Top 4 guys to follow for the ultimate foundation in trading.
@ChartGuys for the higher highs and higher lows. Teaching us how to zoom out properly, to be able to better trade and snipe scalps when we zoom in.
Start here if you are new, they will set you on a straight road.
@Desi_Trade for the simplest level to level Options trading. He reinforces the macro to micro sniper like trading. And helps you slow down the zones you should not be executing in.
@carminerosato_ similar style to Desi, but Futures based so much easier access for all levels of traders. Heavy focus on level 2, orderbook. So he will help you drill down into the numbers, which the biggest prop firms so is the most important aspect to trading.
~Highly recommend all newer traders use bookmap for at least a few weeks/months of their career to help visualize liquidity as it moves throughout the day and week.
And finally, but arguably most importantly @ZeeContrarian1
~The complete opposite of everyone else, a unique specialist. And one that shit's all over everyone elses idea's especially when it involves charts, but still 1000% worth studying everything he says.
Spend some HOURS reading his feed and see the magic.
He has opened my eyes to a new lifestyle in the trading verse since I found him.
And as any portfolio manager would state, it's great to have a diversified portfolio. Which Is why I highly highly recommend having the Contrarian part of your trading feed. It'll change your life!
I completely disagree here.
Everyone talks about psychology for a reason. Because managing your psychology properly, on a per trade, per season, per regime basis, is the most important part.
Every trading strategy works in the right market environment. All 10,000 of them.
It's the person pulling the trigger that fucks it up.
*Psychology" is trading terms is a very broad description.
I think the simplest way to define this, is your ability to react to something you recognize. And, your ability to act on your intuition, when something you do not recognize comes into play.
In other words, much of trading is pattern recognition. Then, it's executing on that pattern.
This is where the psychology part comes into play.
Range trading works majority of the time. Why? Because the market is range bound a majority of the time.
Trading breakout patterns works great in a risk on bullish market.
Trading SFP's, swing failure patterns, works great in a bearish market environment. Or on certain small caps, all the time 😉
Trading higher low higher high trend setups marks extremely well I'm trending markets.
These are all strategies that others teach. And they teach them well. @ChartGuys is one of my all time favorite examples of this style of teaching. And I recommend them to every trader looking to taking it seriously and actually study.
But, executing on these trades is a totally different story. Some people lose it and rage quit when they lose a few hundred dollars. But the strategy itself worked perfectly. They just could not hold through the draw down and let the trade play out.
How many times have you seen a stop loss get hit just for the strategy, pattern, or whatever you thought actually played out in your direction?
This is because you psychologically could not handle taking a loss, beyond your stop loss placement. You could not wait for the price action sweep, and confirm a lack of sellers or buyers beyond your stop. You had FOMO. All of this is mental capital. All of this is psychological fortitude.
Here is a other Preem example: Parents hand down their successful businesses to their kids so they can retire, or die. The son or daughter fucks up a perfectly functioning, profitable business. Why? Who knows.
Maybe they thought they could make some cuts and bring in more profits...sound familiar? This is moving your stop up instead of letting the trade work. Or having too tight of a stop loss and thinking you can make a 10x trade off a pattern that only does 2/3x normally.
And because NOBODY can sell you the experience that makes discretionary traders profitable. Imagine thinking you could become the next Tiger Woods by reading books and watching YouTube videos about golf.
@LindaRaschke I like this.
I like to swing a sweep of value are lows or highs, to the other side. This is often on the session but also often intra week, when we see the edges of ranges tested.
In other words, specifically @Tradee_Dante's words , this is an SFP style of trading.
I can't wait to see a write up like this for asteroid mining.
SpaceX rocket landing was the very next video after reading this post, so, the imaginations started melding together.
It'll be along the lines of the limited distance we can travel with reliable transport of Material back home. Over build out and investment in refinery's because "space is so big we thought we couldn't build enough" and many will shut down. Vessels will be oversold and we have a 747max scenario because they rushed production at the onset of this newly available mining field.
Fun tangent.
Anyways, which AI refinery takes the biggest hit first?
$ORCL's five-year credit default swaps have climbed to a record 210.6 basis points.
These levels have not been seen since the Global Financial Crisis and is more than four times higher than in mid-2025.
Protecting $10 million of Oracle debt against default now costs about $210,600 a year.
