The Laundry Room

Rinsing off trader stupidity daily.
Prop hacks, ES/NQ plays, therapy sessions, and hard truths straight from the Basket of Legends.

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@Musclemanhh I hear you and agree… eggs are convenient in the fact you know your getting 7g protein every time you smash one back where as you have to weigh out the fish…. Or just smash back a tin tuna :)

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@Devsthetix So you believe cable flyes is what this fine specimen should be doing in his routine?

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@TheH0n3stTrader Mic drop moment …. Yet your followers will still go rinse all their cash on challenges because their ego blocks out all voice of reason until they can’t affford the rent

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@FitnessEmpiree Frequency 💯 matters. So does total volume & muscle recovery. Why do you believe 7 days a week is effective?

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@DemonFramed If guy 1 is your idea of “fullest capacity” then I’m afraid you’ve hit your ceiling & it isn’t made of glass…😂

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@Devsthetix Listening to anyone who uses terms like ‘rat’ ‘freak’ ‘testo’

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@DorianB112 Agreed pretty scammy, however ped’s don’t get you jacked alone, you still have to put reps on the tin.

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@testomaxing You’ve described yourself very well there sir well done

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@RealJackPoor Bahahahajajasjjah

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

Fund this, profit that, educate here blah blah … these Gurus truly are gurus …of mastering the AI prompt! Unlike the gurus we don’t like to talk 💩 we let our charts do the talking

[The Honest Trader @TheH0n3stTrader]

You could be profitable in the next 6 months.

Think about that for a second...

$200K funded account.

4% a month.

$6,400 a month.

6 damn months.

December 2026, dude.

Anyone can do it.

Lock the fuck in.

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

While these ‘Gurus’ chew your ear off about the zillions of readers they’ve turned into millionaires we’ll show you what’s really going on at the coalface! We’re looking at a sunny week with new ATH’s of trump can keep it 🤐for a day!

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

two traders started exactly the same time last march.

same age (24), same starting capital ($8k), same discord (mine), same strategy.

12 months later:

trader A: $4,847/month consistent. cleared payout on a $100k Topstep last month.
trader B: still in the discord, still hasn't passed a single challenge, "still learning."

the only difference between them was the question they asked themselves at month 2.

trader A asked: "what am i specifically bad at?"
trader B asked: "what strategy should i learn next?"

trader A spent month 3 tracking emotional breaks - every time he revenge traded (8 instances), every time he closed a winner at 1R out of fear (12 instances), every time he moved a stop in panic (6 instances). then he built pre-commitments for each of his specific breaks. max 2 trades. target written before entry. stops not moveable.

by month 6 his emotional breaks dropped from 26/month to 4/month. by month 9 he was consistently profitable.

trader B spent the same 12 months "learning" - 3 weeks on ICT, 3 weeks on SMC, 3 weeks on a different mentor, 3 weeks on a new orderflow guy, back to ICT, back to SMC. never took 100 trades on any single approach. couldn't tell you his win rate, his average R, or his specific emotional triggers.

he's not learning trading. he's avoiding the diagnosis.

because diagnosing yourself means admitting you're the bottleneck. and admitting you're the bottleneck means you can't keep blaming the strategy.

here's the exact emotional break template trader A used. log every trade with:

- did i enter on a pre-defined setup criterion, or did i improvise? (Y/N)
- did i place my stop at entry without adjusting it during the trade? (Y/N)
- did i let the trade hit either stop or target, without closing early? (Y/N)
- if i closed early, what was the unrealized P&L at exit? (in R)
- did i take this trade because the setup criteria were met, or because i felt "i need to make something happen"? (criteria / FOMO / revenge / boredom)
- emotional state during entry (1-10 calm to anxious)

after 50 trades, sort by the rows where the answer was "no" or where emotional state was 7+. that's your specific failure pattern. the data is brutal but it's actionable.

trader A's data showed: 47% of his trades were "FOMO" or "boredom" entries (not setup-based), and on those trades his WR was 28%. on his actual setup-based trades, his WR was 64%. fix: pre-commit to only taking pre-defined setups. result: WR jumped from 41% to 58% the next month because he just stopped taking the bad trades.

trader B never ran this tracker. because running it would have shown him that the problem wasn't the strategy. and if the problem isn't the strategy, then learning a new strategy isn't the fix. and if that's true, then everything he's been doing for 12 months has been wrong. that's too painful to confront.

so instead he keeps buying new courses.

a third example from my discord - guy named M (different person) - had been "learning to trade" for 4 years. four years. never had a profitable month. asked me what i thought he should learn next.

i said: nothing new. log your next 30 trades with the template. don't change anything else. just track.

after 30 trades he came back: "i revenge trade 73% of the time after a single loss. i had no idea it was that bad."

we built him a "no trade for 30 minutes after any loss" rule. enforced via locking his platform for 30 minutes. just that one rule. no new strategies, no new courses.

he was profitable within 60 days. four years of "learning" fixed by one diagnosis and one rule.

most of you are trader B and you're going to keep being trader B until you stop opening new courses and start tracking your specific failures.

50 trades. one approach. log every emotional break. that's the start.

not another mentor.

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@flabbytofit99 What a random number, how’s it relevant to men in general?
Now if you told me Bench, Squat & deadlift your own body weight to pass the ‘dad’ test I’d be more inclined to agree

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@DemonFramed Your gay then I take it?

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@PJtrades_NQ Id hazard a guess you’ve never had back to back profitable months trading in your life

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@WalksWallstreet What’s the ultimate oxymoron? Trying to crack it as a credible financial influencer while reading the NY post.
Go figure 🤣

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@gregogallagher Bro I shit out 6lbs in the am

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@testomaxing @testomaxing says the guy who’s posted over 42 times in less than 24 hours…. You influencers are a crack up, your ego talks the good game but when the whistle goes your still in the changing rooms twiddling your thumbs on your phone 🤣😂🤣

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@TheH0n3stTrader What So you could really make your parents proud by blowing up their retirement funds through all your failed challenges?

[The Laundry Room @Laundryroompro]

@TheH0n3stTrader On the contrary many people enjoy a good natter in the laundrette. Personally I think you probably started out doing all the right things with good intentions but your not consistently profitable so your transparency’s fucked front he start