Leon

Former Tennis Player to Pickle Baller! Turning my dreams into reality...brick by brick one day at a time! Base hits and paper cuts!

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

How to be a winner:

1. Quit being a pussy
2. Assume everything will work in your favor
3. Be delusionally optimistic
4. Take a psychopathic level of action
5. Have an incredible sense of urgency
6. Be unhinged online to attract the right people
7. Study pattern recognition.
7. Attract a few haters.
8. Retire from corporate forever in your 30s.
9. Figure out how to access personal freedom.
10. Never believe climbing the corporate ladder leads anywhere
11. Assume the gatekeepers are full of sh*t
12. Join the permissionless economy
13. Stop trying to fit in and just be weird AF
14. Replace delayed gratification with "I want it now"
15. Build a one-person business. Then build whatever the heck you want.
16. Be unreasonable enough to believe in yourself
17. Let the madness overtake your life
18. Let the world see your dark side.
19. Do what you say you're going to.
20. Forget about saving money. Just make more money.
21. Never say "I'll start in 6 months."
22. Assume there will always be chaos around you.
23. Learn to love uncertainty.
24. Seek our rejection and failure.
25. Fall in love with embarrassing yourself.
26. Apply more effort than is rational.
27. Be irrational about who you can become.
28. Rewire your brain with neuroplasticity.
29. Put your family first, always.
30. Have a personal mission.
31. Lead people even if you're not a leader.
32. See the world better than it is.
33. Lower your expectations in every scenario.
34. Accept that society will disappoint you.
35. Ignore politics and the news.
36. Act like Keanu Reeves.
37. Collapse at the end of the day from going all out
38. Rewrite the rules in your favor.
39. Study the art of negotiation.
40. Worship quiet people.
41. Live the good life before you die.
42. Assume you only get one life.

[Sam Stoffel @sam_stoffel]

someone who is impossible to beat:

> slightly autistic
> doesn’t ask for permission
> owns their mistakes
> copies what works & improves from there
> acts really fkng quickly
> believes everything is in their control
> agile + willing to pivot
> comfortable being disliked
> obsessed
> ruthlessly cuts off people who don’t support them
> delusionally optimistic
> makes a lot of sacrifices
> willing to look like a beginner
> has fun

it’s possible to win without these, but it’s impossible to lose with them

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

Great method to increase win rate!

[TradeZella 🦄 @TradeZella]

"Only take A+ setups" is the most repeated advice in trading, and the most useless.

In the moment, your A+ and your B+ feel identical, especially when you're bored or down on the day.

Here's this fix 🧵👇

[Mike Bellafiore @MikeBellafiore]

Want to know what actually separates the traders who make a career out of this game from the ones who blow up?

Hint: It isn’t about finding a magic indicator. It’s about how you manage your downside when you're completely wrong. And you will be wrong.

Watch this masterclass presentation by Carlton Bryan (CBry), our Risk Manager at SMB Capital and Head of SMB Capital Miami. On our desk, his entire job is to ensure our guys stay inside their risk limits and respect our capital. If you're a new or developing trader, you need to treat your own capital with that exact same level of respect. CBry laid down the foundational laws of risk management that separate the pros from the amateurs.

Here are the heavy-hitting lessons you need to build into your daily process right now:

1. Eliminate the "Invented" Trades
The quickest way to blow up an account is to take trades you didn’t plan for. CBry calls these "invented trades"—those moments where you just jump into something because you feel like you should be trading.

The Fix: Treat your pre-market routine like a pilot preparing a flight plan. You need a checklist of your levels, your setups, and your plan before you touch the keys. If a trade isn't in your PlayBook, you don't take it. Period.
Expected vs. Unexpected Losses: Every trader takes losses. But there is a massive difference between an expected loss (where your setup failed but you cut it exactly where you planned) and an unexpected loss (where you are sitting in an unplanned trade, praying it turns around). Unexpected losses are what derail your career.

2. Get Intimate with Your Stats and AI
If you aren't tracking your trading data, you are running a hobby, not a business. You have to be intimate with your average win, your average loss, and the probability of your setups so you can calculate your Expected Value (EV).

