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Home dweller & trader.

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

My first trading mentor said something that always stuck with me

Act like a retired trader

And only come out of retirement when you see a setup that is too good to pass up. Best of the best play

That mindset will make you rich as fuck

Only trade THOSE plays

[Sandy @SandyWinnr]

I had my aha moment few days ago and it's whole new world now. like you said, it's extremely beautiful. Been a loser since 16 years ago. Thanks Buddha I'm not giving up and like you said again, it's time to lock in and get wealthy. I am a millionaire next year July 2027. 🙏

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

Trading is beautiful

You can be a TERRIBLE trader for years losing money blowing accounts left and right but then one year where you lock in can literally get rich as FUCKK

All previous Ls are then just a story you can tell now to inspire the ones that were once in your shoes

I was you
And you will be in the future

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

I became a fulltime trader in 2020...

Here are my top tips to become profitable fast 👇 🧵

[𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗘♠️♠️ @CRT_femme]

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[Sandy @SandyWinnr]

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[MURU @murutrades]

As a trader your job is simple, but not easy.

Master one market.
Learn the characteristics of that market deeply.
Master one model.
And only execute A+ setups with proper risk management.

You will win some trades and you will lose some trades.
That’s part of the game.

A win should not make you feel invincible.
A loss should not make you angry or emotional.

Both are just data points.

What truly matters is whether you followed the plan correctly.

The traders who actually make it are not the ones chasing new strategies every week.
They are the ones executing the same plan the same way over and over again.

100 trades.
1000 trades.
Same discipline.
Same model.
Same execution.

That repetition is where real confidence is built.
That’s where you discover if your model truly has an edge.
And along the way, you learn more about yourself than you ever expected.

Most people quit before they ever reach that stage.

[Aryan @TraderAryan]

10 Scalping Rules I wish I knew earlier:

Rule 1 - One session, One setup No exceptions.

Rule 2 - If you can’t explain the trade in one sentence, don’t take it.

Rule 3 - Stop after 2 losses, No negotiations.

Rule 4 - Your daily loss limit is not a suggestion.

Rule 5 - Never trade the first 15 minutes of open.

Rule 6 - Size stays the same whether you’re up or down.

Rule 7 - Green day ends when target is hit, Not when you feel like stopping.

Rule 8 - Never move a stop loss further away.

Rule 9 - Log off after your session, Charts don’t need watching.

Rule 10 - Journal every trade, No exceptions.

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

The brutal truth about trading....👇

[No Risk No Premium™ @NoRiskNoPremium]

If I lost everything and had to restart trading with only $500…

Here’s EXACTLY what I would do differently 🧵

[Trader Mike @tradermike1234]

You get rich fast when you stop trying to get rich fast

You have to flip a switch in your brain and focus on the process

If it helps think about this like a video game

You are not focused on the money

Just on reaching the next level

New levels also means new levels of money as a byproduct

BUT...can't be the core focus

[iain @ohiain]

Thank me in 1 year:

- Open an X account.
- Stick to 1 core system.
- Start posting like a public journal.
- Post your pre/post trade analysis every day.
- Share everything: the good, bad, and ugly.
- Ask questions under accounts you genuinely relate to.
- Add value to discussions that fit your style/system.
- Build a feed that teaches you, NOT entertains you.
- Unfollow anyone selling certainty in the market.
- MUTE accounts who create fear, hype, or distraction.
- Save high-quality trade breakdowns and study them.
- Use bookmarks like a free trading library.
- Spend more time learning risk management.
- Engage with all traders slightly ahead of your level.
- STOP taking advice from traders who never show losses.
- Rewatch market recaps and spaces to hear how experienced traders think in real time.
- Follow traders who explain WHY, not just traders who post profits.
- Post your mistakes publicly, so you STOP repeating them privately.
- FOCUS on documenting your process instead of trying to look profitable online.
- Stay consistent and DON'T quit when progress feels slow.

This is when trading finally started making sense to me.

...what else am I missing?

[Cryptowave Lab @MhagamaFau31375]

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[BIAS HUNTER @BIASHUNTERFX]

99% of traders are trapped by the same lie:

They think a breakout means continuation.

