@NickDrendel Good as usual. Both you and Ariel have great videos on after hours and Ariel has a good pre market stream. What more do you get from subscribing on market pulse. Do not want buy signals :)
@RealSimpleAriel Hi Ariel. I have watch many of your livestreams pre market and think they are really really good. also watch the video you uploaded the other day, the 7 hour clip from your member site. So I’m thinking about becoming member. What is better with member than the free content?
Here is a breakdown of $FSLY and $CRCL trades I made few weeks ago.
Winning Characteristics: The High Volume Edge | FSLY Trade Breakdown
https://t.co/dYpfQ1zUDB
Winning Characteristics: The High Volume Edge | CRCL Trade Breakdown
https://t.co/U6dVYRwy1l
There’s a time to trade and a time to watch but most traders blur that line.
The urge to do something ends up overriding the discipline to wait.
Last year I placed 10–12 trades total. That’s it.
I just waited for conditions that matched my system & waited for setups that gave me conviction & most importantly waited for moments where I could actually size up.
What doesn’t work is operating on a daily, weekly or monthly timeframe — and then changing your game plan hour by hour.
That’s a mismatch. That’s how people burn capital chasing bottoms instead of catching trends. It’s okay to miss the very bottom. You make up for it with size later.
Your job isn’t to be active every day. Your job is to be right when it matters.
The hardest part of becoming a quadriplegic isn’t the paralysis, it’s believing you’ve suddenly become a burden for your loved ones.
Before my Neuralink surgery, I honestly believed I would be a burden for the rest of my life. I wasn’t capable of much, and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t seem to find work or help the people I loved the most in any meaningful way. I believed that my family would be taking care of me until I died or they just weren’t capable any longer.
To put it another way, I was completely dependent on them. Since my surgery, I believe there’s a path forward for me to be completely self-sufficient — or at least 90% — in the next year. If anyone out there is keeping track, that is three years of using the device to near complete independence. A device that is still in its infancy.
For me, independence is key, and Neuralink is handing that back to me.
“Put Messi in Roma for 25 years and tell me, how many Ballon d’Or would he win?” Ten ? Nope, none of them.
Do you know why? Because the Ballon d'Or is not only about talent, but also about the team you play on and the titles you win. Cristiano Ronaldo, on the other hand, had he played those same 25 years in Rome, would have won more Ballon d'Or than he has today.
Cristiano has shown that his success is from his ambition and his constant work.. ”
—🇮🇹Francesco Totti
Just looking at my P&L curve lately tells me everything I need to know.
It’s time to slow down and let the market settle.
You don’t need fancy indicators or news headlines to see when the environment shifts.
Your equity curve will tell you before anything else.
All the “furus” who’ve been calling the top since October 10th are suddenly back out of hiding, saying they “sold flat” on October 29th and caught the move perfectly.
Funny how that works.
Here’s how I actually see it:
- $SPY / $QQQ → likely to revisit the 50 day before any meaningful leg higher.
- $ARKK → sliced through the 50 day today, which had been firm support since May 8th.
- $IWM → basing at the 50 day, looks vulnerable for more downside before a real reversal.
- $BTC → basing near 100k after highs of 126k; same theme of cooling momentum.
- $MAGS → slicing through 21 day today, but probably needs a reset to the 50 day before continuation.
When you zoom out, you can feel it; momentum is fading across the board.
That doesn’t mean we crash.
It just means the easy money window has closed for now.
And that’s where having a system matters most.
You can’t time tops or bottoms; nobody can.
But what you can do is build a system that tells you when to press and when to sit.
For me, there have been red flags flashing for the past couple of weeks:
- Leaders breaking the 9/21 day.
- Failed follow-through days.
- Weaker breadth.
- Falling knives.
All signs that momentum was cooling.
But being transparent, I didn’t listen soon enough.
I kept my risk the same instead of sizing down earlier, and that’s why we never stop learning as traders.
It’s not about being right or wrong, it’s about being responsive in different environments.
The goal isn’t to predict whether $SPY or $QQQ goes higher or lower next week. The goal is to understand the environment you’re trading in and adapt accordingly.
There are only two gears in trading:
- Press when momentum is expanding.
- Sit when it’s contracting.
Everything else is noise.
Leaders are losing strength.
A lot of stocks that carried this run ( $PLTR, $HOOD ) are now breaking below short term structure and pulling back to the 50 day.
That doesn’t mean opportunity is gone, but it does mean that opportunity is resetting.
And the traders who can recognize that, slow down, and protect capital, those are the ones still standing when the next expansion phase begins.
This game is about longevity.
You don’t control tops or bottoms, you control exposure. When your system tells you momentum is fading, listen to it.
Longevity > prediction.
Risk > conviction.
Sit > press.
That’s how you stay in the game long enough to catch the next wave.
Hi @YouTube@YouTubeCreators
Today I was notified that you rejected my appeal.
Based on your analytics you did not watch my appeal video.
Please have a human review my case and re-instate me in the YPP.
My content is my own and not re-purposed
https://t.co/EcpFVEr4QF