Leverage the Technology: We live in an unbelievable era where free AI tools can do the heavy lifting for you. Copy and paste your raw P&L data right into an AI agent. Ask it: Which 10 trades produced the most profit? What time of day was best? Which tickers or sectors am I sizing poorly in? You can get actionable pattern recognition in less than a minute.
Study Your Winners: Most traders obsess over their losing trades. CBry emphasizes that you need to spend significant time reviewing your massive winning outliers. @steebab has preached this to our traders as well. Understand the exact details—the volume, the catalyst, the sector strength—so you can replicate and scale those setups.

3. Asymmetric Risk Deployment (The 65/5 Rule)
You cannot approach every single trade with the exact same risk size. Doing that guarantees you'll just end up flat or negative at the end of the month because your low-conviction setups will eat up your gains.

The 65/5 Reality: In a study of elite traders, CBry found that roughly 65% of a trader's annual profits come from just 5% of their trades. Those are the rare A+ setups that show up only a few times a year.
Be Risk-Seeking on A+ Setups: When your absolute best setup appears, you shouldn't be timid; you need to be risk-seeking and deploy maximum structured risk. At SMB, we say,”Swing the bat hard.” Conversely, on your lower-conviction B or B+ setups, scale your risk aggressively down to 5% or 25% of your standard stop. Save your capital for the home runs.

4. Know How to Bump and Cut Your Risk
Your risk limits shouldn't be static; they need to move dynamically with your performance.

When to Scale Up: If you are showing extreme consistency (e.g., green 3 days a week, flat 1 day, small loss 1 day) with low variance in your P&L curve over a 2-to-4 week period, bump your daily risk limit by 10% to 20%.
The Hard Lockouts: When your equity curve hits a downward slope, you must have hard rules to protect your runway. If you hit a daily stop, you are done. If you hit a weekly or monthly stop, automatically slash your risk limits by 50%. Keep cutting it in half until you find your rhythm again, then scale back up.

Trading is a beautifully unforgiving game. The math of drawdowns is brutal—if you lose 50% of your account, you have to make 100% just to get back to even. That is why protecting your runway is the ultimate competitive edge.

It requires a massive amount of heavy lifting early in your career—building your PlayBook, reviewing intensively, building technology, collaborating, building trading skills, and tracking your trading stats. It will be discouraging at times, and it might feel like getting kicked in the stomach even when you did everything right. But if you embrace the process, honor your stops, possess some ability at the trading you are doing, and treat risk management as your religion, the scaling on the other side is completely exponential.

Think about how you would feel if you became a consistently profitable professional trader.

Build your processes, find your team, and protect your capital on every trade. Go put in the work.

The True Formula for Profitable Trading https://t.co/yDVDHoPPfc via @YouTube

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

To all men who survived rock bottom, what's one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now?

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

New version of the rat race!

[David Wells @DavidWells]

The AI ponzi scheme goes like this:

Everyone is generating all these long ass docs and then passing them off for others to read

Then the person receiving is like, wtf this is way too long, and hands that into an AI to read and summarize

Then they are generating a long ass response back

and this cycle goes like that forever. and we call this work now 😅

The token lords watch this from their towers nodding and grinning.

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

Trust the process in other words! Nonetheless it's still very wise!

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin’s fishing metaphor:

This is the sign of a true professional. He doesn't sit around waiting for inspiration to come— he goes to the studio rigidly, every day, ready to work, knowing that it will be there for him when he calls on it.

“It's like fishing. You can go out and spend the whole day fishing and not catch any fish. You can work for a day or for a week and nothing good can happen. That happens. It's out of our control.”

You have to trust the process. You have to keep showing up.

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

This is a good frame work for small accounts.

[Usman Ashraf @usmanashraff]

If your small account isn't growing, you're not doing these 5 things wrong.

You're doing them in the wrong order.

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

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[Leon @chipleaderleon]

I have also discovered this to be true! Life is a paradox...the more you want something the further it gets away from you. Let it come to you!

[rachel @rachcorrine]

The plot twist of all plot twists is that your life gets exponentially better as soon as you stop giving a fuck. And not in the cold, heartless, not giving a fuck way. But in the way that you remain so unattached to the outcome that nothing can shake you. You are going to be good no matter what happens. It’s this sort of peace that surpasses understanding that can only be found via unshakable faith. This applies to every aspect of your life. Love career relationships money health. You give it your best shot. You try your damn hardest. You leave everything on the table. But you stay unattached. Whatever happens, happens. You flow through life and life flows through you.

