Bro, trading is fucking hard.
This shit will take the best of you.
It’s not all rainbows and sunshine like people online make it seem.
You’ll doubt yourself more than you ever thought possible.
You’ll question your strategy.
Yourself.
Whether you’re even meant to do this.
It’ll break you so many times you’ll genuinely think about quitting.
But somehow… you don’t.
Because at some point you caught a glimpse of what’s possible.
Maybe it was your first payout.
Your first funded account.
Your first week where everything finally clicked.
And once you’ve seen that…
It’s hard to let go of the dream.
I know that feeling all too well.
If you’re going through it right now, just know you’re not the only one.
Bro, trading is fucking hard.
This shit will take the best of you.
It’s not all rainbows and sunshine like people online make it seem.
You’ll doubt yourself more than you ever thought possible.
You’ll question your strategy.
Yourself.
Whether you’re even meant to do this.
It’ll break you so many times you’ll genuinely think about quitting.
But somehow… you don’t.
Because at some point you caught a glimpse of what’s possible.
Maybe it was your first payout.
Your first funded account.
Your first week where everything finally clicked.
And once you’ve seen that…
It’s hard to let go of the dream.
I know that feeling all too well.
If you’re going through it right now, just know you’re not the only one.
Can't believe I got my first prop firm payout ever a little over a week ago and I'm about to get a second in the next day or two. This shit feels like an absolute dream.
I'm 36, been trading for over 10 years, and here's the best advice I can give anyone struggling right now:
Stop focusing on the payout.
I know it's brutal watching everyone around you succeed while you're stuck.
But the payout isn't the goal.
It's what's waiting on the other side of the discipline, the risk management, the psychology work.
So stop chasing the reward and start becoming the trader who actually deserves it.
Following your rules.
Protecting your capital.
Walking away when you should.
Deserve it first. Then you'll get it.
1) Determine a Draw On Liquidity - where Price is likely reaching; like NWOG, PDH\PDL, Session H\L.
2) Wait for opposing liquidity raid, during or immediately after a 10\50 Macro.
3) Entry on 1st FVG in the present price structure or use IFVG in the run to opposing liquidity to your Draw On Liquidity.
4) Frame your risk to 1% or less, Hard Stop Loss placement beyond Candle #1 of the FVG you used for entry.
5) Take 50% of position off at half of the range between your entry and the Draw On Liquidty, the balance limit out just before your Terminus.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat... nothing fancy or complicated.
Want to know the crazy part about trading?
Even if you never become profitable, it still takes you on the deepest inner journey of your life.
You get into it chasing money…
and somehow end up confronting:
Your ego
Your lack of discipline
Your fear of not knowing
Your obsession with being right
You came in looking for profits.
Instead, trading dragged you into self-awareness.
It really says:
“You want the money? Fine. But first, deal with everything that’s broken underneath.”
It’s one of the only paths where before it pays you…
it forces you to grow as a person first.
Isaiah Rashad basically carries IT'S BEEN AWFUL entirely by himself
% of lyrics Zay provides on his own projects
92.4% - IT'S BEEN AWFUL
82.0% - Cilvia Demo
80.3% - The Sun's Tirade
70.9% - The House is Burning
That's a huge jump between his most and 2nd most, he really took it upon himself to create something timeless with this album. I'm adoring it