Using the standard market assumption of a 40 percent recovery rate, that spread implies an annualized hazard rate of roughly 3.51 percent and a cumulative five-year probability of default near 16.1 percent.
At the same time, the spreads on Oracle’s long-dated bonds have widened sharply, and S&P has already cut the company to BBB-, just one notch above junk, citing the rapid escalation of its AI-related capital spending.
I short study of the $AAPL pop off using volume tools on an hourly timeframe.
No music for this one, just a focus on the replay.
Primary indicators: Volume, Volume by price, Volume by day, Volume by candle, VWAP, Session Volume, Multiday session volume
Candle colors change based on volume, otherwise they are black.
@breakoutprop@Cryptowok1 That and the stock system kraken uses.
At the same prices, breakout should absolutely rake it in. No other firm out there is charging what y'all charge.
No other firm has rules like this either. Major win me thinks.
Maybe you don't understand the relativities part?
I also never said you didn't do the math. Just that your arguments were ignoring the part that it makes a massive difference in someone's life when they started at 0.
Even in a world of high inflation, this is like starting with both legs working instead of starting handicapped.
A very poor family is handicapped because inflation does destroy what little they earn. These accounts ride along with inflation.
I'll say this to try and appeal to your nihilistic asshole impediments. Maybe they do lag behind eventually. Just like compounding in reverse, it would still take years. Unless we do hit a true hyperinflation event.
Years could be just enough to provide that one opportunity for the family or child to start a path out of the poor class they grew up in.
@DanielK42537934@coinbureau You applied the cost of an iPhone to a fucking new born baby dumbass!
We are definitely on different sides of the spectrum.
You are ignoring simple math though. There was 0, and it would've been 0 for 18 years.
Now there is $1000, that can grow for 18 years. That's infinitely more opportunity that simply did not exist before.
We don't have runaway inflation..yet. I'm all about the theory that we may be on the brink. But it's not here yet.
@DanielK42537934@coinbureau We have 30 million dollar homes here too man. It's not a flex in a conversation like this. And it's just you and me now, ain't no body viewing comments this deep.
It seems you don't realize these accounts are tied to the market?
Inflation makes the market go up. Aka, investment account go up.
Print all the money they want, and just like it has been historically, as long as you are invested in the assets that are getting inflated, you can benefit.
I also don't see what's wrong with my statement about families setting more money aside for their kids?
These accounts are not meant to be the end all be all "sunshine and rainbows" stupid cunt comment btw. They are supposed to provide exposure to the market decades sooner than your average person gets exposed.
Most families try to set aside something for the kids, if they can. Even hundreds extra per year can go along way for a child over 2 decades.
You have to think relatively. The poorest of the poor will feel significantly better when they have had a compounding asset build up something they could not do on their own pay. It might be enough for them to change everything about their life.
And the middle class who can contribute many thousands more, will have a significantly higher spend because of this. Back to your M2 comment. Coming full circle.
And then then the rich kids. Who will be able to roll this thing tax free forever somehow, still, providing something back into the economy via M2.
This type of an account is a rising tide floats all boats scenario. Yeah, it comes with inflation. The water was coming no matter what. Now more people have boats.
I'm gonna be nice then I'm gonna be blunt.
A new born isn't buying an iPhone. An investment account allowed to run for 16-18 years untouched could turn into a lot of money. Easily enough for a new car. And if the parents or family contribute a few extra thousand per year, it could easily turn into a college fund or enough money to buy a house cash in their 20s.
Now, you are fucking retarded for typing out what you said and obviously put very very little thought into your thumbs.
Take some time, learn about compounding growth of interest alone, and then learn about compounding growth of value and the market.
@100trillionUSD Everything BUT MSTR is niche studying. MSTR is the most public facing answer here. It has a ton of love and a ton of hate.
It might be the face of things, but one of the other would be the "behind the scenes" answer for most who do not do any deep doves.
@Truecrypto 6-10 years for higher degrees and, arguably, it takes the knowledge of that type of degree to really understand and profit from the markets consistently over time.
Plus some luck of course. But hey, doctors rely on luck during surgery too. Same shit. History rhymes.
@OptionsUnleash1@zerohedge Or, alternative story. Allow chaos to ensue (because everyone is asking for it) and step back in later to save the day and regain power.