👁️Many people have asked me: 👁️
“Mate, what’s your strategy? How do you actually trade the market and which tips can you give me?"
Today, I want to share my approach with you and not just the mechanics, but the mindset, the discipline, and the long-term vision that are often overlooked. (I believe this can help you if you're struggling)
The truth is, trading isn’t just about techniques or spotting levels.
It’s about psychology, discipline, and clarity.
Life already pressures us with work, deadlines, family, and constant notifications.
Why should we turn trading into another source of anxiety?
Many people chase excitement in the market, seeking adrenaline, fear, or euphoria.
I seek the opposite, therefore calm, coherence, and simplicity as profit doesn’t come from tension, but it comes from staying still while the market moves around you.
My goal is to build a clear, repeatable, and sustainable approach that doesn’t add stress to an already busy life.
You already know I rely mainly on SMC so I won’t get into explaining them.
Now everyone can spot levels with some practice, but the real edge comes from contextualizing them, understanding why certain order blocks work while others don’t, and being able to interpret accumulation, distribution, and other complex market dynamics.
It's crystal clear that execution is where many traders make mistakes.
Often, it’s not analysis that fails, but timing.
Prices often approach key levels, absorb liquidity, and only afterward move in the intended direction forcing early entries to get stopped out.
Waiting for confirmations? Absolutely, it increases the probability of success, even if it occasionally skews the risk/reward ratio.
However, there are two main ways to execute trades: high leverage and low leverage.
After years of experience, I’ve chosen the second path, but why?
Because it allows me to give the market time to form reliable structures, manage my risk effectively, and trade calmly and clearly without unnecessary stress.
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Psychological connotation 🧠
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Yes, I know what you're thinking: "I scroll social media and I see plenty of people flexing 100xs longs/shorts and this forces me to think I'm not enough"
I get it.
Every time you open Instagram or TikTok, there’s someone showing off their massive wins, their luxurious lifestyle, their fast gains and it’s easy to fall into the trap of comparison, to start thinking that slow, steady growth isn’t exciting enough, that your discipline isn’t “doing enough.”
Social media is a highlight reel, not reality.
You’re only seeing the wins, the celebrations, the moments that make for clicks and likes.
Rarely do you see the drawdowns, the stress, the emotional battles, or the countless trades that didn’t work out.
Comparing yourself to curated 📷snapshots is a psychological trap.
It can push traders toward reckless decisions, over-leveraging, or chasing trades for the thrill, just to feel like they “measure up.”
The truth is, calm, disciplined, consistent trading doesn’t make for flashy Instagram stories, but it builds real, sustainable wealth.
You don’t need to impress anyone online.
The real victory isn’t in showing off a 100x trade, it’s sticking to your method, following your plan, and letting compounding work quietly and steadily over time.
The people who scream the loudest on social media are not necessarily the ones winning in the long run, they’re the ones who make the market look exciting while masking the real risk behind it.
My mantra is simple: plan, execute, and profit (hopefully)
Behind these 3 words lies a precise methodology.
Planning means analyzing HTF for key levels, identifying liquidity zones, contextualizing them, and defining invalidation points where a trade idea no longer makes sense.
My execution often happens on the same timeframe of the level I'm trading (waiting for closures within the level), but I also look into MTF where I confirm operational signals such as accumulation, BBs, or FVGs completion.
Risk management is essential.
My stop loss is always at the invalidation level, never arbitrary.
Position size is based on the risk per trade, and I never average down or improvise.
❗️Trade management is equally important ❗️
I move my stop to breakeven when a trade moves in my favor, take partial profits at key levels, and let the remainder run to maximize potential moves.
For instance, if price rebounds from an order block and breaks a supply, I start to trail below that supply that has now became a breaker, letting the rest ride toward the next liquidity area.
Compounding and leverage are where long-term growth truly shines, in my opinion.
Many people think success comes from big wins using high leverage and while this can be a great integration (open low lev/when in profit trail/remove the margin/increase the leverage) what I prefer is a slow, consistent progress.
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👁️Example
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Imagine two traders, both starting with 10K.
Trader A decides to risk 1% of their account on each trade, aiming for a 2:1 reward-to-risk ratio.
That means for every $100 risked, they aim to make $200.
After 50 trades with a 50% win rate, their account grows steadily to around €12,800.
After 100 trades, it reaches approximately $16,400.
His growth is gradual, almost unnoticeable day to day, but remarkably consistent.
Even a string of losses doesn’t shake his account significantly as he can keep trading calmly, stick to his plan, and let compounding work in their favor over months and years.
Now consider Trader B.
Trader B decides to take bigger risks, 5% of their account per trade, with the same 2:1 reward-to-risk ratio.
That seems exciting because the potential gains are enormous.
One winning trade could make $1,000, 10 times more than Trader A’s typical win.
After 50 trades with the same 50% win rate, the account has the potential to reach $34,000.
After 100 trades, it could surpass $100,000.
Sounds incredible, right? But the problem here is that high leverage comes with high stress.
Just imagine if Trader B hits 10 consecutive losses, which is not unlikely.
That would wipe out 40% of their account in a very short period.
Emotionally, he's riding a rollercoaster made of fear, frustration, and desperation creep in, and his decision-making suffers.
One bad reaction could undo weeks or months of progress.
The key takeaway is that compounding only works if you remain disciplined over years.
Leverage can amplify gains, but it also amplifies psychological pressure.
So, I keep it simple where the majority of my trades are made with bigger size and lower leverage as I can clearly manage them understanding if the price is invalidating my setups or not, looking for a powerful compounding over months/years.
Trading is complex enough already and I don't want to make it harder.
I aim to reduce stress, maintain clarity, and trade with discipline. I don’t chase tomorrow’s big win. I focus on building today so I can reap rewards in the years ahead with this extra business.
I believe that true victory isn’t a single profitable trade but it’s sticking to your method consistently, even when the market tests you.
This is how I trade.
"There will be control."
Remember when European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde openly admitted that the EU's new CBDC—the digital euro—will be used to exert control?
I’m 22.
Dropped out.
Tried 4 startups. All flopped.
burned the savings
Got ghosted by an investor and my cofounder.
Eating instant noodles with no sauce.
But I still wake up thinking I might build something that works.
That’s the kind of delusion it takes.