This Friday the 11th of September I will be returning inside of the TCT trading community.
I will start if off with a massive private livestream at 18.30 UTC+2 where I showcase all the work behind the scenes.
For some reason there has been an insane increase in registered emails on the VIP waiting list although I told everyone to open a support ticket stating their case for me to manually review.
The early group of registrations on the VIP waiting list have now received an email with more detailed information regarding the upcoming exclusive livestream. If you haven't received an email, check spam, and if there is nothing in spam that means you were not approved.
If you were on the VIP waiting list and opened a support ticket as well --> I like the effort, but just know you won't receive an additional email since all relevant information has already been provided.
And lastly, if you overlooked my earlier message and haven't registered on the list or opened a support ticket stating your case --> you can still do so untill Wednesday.
Just join the public server --> go to support --> create ticket --> state your case, and I will get back to you (no guarantees):
https://t.co/PzaaXNOll1
See most of you Friday😁
$NQ
+4.5RR in 3 minutes.
Have been unlocking a whole new level of potential in these markets in the past 3 months during my absence online.
This is going to be fun.....
An issue with swing trading leverage is the fees.
Sometimes you enter and fees are fine, then fees change and holding gets more costly.
Sometimes moves take longer than expected, part way up, then retracement and followed by long consolidation.
Mentally, sitting with the floating PNL while feeling the pinch of fees can also result in your Brian rational-lying that you need to close before your planned exit.
To manage this,
Maybe around a year ago,
I started adding extra at least 0.2% to my position
Mentally it helped feel like I had paid for the fees ahead of time so no longer a factor to consider int he trade.
“But doesn’t that change your risk management?”
No, not really, HTF levels are generally higher probability and I’m only adding 0.2% which for me changes very little as these are not 1:1RR trades
Another thing helpful was taking partial profits into spot, but this one might confuse people. 🙏😅
To anyone also considering documenting their journey on anything.
I'd recommend having comments switched off.
It's been amazing for my brain personally.
While you may miss out on the 'community' feel a bit.
It really massively helps avoid your brain getting dopamine from the likes and comments.
It helps prevent you feeling like you got a win from people liking your opinion or perspective, rather than getting your dopamine from yourself.
Getting pleasure from having your own plan and process and executing on it.
Also, when you go from like 100 followers to 5k+, suddenly the comments coming gave me a feeling of 'obligation to respond'.
IRL if someone talks to you, then you generally respond.
But then it's easy to get swept into spending your whole day replying to comments, questions, DMs
rather than living your life , working on your craft, taking care of personal life stuff etc.
This is not a 'fixed' recommendation - it's more about balancing importance and managing your own feedbackloops
I think I'll probably end up outsourcing to team members at some point, if I decide to grow further.
there's also a balance where it's like you can get pulled into making 'content' for the people, rather than just documenting stuff you actually care about.
I think getting lost in external direction,
while sometimes can help you venture into new areas of opportunity you would not have otherwise considered, can also condition you a bit into losing some of your own voice.
I've also found myself constraining my speech frequently, not addressing things that are the actual truth of my experience, because it's a touchy subject or unpopular opinion.
X is also a bit of a weird space where there are people who dedicate their freetime to commenting clown emojies and hate or even threats to you in your posts
and most of the time its not worth the extra noise - people will figure things out in their own time or behind a paywall.
A cool thing about X however, is that you can make some really cool, powerful connections with people that woudl otherwise not be accessible as a smaller account for example if you are on LIinkedIn looking ot make genuine connections etc
I'd also encourage people to use AI for a 3 moth period to help improve structure and communication,
then move away from it.
convenience of food led to obesity epidemic
convenience of AI carries risk of no critical thinking epidemic
Ever feel like you “need to be productive”
Tell yourself “I should do this”
“I should do that”…
But you don’t
And actually,
If you’re honest with yourself
Even when you’re super busy,
Exhausted,
Doing so much stuff all day
You still think to yourself
“There’s not enough hours in the day”
“I didn’t get enough done”
“I should be doing more”
Well…
Every “should” carries an emotion of “shame” or “guilt” or “frustration” or “lack”
These are really heavy emotions.
You can’t beat yourself up enough to be worthy of love, freedom and peace
As a kid,
Maybe you felt you had to “achieve” something in order to get your parents validation or attention,
Get good grades,
Be on the sports team.
Only then were you worthy of attention, rewards, love etc
Well as an adult,
We don’t need to carry constricting criteria for being open to receiving love and experiencing freedom and peace.
There’s actually lots of people around you wanting to pour their love into your life
There’s so much freedom and opportunity available to you right here and now
There’s so much peace and reason to feel so genuinely grateful and restful right now.
But you’re probably too guarded and emotionally closed off to let it in at the moment.
Some exercises that you may find helpful:
1) what if procrastination or stillness was a type of expression of freedom - freedom to no do, freedom to exercise choice of what you do or don’t do, to not be a slave to activity and busy-ness (business)?
