I am three weeks in of real effort. My current pace is still far below my potential. I hit #1 in the world on my favorite character in the most competitive game in the world. I have decided to make my future & real improvement something of equal value. Pinned for timestamp. ✝️
📖 If you want to make it, you must become mentally strong, and you must change so you can become a more powerful version of yourself
🔹 Pay attention to your inner monologue
Almost all of us have an inner monologue that follows us through the day, narrating our thoughts and feelings as we go, but have you ever paid conscious attention to it?
A mentally strong person has an inner monologue that speaks with self-assurance and positivity. What does your inner monologue say?
- If you catch it saying things like…
“I don’t have enough time to finish…”, or
“I’m not skilled enough to achieve that…”
Well, it’s time to start making some changes.
Consciously transform these thoughts into…
“I should properly focus so I can work faster” and, “What skills do I need to develop to achieve that?”
Those are far more proactive and far more positive. These will make you keep going, never giving up, and ultimately achieving results most people only dream of. It's real. Believe in it and you shall experience it yourself.
🔹 Don’t let setbacks define you
Setbacks happen. They’re a part of life. Deep down we all know this is true, but we often deny this fact when the setback occurs to us. When faced with adversity, we often become our harshest critics don’t we?
“Nothing ever goes right for me…” or,
“This wouldn’t have happened to someone else..."
Put a stop to those thoughts immediately. If something can be done to mitigate the setback, start working on your solution. If nothing can be done, acknowledge the setback, think about what could have prevented it, and what you can learn from this moving forward. Then, move on. Setbacks do not define you. It’s your response to setbacks that is a true representation of your character.
What’s done is done and you cannot alter the past. To get mentally stronger you have to accept that setbacks happen, and they will happen again no matter what. Even though you cannot alter the past, you can design your future.
🔹 Change what you do professionally, where, and how you do it
Staying put only confirms how mentally weak you actually are. You're scared of change, but you must do it.
People waste their lives in jobs they hate, working with people they don’t like, jobs that won’t make them rich or at least fulfilled, and feeling stuck on a professional hamster wheel where they dread waking up to another day because they have to work.
It’s obvious from a distance, but they don’t see it.
If you’re always in a room full of sh*t, it won’t be long until you no longer notice the smell, but rest assured the sh*t is still there.
🔹 Change what you fuel your mind with
Your mind is your most valuable asset.
Every reward you will get in your life will be constructed first in your mind, so protect that gold mine of yours carefully. The mind is a fertile garden – it will grow anything you wish to plant. If you plant sh*t in it, it will grow sh*t. You should remove garbage from your house for it will fester and lead to disease, and the same happens inside your head.
You need to remove garbage beliefs and ideas that are not contributing to your well-being. This is why I often say to clean your “following” list. This space is filled with garbage that your brain will process if your eyes see. Think about it. You know better than anyone just how much time you regret wasting on endless scrolling through nonsense. Remove the garbage, add a daily dose of wisdom, and your life unlocks.
🔹 Change what you fuel your body with
I'm not going to tell you to eat a salad, but understand that your body would feel different if you changed some of the things you consume.
It turns out that some of you out there are feeling depressed, not knowing that you’re actually just iron deficient. It costs a couple hundred dollars to get all your blood work looked into. They’ll tell you exactly what you’re missing and why you’re feeling the way you are. If you feel tired, if you can’t focus, if you don’t sleep well, if you don’t feel motivated, if life is kind of gloomy, it means that you’re deficient in some chemical your body normally fills you up with, but for some reason, it doesn’t right now.
Then buy the foods that supplement your deficiency to go the natural route, or get the pills if that works better for you. Changing the biochemistry in your body opens you up and allows you to live. You're in charge of EVERYTHING you consume. Consume sh*t content and sh*t food and guess what you'll be?...
A large walking piece of sh*t.
You’ve been running in low battery mode for months now so it's time to charge up. Instead of buying the latest iPhone, invest that money in your health and in your mind. You play games where you gain XP and get your character faster, stronger, and smarter, but you don't do that to yourself? WTF is wrong with you?...
