If you want to be a professional trader, you gotta get used to being wrong all the time and not letting that impact your ability to still put on appropriate risk for the next opportunity.
Money is a byproduct of consistent adherence to your system.
Let the numbers play out.
Your focus should be on consistently executing at the best of your ability.
Detach from the outcome of every trade.
It's important to have a MODEL in place, but a model is only as good as it’s operator.
If you can’t execute your model accurately,
you are effectively dulling your edge.
- Mark Douglas
The path to a good life:
1. Learn trading for 2-5 years alongside your job until consistently profitable
2. Work up to $500k-1M in funded capital and aim for 3% a month ($15-30k/month)
3. Move to a cheap / low tax country so you can invest most of your income into a personal trading account, stocks and other businesses
4. Keep spending fairly low so you can achieve financial freedom quickly and aren’t completely dependant on your trading income
This is the way!
Such an evident top here on $BTC in my opinion
✅Previous week high + equal highs swept
✅4 consecutive hourly SFPs of that level
✅Above VAH where shorts are EV+
✅Sweep-the-sweep pattern on H1
✅m30 break of structure
Next destination: range PoC at $63k 📉
YOU'RE NOT DEPRESSED. YOUR LIFE JUST HAS NO SIDE QUESTS.
Here are 33 side quests to complete before this month ends:
You need to be side quest maxing.
If you value your time, you should take trading seriously. Let me explain.
The average person spends their entire life working a 9-5, only to finally have freedom at 65, if they’re lucky. By then, you’ve already spent most of your life working for someone else.
Instead, spend the next 2-3 years learning a skill that has the potential to make you financially free.
Make money on your own time. Travel with your family and friends. Experience life on your terms.
The goal is freedom. Everything else is a bonus.
Mbappe - 10 goals in 1 world cup
Messi - 8 goals in 1 world cup
Haaland - 7 goals in 1 world cup
Bellingham - 7 goals in 1 world cup
Dembele - 7 goals in 1 world cup
Harry Kane - 6 goals in 1 world cup
Cristiano Ronaldo - 11 goals in 6 world cup
if you spend all day at a fish market, you’ll leave smelling like fish, even if you never touched one
but spend your day in a perfume shop and you’ll carry the scent even if you didn’t buy anything, that’s how environment works. it rubs off, whether you realize it or not. stay around complainers and everything starts to look negative. stay around excuse makers and growth feels optional but get around people who move with purpose, you’ll feel it.
get around people who live in gratitude, you’ll start to see differently. the scent of your environment will always follow you.
I'm convinced that 99% of success is just the decision to be an outlier. The person who can be weird, irrational, delusional, and embrace their dark side is the person who is guaranteed to win.
You're not built different if you can't start over.
Life will strip you. Money, status, plans. All gone.
Weak men hide. Strong men rebuild.
There's no shame in the mud my boy.
You just gotta be stubborn enough to keep laying bricks while they clown you.
They stop. You don't. That's why you win