mike momentum🌊🏄‍♂️

student momentum trader of the market strivin for greatness🆙

[self.dll @seelffff]

i cancelled $2,000/month in trading subscriptions

replaced every single one with open-source repos
here's the full stack:

1. TradingView Pro ($30/mo) → lightweight-charts
   14K stars. by TradingView themselves. 45KB. free
https://t.co/Zj8BoF0kbj

2. Bloomberg Terminal ($2,000/mo) → fredapi + Claude
   every macro dataset the Fed publishes. free API
https://t.co/QOsmACH9tB

3. backtest platform ($100/mo) → prediction-market-backtesting
   NautilusTrader fork with Polymarket + Kalshi adapters
https://t.co/ezKB2PSBUq

4. real-time dashboard → polyrec
   terminal UI: Chainlink oracle, Binance feed, orderbook depth
   70+ indicators. auto CSV logging. strategy backtester
https://t.co/fYj5aFUTS4

5. bot framework (7 strategies) → Polymarket-Trading-Bot
   53K lines TypeScript. arbitrage, momentum, market making,
   AI forecast, whale copy-trade, convergence
https://t.co/xNSLjlIEZd

6. strategy reverse engineering → polybot
   execution + market data infrastructure. paper trading
   Kafka, ClickHouse, Grafana. full analytics pipeline
https://t.co/s3fjSwXV6z

7. paper trading for AI agents → polymarket-paper-trader
   real order books. exact fee model. slippage tracking
   your Claude agent gets $10K paper money and trades
https://t.co/oXMxD9uhKI

8. token savings → rtk
   CLI proxy. cuts Claude Code tokens by 60-90%
   Rust. single binary. 10 AI tools supported
https://t.co/WKnP7dfvuj

9. Claude Code itself ($200/mo) → goose
   35K stars. by Block (Jack Dorsey). Rust
   works with any LLM. full agent loop. free
https://t.co/md2P9CJ4Ia

10. wallet tracking + copy trading → Kreo
    track top Polymarket wallets. auto copy trades
    the only tool on this list i actually pay for
    because it makes more than it costs
https://t.co/rVKQ107tBV

total before: ~$2,600/month
total now: $0 + Kreo

bookmark this. you'll need it

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

the traders making $50k/month and the traders making $0/month are looking at the exact same charts

the difference isn't knowledge. it's not discipline. it's not "psychology."

it's that broke traders trade PRICE and rich traders trade themself

let me explain:

every candle you see is a decision made by thousands of traders.

every wick is a mass grave of stopped-out positions.

every "breakout" is a coordinated trap to create exit liquidity.

you're not trading a chart. you're trading against other humans.

and right now, you're losing to them.

here's what profitable traders see that you don't:

that support level you're buying?

they see 10,000 stop losses sitting just below it. they're not buying support. they're waiting for YOUR stop to get hit so they can buy cheaper.

that breakout you're chasing?

they see retail FOMO. they're not buying breakouts. they're selling to you.

that "manipulation" you're complaining about?

they see opportunity. every stop hunt is their entry.

one of my students said it perfectly:

"I stopped asking 'where is price going?' and started asking 'where is everyone POSITIONED?'"

his income went from $2k/month to $23k/month in 5 months.

same charts. different eyes.

the market is a wealth transfer machine.

money flows from the impatient to the patient.
from the emotional to the calculated.
from the people trading CHARTS to the people trading TRADERS.

which side are you on?

because right now, every time you get stopped out, someone is saying "thank you for the liquidity."

stop being the donation.

start being the collector.

[yimika| @yimikaaaa]

My mom told me 'Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion.... You just serve a false god'
I haven’t been the same since.

[𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖊 @anne_alyst]

your lack of personal purpose is causing your romantic obsessions btw

[bepotrades @bepotrades]

How to change your destiny in the next 6 months

- Buy 5 Funded Accounts
- 1 setup a day $200-300 risk
- Only trade inside the 9:30-11am killzone
- Wait for a HTF liquidity sweep + IFVG setup
- Take Profit at a 1:1 RR
- Use your first payout to scale into 10-20 total accounts
- Repeat this cycle and profit $10k/m

It has never been this easy to be profitable in these markets

[tfk @timeframeking]

I don’t like prop firms

But I have a student in my community who is a beast on props

He’s trading 1:1RR with prop firms because of the drawdown but wanted to start building a personal account too

He trades pretty much the same setups on his personal account but instead of taking profits at 1:1RR he lets it run and uses a trailing stop

He’s caught some 5-8R bangers doing this and is scaling his personal account pretty fast

This is the method

Low RR for prop firms

High RR for personal accounts

[dhesii @dhesi_trades]

Psychology tip:

If you just SIZE DOWN, you will become profitable a lot sooner than you expect.

