Zander Odom

Full Time Equities Trader and Opportunist📈Dedicated to Daily incremental Improvement 🧠 CRYPTO TRADING OPPORTUNITY ONLY FOR A FEW PEOPLE MAIN PAGE @zander_odom

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I joined the $CAR club. Odds this tops out with no good entry: 95% ✅

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I know your games $PBM 😏

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Couldn't just hit the short.

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Finally, $CAR starting to open up. Still have not touched this short. Is the top near?

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Does anyone else think that the PDT rule change is going to change nothing in small caps?

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Q1 in the books. This quarter went exactly how I'd hoped. As I said at the beginning of the year my focus now is on daily incremental improvement. Instead of trying to find and test individual strategies, I focused much more on nuances to help paint a picture of what I am trading. My reads have gotten much better, and execution has started to become consistently good.

Q2 will be about scaling risk and continuing to recognize more nuance. For me it's been easier to learn nuance in real time than in hindsight. Trading the move has taught me more than just staring at charts until my eyes bleed.

Trading really is about predicting the puzzle pieces before everyone else.

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I had a feeling this was one of the outcomes today😂 $VSA. Luckily I got off scot-free in the end.

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This will be interesting...

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This weekend's T4AC was exactly what I needed. It was so incredible to reconnect and meet new people! It was also such a pleasure to be invited on a panel with some incredible people. I really appreciate everyone's support in my journey.

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I'll be at @Traders4ACause this weekend. Would love to connect and chat with anyone there. Just look out for (probably) the only guy in a wheelchair!

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My Recap of Silver $SLV:

I only played small parts of the move and ultimately avoided silver after December. I'm up slightly on it and decided to avoid the rest of the move expecting a huge headache. I also had some other stuff in the works so decided my focus would be best on that. Hindsight definitely a mistake but nonetheless a huge learning experience. I think the mechanics of this move were extremely clear in hindsight and opportunities like this will appear all the time (even if to a smaller degree).

With major parabolic moves like this I think the best approach is a big picture one where you get a starter into the blowoff moves, but don't get most size until the parabolic trendline is broken and it has a major bounce (which can be over 75% retracement).

During the run there were several parabola's that seemed like the top at the time. However, the eventual top was in form of a clear out.

Using the big picture with indefinite hold you would've taken 2 cuts prior to catching the big panic. However, watching the parabolic TL can be a helpful guideline.

The first one was probably the most straightforward and cleanest. It happened during the overnight session on Sunday at midnight.

We had a very clean parabolic trend, clean break of that trend, and bounced towards 75% retracement.

I think the best execution approach is scaling into bounce risking highs and pyramiding aggressively/trimming deep backsides.

The 2nd blow off was unlike the first. The action leading up to the 2nd blowoff did not have a clean parabolic trend. Also, after the initial pullback there were signs such as watching the major trend line to avoid getting chopped on the bounce.

After the clearout over highs, we broke the highest timeframe trend and had a very clean bounce up into the 75% retracement level. From there the backside was butter.

All the executions shown were hindsight expectations for how I would've liked to have traded this.

It's very hard to do but with big movers like these I think moving to higher time frames can cut out most the noise and ensure you capture the most EV.

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2025 was the best year of my trading. I grew my account 160% and the P&L was 50% better than 2024. Despite hitting records, I'm still not satisfied with the year. I don't feel I grew very much and instead just executed the systems that I built in 2024.

In 2026 I will be focusing more on my daily process so that I can start improving incrementally and by the end of the year feel that I've actually improved my trading skills.

Here's a nice catch from today $INBS

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Worked into a very tight position on $SNDK. Let's see if this can pull a $SMCI.

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Going to start documenting my journey again in 2026. 2024/25 were great trading years but I haven't been able to break into the next level yet. I think I am positioned for 2026 to be the year. $SLV

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It was a pleasure to be the first guest on my great friend @Rickytrades03 podcast! Go show it some love! https://t.co/4IMwh0pLYi

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Big unwind day in heavily shorted stocks. Exited a lot of my short swings and will look to rejoin on bounces expecting a longer term unwind even as mega caps recover.

$RR $OPEN $ONDS $NB $OKLO

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Decent chance we get a couple years of clean fades on junk stocks.

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Quantum nearing +15% in overnight markets on potential federal funding news. $RGTI $QBTS $IONQ

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The multiyear cycle of consistently missing huge, rare opportunities has been extremely demotivating. Each event has similar reasons for underperformance. Not recognizing how good an opportunity really is until it's too late, not executing properly, and/or not sizing enough.

Sometimes I look back at my trades from a few years ago and I don't see very many differences in the mistakes that I made then versus now. I will forever and always pour everything I have into this game, so I know at some point something will click.

Just wanted to share that I am one of the many traders who underperformed this week on $RGTI $QBTS $GLD $BYND

p.s. the junk stock short has only just begun. I will be trading these for the next year as they slowly fade into oblivion.

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Index of 35 top junk stocks weakest pullback since beginning of expansion. $QBTS $OKLO $RGTI $RR