ppachys

Ex–Head of Dealing at a CFD Broker| Chose the grind | Trading, building, obsessing. --- track record 👇

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

2025 Results.
ending the year strong, very happy with my progress.
my main goal this year was to create a nice track record. Had a bit of a rough summer but manage to overcome the drawdown with a great September.
I know the results arent the best but I know where I need to improve and Im already working on it.
personal account is small so I used a bit more risk to grow it faster. 74% growth, not bad, I guess!
what do you think?

[The Earnings Correspondent @earnings_guy]

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[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

HAVING GRACE IN TRADING

No matter what, trading is always a really tough job, psychologically and emotionally. I know of a lot of traders that had rough Julys or are in drawdowns or are really beating themselves up over how they traded the semi bounce trade.

Given the pressures and stresses of this job and how type A competitive most of us are, it can be so easy to be incredibly hard on ourselves. I'm not sure all of that is productive, and I'm certain that it makes for a far less pleasurable career.

A few years ago I worked with one of the top health programs in the world, and my Incredible coach, Dr. Chris Perry, gave me advice that has stayed with me ever since.

During that time, one of the hardest things I’ve ever experienced happened. as a result, my sleep was terrible, my health habits slipped, and I was frustrated with myself because I felt like I wasn’t living up to the standards I set.

Dr. Perry advised me to have some grace for myself. His point wasn’t that what happened didn’t matter. It was that I needed to recognize I was going through something difficult and treat myself with the same compassion I’d show someone else. That mindset is what allows you to recover and move forward quicker and more effectively.

I think traders need this reminder more than almost anyone.

When you’re in a drawdown, questioning whether you’re actually good enough, or replaying mistakes over and over, it’s easy to let one stretch convince you that it defines who you are.

It doesn’t.

Grace isn’t about lowering your standards. It’s about separating what happened from who you are. A bad month doesn’t make you a bad trader. Blowing up an account doesn’t erase your potential or your ability to build the skills needed to succeed.

Hold yourself accountable. Learn the lesson. Then move forward without endlessly beating yourself up over what happened.

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@mou55981652 the chances of pogi winning are the same as jonas coming in second.
neither seixas or remco can follow.
lets hope jonas can give a battle otherwise no reason to watch the tour

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

The feeling you start to develop as a trader that something HAS TO HAPPEN is one of the most consistent contrarian things that can happen, especially if you can get positioning and sentiment data on top that show everyone doing the same.

Something being written off because even if it ends up working it's just broken...

Something that is too dangerous to short because its going to open up...

Something that will for sure breakdown because it hasn't been able to go the past few times...

Something that needs to breakout because its been hot for weeks...

Something that you can long without issue because its part of a supertrend even if it dips...

Some recent examples I remember.

-Oil long near Mid May.
(I was sitting by the pool with 5 great traders, will all agreed Oil looked like a big long, especially because Trump and Iran continued to escalate.... We purposefully avoided because it was consensus and laughed right there about it probably being a huge short).

-Longing $TSLA in May 2025, I was longing it with @TheOneLanceB and the consensus was they would never make a comeback, it was a safe short, even short term longs wouldnt work.

-Shorting Silver. Too risky, scary, part of a commodities super cycle, inflation was up, list goes on. Noone wanted to be short. It ended up having its worst day ever a week later.

....

Whenever something is too logical and too safe to avoid it usually presents a huge contrarian trade.

Keywords are:
-It will 100% go to XYZ because of these 10 reasons with no reasons for the reverse case.
-I'll long it/short it then, there is no point in doing it now, I'll wait for XYZ
-I'll wait until the resolution of XYZ (latest one was war end) to get long/short.

In markets pure oblivious confidence in either direction combined with the comfort of waiting for a clearer/more stable entry is often the enemy of outperformance.

Now it doesn't mean it always work, especially as it comes to big multi year catalysts like AI. It means sharpening your sense for emotional extremes, when most push against an idea for no real reason but recent price action and especially when its out of comfort reasons there usually is a discount baked into an asset/a mispricing.

This goes both ways, meaning a lot of the time a long or short can only be held unleveraged or with a max size because the market is extremely good at forming price action that excludes the ability to add add add in one direction.

Combining this last thought with the rest, the most uncomfortable positions at first that end up going your way end up giving you the opportunity to add heavily way more often than those where you are comfortable from the beginning.

The delta of outperformance becomes the comforts price.

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@TheFlowHorse subscribed but I don't see the dashboard anywhere

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@TedHZhang @stonkbros10 they meet ar R8 if they finish first and go all the way

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

its been exactly 1 month and 1 day since my trading system gave me a trade.
after 31 days of no action, I got my trade today.
To tell you the truth I just wanted to get into a trade even if I knew it would be a loss.
So, March was my worst month ever, after a big winning streak since September 2025, March came and tested me like nothing before. 5 consecutive losses, no wins, and then 31 days of no trades. That was something new even for my 10 years of backtested data.
what if my system stopped working?
what if the war and all this geopolitical bullshit changed the market behaviour.
I guess this is something to find out soon.
I will be here to execute the next 100 trades.
We will see if a trading system thats been profitable the last 10 years stops working.
lets see

[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

I TRADE CHARTS, NOT VIEWS

I can’t believe that the market is ripping to ATH so quickly. I can’t believe that oil is back to $80. Both don’t make sense to me.

How much have I lost short the market? $0

How much have I lost long oil? $0

It’s because I’m not trading my views. I know my views are total shit and useless. I trade hyper-specific chart patterns that have proven statistical edge. If my view aligns with it, that might help me size it. But never is a view ever sufficient for me to put risk on without the technicals backing it up.

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@TheWolf534 @FTMO_com didnt know there is another fellow greek/cypriot trading real stuff and not showing bullshits like everyone else.
would be great to connect with you Stavros!

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@Robleytrades hi @Robleytrades.
how did you get into stock trading? did you learn from somewhere. what platforms you use and how you choose which stocks are in play each day. Im trading gold for 5 years and I would love to get into stock trading but i dont know where to start

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@TheShortBear nbis

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@TradingStable whats the difference between stable light and premium?

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

Strong end for the first month of 2026.

Rating higher than 97.57% of participants.

That was my best month so far in Darwinex. Thats the magic result of following your proven edge.
Probably the easiest month so far in terms of execution.
4 trades in a whole month. Thats it.

Never satisfide
Next goal, Darwin GOLD

@DarwinexZero @Darwinexchange

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

do you think the Top is in for $GOLD?

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

happy with my executions.

Although I took some losses after the blowoff top at the open 2 days ago. I managed my risk and didnt lose that much. pretty happy I kept my focus on the prize and losses didnt affect my actions.

I saw moves on gold that I never seen before. Wednesday night was literally scary. Cant imagine how many accounts were getting margin calls.

Took also the second sell off from the open last night.
2x ATR stops on the 15m tf kept me safe for a 5.5 RR reward.

Main target would have been the 5000$ mark but didnt want to risk a retracement from the london open so I closed my position earlier.

Nice trades to end the 1st month of 2026

#GLD #XAUUSD #GOLD #SLV $GOLD

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

last time we had this kind of volatility we were gonna die from covid.
whats going on with the world?
nobody knows

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Gold down 1 bitcoin ($1.7TN) and 1 ethereum ($340BN) in the last 30 minutes.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Gold down 1 bitcoin ($1.7TN) and 1 ethereum ($340BN) in the last 30 minutes.

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@KobeissiLetter shoorttt itttt

[ppachys @DIFF_BREED_]

@KobeissiLetter we wont hit the $5000 mark.
fridays are for reversals.
most probably the top will come at the first 15m of the open.
read that again