But the market was designed to trap people who trade what looks obvious.

Here’s the reality of market structure:

A “protected high” or “protected low” is only respected UNTIL price uses liquidity from that area to create the next move.

The moment liquidity is taken,
That level becomes invalid.

This is why Turtle Soup (TS) setups are so powerful.

Price breaks above a high,
Retail traders scream “BUY!”
Price breaks below a low,
Everyone panics and sells.

Then suddenly,

The market reverses aggressively in the opposite direction.

Why?

Because the breakout wasn’t the real move.
The liquidity sweep WAS the real move.

Smart money doesn’t chase breakouts.
Smart money hunts liquidity.

That’s the difference between: ❌ Trading what you SEE
✅ Trading what the market is DOING

Most traders lose because they enter after confirmation.
Professionals wait patiently for the manipulation.

The market rewards patience, positioning, and understanding liquidity mechanics - not emotions.

Once you understand: • Liquidity grabs
• Invalidation levels
• False breakouts
• Turtle Soup setups

You stop trading like the crowd.

And that’s when market structure finally starts making sense.

The chart looks simple.
But this concept alone can completely change the way you see the market forever.

@BIASHUNTER FX

[𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐔 @zaruww]

Trading slowly separates you from people.

Not because you think you’re better.

But because your mind changes.

You stop chasing entertainment.
You stop needing constant noise.
You start valuing time, focus, and peace.

While everyone rushes around emotionally,

you begin realizing
calmness is a superpower.

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

The 4-hour candle you're trading inside already decided if your trade will work or not

Not your entry. Not your setup. Not your "confirmation"

The candle itself. Before you even opened the 5-minute chart

95% of retail traders never check this. They go straight to the lower timeframe and start looking for setups. The 5% who fractalize the higher timeframe candle first already know if the day supports expansion before the market opens

Here's what nobody teaches you:

Every candle on every timeframe has two phases. A protraction phase and an expansion phase

The protraction phase forms the wick. The expansion phase forms the body

That's not just how candles look. That's how they FUNCTION. The wick is manipulation - price moving in the wrong direction to grab liquidity. The body is the real move - price expanding toward the draw on liquidity

And here's the part that changes everything:

A candle only has so much time. If it spends half its time in protraction - forming a large wick - it doesn't have enough time left to expand. The body will be small. Any setup inside that candle will chop you to death

If it spends almost no time in protraction - small wick - the body has the full candle to form. That's an expansion candle. That's where your setups actually work

This one observation eliminates 40% of losing trades before you enter

But wick size alone isn't enough. HOW the candle forms matters even more:

A bullish expansion candle opens low first. Open -> low -> high -> close. Fluid motion. Minimum time in protraction. Maximum time expanding. The body forms in one smooth push

A bullish candle that opens high first and THEN drops low is a negative condition. Even if the wick ends up small. Too much time wasted. The candle moved in the wrong direction first. That's seek and destroy. That's chop. That's where your "clean 5-minute setup" dies

You need both: small wick AND opens in the right direction

When you have both, you're inside an expansion candle. PD arrays get respected. Gaps hold. Opposing candles support price. The lower timeframe prints clean signatures because the higher timeframe is giving it permission to expand

When you don't have both - none of that works. Gaps get blown through. Order blocks fail. The V-shape doesn't form. Price just sits in your entry zone and wicks you out. Not because the setup was wrong. Because the candle didn't support the move

Now fractalize this:

What happens on the daily candle happens on the 4-hour inside it. What happens on the 4-hour happens on the 1-hour inside that. Same protraction and expansion phases. Same wick logic. Same profile rules. All the way down

So when the daily candle is an expansion candle - the 4-hour candles inside it will be expansion candles. Those 4-hour expansion candles leave fair value gaps. Those gaps are where the 1-hour and 30-minute form their lows. And those lows are confirmed by swing formations

Models inside models. Every timeframe confirming the one above it

But when the daily candle is a reversal candle - the 4-hour candles inside it will be choppy. The gaps won't hold. The opposing candles won't support price. The lower timeframe looks "messy" because the higher timeframe never gave permission for a clean move

That's phases of price:

