Crypto Connoisseur

Studying the secret's from the best in the game. LCA and MT. Journal entries in Highlights.

[Crypto Connoisseur @Themanlibs]

Strength is from within. Validation from others is not needed. IYKYK.

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I will not give up. I will prove myself.

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Bye, for about a month

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@Albert_618

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@TraderDune The GOAT, @luckychartape

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@Albert_618 @kssb__

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@Trader_Vantage @kssb__ Banger

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@Albert_618 If you can't master LTF, you cant trade. period.

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@Hopium47 @EdwardXLreal @GoatFunded 🫶

[Dragon Cap @dragoncap_au]

⏰ 24 HOURS LEFT!

Hey guys, only 24 hours now until access to the indicator will be turned off.

This keeps our group small and focused on serious trading.

If you (or anyone you know) really wants to use the indicator, tell them to contact me by Friday 5PM AEST.

I want to make sure we only add people who are committed and contribute actively.

I will reopen the opportunity/waitlist again in the future.

Thanks for helping spread the word! 🙏

[Crypto Connoisseur @Themanlibs]

"After it is all said and done, these are the three most important things to me.
Never compromise what you believe in.
Never be satisfied with what you are, only with what you can be. And, Never give up."

- Arnold Van Daen Berg (Quoted in Richer, Wiser, Happier, by William Green)

[Crypto Connoisseur @Themanlibs]

Do, The Thing, Without Hesitation, Now, No Matter the Context.

Don't give yourself a way out.

-Summary of @chriswillx recent Article

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@Albert_618 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Gian Luca @materagian]

I am so close to becoming profitable, I can feel it.

One of the biggest delusional quotes I heard, probably like 100 times.
I am saying this with love. I was you for a long time lol.

Three winning trades feel like proof. Three losers feel like bad luck.
Both are noise when you have less than a year in the game and under 200 real money trades behind you.

The market does not care about what you feel or your opinion.
Remember when you were telling everyone ur three months from quitting ur job?!
I was not even close from understanding how wrong that sentence was.
You do not have an edge yet. You have beginner luck and a fantasy. There is a difference.

Real traders are not "close". Most have blown at least one account, usually two or three or more prop firms accs. They have sat through 15 trade losing streaks that made them physically sick.

They have deleted their Twitter at midnight, thrown a keyboard across the room, and still showed up the next day because the only thing worse than losing is quitting and admitting they were never cut out for it.

You are still in the easy phase where every green trade is "skill" and every red one is the algos or the market maker hunting my stops xDDD

Quick reality check
The algos do not know you exist. You are not being hunted. You are a small retail fish in a tank full of sharks who have been doing this for 10 to 30 years.
They are not chasing your 1 Contract on NQ. They do not need to.

So here is what you actually do.
Print your last 100 trades. Real money trades only. Circle every one where you moved your Stop 2 breakeven aka SL2BE like a pussy. Circle every one where you took profit early. Circle every one where you revenge traded after a loss. Look at the P&L next to those circled trades. Then tell me with a straight face that you are "so close"!
You are not. You are exactly where every 6-to-24 month trader is. Lying to yourself. Broke and desperate for money.

If you actually want to make it, and most of you do not,
Backtest for hours until you are sick of it,
Size so small it feels insulting and your like but I want to make money.
Journal every single trade. And you heard this 100 times but get super precise with your journaling.

And accept right now that even if you do everything right, you might still be bad at this for another two to three years.
That is the reality. Not the "I can feel it" bs.

I am not saying this to crush you.
I am saying it because I crushed myself for to long by believing the same fantasy you are believing right now.

Every month I lost was a month I could have been on the slow path that actually works. Nobody told me to take the slow path. So I am telling you.

Are you ready to be bad for two more years, or do you still think you are "so close" like every other beginner before you?

