Pong

Chartered Accountant | Chartered Tax Advisor | Unqualified Trader

[Pong @Pongjrb]

Started trading with Bullx 2 days ago.

Secured a great win due to my entry on Bullx.

Would highly recommend to anyone trading on Solana rn.

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@fotmandre Dropping video games helped me. Spending hours every day "escaping" from reality. Only to be put right back into it after turning off the PC...

[Turboandi @fotmandre]

"How do you do it? Where does that discipline come from?"

Someone asked me this at a party a few years ago when I was still in university. This question came up because I’ve been lifting weights consistently for around 12 years (at that time), treating my training as an absolute non-negotiable, and people looked at me as if I was some freak when we were talking about that...

My honest answer back then? "I don't even think about it." But giving that kinda reaction or telling someone to "just do it" is actually terrible advice. Most people won't just do it, because relying on raw willpower every single day is a losing game. Why? Because your willpower tank will eventually just deplete. Ever thought why you grave XYZ at the end of a hard day and you gave in even though you stayed "disciplined" the whole day? There you have it...

Anyways.. I don't even remember why, but lately I've been thinking about that party incident frequently and was wondering how it became an "I don't think about it" activity for me.

People always believe discipline is a mystical gift you were given when you were born. They think you either are disciplined or you are not. I believe that's bullshit.

You don't force yourself to do hard things. You engineer your life and your routine so that you don't have to think about it anymore. James Clear nailed it in Atomic Habits. To rate a habit, he likes to use questions like “Does this behavior help me become the type of person I wish to be? Does this habit cast a vote for or against my desired entity?”

Discipline is nothing but the repetition of habits. If you struggle to start, use Habit Stacking: tie the new action to a habit you already do every single day.

But even deeper than that, true behavior change is identity change. To build those habits in the first place, you need to actually know your priorities. If something is truly important to you, you don't make excuses. You simply make the time. What is your purpose? Have you ever thought deeply about that question? I did and I advise you to do the same… Therefore over a year ago, I decided to become a trader. At first, I thought: "Cool, I'll just do a little bit of this after work."

A few weeks in, reality hit me. Trading is not just a hobby and I realized if I really wanted to use it as a vehicle to become independent, I gotta make more time to study and to trade. It’s one of the most rigorous educations in the world. As a software engineer, I know exactly how many years you have to study and grind to reach a certain maturity in your field of focus. Why the hell should trading be any different? Especially in a profession where the financial ceiling is practically unlimited?

So, I had to adjust my routine and bring trading into my life in a sustainable way. Quick side bramble: People try diet X or diet Y and basically restrict themselves for a few weeks and obviously lose weight. But what happens after those 10 kilos dropped? You wanna go back to your old lifestyle? Good luck with that. Those 10 kilos will be back in no time. Anyways... back to the topic.... So to incorporate trading into my existing lifestyle, I started waking up around 2.5 hours earlier every day to study/chart before work.

Was it hard in the beginning? Absolutely. But I wanted to become a trader. So I had to do the things that forge a trader.

You're probably asking: "How do you manage to squeeze a few extra hours out of your day? A day only has 24 hrs, how is it possible to extend it?" To answer those questions truthfully, I gotta tell you the hard truth nobody likes to hear: You can't have it all at the same time... And also read "The 5AM club" by Robin Sharma.

If you want to integrate a massive new goal into your life, you have to make room somewhere else. I call it the law of equivalent exchange. For example, I made room by seeing my friends less often; I also scaled down my sacred gym routine from 5x to 3x a week.

And you know what? That’s okay.

If your life is packed and you're thinking, "I can't handle all of this", you don't have to do everything perfectly. You just have to shift your priorities. By the way... I'm assuming you're not mindlessly playing video games or scrolling on TikTok, because dropping those... would give you plenty of hours back each day.

It’s completely fine to downshift a gear in one area, you're still putting in the reps and consistency. You will still progressively overload in those downshifted areas of life. It might just take a little longer. Every sacrifice you make, it all shapes you. Just know your purpose, and that way you know what to sacrifice.

Everything you do to fulfill your purpose, makes you a better person.

-- Andi

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@fotmandre So many juicy targets

[Turboandi @fotmandre]

Current range I'm watching to resolve to either side:

[Turboandi @fotmandre]

POIs I'm watching. POIs are nice and all, but trading every POI blindly is no bueno. Know what you want to see, where you want to see it and when you want to see it.

Getting distribution vibes at red levels/above CMP? Short.
Getting accumulation vibes at green levels/below CMP? Long.

I personally prefer shorts as we are in premium of the latest HTF swing, but there is nice POIs to long right below the 0.5.

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@fotmandre Thank you Andi. Always appreciate your insight.

[Turboandi @fotmandre]

The Open Cage: How Having an Anti-Vision, a Vision, and Clear Goals Secures My Freedom

This week I finalized a career transition that most people think is impossible:

I secured a significant salary increase while simultaneously reducing my working hours. I moved into a deep-tech role where I actually learn skills for my own long-term vision (more on how to create that vision later), all while getting paid more to do it.

But here is the secret: The money and the time aren't the primary wins. They are merely byproducts of a superior mental framework I’ve been building for months.

The "Light Switch" Moment

The win didn't happen in the negotiation room. It happened at 5:00 AM that morning.