🔹 Change the volume
Nobody ever told you this but unlocking life is actually a simple formula (simplified):
Growth = (How much you do / How quickly you make decisions that impact what you do) x (How effectively you use what you know, the money you have, and the tools at your disposal)
Even if you’re going to make one good decision per year, meaning the time it takes to make a decision is high, you can still see massive growth if you take a lot of action and follow through. If you double the volume of effort and double the number of hours you put into your craft, you will achieve in a year what it would take everyone else two or more.
By year 3 or 4, you’re so far ahead that they can’t catch you. You increase the speed of making decisions as well, so now you’re learning faster.
You invest in yourself, in your education, and in your tools, and all of a sudden your growth is 10 times that of everyone else’s, and they’re looking at you as if you’re an alien.
If you want life to change, you need to change the variables that contribute to it. There’s no unlocking of life without change.
🔹 Dream BIG
The big rewards in life are exclusively reserved for those who dare to dream about their achievements.
This is a skill you have to develop on your own because your parents, your teachers, and society in general lack the ability to dream big.
They lack the fire that is within us. If you possess it, you will understand precisely what i mean.
When you tell people you’re going to be a millionaire or billionaire, they laugh at you. Their understanding of reality doesn’t allow for that kind of dream.
Yet, there are billionaires and millionaires in the world, so why not you?
When you tell people you’re going to write a bestseller, they say it’s impossible. They’ve never written a page in their lives, yet every month people publish bestsellers, so why not you?
People change jobs, friends, relationships, countries, and industries all the time, so why not you?
Once you do, they’ll look at you strangely. They’ll say you changed, like you somehow worked that hard to stay the same.
If you want to unlock the full potential of your life, start with changing yourself for real, or succumb to a life that you actually know it won’t be that great. If that’s enough for you, by all means, go ahead and good luck.
Everyone with a family, a job, hobbies, or simply a life should focus on swing trading.
The real edge for most people is building positions around higher timeframes, letting probabilities play out while life continues outside the screen.
Swing trading is about time freedom, location freedom, and scalable upside without turning your day into a constant battle with noise. Swing trading is very different from scalping. It demands patience through unrealised PnL, a solid macro perspective, and the ability to hedge positions with intention.
Once the skill is developed, positions can compound for months or even years. Management becomes minimal. You take a few calculated entries each week or month, while your focus stays on building businesses, experiences, and life outside the charts.
You get paid while you sleep. You operate with clarity instead of noise.
Minimum effort. Maximum result.
If you replace one job with limited time freedom by another that keeps you glued to the charts, you may gain location freedom and scaling potential, but you still sacrifice the most valuable resource: Time.
Without the ability to hold and manage swing positions, trading simply becomes another demanding routine.
Build the foundation first. Develop a style that works alongside your life, not against it. Once consistency is achieved in the most effective league of the game, you can still explore higher-frequency execution if you truly enjoy it, but then from a position of strength.
A solid swing framework pays you while you live your life, not only while you watch the screen.
This is what most people truly want, yet only a small group actually focuses on it. The majority gets pulled into the hardest, most time-consuming part of the game, mistaking constant activity for progress.
The real edge is not being everywhere at once. It is knowing where patience pays the most.
Master patience. Master positioning. Let the market work for you, not against your lifestyle.
Similar for me on Bitcoin, but out at BE. The 93K was [as always] BCS so it's always a trailing position, and it pumped quite a bit, just not the best scenario possible.
Taking previous SH and closing above 0.5 needed an HTF/MTF key level to be found lower before continuation, but since there's nothing it bled into RL.
Hopefully we see that optimal key level hit this year. Hopefully, for me. CX would die...
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Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt
"EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga.
If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.
Fun fact: Baseball spring training exists because a baseball owner thought a hot spring in Arizona had magic powers so he started having his team train near the magic hot spring and then he won the World Series so everyone started training close to the magic water
“Why don’t you just eat fucking ramen everyday? Just eat peanut butter and ramen for 50 years dumbass and invest all your money into the pico top of the gayest most fragile empire in history you dumbass idiot. Just starve and eat shit and dirt everyday for your entire life and then you can spend $30 on lunch when you’re old and about to die it’s simple. Don’t you know your 20’s are for grinding?? You’re supposed to eat shit for the majority of your life that’s why your ancestors built America. So you could eat shit and fucking die moron.”
