@AdamWTrades This is precisely what a Highly Focused & Successful Mindset is... never adopting the perspective that you can't go higher or improve more.
33 years and I am not at my highest capabilities or skill... yet.
Use it as fuel.
They push the narrative that markets are random, so you gamble, and accept losing.
They push the narrative that what you witness is hindsight, when you witness it real-time and well beforehand.
They push the narrative that you should trust those who tell you the truth and prove it daily with no reward for doing so.
Are you closer to understanding it all yet?
@I_Am_The_ICT if markets were defined by human supply & demand and were not manipulated by algorithms, it would be impossible to find recurrences, models... it would be a disorganized chaos therefore impossible to frame and to trade
ICT concepts are pure reverse engineering: dismantling, one by one, all the beliefs imposed on retail traders to reveal the market’s true mechanics.
Once you do that, you’re not just trading, you’re seeing how the machine truly works.
End of the story! 🤝
Quand tu vois "l'algorithme" tout pourri des medias d'oligarques pour faire monter le candidat Bilderberg, Edouard Philippe, tu comprends pourquoi Macron & co veulent très urgemment censurer les réseaux sociaux avant la fin de 2026.
Leur récit et leur mise en scène à coup de sondages bidons et d'interviews complaisantes est totalement anachronique.
L'illusion démocratique ne tient plus que sur une armée invisible de français vieillissants, dernier public de la télévision et derniers abonnés des hebdomadaires d'infos, tracts de propagande grossiers et inutiles, malinformés depuis le plus jeune âge, peureux et peu curieux, qui pensent comprendre le monde, alors qu'ils ne sont que le carburant à la manipulation de masse.
L'info sur X et sur les plateformes et la seule alternative à ce matraquage décérébré et quotidien.
Nous gagnerons la bataille de l'info !
RDV demain LUNDI 9h30 retour en studio. ✊
Les médias français ont vraiment du sang sur les mains. Ce matin, en discutant avec mes parents, je leur explique l’affaire #EpsteinFiles, leurs seules réponses : « Arrête tes délires, ils n'en ont même pas parlé à la télé », une honte. Ils manipulent nos anciens
Silver ended the day down over 28.54%
Here's why Silver / $SLV crashed today:
Jan 13th: CME shifted from fixed-dollar margin to percentage based margin.
This scaled collat requirements with contract value, effectively capping leverage as it goes higher.
The capital required to maintain a single COMEX contract increased in tandem, creating an environment where even minor price drops would trigger massive margin calls.
Jan 27th: CME had increased the maintenance margin percentage twice this week to ensure "adequate collateral coverage" amid extreme volatility.
This forced leveraged positions to liquidate their long positions or post substantial additional capital.
There were five margin hikes within nine days that created a "coiled spring" of potential selling pressure.
Today: Western markets focused on the Federal Reserve, but the new Fed chair likely did not play much of an impact as this is just noise.
Pricing dislocations happened in Asian markets. UBS SDIC Silver Futures Fund traded at 36-64% premiums over SHFE contracts. And this was the main source of silver exposure in China.
On January 30, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange implemented an emergency full-day trading halt for the SDIC Silver LOF.
This suspension created a "liquidity trap" for Chinese institutional and retail traders. Unable to liquidate their domestic holdings, these participants were forced to dump $SLV and COMEX futures to raise cash or hedge their exposure.
TLDR:
The $SLV crash of January 30, 2026 today was not a failure of silver's fundamental value, but a failure of the "paper game" that dictated price discovery.
CME hiking margin requirements repeatedly and the China liquidity trap led to cascading margin liquidations that caused selloffs of leveraged positions.
Other events such as the Fed chair was likely known awhile, looks to be "narrative noise" regarding what actually happened.
Today was a "Paper Game" failure and leverage used to trade it was systematically wiped out by exchange rules.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo da Vinci.
True simplicity requires mastery & deep understanding; a sophistication in itself. To distill things to their purest, most effective form, one must fully embrace the complexity beneath them.
The same goes for trading
ICT Tip 💡:
Most traders look for entries.
Smart traders look for where price will go first.
Liquidity gets taken → imbalance gets respected → expansion follows.
If you don’t know what price is reaching for, your entry doesn’t matter.