SEC approved Monday and Wednesday option expiries
Starting January 26th, there will be Monday and Wednesday option expiries for the following tickers:
GOOG, GOOGL, AMZN, AAPL, META, MSFT, NVDA, TSLA, AVGO, and XLF
2026 is the year of execution. 2025 is the climax year… the final year to see who for you and against you. 2026 you have all the data you need. You’re in the “know” now. You know what to invest in, who to take serious, who’s your friend and who’s not, and you know where you want to go… there’s nothing left to do but execute.
The lessons have mostly been learned.
Stop ending your trading day based on profit targets.
Don't say "I'll quit when I'm up $500" or "I'll trade until I hit my goal."
Here's what works: end your day based on TIME.
Look at your journal. Find when the market gets choppy.
Find when you make most of your mistakes. That's your cutoff time.
If most of your losses come after 11:30 AM? Don't trade past 11:30. Period.
And here's the thing, when you sit in front of screens too long, you get tired.
You get impatient. You start making up trades that aren't there.
If it's not clear, there's probably no setup.
If you have to zoom in, zoom out, check different timeframes, and force patterns together?
You're not finding a trade. You're creating one.
Time is up? Close your screens.
Take your profits, take your losses, and walk away.
The market will be there tomorrow.
Stop deciding your stop loss AFTER you enter a trade.
Here's why: once you're in, your brain is wired to only focus on profits.
You never think about how much you could lose if it goes against you.
That's why most traders talk about their potential gains, not their risk.
This is basic human psychology, and it destroys accounts.
The fix?
Define your risk and stop loss BEFORE you enter. No exceptions.
When you know exactly what you're risking before the trade, you remove the emotional decision-making that happens when you're already in.
Your job isn't to hope.
Your job is to manage risk with clear rules.
Before you enter any trade, ask yourself 3 questions:
Is this an A+ setup?
Is this the right time of day?
Is the risk/reward worth it?
If you can't answer YES to all three, your setup is not there. Don't take the trade.
Most traders know what a good setup looks like. They just don't wait for it.
They take B-tier setups because they're bored.
They trade at the wrong time because they need action.
They ignore risk/reward because they want to be in the market.
This is why you're not consistent.
The 3-question test removes the gray area.
It forces you to be honest BEFORE you click buy.
Can't confidently say yes to all three? Walk away.
This one rule will cut your bad trades in half.
$52,890 on Google in under an hour.
The setup took 10 minutes to plan.
No scanners. No alerts. No guessing.
Just a simple pre-market game plan that told me exactly where to enter before the breakout even happened.
This is the exact process I follow every single time: (Thread 🧵)
“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.”
— Charlie Munger
Warren Buffett shares advice on becoming successful:
"If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark, nothing happens"
Clip worth saving, you’ll want to remember this.
Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul is retiring after this season – his 21st campaign in the NBA. Paul is a 12-time All-Star, an 11-time member of All-NBA teams, a selection to the 75 greatest players list, nine-time All-Defense and the 2006 Rookie of the Year.