EXPANSION → candles have small wicks. Gaps get respected. PD arrays hold. Opposing candles support price in one direction. Everything works. Your setups hit. You feel like a genius

RETRACEMENT → the expansion exhausted itself. Price needs to retrace into internal range liquidity. Gaps still hold but the move is counter-trend. Smaller targets. Less conviction. This is where overtrading kills you because you try to trade expansion targets during a retracement phase

CONSOLIDATION → no expansion. No direction. Candles have overlapping bodies. Large wicks in both directions. PD arrays fail because there's no commitment from institutions. This is where 60% of your losses come from. Because you see "setups" that aren't setups. They're noise inside a consolidation candle that doesn't support anything

REVERSAL → price hits a key level with SMT. The protraction phase ends. A new expansion phase begins in the opposite direction. The first candle of the reversal has a small wick and opens in the new direction. NOW your setups work again

The cycle repeats: expansion → retracement → consolidation → reversal → expansion

And at every stage, the candle profile tells you which phase you're in BEFORE you look for a setup

How I use this every morning:

6:00 AM - open the daily chart. Is yesterday's candle an expansion candle or a reversal candle? Does TODAY's candle support continuation? Small wick forming? Opening in the right direction?

6:02 AM - drop to the 4-hour. Same questions. Is the current 4-hour candle supporting expansion? Or is it a reversal candle with a large wick that I should skip?

6:05 AM - if both daily AND 4-hour support expansion in the same direction - I'm trading today. If either one doesn't - I close the laptop

That takes 5 minutes. Before 9:30 even opens I already know:

Whether to trade or sit out (candle profile)
What phase the market is in (expansion, retracement, consolidation, reversal)
Whether PD arrays will be respected today (only in expansion)
Whether gaps will hold (only when the candle supports it)

The entry itself - the gap, the sweep, the V-shape - that comes later. That's the easy part

The hard part is knowing whether the candle you're inside supports the trade BEFORE you take it

Most traders skip this step entirely. They look at the 5-minute and see a "setup." They enter. They get chopped up for 3 hours. They blame the strategy

The strategy was fine. The candle didn't support it. The phase of price didn't support it. They were trying to trade expansion inside a consolidation candle

That's not a bad setup. That's a setup in the wrong environment

Fractalize the candle before you fractalize the entry

Check if the house supports the furniture before you start decorating

Or keep placing trades inside candles that were never going to expand and wondering why nothing works

Your choice

(I teach candle profiling and phase identification inside my free Discord. Live every morning before the open. Link in bio.

If you think you're good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching, i only accept 1-2 traders to work fully private with)

[Claudia Rea @_claudiarea]

Unpopular opinion

But putting your full focus into trading does not work

Social media pushes this narrative that you need to “lock in” to win

You don’t

You don’t need to over-trade and burn yourself out to win, that’s actually how you lose

You need to have other goals outside of trading to work on too

There’s a limited amount of high quality decisions you can make on the charts in a day

The longer you sit there, the more mistakes you’re likely to make

And the more you chase money, the harder it is to catch

So give yourself a reason to step away from the screen

Give yourself a reason to detach from the outcome of your trades

Whether that’s fitness, spending time with family, building a business or pursuing hobbies

You need other goals

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

Your salary is the scam and nobody's talking about it…

I calculated the actual hourly rate of trading vs working. The numbers are criminal.

If you make $75K/year at your job:

$75,000 ÷ 52 weeks = $1,442/week
$1,442 ÷ 40 hours = $36/hour (before tax)

After taxes (let's say 25%): $27/hour

That's what your time is actually worth. Twenty-seven dollars per hour. For 40+ hours every week. Forever. With a 3% raise if you're lucky.

If you trade on prop firm capital:

$200K funded account (costs $1,500-2,000 to get across multiple challenges)
4% monthly return (conservative when you're only taking 1-2 trades per day from aligned setups)
$8,000 gross monthly
80% payout = $6,400 your cut

Hours worked: 90 minutes per day × 20 trading days = 30 hours/month

$6,400 ÷ 30 hours = $213/hour

$27/hour vs $213/hour. For a skill that takes 6 months to learn.

But it gets crazier.