[Lucky Chart Ape @luckychartape]

I asked a.i to give a breakdown of what the reality of making a living as a trader looks like and I am impressed by the answer. Mostly because its everything I have preached and taught for years. If you want to be top 1%, you need to behave like the top 1%

"The brutal reality of trading is that 90% to 95% of retail traders lose money and eventually quit. You are entering a hyper-competitive arena against institutional algorithms, PhD mathematicians, and insider capital, all designed to take your money.
​To survive—let alone make a living—it takes a psychological makeup that goes entirely against human nature. Here is a sobering, realistic look at the traits required:
​1. Pathological Risk Management
​Most people trade to make money; professional traders trade to protect capital. If you cannot treat capital preservation as your absolute highest priority, the market will wipe you out in weeks.
​The Reality: You must be perfectly content with risking only 1% or less of your account per trade, even if it means small, boring gains initially.
​2. Emotional Stoicism
​The market is a meat grinder for human emotions. If your self-worth or mood fluctuates with your daily profit and loss (P&L), you will not last.
​The Reality: You need the ability to take three consecutive losses, feel absolutely nothing, and execute the fourth trade with the exact same discipline. Money cannot be viewed as rent, groceries, or status—it is purely a tool, like nails to a carpenter.
​3. Probabilistic Thinking
​Human brains crave certainty. Trading offers none. You must accept that you can do everything perfectly right and still lose money on a trade.
​The Reality: You have to think like a casino owner, not a gambler. A casino doesn't panic when a player hits blackjack; they know their edge will play out over 10,000 hands. You must be comfortable operating in a perpetual fog of uncertainty.
​4. Radical Self-Accountability
​When a trade goes wrong, amateur traders blame "market manipulation," algorithms, bad luck, or their broker. Masters look inward.
​The Reality: You are the captain of your own sinking ship. Every loss is your fault—either because your analysis was wrong, your risk was too high, or you hesitated. If you have an ego that cannot handle being wrong daily, trading will destroy you.
​5. High Frustration Tolerance (Monotony)
​Hollywood portrays trading as a high-octane adrenaline rush of shouting and flashing screens. Real, profitable trading is mind-numbingly boring.
​The Reality: It involves hours of sitting on your hands, doing nothing, waiting for a specific setup that might never come. If you trade out of boredom just to "feel something," you are donating your money to the market.
​6. Mental Flexibility (The Anti-Stubbornness)
​In the real world, sticking to your guns is often seen as a virtue. In trading, it’s a death sentence.
​The Reality: You must be able to hold a fierce bullish conviction at 9:30 AM, watch the price action shift, and flip to a bearish stance by 9:35 AM without a shred of cognitive dissonance. You cannot marry an opinion.
​The Bottom Line: > Making a living as a trader means accepting that you are a small fish in an ocean of sharks. Success requires turning yourself into a disciplined, data-driven machine that treats losing as a standard, unemotional cost of doing business.

[Crypto Connoisseur @Themanlibs]

@Albert_618 🙏

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@kssb__ 🔥🫶

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Small piece on the 618ers discord.

I joined a month ago to see what it is all about. I wanted to learn some LTF stuff, some psychology.

And I can say: I am blown away!

I cannot describe the value packed in this discord.

There are legit 5 Full time traders executing trades round the clock.

Always there to answer any and all Q's

Livestreams by each of them packed with alpha day in, day out.

@Albert_618 - is there to teach you critical thinking, owns the DAX
@AlxWlf11 - Master Range/channel trader
@Trader_Vantage - MAster at LTF BTC scalping using MS, S&D
@kssb__ - There to show you how to use the 1s TF and to have 12000000000000RR trades lol, NQ whisperer
@materagian - Psychology, bang trade after trade after trade on MNQ

There is nothing like this discord.

5 in 1. Legit

Don't fade.

[DYOR Moneytaur @Hopium47]

This community is great. Thanks everyone from bottom of my 💜

[Crypto Connoisseur @Themanlibs]

@Hopium47 🫶