2) take a moment to imagine zooming out from your body out to the room, out to the city, out to the earth, to the solar system, till you’re an inconceivably spall spec of dust in the sea of blackness of space.
Then zoom in infinitely into the palm of your hand, the cells of your skin the atoms into the sea of electromagnetic waves Ina sea of blackness.
Recognising how we are both insignificant and magnificent.
There’s a peace, a releasing of pressure in recognising how insignificant our existence is.
And with the meaninglessness of our lives is a freedom to chose what meaning we ascribe to our life and what we will focus our energy and attention on during our brief, blip of existence.
Which leads to number 3 exercise
3) what do you feel is really important, exciting, energising, fulfilling and enjoyably challenging into you right now?
Getting clarity on what’s actually most meaningful and important to you gives you a freedom from overwhelm and self shaming with “should”
Because you finally have clarity on what’s actually most important to you.
Priorities are the first step to purpose.
A sense of purpose is a great step towards power.
Power feels like alignment, clarity, living with intentionality.
Force feels like frustration, resistance, lack, not enough.
Welcome back to your power 😀
These are probably the 2 most common mindsets that stop people being consistently profitable as day traders or swing traders…
It’s not super special,
It’s the same 2 common mindsets that hold people back in most other areas of life
1) perfectionist
2) all or nothing
1) perfectionist waits for January 1st to start, or Monday, or after the stagdoo 💒 the perfect, the perfect market conditions, mercury to finish retrograde etc
2) all or nothing makes unsustainable initial efforts and uses one failed trade, one moment of not sticking to a trading rule as an excuse to throw every bit of momentum down the drain,
“F&ck it, who cares, it’s over for the rest of the day and week now”
Cool, so how do we change this?
1) “Perfectionist” needs to build up a relationship with themselves.
They’ve built a habit of seeking external validation.
“I need support from someone else”
“Everything needs to be perfect”
“If all these traders I respect don’t agree with my idea, I’m probably wrong and shouldn’t even try”
“I would love to start that business but I’m not good enough, to start in my own, I need someone else to help me start”
Who knows, maybe as a kid you only really got teacher or parent attention when you were “miss perfect, got perfect grades” etc
What matters is from here you build your identity around being “resilient” not “a perfectionist”
It’s a bulls&t identity that no longer serves you, so time to drop it.
That means describing what a “good loss” or “failure I can be proud of” looks like
To open up room for you to feel safe exploring failures and building resilience
Having a losing streak or drawdown and still finishing the month profitable etc
2) “all or nothing” needs to focus on building a relationship of self love.
Doing things for the sake of the process,
Not enduring the path as a painful means to a hopefullly less painful end destination.
There’s several mental exercises for this this
But the main principle here is you need to fully accept that the “brighter future” is absolutely not guaranteed.
You can do everything right and still, never get to your goal
You could achieve everything then immediately be bedridden with incurable disease
The mindset shift needs to be focused on reeling in the perceived future pleasure into the right here and now.
The here and now isn’t somewhere to run away from,
The goal isn’t somewhere to run towards.
This day, this moment is your only guarantee
Focus the mind on
“how can I make the daily processes more enjoyable for me?”
“What ways would I like to more frequently celebrate my adherence to my processes?”
“I allow myself to love myself,
Exactly as I am, right here, right now,
And at the same time, I fully support myself and back myself in my journey exploring the pursuit of my potential - if I dare do do so,
I’m still going to love me all the same”
The first level is
“no one is coming to same me”
Then it’s the realisation
“I don’t need to be saved”
Overall,
1) make it safe to “fail”
2) make it safe to enjoy today regardless of external outcomes
Play with idea that the process can become your goal and recognise that the time and energy you spend spent beating yourself up
Could literally be spent building yourself up and just getting back on track.
~Mr.A
$BTC roughly my current outlook
Bias built from:
1) BTC 4YR time cycles
2) DXY local PO3 low due 20 Nov 2026
(Major low not due till May 2027 though)
3) 28KD SPX Time Cycle low due Oct 2027
Price wise, on bitcoin, for me flipping $87k into support triggers reassessment of bias.
My main price zones of interest locally are clearly shown.
I do have a personal bias for trading PO3 more successfully than SFP trades, so that also likely influences my structural forecasting here.
In addition I likely have some recency bias due to the prior 2 swing highs on this asset being a bearish PO3
Remember, guys, it’s never going to be good enough for everyone. It doesn’t matter what you do, people will always have something to say. So my advice is simple: put your head down, block out the noise, and lock in on yourself. Focus on becoming the best version of you. Make yourself a 10 out of 10.
Planning mostly done for next week's video updates.
I'll cover #silver and the #gold trade plans
I'll update $URA $URNM $UUUU $NXE in the #nuclear sector
The $XLE Level 2 trade video was shared here recently and a correction is pending but the trend looks solid and will likely offer another entry in that sector
And my favourite $XOP sector swing trade planing
Plus bitcoin:native and I have shared an ethereum:native trade idea on YT
PLus regukar updates in many markets inc. dogecoin:native $NEXA $GDX $GDXJ $COPX and many many more