Trader V

[Trader V @_TraderV_]

@TylerDurden 2017 trading counter strike skins🙃

[WOLF @WOLF_Financial]

Tariffs will have ZERO long-term impact on the stock market.

There…I said it.

Don’t believe me? Basic math says I’m correct.

If you’re scared of tariffs, you won’t be after reading this 👇

[Trader V @_TraderV_]

@adamscochran I know Ukrainian and Russian maybe I can help you
Я хорошо владею украинским и русским языками
Я добре знаю українську та російську мову

[Risk @ryzzqq]

52 Trading Never-Dos: Lessons Every Trader Learns The Hard Way

1) Never oversize. That is when you start becoming irrational. Blowing up while still being right is the fastest way to ruin.

2) Never trade when tired or sleep-deprived. Decision fatigue has ended more traders than liquidation ever could.

3) Never trade without a defined edge. Entering without one is just gambling with extra steps. If you can’t explain your edge in a single sentence, you probably don’t have one.

4) Never enter a position out of boredom. The desire to always be in a trade leads to suboptimal returns. More often than not, doing nothing is the best move.If you find yourself taking trades just to feel busy or because you “haven’t traded in a while,” check yourself. Trading for action leads to sloppy decisions and losses​.There’s no prize for the most trades – only for the most profitable trades. Sometimes the best trade is no trade

5) Never trade after a big loss. Tilt sets in, and you try to win it all back in one bad bet. Trying to recover everything at once is a guaranteed way to lose even more.

6) Never enter a position without an exit plan. Whether it’s a time-based stop, price stop, invalidation, or catalyst-driven exit—define it before you enter. Remember, the last moment of objectivity is before you place the trade​.Once you’re in, it’s much harder to admit you’re wrong, so decide beforehand when to cut the loss.

7) Never marry your bags. The market doesn’t care about your conviction. Cut or be cut.

8) Never trade your PNL—trade the market. Chasing losses or fixating on past wins clouds judgment and distorts execution.

9) Not all views are meant to be traded. The best trade is often no trade. Preserving capital and mental bandwidth for when odds favor you is more important than forcing activity.

10) Never fight the trend. The wave is stronger than you. Adapt or get wiped out.

11) Never try to knife catch without reason. "Cheap" can always get cheaper.

12) Never break your trading rules or deviate from your plan in the heat of the moment.​ Your rules exist for a reason – usually learned from painful experience. The moment you convince yourself “just this once” to ignore a rule (like moving a stop, or doubling down, or trading too big), you open the door to chaos. Discipline is doing the right thing even when it’s hard. As one trading maxim goes, plan the trade and trade the plan.

13) Never fire all your bullets at once.

14) Never trade outside your comfort zone. If a position is too big, you’ll start making fear-based decisions, thinking that market or someone is trying to liquidate you seeing ghosts where none exists. Size your trades proportional to the quality of your sleep at night.

15) Never let ego keep you in a bad trade. Admit when you're wrong—cut, reset, move on.

16) Never underestimate market reflexivity. Strength can always go higher, weakness can always go lower.

17) Never assume liquidity will be there when you need it. The exit door is always smaller than you imagine—liquidity isn’t something you decide, the market does.

18) Never mistake randomness for strategy. Buying because price is going up or shorting because it “feels high” isn’t trading—it’s blind betting. Even with good risk management, you’ll bleed out over time if your entries are based on nothing.

19) Never make the same mistake twice. Trading mistakes are inevitable, repeating them is unacceptable. Never lose the same way twice

20) Never forget to play defense. Being wrong is acceptable, staying wrong is not. Protecting capital always comes first. "Don’t focus on making money; focus on protecting what you have.”

21) Never just focus on offense. Survival > everything. If you don’t bet, you can’t win. If you lose all your chips, you can’t bet.

22) Never fall into lifestyle creep after one big win. The problem starts when you begin forecasting annual income based on a single lucky trade.

23) Never forget to turn defensive after a hot streak. Big losses come after a series of wins when overconfidence sets in. Check your ego—your last big trade means nothing to the market.

24) Never let pride, ego, or overconfidence take over. Always stay humble.|

25) Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. for eg. FOMC events

26) Never get complacent. A strategy that worked in one regime may stop working in another. Trading is a craft that requires continuous self-improvement. Comfort Is Often the Enemy of your PNL. Never assume you know for sure what the market will do. “We have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know — and those who don’t know that they don’t know.”​ Never assume your edge is permanent. Markets evolve, edges fade, and what worked last cycle may be useless in the next. Keep refining, keep testing—stagnation is death.

