As a full time trader, I am on the charts 2-4hrs per day. Mental fatigue is a real thing and the more time I spend on the screen, the more my edge decays.
Everyone is unique but personally spending my whole day on charts is detrimental to my profitability.
There is plenty of other trading work I do however such as journal analysis, research, psychology work.
Closed my $HYPE swing long at $71 on Sunday.
Shorted $HYPE intraday today around $58 on the structure breakdown.
Same coin, different timeframe, different story.
The swing thesis played out. With BTC weakness setting in and broader sentiment turning, I had to adapt.
When the conditions change, the strategy has to change with them.
$LAB long Tuesday at the ATH breakout and now a $LAB short today on the breakdown.
The market shifted, the setup changed, the position followed.
After the negative funding settled, longs that piled in for the payment had every reason to exit. With a bearish broader market, I leaned into the breakdown.
I don't usually predict moves like this, but when conditions stack up, you can be more aggressive with setup quality.
@KoroushAK Once you have a strategy, it comes down to your psychology/ability to execute the strategy consistently.
This is the hardest thing to do in trading!
This article is a huge help
Closed my hyperliquid:native swing fully position today
$28 average entry after the bitcoin sell off and an average exit of $71.
Three months of patience and allowing the thesis to play out.
Here's the breakdown of one of the best trades I've taken this year. 🧵
Your edge is never just your strategy.
Your edge is also your ability to access that strategy under pressure, uncertainty, volatility, frustration, boredom, and fear.
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$LAB long Tuesday at the ATH breakout and now a $LAB short today on the breakdown.
The market shifted, the setup changed, the position followed.
After the negative funding settled, longs that piled in for the payment had every reason to exit. With a bearish broader market, I leaned into the breakdown.
I don't usually predict moves like this, but when conditions stack up, you can be more aggressive with setup quality.
More bearish market conditions,
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broke to new ATHs today while $BTC was falling below $70k
This is the type of outlier that I want to see when trading against the market conditions
I took it long off the breakout of the ATH. The trade went offside pretty heavily before it worked, but the 30SMMA was a clean trend support area so I stayed patient through the pullback.
With a funding rate of -1% coming due, ByBit was incentivizing traders to go long. I wanted to be in for the move into funding, but out before funding hit and things got messy.
Closed my hyperliquid:native swing fully position today
$28 average entry after the bitcoin sell off and an average exit of $71.
Three months of patience and allowing the thesis to play out.
Here's the breakdown of one of the best trades I've taken this year. 🧵
@2atThe Yessir exactly. I didn’t want to get caught catching a falling knife, so I waited for a sign of buyers stepping in and structure starting to break to the upside
I closed today around $71 not because the trade was over and there is no more upside potential, but because the move had played out the way I expected and the risk to reward favored taking the profit.
Sentiment is very bullish on the coin right now as well with a lot of aggression/FOMO coming in. This is usually a good sign to begin taking profit and can signal the move becoming a bit overextended.
A good trade isn't one that runs forever. It's one where you stick to the plan and take profit.
Most traders can spot a good setup, but very few can sit on one.
The trade isn't won at the entry. It's won during the silence between entry and exit. The hours, days, weeks of doing nothing while the thesis plays out.
That's where the edge lives, in your trade management.