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

Wait...so Stevie Wonder is not blind? Shaq wasn't lying hahaha @SHAQ @StevieWonder

[𝐃𝐫. 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐝 @1HBK___]

أزالت كل مكياجها وجعلت نفسها قبيحة أمام مئات المشاهير لتثبت لهم وجهة نظر معينة؟

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

Perfect training for competitive pickleball battles!

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

Re-read until internalized

[Displacement Trades @iamdisplacement]

Tom Dante's execution webinar changed how I trade.

It's the most complete trading psychology lesson I've found—for free.

I rewatched it, took detailed notes, and extracted the 4 rules that separate pros from amateurs.

If you're serious about trading, read this:
All credits: @Trader_Dante

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

This is a golden nugget!

[Andrew Menaker PhD @Andrew_Menaker]

FACT:
The market doesn’t care who you think you are.

And that can be good...or bad. It depends on how you understand that fact.

It doesn’t care about your résumé.
Your intelligence.
Your best year.
Your worst drawdown.

The market doesn’t respond to identity.

➡️It responds to who you are being in the moment you trade.

Most traders believe:

“If I am disciplined, I should trade well.”

But the market doesn’t interact with labels.
It interacts with states.

👉Your nervous system.
👉Your tolerance for uncertainty.
👉Your need for relief.
👉Your relationship with being wrong.

That’s what’s actually executing the trade.

This is why traders say:

“I knew better… and still did it.”
“I don’t know what came over me.”

Sound familiar?

A different version of you showed up.
And the market traded that version.

That's one reason why affirmations often don't work for traders.

You don’t trade who you think you are.
You trade who you become under pressure.

And know this:
Pressure doesn’t build character.
It reveals it.

Real edge isn’t prediction.

It’s the ability to notice:
“This part of me wants certainty / relief / validation right now.”
And not let that part trade.

The best traders I work with don’t ask:
“Where is price going?”

They ask:
“Who is showing up right now...and should this version of me be trading?”

The market already knows the answer.
It prices you accordingly.

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[Leon @chipleaderleon]

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[Leon @chipleaderleon]

The better you understand these life paradoxes...the better off you will be! 💯✌️

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[Leon @chipleaderleon]

What a gem of a message...many traders and entrepreneurs can relate and appreciate this very much. I certainly needed to read this 💎 💕. Aunt Flo is the real MVP 💯

[Anthony Crudele @AnthonyCrudele]

What drives you through the hard times and keeps you grounded during the good is your purpose.

As a career-long independent trader, and now someone more involved in the business side of this world, my purpose has never changed. I’m motivated by my family, the people who took care of me when I had nothing, and my promise to give them everything they gave me and more.

On my desk sits a picture of my Aunt Flo. Years ago, when I had gone completely broke from trading, my parents didn’t have the money to help, and I had already borrowed from friends in the pits, I went to her. I told her straight up:

“This is probably the worst investment you’re ever going to make. But I believe in what I’m doing. If you believe in me, I’m asking you for $10,000 so I can pay my seat lease and get back to trading.”

Without hesitation, she drove me to Saint Paul Federal Bank in Franklin Park, Illinois, a place that probably doesn’t even exist anymore, and withdrew $10,000 from her savings.

I was terrified to lose her hard earned money. I’d already burned through $75,000. This was it. Make or break. That fear turned into discipline. I went on the most defensive streak of my career and became one of the best risk managers around.

But more importantly, my motivation changed. I was no longer doing it just for me. I was doing it for her, for my parents, for everyone who believed in me when I was down. And that’s when everything started to click. My trading, my mindset, my purpose, all of it. My life was never the same again.

Through the good times and the bad, my purpose has always been simple: take care of others and stay grateful. That’s the only motivation I’ve ever needed. It’s why I stay positive, why I love helping others, and why I’ve been able to build a life I once only dreamed of.

Early on, I was selfish, all offense and no defense. And all I did was go broke over and over again. Purpose changed everything.

Find your purpose.
Your purpose will become your motivation.
Your motivation will drive your results far beyond what you imagined.

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

@CamilaZilveti Where can we watch this?? For verification purposes lol🤣😜

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

@CamilaZilveti What?! I don't have Instagram but you said Pickleball Coach Leon was the best pickleball coach! 🤣🤪

[Leon @chipleaderleon]

@MaggieMaeRem I am happy to help as the best pickleball coach in Houston!

Camila agrees!

https://t.co/CwnkZVYlQq