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Month 23

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@Moneytaur_ If only my broker would allow me to add to my short randomly this is not possible anymore.

[🎯 Master @Moneytaur_]

On random altcoins, it's been a good time to invalidate long setups off bullish breaker blocks until refined key levels are hit on Bitcoin and Ethereum, alongside strong confirmation on other powerful [for reversal] charts.

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@Bbaka_Crypto Great app. Is it possible to put in a fixed rr that should be reached for tp based on risk?

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@MariusSm1th Would really like to try features sound really good

[Marius 👁️⚡🌱 @MariusSm1th]

3rd update for Hiddentrades (Hidden Liquidity Finder) is out!

This will be the last bigger update for this script before release in a few weeks

Beta of my 2nd script, which will come out in around two weeks that will let you set alerts for any Symbol and automatically get notified when a new BBs/HOBs formed, this will also include filtering options like only if OB did a BOS, Auto-Fibs (GP) lines up etc...

giveaway below

What changed:
- Added 3 MTF display modes: BBs/HOBs, ICT OBs, and Both.
- Added visual ICT OB zones with separate grey coloring.
- Added an option to show only OB clusters and hide standalone OBs.
- Added visual OB cluster padding control.
- Added separate BB/HOB and OB label colors.
- Added 2-candle ICT impulse option.
- Added “Allow displacement candle inside OB.”
- Added “Allow Gaps to create a BB/HOB.”
- Improved partial mitigation handling for OBs and BB/HOBs.
- Changed partial mitigation into one main setting for all related checks.
- Added “Hide intrabar mitigated BBs/HOBs.”
- Renamed “Show unconfirmed breakers” to “Show Forming BBs.”
- Improved live breaker behavior so forming candles do not instantly decide every zone.
- Added a faster capped left-edge scan for cleaner BB/HOB visuals.
- Improved MTF payload building for better performance.
- Fixed loop/time errors in label time lookup.
- Fixed several gap-based BB/HOB creation issues.
- Fixed some false BB/HOBs caused by no-gap body crosses.
- Fixed chain OB cases that were being rejected too early.
- Fixed pivot/chain ownership conflicts in several OB scenarios.
- Fixed partial mitigation hard kills
- Improved dedupe between nearby overlapping BB/HOBs.
- Made Remove Duplicate Breakers a constant.
- Added runtime and render optimizations to reduce CPU pressure.
- Improved label merging to reduce clutter.
- Adjusted BB/HOB and OB transparency ranges.
- Added user-controlled max visibility through color opacity settings.
- Renamed Breaker Formation to Breaker Block / HOB Formation.
- Reorganized settings sections for cleaner script menu layout.
- Removed Require BOS option

Giving away 5 invites to the last Beta update before release in a few weeks, after testing by the Beta Users is done and small bugs are fixed!

Just share, like and comment!

Good luck 👌

[Gian Luca @materagian]

I am so close to becoming profitable, I can feel it.

One of the biggest delusional quotes I heard, probably like 100 times.
I am saying this with love. I was you for a long time lol.

Three winning trades feel like proof. Three losers feel like bad luck.
Both are noise when you have less than a year in the game and under 200 real money trades behind you.

The market does not care about what you feel or your opinion.
Remember when you were telling everyone ur three months from quitting ur job?!
I was not even close from understanding how wrong that sentence was.
You do not have an edge yet. You have beginner luck and a fantasy. There is a difference.

Real traders are not "close". Most have blown at least one account, usually two or three or more prop firms accs. They have sat through 15 trade losing streaks that made them physically sick.

They have deleted their Twitter at midnight, thrown a keyboard across the room, and still showed up the next day because the only thing worse than losing is quitting and admitting they were never cut out for it.

You are still in the easy phase where every green trade is "skill" and every red one is the algos or the market maker hunting my stops xDDD

Quick reality check
The algos do not know you exist. You are not being hunted. You are a small retail fish in a tank full of sharks who have been doing this for 10 to 30 years.
They are not chasing your 1 Contract on NQ. They do not need to.

So here is what you actually do.
Print your last 100 trades. Real money trades only. Circle every one where you moved your Stop 2 breakeven aka SL2BE like a pussy. Circle every one where you took profit early. Circle every one where you revenge traded after a loss. Look at the P&L next to those circled trades. Then tell me with a straight face that you are "so close"!
You are not. You are exactly where every 6-to-24 month trader is. Lying to yourself. Broke and desperate for money.

