Mikel Lacey

Living my best life

[Justin Banks @RealJGBanks]

5 f*cking years I lost money

Lost a girlfriend

Absolutely hated myself and felt like I was going to have to bartend and serve forever

Then it finally clicked

Now it’s 13 years later and I made an entire old yearly salary in 3 days

Maybe you’ll see this maybe you won’t….

Just some late night thoughts. These were the nights I dreamt to have weeks like this.

Don’t give up no matter how much you want to.

Your time is coming. Believe in it.

[Anthony Crudele @AnthonyCrudele]

MCP on NinjaTrader 🤓🤖

[spidey🕸️📈 @spideycrypt]

TP means TAKE PROFIT bro,

Not TAKE PICTURE.

[trill @trilltrades_]

Break even day for me on the new evals.

Took my trade, followed my rules, and got off. Onto tmr🫡

[DayTradingRauf (DTR) @daytradingrauf]

Same process everyday win or lose:

> mark out the 8:12 to 9:12 high and low
> break of one side
> opposing end targets

• I had 4 entries first one was a loss 3 other I scaled in for take profits at 720s

[Rensing Trades @RensingTrades]

It always comes back to this chart

[ᴀʟᴛꜱᴛʀᴇᴇᴛ ʙᴇᴛꜱ @AltstreetBet]

US tech is looking good to go higher, possibilly more consolidation in this zone.

[Tony Trades @ScarfaceTrades_]

People will spend 4 years to get a degree that holds no value in the real world & believe it was smart.

When it comes to trading if you’re not profitable in 2 years, you wasted time.

They fail to realize this is a skill once mastered, you’ll never work for anyone.

[JDK Analysis 🇪🇺 @The_JDK99]

$BTC 📈

You’re looking at Hyperliquid, where a large passive buyer is sitting around $78K, absorbing an increasing wave of newly opened shorts right ahead of the New York open.

Why is everyone so eager to load up on shorts?
I mean if the trade were working, we wouldn’t be talking about it..

Let’s see what happens to those shorts once New York steps in 🍿

[JDK Analysis 🇪🇺 @The_JDK99]

$BTC FOMC OrderFlow 📊

The gamblers arrived 👀

Shorts selling the lows.
Longs buying the highs.
Everyone getting rekt.

If you gamble on this price action and call yourself a “trader,” then I’m a "professional athlete" because I went for a 20-minute run this morning.

[Casper @casper_smc]

Formula for freedom:

Make money in the market.

Put that money to work in assets that pay you whether you show up or not.

Do that enough times, and the day comes when your family never has to ask you for anything again.

[Anthony Crudele @AnthonyCrudele]

Copper 👀

[Anthony Crudele @AnthonyCrudele]

Good high today in CL 📉

[Tony Trades @ScarfaceTrades_]

“I’m not seeing progress”

You’re wrong.

You may not be rich

But you’re slowly building the person you need to be, to reach your goals

Keep working

Everything will happen with time.

[Casper @casper_smc]

$NQ executions today from the live stream

Full recording will be posted to 2nd channel today

[Barchart @Barchart]

JP Morgan's Trading Gameplan for tomorrow's rate decision 🚨 🚨

[Mikel Lacey @Mikellacey]

@HexagoneMarkets Your discord link is broken man

[JDK Analysis 🇪🇺 @The_JDK99]

Important:

We’re at crVAL... there’s no short for me here.

Calling the current low weak simply means I’m not interested in chasing an aggressive long yet.

I’d rather wait for strength to show up, or for price to trade lower into a better location (overall range VAH).

[JDK Analysis 🇪🇺 @The_JDK99]

$BTC OrderFlow 📊

Perps are buying the low and opening fresh longs.
Spot isn’t participating (yet).

That makes this low look very weak: leverage is aggressively trying to defend it without spot confirmation!

[JDK Analysis 🇪🇺 @The_JDK99]

$BTC 📈

75.5K VAH remains THE key HTF level to monitor! 🔍

As long as price holds above value, this remains a straight forward consolidation following the impulsive move higher - essentially processing the expansion before another attempt to break the HTF bearish market structure around 82K.

The picture changes if we lose VAH and accept back inside value. Below ~75.5K, there is relatively little structural support from the recent move, which leaves room for price to rebalance the inefficiencies created during the fast expansion higher.

My first downside reference is the low AVWAP around 70K. Below that, attention shifts toward the previous internal range highs / Golden Pocket, POC and the deeper range references.

For the bullish case, the setup I want to see is very specific: Sweep the local lows → test VAH/liquidity → absorption in OrderFlow → reclaim and hold above VAH. That would offer a potential long setup back toward the local highs / 82K area, with continuation higher possible if the HTF structure finally breaks.

So this is an important test for the bulls! 🍿

The reaction around 75.5K should tell us whether the market is genuinely accepting above the old range/value, or whether the recent move was simply an excursion above value before rotating back through it as we are not ready yet to start a new bullish market regime.