Your job hourly rate has a CEILING:

You can't work 200 hours a week. Your boss won't pay you 10x more for 10x output. Your salary grows 3-5% per year if you're lucky.

At $75K with 4% annual raises:
- Year 5: $91K
- Year 10: $111K
- Year 20: $164K

That's your ceiling. 20 years for 2x. Still trading time for money.

Trading hourly rate has NO ceiling:

The same 90 minutes per day works whether you're managing $200K or $2M

$200K at 4% = $6,400 take home = $213/hour
$500K at 4% = $16,000 take home = $533/hour
$1M at 4% = $32,000 take home = $1,066/hour

Same 90 minutes. Same system. Just more accounts running the same setup through a trade copier.

And here's what makes the math even more stupid:

You don't scale by working more hours. You scale by buying more challenges and running the same entry across all of them simultaneously

One click. One decision. Copies to every account. The setup is identical. The risk is identical. The time invested is identical. The income multiplies

Year 1: $200K funded = $76K/year ($213/hr)
Year 2: $500K funded = $192K/year ($533/hr)
Year 3: $1M+ funded = $384K/year ($1,066/hr)

And you're still only working 90 minutes per morning.

"But 4% monthly sounds unrealistic"

Here's what 4% actually looks like with the system:

You check the 4-hour candle profile before you look for a setup. If the wick is large or it opened the wrong direction - no trade. Laptop closed. That's 40% of days eliminated. Days your salary-earning coworker would have lost money on

You check the session. If the previous session reversed, you trade continuation from a gap. If nobody reversed, you wait for the 9:30 sweep. The 6AM candle already told you which one. Direction set before market open

You check the correlated assets. NQ breaks out. You check ES and YM. If they don't follow - the breakout is fake. You skip it. Your coworker watching one chart enters the breakout and gets wicked out

You find the gap in the right zone. Upper half of the previous candle's range. Close proximity to the opening price. You enter on the V-shape confirmation - expansion in, displacement out, gap forms

One trade. 2.5-3R target. Done by 10:30.

At 1% risk per trade, one winning trade at 2.5R = +2.5% on the account

Two of those per week and you're at 5% for the month. Even with losses mixed in, 4% monthly net is conservative for a trader who only takes aligned setups

Your $75K job requires:
- 2,080 hours per year
- 20 years to double your income
- someone else's permission for every raise
- zero control if they fire you tomorrow

Your trading account requires:
- 360 hours per year (90 min × 20 days × 12 months)
- 6-12 months to learn the skill
- $1,500 in challenge fees to access $200K+ in capital
- scales infinitely by adding accounts

The reason most people don't do this:

Learning takes 6-12 months with no income. Your job pays immediately.

Trading income is "uncertain." Salary is "stable."

But stable at $27/hour for 40 years isn't stability. It's a slow prison sentence with a 3% annual raise and a retirement party at 65 where they hand you a cake and forget your name by Friday

The math favors learning a skill that scales over a job that doesn't

But most people will keep the job because the short-term certainty feels safer than the long-term math

Your choice

(free discord in bio. DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching)

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

Give me 4 minutes and I'll improve your trading skills by 200%.

I've been trading for 16 years.

Over 20,000 trades logged.

8 figures built from a $6,000 account.

Here's everything I know compressed into 4 minutes.

The biggest lie in trading:

“More is better.”

More trades.

More indicators.

More strategies.

More tickers.

I spent my first 3 years doing all of it.

The result?

- Wrong setups
- Analysis paralysis
- Chasing everything that moved

Then I stripped it all back.

3-5 tickers. One strategy. Major levels on the daily and weekly chart. Nothing else.

That's when things changed for the better

What support and resistance actually is:

Most traders think it's just lines on a chart.

It's not.

It's the market's memory.

Price remembers every level where a major transaction happened:

- Where the market reversed hard
- Where institutions stepped in
- Where big money exited

When price returns to those levels, the same participants react again.

That's human behavior and institutional positioning playing out the same way over and over.

Once you understand that, the chart stops being so random. It starts telling you a story.

How I draw my levels:

I start with the weekly chart. I look for areas where price made a large, violent reaction. Big sell-offs. Major reversals. Historic breakouts.

Those become my levels.

