:

Price is moving up towards 3rd tap POI

20.00 data release:

Liquidity grabs locally towards buyside and/or sellside liquidity

20.00-20.45 pre-speech/speech:

Consolidation below 3rd tap POI

20.45 during speech/post-speech:

Upwards expansion mitigating 3rd tap POI —> bearish BOS = short.

Aggressive reversal for remainder of the session/day.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

$SOL

Fairly simple context building right here locally on SOL:

Price completed a model 2 accumulation schematic, grabbed all buyside liquidity while taking the range high and broke MS back to bearish creating supply in the process.

Given the HTF bearish context on BTC whenever accumulation models complete themselves and break MS back to bearish afterwards, you can expect a full reversal towards the lows.

Expecting the equal lows to get taken out and looking for distribution schematics on the current move up.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

There is FOMC today so I highly advice you all to read the quoted post if you haven’t already:

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

The current pullback on BTC from 80K —> 94K is going to deliver another round of high-probability short opportunities across the board until the macro low at 74K is swept.

Be prepared for it and do not miss it when the confirmations are present.

In the mean time we keep scalping the intra-day moves.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

$BTC

We just had a 2W candle close below our MS low and therefore confirming a bearish BOS.

The reason why this is so significant is because of the aggressive displacement below, we have now created 2W structure supply --> perfectly aligning with our lower TF supply levels.

$98.000 has become an extremely powerfull supply level and if we retrace into it prior to sweeping the lows at 74K I will be looking for the 2nd round of swingshorts.

If we sweep the lows at 74K, followed with #TCT accumulation schematics, don't be surprised to see a bullish swing of +35% towards 98.000 before rejecting for new range creations.

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

$PEPE [macro]

There is nothing to stop price from rotating down towards 0.001892 from a macro point of view.

At the same time this is also the most optimal and extreme reversal level on the perpetual chart.

Still working on a macro altcoin thesis for 2026 but if there is a level for price to floor at and start an accumulation process it is going to be the Market Maker demand highlighted on the chart.

HTF structure demand all getting overlapped with LTF POI's and inefficiencies so definitely expecting a signifcant reaction.

[Wyckoff Insider @Wyckoff_Insider]

🧠 How to Backtest (Properly)

1.Backtesting only works with structure.
If you don’t define criteria, you’re not testing , you’re guessing.

2.Start with the area.
High-probability setups only form in logical zones:
– Market Maker Demand / Supply
– Backed by Wyckoff structure
Strong displacement (bearish → bullish, imbalance, FVG) confirms true intent.

3.Strengthen the zone.
A zone gains validity when:
– It takes liquidity while forming
– It forms a chain (e.g., 4H demand → new 4H demand)
– It sits in extreme premium or discount of the higher-timeframe range

4.Timeframe alignment.
HTF range → extreme area → mid-TF range forms → Wyckoff inside the pocket.
This is where the cleanest trades come froms. Bojan into HTF range high/low.

https://t.co/Asz5CScC0g your criteria list.
Use a point-based system:
– Return inside value area
– SD Flip / DS Flip
– USD dominance alignment
– TOTAL alignment
– SMT divergence (BTC takes low, ETH doesn’t + ETH breaks structure = high weight)
More criteria = higher probability.

6.Scalping structure.
Mid-week ranges + emotional Fibonacci retraces.
Deeper pullback = higher retail fear = better reaction.

7.Backtesting routine.
Same hours every day.
Replay mode.
One bar at a time.
No cheating.
Only enter when your criteria are confirmed.
Log everything.

8.Transition to live conditions.
Two weeks trading without capital.
Then low-size.
Goal: ten trades in a row without breaking your rules.
That proves you have an edge and a repeatable system.

9.Psychology management.
Lose a trade? Stop for the day.
Identify why past overtrading happened.
Build rules to block that behavior.
Your emotional framework must evolve with your technical framework.

https://t.co/baRz2MYv7g your own system.
Nobody can give you rules that fit your psychology.
Backtesting shows what works for you.
Structure + criteria + discipline = consistency.

Books that are actually useful:

• The Best Loser Wins, Tom Hougaard
Pure psychology under pressure. Practical. Brutal. Real.

• Alpha Trading, Laurent Bernut
Institutional mindset, risk math, execution hierarchy. Zero fluff.

• The Art & Science of Technical Analysis, Adam Grimes
Market structure, statistics, context. Deep and underrated.

• The PlayBook / One Good Trade, Mike Bellafiore (SMB Capital)
Real trading decisions, not theory. Great for building a system.

• Techniques of Tape Reading, Vadym Graifer
Old-school but timeless. Understanding intent through price.

• Pit Bull, Marty Schwartz
Not a manual, but one of the best books on discipline and identity.

Conclusion
Just start.
No one will do the work for you.
You’ll feel unproductive at first, like the hours don’t matter, but that’s how every real trader begins.
No starting = no data.
No data = no confidence.
No confidence = no results.
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Sit down. Open the charts. Start backtesting.

[🅰️LF🪬 @Allincrypt1]

@MarkellSimons_ You’ll come back stronger💪🏻

[The Composite Trader @Larskooistra_]

The more setups that you take, the more models that you trade, the more money you make and the more money you compound, the more you will realize that less is more.

No more taking models that have room of error, no more setups that create slight feelings of doubt, stress or fear.

Just less but heavier sized bets on key pivots in the markets.

Key moments when most of your high-probability variables are aligning. Moments where you would rather want to lose money on the setup that miss participating.

It all comes with more time.

[Wyckoff Insider @Wyckoff_Insider]

The 4th Cycle Trap.

For 3 cycles they programmed your behavior.
They made you rich with altcoins, and poor with patience.
Dominance drops → altseason → dopamine → repeat.

But the 4th cycle is different.
Now they weaponize that programming against you.
Bitcoin dominance sits in extreme premium pricing,
range high still fresh, range low untouched,
Total3 already exhausted.
It’s the same structure… but inverted intent.
They show you the same movie so you don’t notice the new ending.

Every influencer draws the same chart,
“Dominance will drop → altseason will begin.”
But this time, it won’t.
Because the insiders learned the game too.
Why let billions flow into random altcoins
when you can launch new ones, seed insiders early,
and drain the liquidity yourself?

Most of what you see won’t survive.
The next wipeout will be biblical,
not a rotation, but a reset.
So yes, we have levels.
Yes, dominance is in premium.
But no, we haven’t broken structure.
We are range-bound, and the trap is set.

When the herd screams “altseason,”
Bitcoin will be the only one performing.
Because in the end,
it was never about the altcoins.
It was always about Bitcoin.

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