27) Never ever average losers after your reasoning has been invalidated

28) Never trade with certainty, trade with conviction.

29) Never assume the market “must” do something, especially based on recent patterns.​The market doesn’t owe you continuity or logic. Just because a market has been rising (or falling) steadily doesn’t mean it can’t abruptly reverse. Avoid words like “surely” or “can’t possibly” in trading. Stay flexible – anything can happen. As a reminder: never say never about market behavior.

30) Never mistake win rate for everything. Maximizing winning trades for the sake of feeling good is a trap. Taking profits too early or avoiding necessary small losses ultimately hurts profitability.

31) Never underestimate discipline, patience, risk control, and execution over alpha generation. Plenty of traders have great alpha flow but don’t know how to use it.Good execution involves choosing not just what and how to trade, but when not to trade. Sometimes the best execution decision is no trade at all if conditions aren’t suitable. Always ask: “Do I have an edge here, or am I flipping coins?” If it’s the latter, save your capital for a better spot.

32) Never fall apart after a big loss or get euphoric after a big win. Emotional resilience is a trader’s strongest asset.

33)Never ignore price action after news. If the market reacts opposite to what you expected, get out. The market is telling you something you don’t see.

34) Never trade on borrowed conviction. If you buy on someone else’s tip, you’ll need them to call your exit too—and when they go silent, you’re stuck. As Livermore said: “Nobody makes big money on what someone else tells him to do.” Hone your own craft, build your own system. If you can’t trust your own decisions, you’re just a pawn in someone else’s trade.

35) Never go against your intuition. If something feels off, it usually is.

36) Never try to Catch Every Move It’s tempting to try to grab every up and down in the market, but that’s a fool’s errand. Always come from the mindset of abundance and not scarcity, markets will still be there and there are ample opportunities in the market to make you whole,
you don’t need to swing at every pitch.

37) Never underestimate the power of failure. Failing early and failing often—while staying in the game—is how you get better.

38) Never hold onto losers when your thesis is invalidated, especially after a massive drop. "I’ve lost too much to sell now" is how you go to zero.

39) Never let "getting back to break even" dictate your decisions. That mindset leads to overtrading and eventually, full liquidation.

40) Never focus only on entries. A trade isn’t over until you’ve exited. Knowing when to cash out is just as important as knowing when to enter.

41) Never ignore the “boring” part (position sizing, stops, risk/reward) – it’s what keeps you in business.Don’t wait for a catastrophic loss to teach you this lesson.

42) Never trade for the adrenaline rush, Trade for the win

43) Never fall into the illusion of strength—it’s often just lagging behind reality.

44) Never stay/enter in a position out of 'HOPE' and wishful thinking

45) Never underestimate risk management. Prioritize protecting capital over chasing profits. "Take care of your losses, and the profits will take care of themselves."

46) Never exit/enter a position recklessly. The same way you scale in, you should scale out—"all in, all out" is a recipe for disaster.

47) Never make a bet you can’t afford to lose. No single trade should ever be big enough to take you out of the game.“The most important advice is to never let a loser get out of hand.” You should be able to be wrong 20 or 30 times in a row and still have capital left​. Never allow a single position to jeopardize your trading career

48) Never trade outside your edge. If it’s not there, sit out. Forcing trades outside your framework is how accounts erode.

49) Never assume your edge is permanent. Markets evolve, edges fade, and what worked last cycle may be useless in the next. Keep refining, keep testing—stagnation is death.

50) Never judge a trade solely by its outcome. Good trades lose money sometimes, and bad trades can get lucky. Focus on execution over results.

51) Never worry about looking stupid or staying in a position because of your public opinion. I have seen many a men die before their time because they were worried about getting publicly ashamed. Cut your losses without hesitation. The market doesn’t care about your pride—neither should you.

52) Never underestimate the power of stepping away. If you’re in a losing streak, liquidate everything and take a break. Mental capital is just as important as financial capital. The key is to break the negative emotional spiral
Once you come back keep your size small and increase exposure only when you gain back your confidence.

These lessons were learned thanks to the books I’ve read, the smart traders I’ve learned from, and the endless mistakes I’ve made along the way.

Trading is lonely. It hurts. It makes you question everything. But if I had to choose again? I’d still take this over everything.

[Trader V @_TraderV_]

@doerXBT 🫡

[Trader V @_TraderV_]

@Crypto_Chase @its_ALTA What about this?

[Mark Tilbury @marktilbury]

I'm 57.

If you're ambitious but lazy, please read this:

[ltrd @ltrd_]

From time to time, I love reading easy-to-digest trading books that motivate me and help me relax. These books are filled with great stories, insights, and rules that can be applied to trading. They also remind us how demanding this job is. I thought I’d share the first part of a list featuring books I’ve enjoyed and read over the years.