Then I drop to the daily chart to refine them.

I don't use exact prices. I use areas. Because the market isn't precise and if your level is too tight, you'll miss entries waiting for a number that never gets hit exactly.

Three to five levels maximum.

Clean chart. Clear mind.

The trade most people miss:

5 consecutive red days on NQ.

Everyone panics. Retail traders sell. I get ready.

Mean reversion in a bull market is one of the highest probability setups I know.

January 2025. 5 red days in a row.

I bought 100 lots at my level.

584 points later? $400K on one position.

I didn't predict that. But I did prepare for it.

Why patience is the actual strategy:

Most traders lose money because they trade in the middle of nowhere.

No reason to be in the trade.

Professional traders wait.

They let price come to them.

They sit on their hands for days, sometimes weeks, until the setup is undeniable.

I mark my levels on Sunday. I’m willing to wait all week for one trade, one level and full conviction.

That's discipline compounding over 16 years.

The psychological edge nobody talks about:

I withdraw every week.

Because seeing too much in the account changes how you trade.

You start feeling invincible and start sizing up.

You hold longer than you should. Then the market reminds you that you're not invincible at all.

Keeping the account at a number that feels normal keeps the head clear.

A clear head makes better decisions.

Better decisions made consistently over years is how $6,000 becomes multiple 8 figures.

The only thing standing between you and profitability:

It's not your strategy.

It's not the market.

It's not your broker.

It's time.

Year 1 you're learning.

Year 2 you're getting consistent.

Year 3 it all starts to make sense.

Most people quit in year 1.

I can undoubtedly say I’ve made it.

I'm not smarter than you. I just stayed longer than everyone who quit.

If you never quit then success is guaranteed over time.

Now go mark your levels and win.

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

you're addicted to learning

and allergic to doing

you've watched 8 hours of "new ICT model"

you're "backtesting" a new "90% WR" system

you're in 5 discord groups

you're looking for the "magic strategy"

you're not a trader

you're a strategy collector

and you're broke

here's the protocol that ends the addiction in 21 days
it's called the execution sprint and i've watched it pull traders out of 18 month learning loops

the rules are non-negotiable

one asset class: indices/metals/forex, pick one, you don't switch

one session: 9:30 to 11:30 EST, you don't trade outside it

one setup: whatever you've spent the most time on, you don't change it

one risk size: 0.5 percent fixed, no "scaling based on confidence"

one timeframe for entries: 5m, you don't drop to 1m for "precision"

for 21 days you take every valid setup that prints inside your session

maximum 2 trades per day

if you don't see a setup, you sit through the full 2 hours and report 0

no journaling feelings

no watching YouTube for "improvements"

no joining new discords

no opening twitter during market hours

unfollow every trading account for the 21 days, including me

here's what happens

day 1 to 5: you'll feel naked

your brain will scream that you need "one more confirmation"

you'll want to add a 1m FVG check, a DXY divergence, a volume filter

ignore it

every confluence you add is fear in costume

day 6 to 12: you'll see your real win rate for the first time

it'll be lower than you imagined

probably 40 to 50 percent

your edge isn't "high probability"

it's positive expectancy

you'll feel disappointed

that's the addiction dying

day 13 to 21: the trades start feeling boring

that's the goal

boring trades from a boring system at boring sizing produce non-boring P&L over time

at the end of the 21 days you have 15 to 20 perfectly executed live trades on a single setup

you have a real win rate

you have a real average R

you have a real picture of your execution rate

you can finally diagnose what's broken because you stopped changing variables

here's what most traders do instead

they backtest 500 trades on tradingview replay

they "feel ready"

they take 12 live trades on a $50 eval

they take 4 losses

they conclude "this strategy doesn't work"

they go back to YouTube

they find a new system

they backtest that one for 200 trades

repeat for 18 months

you don't have a strategy problem

you have a sample size problem

21 days of forced execution gives you a real sample

most of you won't do it

you'll find a reason to skip a day, modify a rule, "tweak" the setup

that's why you're broke

i teach the exact system i that use. free discord in bio.

(and if you want to work 1 on 1 and you think you are a good fit - dm me "SYSTEM" and i'll show you the exact system that makes 15k/day)