While everyone is still sleeping, I sat alone and read through my Anti-Vision, my Vision, and my 1-3-10 year goals. It was like a light switch flipped in my brain. The inner fire didn't just flicker, it roared. Looking at that plan created a level of certainty so high that anxiety had no room to exist. Later that day at work, I didn't go into that meeting to ask. I went in there to execute a decision that had already been made in my mind, a decision that was based on what works best for me and my future self, derived from my goals.

The Sovereignty Shift

After being in the corporate world for a few years I’ve changed the way I view my role: It is no longer a job, it is a high-intensity lab for Mental Mastery.

I stopped being a "Yay-sayer" and started practicing the art of the "No". Remember: Nobody gives you anything. You have to take it. I learnt it the hard way, you don't have to.

In the end, you are the only person who can help you. You are your own most important asset. If you don't act, nobody will act for you. For me, every boundary set and every negotiation became a Daily Quest designed to build the psychological backbone needed not only for the markets, but for the quest to becoming a better man. I envisioned myself being the character I've played in World of Warcraft for many years, but now that character I level up is myself, myself in real life.

Here is how I prepared:

1. Weaponizing the Anti-Vision. Inspired by @thedankoe and his great thread https://t.co/mUhML4SZF5, I spent that morning before negotiation staring at my Anti-Vision. I visualized the "stagnant soldier" (as I've described him), the man who spends 45 years renting out his mind for a mission he doesn't believe in, too tired at the end of the day to build his own dreams.

That disgust fueled my resolve. When you are running away from a nightmare, you don't ask for a change. You architect a new reality because the alternative is death to your soul.

2. Trading Hours for Mental Capacity. The goal was never just a higher paycheck. The goal was Resources. By securing more income in fewer hours, I’ve reclaimed my most valuable assets: Time and Mental Capacity.

In the markets, you need absolute focus. If 90% of your energy is drained by some (corporate) bullshit and 40+ hours of "busy work" (this is the worst, you really need to reduce cognitive entropy and find clarity), you have nothing left for execution. BUT NOW, I’ve effectively cleared my cache. I now have the mental quietude to build my personal brand, hit my trading targets with surgical precision, and document my journey to profitability on X.

3. The Spiritual Goal of the "No". Negotiation is weightlifting for the spirit, every rep is a rep closer to mental mastery. To walk into a room full of sharks and state your terms, knowing you are ready to walk away if your vision isn't met, is how you show your "Shadow Child" that you are good enough (The Child In You: The Breakthrough Method for Bringing Out Your Authentic Self - great book btw). You prove to yourself that you are worth fighting for. Confrontation is good, and running away isn't. Fight for youself.

I am no longer a part of their system, they are an investor in mine. My job provides the steady cash flow while trading provides the infinite ceiling.

The Lesson we can learn: The cage was never actually locked. Most people are just too busy polishing the bars to notice the door is ajar. Your ideal future can seem out of reach, which causes hesitation due to uncertainty, which then invokes anxiety. A plan creates clarity, and clarity creates action as Dan Koe states in his book The Art of Focus, so here are some steps you can undertake to create your clarity and to find meaning and purpose. Trust me it helps tremendously, and if you read this far, you know it does.

1. Define what you refuse to accept/what you despise becoming/who you don't want to be (Anti-Vision)
2. Define who you want to become (Vision) ‼️
3. Derive Goals: Categorize them (Wealth, Health, Spirituality, Relationships) and set your timelines (1, 3, 10 years)
4. Build the skills to negotiate your freedom
5. Reclaim your time to build your empire

Execution is everything. Start now.

— Andi

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@fotmandre Thank you Andi. Appreciate your thoughts as always.

[Turboandi @fotmandre]

I know the exact feeling when life gets loud and the charts suddenly feel like an anchor dragging you down.

I’ve felt that suffocating pressure when life suddenly demands 100% of your energy, and the markets feel like a burden instead of an opportunity. The instinct is to quit entirely.

But you don't have to choose between burning out or walking away. There are far superior ways to operate that keep you in the game without hitting that wall of total exhaustion.

Here is my personal system for navigating high-stress periods while maintaining absolute clarity and staying in control. 👇

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@btcjvs @Keir_Starmer @grok If I were to be a young person with cash available to deploy. How could I capitalise on this event or prepare for the effects?

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@rektober Did you draw that candle left handed or what?

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@TheSalesBull1 @grok explain this to me like I’m 10

[Lucky Chart Ape @luckychartape]

🎁1 year LATF membership giveaway🎁

I just gave free access to my "VIP group" for one week.
This is where I have taught people everything I know for the last 5+ years. This is where I breakdown all of my trades, everyday.

I hope that was a great experience for those of you wanting to make a change in 2026!

It was a transparent look at what I do everyday.
The option to join with a 1 year membership discount will be removed in 2 days. (This is my last year).

To join the giveaway, like and share.

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@IamZeroIka Thank you.

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@fotmandre All part of the process.

[Turboandi @fotmandre]

Keep grinding, show up even when you don’t feel like it and fall in love with boredom

[Ansem @blknoiz06]

pump fun raising $1B at $4B after Trumpcoin launch is like the second plane hitting the towers

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@eth_exy GN

[Pong @Pongjrb]

@sikroxbt Classic capo