You won’t hesitate executing setups.

You won’t feel like shit after losing a trade.

You’ll be able to manage a trade properly because you won’t be P&L focused.

Try it.

[Sean trades @SRxTrades]

God delays your money to fix your discipline first

I was broke until I started building discipline...

[Movez @0xMovez]

Anthropic engineer:

"At Anthropic, 90% of our engineers use loops and ‘dreaming’ to build self-improving agentic systems.

сlose the agent loop. give an agent a way to verify its own output."

in a 30-minute session, an Anthropic team member explains how to build an agent that improves itself.

Claude + loops + dreaming + CLAUDE.md - that’s the secret.

Watch the talk, then save the playbook below.

[Innocent Marvin @InnocentMarve11]

I’ve spent more time on trading view than with women

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

prop firms are a real estate market and you keep treating them like a final exam.

let me break down the math that turned $3,200 into $487,000 in trading capital for one of my discord clients over 4 months.

most traders buy one challenge. $300. they feel the pressure of "i HAVE to pass this." they revenge trade by day 4. they fail. they buy another one. they fail. by month 6 they've spent $1,800 and have nothing to show for it.

stackers do something completely different.

month 1: my client bought 10 challenges across 4 different prop firms. $2,400 total. $1M+ in combined account size if all pass. didn't buy them all at one firm - split across Topstep, Apex, MyFundedFutures, and Tradeify because if one firm has payout issues, he's not wiped out.

he ran identical execution across all 10. one strategy. same setups. 0.5% risk per account. same hours (8:30–12 EST only). no per-account adjustments. he was running one system at 10x capital, not "managing 10 accounts."

month 2: 6 of 10 challenges passed to funded. 4 failed (expected - that's the variance of any 58% WR system over a 30-trade qualification period). he spent $480 replacing the 4 failed ones with new attempts.

month 3: of those 6 funded accounts, he hit the eval-to-funded threshold on 5. one got knocked out by a single bad day. so he's sitting on 5 funded accounts ranging $50k–$100k. ~$400k in live trading capital.

month 4: first month of payouts. he cleared $14,247 across the 5 accounts. roughly 3.5% per account, no heroics. he didn't withdraw all of it - left ~40% as buffer on each account because losing a funded account to a single bad week is the failure mode that wipes the stack.

over 4 months, he turned $3,200 (initial 10 challenges + $480 replacements + 3 follow-on attempts) into a stack generating ~$14k/month with $400k under management.

his ROI on the $3,200 acquisition cost: 445% per month, recurring.

the psychology shift is what made it work, not the strategy.

at 1 account, every trade feels like life or death. $300 fee, $300 to lose. he was making 12 trades a day, revenge trading after every loss, blowing each account in ~7 days. classic.

at 10 accounts, every trade is just data. takes the same 2 setups per day. one loses, fine, three are winners. one full account fails, fine, it was statistically expected. the emotional weight per trade dropped to ~10% of what it was at one account.

he's not a better trader. he's a less emotional one. and the math doesn't care how you feel about it.

here's what most traders get wrong:

they think stacking is reckless because it costs $2,400 instead of $300. they don't do the comparison correctly.

option A: save up $100k personal capital. takes most people 4–7 years if they're saving aggressively. trade it at 1% risk. make $5k/month best case after taxes. timeline to live off it: 5+ years.

option B: spend $3,200 over 4 months acquiring $400k in prop firm capital. trade it at 0.5% risk. make $14k/month. timeline: 4 months.

option B is 60x cheaper per dollar of capital under management. and 12x faster.

but it requires you to stop treating each challenge fee like rent money and start treating it like a CAC line item in a business.

most of you won't.

so prop firms will keep printing on you, one $300 spin at a time.

the 2% who flip this - the stackers - are the only ones the prop firms actually lose money on

free discord in bio. i'll show you exactly how to scale prop firms to make your first $10k/month trading

[ThiccTeddy @ThiccTeddy]

How To Find Stocks With Momentum:

1) Go to https://t.co/VBCCNm0Ngb & click the 'screener' tab on the top bar
2) Use the 'performance' parameter to run these screeners
-Week +10%
-Month +20%
-YTD +30%
3) Analyze the charts to find opportunities to ride the momentum

[Sharique @Shar_ique]

I finally stopped overtrading the day -

I realized my friends are grinding 8–10 hours a day, 5 days a week, stuck in traffic for an hour, begging for two WFH days, and sucking up to their managers just to chase a 10–20% raise… all to earn $500–$1,500 a month at best.

