Who should I negotiate with for Insider Desk?
I’m putting together a dedicated deals section inside the Desk. Whatever you trade, I want our collective volume to get you better terms.
Back when I used prop firms, FTMO, Alpha Capital and Lux Trading were the names I knew. Who deserves that business today? I want to hear from people actually trading there. Fair rules, consistent payouts, support that answers when something goes wrong.
For exchanges, I personally use Bybit and Blofin. I’m testing Bitunix, but I’m not sold so far. Our institutional capital goes through Binance.
One thing I especially want to negotiate is access to higher VIP tiers. If you’re putting serious volume through a platform, fees deserve your attention.
My execution often starts with a market order to get exposure, then I work limit orders to build the position. Access to zero maker fees, where the platform and tier offer it, is fucking beautiful for that approach. Over enough trades, those costs matter.
So tell me where you want me to put that negotiating power. VIP upgrades? Lower trading fees? Better rebates? Cheaper prop challenges?
Name the platform and the exact deal you want below. If you already use them, tell me why they deserve a place inside the Desk. Like the replies you agree with so I can see where the demand is.
And if you’re in BD at an exchange, prop firm or trading platform, my DMs are open. Bring your strongest offer for the community, with the terms clearly laid out.
Which fucking deals do you guys want? Give me something concrete to take to the table.
Sunday is the architect’s day.
The day the real traders separate themselves from the tourists.
You step outside the noise.
Take a walk without your phone.
Let your nervous system reset, because clarity is the greatest trading edge on Earth.
Then you return to the screens, and this is where the real work happens.
1. You rebuild the entire market narrative from the top down
• HTF market structure, the macro script.
Where are we in the cycle? Expansion, contraction, redistribution?
This governs everything.
• MTF market structure, the navigational map.
Your POIs, your rotation levels, your mid-range truth.
• Internal (LTF) structure, the engine room.
Where your execution will happen with precision and zero hesitation.
You don’t trade candles,
you trade storylines across timeframes.
2. You map every mathematical & emotional layer of the trend
• Normal retracement fibs for structural pullbacks
• Emotional fib levels, the pockets where greed/fear manifests
• Negative fibs in the current downtrend
– -0.5
– -0.618
– -1.0 (extreme discount)
These levels tell you where the unconscious crowd capitulates,
and where the smart money accumulates.
You are not guessing bottoms.
You are calculating them.
3. You connect all ranges like a cartographer of liquidity
You identify every fresh range forming.
You mark the old ones still relevant.
You note where liquidity is hiding, and where it’s already been taken.
This is where the dots begin to connect.
4. You prepare your global confluence charts
• USDT dominance
• TOTAL market cap
• TOTAL2 / TOTAL3
• BTC.D, ETH.BTC.
• …….
All the silent indicators that guide the composite operator.
Every chart you need is pre-loaded.
Every scenario is mapped.
Every confluence overlaps with intention.
You enter the week knowing more than 99% of participants.
5. By Monday, the stars don’t align… you do
When you’ve pre-planned the entire market like this:
you don’t hope for setups,
you recognize them.
Your execution becomes pure, clean, automatic:
HTF story → MTF POI → LTF confirmation → flawless entry.
And if you haven’t practiced enough?
Then this week isn’t for making money,
it’s for sharpening the blade.
You’re never missing out on profits.
You’re missing out on skill,
and skill compounds forever.
Sunday is where mastery begins.
You either stack confidence, or you stack experience.
Either way, you win.
Plan like a professional.
Execute like a machine.
Dominate the week before it even starts.
I do it for the younger me.
The kid who was bold. Who believed in himself. Who thought he could do anything he set his mind to.
Before doubt got loud.
Before life left its scars.
And yes, life leaves scars. Some of us carry more than others. Some carry things nobody knows about.
You never deserved that pain. But you still deserve the future you dreamed of.
Use what you can.
Turn pain into power.
Turn it into the energy to take one more step.
It doesn’t have to happen all at once. But keep going.
Build a life your younger self would be excited to grow into.
Do it for him.
That kid believed in you before the world gave you a reason not to.
🏛️ The Fund Mindset
003: Who Approved the Change?
At the quarterly review, your fund manager tells you they’ve started taking trades outside the agreed strategy.
“Since when?”
“A few weeks ago. We were missing too many opportunities.”
“Did you test the changes?”
“I’ve been watching the market. There’s money being left on the table.”
“So you changed how my money is managed because you were tired of watching other people make more?”
That probably wouldn’t go down well.
Yet on your own account, the whole conversation can happen in a few seconds. You see a move, feel behind, and place an order your plan wouldn’t allow.
No review. You’re already in.
By the time you write it up, you’ve found a respectable explanation. Adapting to conditions. Using discretion. Being less rigid.
Put that explanation next to your last ten trades. Does it describe a change you’d thought through, or does it only apply to the entries you wanted permission to take?
A manager can propose changes to a strategy. They should be able to explain what changed, show their evidence and define the new limits before putting capital behind it.
You owe your own money that much.
Otherwise, what exactly are your rules governing? Only the trades where you happen to agree with them?
You’re the owner of the account. That gives you the authority to change the mandate. It also makes it very easy to approve whatever the trader in you wants.
Look at your last trade outside the plan. Would you have approved it if someone else had placed it with your money?
Huge thanks to @Wyckoff_Insider for the amazing MacBook! 🙏💻
I gave it to my daughter for her studies, making this gift even more special. ❤️🎓
For the people inside the Insider Desk: Hard work and dedication in the Insider Desk can lead to amazing rewards. Keep pushing! 💪📈
Cause there are many impersonators of @Wyckoff_Insider on X and TG, I want to remind to everybody the only valid and official X page and TG group name:
X : @Wyckoff_Insider
TG : Insider Desk
Thank you all.