Key Points on Day 4 - Psychology, Directional Bias and Sweeps as entries with @Fznation01
- No matter how comfortable you are right now, update your knowledge. This relates to your system as well. If it's not as efficient as it was then you have work/studies to do and this doesn't mean starting something new.
- The difference between a profitable trader and an unprofitable trader. Technically, unprofitable traders trade everything and profitable traders trade their experience.
- If the knowledge you have acquired isn't simplified by your brain, then it hasn't been recognized by your brain yet. this applies to the trading. if your brain can't simplify what you see on the chart based on your knowledge then you haven't learnt that thing.
- The reason you can trade what isn't your checklist is because your brain knows what should be your checklist but hasn't internalized it.
- Indiscipline is a subtle habit that has been built over time. hence if your undisciplined actions are more than your disciplined acts then you will struggle with it.
- You must be able to fight indiscipline even when it looks insignificant because it is a habit that compounds over time.
- Possible reasons for being unprofitable can be:
1. Lack of the right knowledge.
2. Lack of proper experience.
3. Indiscipline.
4. Poor Risk management.
- The knowledge from your mentor works but you need to interact with it (Analyze/Execute). You need your own experience which is your conviction.
- You must be a student of your mentor and the charts.
- The first job of a trader is to know where the market is going to. That technically solves 45% of your problem.
- As a day trader one of the powerhouses in getting direction is your daily timeframe.
- On your higher timeframe in order to get your bias, either the market is giving you a structural overview or a candle stick movement(candle closures, candle ranges etc.)
- A structural overview is one of the best because it gives you a good idea of where we are heading to.
- Instead of jumping into trades early, wait for clear structure on your lower timeframe for entries.
- Because you have a buy zone, it's not enough to take a buy. Whenever market is building a structural sell momentum into your zone you need to see bullish structure shift before you take an entry.
- For Asian map, you need to see a 1 hour sweep in alignment with the overall direction on the daily, and a 5 minute break of structure in that direction. (Second Image).
- Lastly, trade your pattern with logic.
@gamerwalt Contempt, one of the four horsemen that indicate marriages that wonโt last, according to Dr John Gotmann
1. Criticism
2. Contempt
3. Defensiveness
4. Stonewalling
Find every means possible to take external pressure off your trading.
If youโre dependent on the outcome, you may find yourself repeating the same mistakes for years.
Once you have an edge, and good risk management, focus on taking the trade in front of you.
Once you get funded after all the struggles through challenge phase, CALM DOWN
Trading a funded account is beyond knowing your entries and exits.
Two major things you must do:
- First, strip off all the responsibilities you want to use your payout to solve from your mind, constantly remind yourself "the problems/ responsibilities will be solved with or without the funded account anyways". Life will definitely go on whether you have the funded account or not.
A constant reminder will condition your mind to be patient and trade better.
- Secondly, remove set target for your payout from your mind, don't condition your mind to a particular figure that you must get to before you can request for payout, many have lost their funded accounts from huge profits back to drawdown because they want to make all their profits in one payout.
Take what you see and start again, once you withdraw into your account you'll appreciate the money more. As you are looking for $10K, if you see $1K grab it, if you're looking for $1K, if you see $100 take it out, don't postpone your payout because it's not "enough" you may cryyy at the end.
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Since Iโve been trading, this is the most practical thing Iโve learned:
Less is more.
One clean, confirmed trade per session is enough.
Overexposure kills consistency. ๐ฏ
@saturnXBT Genuinely, yes. Not just prayer but also deep desire, openness and alignment with God and his will for you.
He will teach you, connect you with the right people, strengthen, encourage, comfort you when you take painful losses etc.
But God will not short-circuit your process.