Meanwhile, one max payout on my $50k funded account pays me $2,000 for barely 2 hours of work a day.

I’m not taking this life for granted anymore.

Time to lock in. 🔥

[Andrew @Tradesdontlie]

Claude controlling @tradingview live — switching symbols, writing Pine Script, batch scanning futures, replay trading, drawing levels. All from the terminal. Still rough edges but the vision is clear.

[BRUH 👑 @ItsBitcoinBruh]

Crypto ai algorithms letting me know the local low for alts is in next week. One last low in October to mark the bottom.. ai algos in plain sight.

Dead cat bounce until October then alts go up 5-10x Q4 2027 - Q2 2028. That will be the last altcoin pump we see in our lifetime

[iain @ohiain]

I am trying to align myself with the strongest stocks in the strongest groups while they are already proving institutional demand through price.

1) I am not looking for cheap stocks.
2) I am not looking for broken charts.
3) I am not trying to be early in names that have shown me nothing.

I want strength that is already visible, then I wait for a controlled entry where I can define risk.

My process always starts with leadership.

Before I care about the setup, I ask myself: is this name actually leading? Is it outperforming the market? Is it outperforming its sector? Is it holding up on red days? Is it reclaiming moving averages quickly after pullbacks? If the answer is no, I usually lose interest fast.

Relative strength first.
Setup second.

After that, I look at the group. 1 strong stock is interesting, but multiple strong stocks in the same theme usually means institutional rotation. That is why I constantly track semis, AI infrastructure, power, defense, quantum, software, crypto, and any group where money is clearly flowing.

Then I look for structure.

Momentum alone is not enough for me... I need tightness & I need compression. I need a place where risk makes sense.

If a stock already made a strong move, I do not want to chase the emotional candle. I want to see it pause, digest, pull into the 9/21EMAs, build higher lows, absorb sellers, and start tightening again.

That is where the opportunity forms.

The move higher creates attention + the pullback shakes out weak hands. The tightness stores energy, and once price starts reclaiming pivots again, the next move higher can happen fast.

This is why so much of my trading revolves around:

> Stage 1 → Stage 2 transitions
> 9/21EMA pullbacks
> undercut/reclaim setups
> 15/30min pivot entries
> weekly breakout structures
> tight flags after expansion
> relative strength names on weakness

The actual entry is where I get aggressive.

If a leading stock pulls into support, undercuts a key level, then reclaims and starts turning back up on the 15/30min timeframe, that is one of my favorite entries. I can place my stop near LOD or the support pivot, know exactly where I am wrong, and participate right as momentum starts returning.

If I am wrong, I lose small.
If I am right, the stock should start working almost immediately.

Momentum trading is not buying random green candles.

It is finding true leadership, waiting for structure, entering where risk is tight, and then having the patience to let the winner work.

Most of my trades are small losses, breakeven trades, or small wins.

The outlier winners pay for everything.

Simple... but NOT easy.

[Rosanna Prestia, MBA @RosannaInvests]

Stoicism - Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca. Been my framework for years.

The market is the ultimate Stoic training ground. Externals you can’t control (price), judgments you can (your response). Epictetus’s wisdom 2,000 years early. Forever relevant and on point.

I used to run a whole daily Stoicism tweet series here - might be time to bring it back.🤔

Always good to find someone who reads the books, not just the quotes.

[Movez @0xMovez]

https://t.co/jCd8uDd6kF

[Gurshan @GurshanTrades]

i turned $83 to $19,000 in 4 weeks

- traded with @Topstep

- had one bullet in my gun

- $4k debt on myself

- passed account in two days

- under 20 trading days made $32k just from $2k total drawdown

- 30 calendar days i had $19k in my bank account

Became debt free , started grinding more on charts , finally prioritising the health .

All of this came from one single account.

If i can do it , you can do it as well , never give up.