#books #trading

[Stoic @Stoiiic]

Naked Point of Control (nPoC) Simplified

[AM @_amtrades]

to make trading work,
learn how to get out of your own way

you likely already win enough
you likely already learned enough
you likely already understand enough

you just need to shift your perspective

how do you start making profits?
it's not about forcing more wins

you already win enough,
it's about removing the unnecessary losses

then your wins will begin to mean something

how do you accurately read the charts?
it's not about trying to apply more

you already understand enough,
it’s about admitting in times you don't know

then you will only trade setups that you know work

how do you build a consistent system?
it's not about adding new concepts

you already learned enough,
it's about refining what you have

then real improvements will start being made

control the downside
be comfortable sitting out
become exceptional at the simple

that is how you get out of your own way

and once you do,
your trading will begin to change

[Finessee @finessee_Fx]

One model that repeats over & over again.

The model that Romeo scammed and made half a milli on.

The model that 95% of ict traders are trying to learn.

The model that fits on the back of a business card.

This is that model.

The model.

Model.

[Trader V @_TraderV_]

@dshwchk @fundingpips @Khldfx @fundingpips @Khldfx @RadioFischer @CryptoMakk

[Charlie @btc_charlie]

Worth the effort in reading this (if you can read, of course).

[relentlessADD @relentlessADD]

Price moves in a continuous line. A candlestick chart just represents it in blocks of time.

You can have a daily chart that is represented Midnight to Midnight, and you can have an hourly chart that starts at x:30 instead of x:00. Or any combination in-between.

The continuous line can be interrupted by voids of trading (liquidity void) and it can be delivered only on one side (sellside or buyside imbalance). Otherwise it's efficient delivery.

You do not need to deeply understand this to trade well but I'd be willing to bet that people who trade well understand it easy enough.

[meditative investor @mrtotalsuccess]

The more you practice good trading habits the better you will become.

Don’t underestimate the power of tape reading the market. Speak your IF THEN statements out loud.

[Kitt @ICT_Concepts]

Preflight checklist.

[Trader V @_TraderV_]

@doerXBT ✍️

[relentlessADD @relentlessADD]

Within the past few weeks I have:

1.) Given you a hand selected list of the best ICT charter videos for when he uploads them on December 25th, 2023 - here is the link https://t.co/JZmddgOdxH

2.) Given you my recommend viewing order of watching ICT if you are a beginner or not seeing the results you'd like to see - here is the link https://t.co/spsBEQHMR5

3.) Given you a breakdown of the runtimes of each original mentorship month so you can plan your studying - here is the link https://t.co/N8nAvWfzVz

4.) Broken down the depth of layering and iterative teachings ICT has used for the last 10 years, using orderblocks as an example - here is the link https://t.co/LjZbhoin3u

5.) Taught how intermarket analysis works with Bonds and shown how it can tip the hand of news events - here is the link https://t.co/SR4XiBQwnG

6.) Explained how to use Reaper gaps properly, and shown that they're not useless fluff - here is the link
https://t.co/8VCoeIBkn4

7.) Showed how ICT is true, algorithmic logic even to the point it can be derived - here is the link https://t.co/axAM2BdcgY

8.) Made multiple high probability public calls on indices, gold, and DXY. Multiple links on my profile. I don't delete posts. - here is one example https://t.co/VMLCoBlLnt

9.) Shown multiple times how the logic I've provided can be used with my AI for a quant edge - here is the link of one example https://t.co/sTLEs8GORq

10.) Broken down the critical difference of refinement and fractal delivery - here is the link https://t.co/8YufS0orsK

11.) Pointed to where the heavy majority of coaches/mentors/influencers/teachers are not showing the proper use of a breaker - here is the link https://t.co/DQKTgJ51b8

12.) Discussed the most concise way to get the DOL and narrative I can think of - here is the link https://t.co/WdQmlhTgKH

13.) Given a tutorial on the proper way to collect data and backtest - here is the link https://t.co/dyRLia9gQI

14.) Provided the best way to approach a daytrading framework from a pure ICT standpoint without unnecessary length and videos - here is the link https://t.co/I0CTiyNJlM

15.) Given what I consider to be the best basic ICT models available - here is the link https://t.co/PQcX4g1NKv

There are more gems, and I've been answering questions non stop for weeks. I encourage you to dig into my profile.

I do not do paid mentorships, I do not have a course, I do not have a monetized YouTube channel for revenue. This is all for free except my quant data/AI.

[Victorious @victorious__5]

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