Garrett

Video Editor_NQ Futures Trader.

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

I dont know which way the market goes. Nor do I try to predict it. I just make sure I am on the train when it leaves. $NQ_F

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@Emmonspired 100%

[Anthony Crudele @AnthonyCrudele]

I spent over two decades as a full time futures trader and scalper, and I learned your edge isn’t just your strategy. It’s your focus.

It’s the amount of hyperfocus it takes every single day. Blocking everything out, slowing your heart rate down, staying calm, believing in your homework, executing at a high level. Trading has to be your number one focus each day. So if you’re learning to become a successful trader, here are three things you may be focusing on that are working against you.

First, other people’s money. Stop looking at how much everyone else is making. That’s the number one thing you have to look away from. I was around thousands of traders on the floor and I barely remember us talking about money. It was private. The goal was to build a life. It felt blue collar. Today everyone talks about what they make, trying to prove someone wrong about the market. It’s a different place, and a lot harder for a new trader to block the noise out.

Second, the access. Overnight used to just be overnight, where you managed a position if you had one. Set time to start, set time to break, set time to come back. We traded mornings, skipped midday, came back for the close. Now the access never stops, and it’s spread everyone’s focus too thin to stay locked in.

Third, understanding the market environment. We move between environments at a very rapid rate. We go from trending higher with no signs of a pullback, buy the dip and hold on, straight into sell off mode. Trying to guess what those days will be like going into them is very difficult. You have to stay open minded and understand how quickly the tape can change. Last Friday was the perfect example. A market runs higher a lot further than most thought, then unravels all at once. It’s the same psychology we see in traders. They stay in their own trend for only so long, then unravel all at once. If you’re not focused, or you’re clinging too hard to one market environment as you move into the next, you aren’t allowing things to be what they are. You’re fighting them for what they were.

So here’s the simple part. Slow everything down. Survive a game where you pay your bills and stay in long enough to make a living. There will be moments this business really pays you, and you won’t choose them. They choose you. The rest is grinding, surviving, enjoying the process. Arguing with people on social media is a time waster, and the people who do it are usually unhappy in their own lives. Spend your time wisely.

Focus is the whole game. Protect it like your account depends on it, because it does.

Enjoy your life. Have fun. This is the greatest business in the world if you let it be. And it’ll be the worst, and destroy your life, if you let it.

Cheers, DELI

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@AaronRentfrew By the way, BADASS call Wednesday morning. 🔻🔻

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@AaronRentfrew LMAO

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@Emmonspired Liquidity!

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@AaronRentfrew

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@Emmonspired 100%

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@Emmonspired I use this same analogy! Also don’t go chasing after a bus you missed. You might get ran over!

[Aaron Rentfrew 🏔🏜🌋🏕 @AaronRentfrew]

$NQ in 2026

Topped in January at 26349 and dropped 3387 points to 22961 in March. Then rallied 2x the drop in a straight line to be 3387 points above the January high.

This means a retest of the previous high of the year would be a perfect 50% retrace.

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@Emmonspired First lesson I learned in trading.
Live at cause.

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

Paul Tudor Jones predicted the 1987 crash, made $100 million, then spent years trying to destroy this footage

you will watch him lose $6 million in one afternoon, sit in his chair and say "total devastation" then make it all back with 100% interest

This documentary will change how you think about risk forever

Bookmark & watch it. Then read the post below - $90 billion from being right just 54% of the time↓

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@MichaelPatak You thought you were a shitty CEO? Why would you think that?

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@AuroraFaye1225 100%

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

TACO TUESDAY. Trumps shenanigans have made a LOT of money!!

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

Louder for everyone in the back!

[PaxTrader777🇺🇸 @paxtrader777]

If you are a trader, STOP trying to predict markets and stop making calls. Nobody cares. Be prepared for both sides. Have a plan everyday and execute it. That plan needs to be consistent, repeatable and scalable.

Start with a myopic view on an intraday basis and look to widen your view when the price action has continuation.

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@LongTplexTrader 😂😂😂

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@Emmonspired @TopstepBroker @MichaelPatak @CoachDBA Thanks for the deposit. Game Over Try Again

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@MichaelPatak The only question that matters as a TS trader is, are you green in payouts vs expenses.

[Garrett @Matthews_Trader]

@paxtrader777 Facts!

[PaxTrader777🇺🇸 @paxtrader777]

This is the best business in the world. It requires us to constantly be the best version of ourselves. This business requires us to do better, be better every day. The level of self-assurance, self-possession, self-knowledge & control is beyond what most will ever experience in life. The intensity this requires is incredible. Every day-take care of your mind, body & spirit.