Here’s a practical exercise that could change your life in an afternoon.
Get a piece of paper and draw two columns. Left column: WHERE I CURRENTLY GET DOPAMINE, right column: WHERE I WANT TO GET DOPAMINE.
Fill in the left column brutally honestly: phone, social media, news, sugar. alcohol, shopping, gossip, outrage, complaining, pornography … whatever it is, no judgment.
Now fill in the right column: what would you like to feel pulled toward? Creative work, exercise, deep conversation, learning, building, cooking, nature, music-making… whatever calls to you.
Now look at the two columns. The gap between them is the gap between who you are and who you want to be. And the gap is not a character gap but a wiring gap.
Your nervous system is currently wired to seek reward from column A. You want it wired to seek reward from column B. The entire project of personal transformation reduces to this: gradually, patiently, micro-dose by micro-dose, shift the wiring from left to right.
You do that by making column B increasingly available, increasingly rewarding, increasingly easy and simultaneously making column A slightly less available, slightly less convenient, slightly more friction-laden.
You’re not fighting yourself, you’re migrating yourself from one dopamine landscape to another. It’s like moving a river one sandbag at a time. the river doesn’t know it’s being moved. it just follows the path of least resistance. and you’re quietly, patiently, reshaping what “least resistance” means.
⭕️Market tip: (to study carefully as it can help you to improve your profitability)
When you’re trying to understand very HTF accumulation or distribution and price action alone isn’t giving you enough clarity, one of the most useful external "lenses" I look into is what smart money are doing.
How to? Through the COT report.
The idea behind using it is straightforward: instead of guessing intent from price alone, I look at how different classes of market participants are actually positioned, and from that you infer who is building exposure, who is hedging, and who might be vulnerable.
Within the report, the key distinction is between commercials and non-commercials:
- Commercials are typically hedgers, so entities with underlying exposure to the asset and their positioning is often driven by inventory management rather than directional conviction.
- Non-commercials, on the other hand, are large speculators such as hedge funds, for example.
They are the ones that give "the fuel" to the price and because of their size, their behavior can materially influence trends.
However, it’s important to understand that they are not “smart money” in a simplistic sense, they tend to perform best in established trends and are often late to accumulation phases.
The real value of the COT data emerges when the market is in a prolonged range and directional clarity is low.
In these conditions, price can appear stagnant while significant positions are taking place underneath.
If, during this kind of extended consolidation, you observe non-commercials steadily increasing their net long exposure, you are effectively seeing capital being committed despite the absence of upward price expansion.
This creates a divergence between positioning and price, and that divergence is often where opportunity lies.
It can suggest that supply is being absorbed and that larger participants are positioning in anticipation of a future expansion higher.
That said, this signal only has meaning when interpreted in context.
1⃣If non-commercials are adding longs from relatively low or neutral positioning levels, it can indicate early accumulation and a potential buildup phase but if they are already heavily long from a historical levels and continue adding, the situation changes entirely.
In that case, the trade may already be crowded, and instead of signaling opportunity, it increases the risk of a squeeze in the opposite direction.
2⃣Also, you got to check how PA is moving in correlation with positionment (positions up but price stalling? absorption)
3⃣Take also not there is also a structural limitation you need to account for: the COT report is a delayed, weekly snapshot.
It reflects positions as of Tuesday and is released on Friday, which means it is inherently lagging.
Because of this, it should never be used as a timing tool but its role is to shape an HTF bias and not to dictate entries as execution still needs to come from price action.
When used correctly however, the edge comes from identifying imbalances.
The most valuable situations are not simply when one group is buying or selling, but when there is a mismatch between positioning and outcome: when large participants are heavily committed but price is not behaving as expected.
A wise man said: "Contracts are anticipatory. News is sequential".
I highly recommend to study this content if you want to understand how to trail your stop loss in an accurate and dynamic manner through the use of FRVP and volume models.
This is how I do it.
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