If you actually want to make it, and most of you do not,
Backtest for hours until you are sick of it,
Size so small it feels insulting and your like but I want to make money.
Journal every single trade. And you heard this 100 times but get super precise with your journaling.

And accept right now that even if you do everything right, you might still be bad at this for another two to three years.
That is the reality. Not the "I can feel it" bs.

I am not saying this to crush you.
I am saying it because I crushed myself for to long by believing the same fantasy you are believing right now.

Every month I lost was a month I could have been on the slow path that actually works. Nobody told me to take the slow path. So I am telling you.

Are you ready to be bad for two more years, or do you still think you are "so close" like every other beginner before you?

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@Stefan_B_Trades Only Journaling lets you see your mistakes as well as what works for you in large sample sizes not chaning the plan every few trades. Long time it took me to understand this. Thanks Stefan

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@samuraipips358 Hello Yumi, very much appreciated and clear. My sample size or data collection is not yet big enough to know what exit rule works best.Therefore I will stay for the current 100 Trade sample with the Plan I have and after that adjust from this. Thank you for taking time to answer

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Honestly, there is no tip for this.
And that is the most important thing I can tell you.

Not because the answer is hard to find, but because the question itself is the wrong question.

“How do I protect 2R and still not destroy my RR in this trade” is a question built on looking at one single trade.
As long as you are asking it that way, there is no answer that will ever satisfy you.
Take profit early and you will suffer because it ran further.
Wait and give it back and you will suffer because you could have taken 2R.
Both hurt, because both come from placing value on the outcome of this one trade.

Look closely at the words you used.
Round trip.
Give back.
Those words assume the 2R was already yours.
It was not.

Until price reaches your TP, you are not holding a profit you might lose.
You are holding a position that has not finished doing what your system was designed to do.
The pain you feel is not the market moving.
It is you deciding that an unrealized number already belonged to you.

Your job is not to optimize this one trade.
Your job is to execute a tested system with consistency across a large sample size, so the law of large numbers can pull out its edge.

Whether you exit at 2R or hold to 4R is not a decision you make in the moment.
Your tested system should have answered it before the trade.

Yes, looking back at one trade, you will think “if only I had held” or “if only I had taken it at 2R.”
That thought will always appear when you look at a single trade in isolation.
That is not the problem.
The problem is stopping there.

The only question that matters is this.
If you repeat the exact same action again and again over a large sample size, which action is the one that leaves profit in your hand at the end.
Not in this trade.
Across all of them.

That is the only viewpoint a rule can be built from.
A rule is not built from how to protect 2R in this one trade.
A rule is built from what remains profitable when one fixed action is repeated over a large sample size.

You are trying to build a rule from the wrong viewpoint, and that is why no tip will ever fit.

So the real thing to fix is not your exit timing.
It is the process that creates trust in your exit rule.

Go back to testing.
Define the complete exit rule clearly.
Test the complete system with that exit rule over a large sample size.
Then choose the version that has positive expectancy and execute that version exactly.

That is what removes this problem.
Not a tip during the trade.
A tested rule that you have already experienced through a large sample size before the trade.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Many traders move their SL to breakeven the moment they see unrealized profit, even though that action is not in their rules, because they think, “I do not want to lose this.”

This is one of the worst actions for destroying RR.

You are only thinking about the single trade in front of you.
By doing this, you may indeed avoid losing on that one trade.

But you dramatically increase the chance of closing at breakeven a trade that could have produced much more profit.

At that point, it is already a different strategy.
The win rate changes.
The RR changes.

The system with an edge that you tested in advance is being turned into another system that has not been tested.

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@samuraipips358 Thank you for this valueable answer. Thats exactly my current weak point as well I did not yet solve. How to not round trip unrealized gains when TP is not yet reached. Lets say TP is at 4R and I'm at 2R. TP too early would destroy my RR but also doing -1R is hard then? Any tips?

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@samuraipips358 Hi Yumi, how do you handle this topic? I have the rule of putting SL to Breakeven after my level gets tested twice. Do you use SL to BE at all?

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

The more you try to avoid losses, the more profit moves away from you.

People who do not want to admit a loss delay the stop.
People who do not want to give profit back take profits too early.

As a result, the worst possible risk reward structure is created.
Small wins and large losses.

Avoiding losses and leaving profit are completely different things.

[ZERO IKA 🗡️ @IamZeroIka]

✍️ AMT rules I use for my trades:

• Acceptance above VAL/below VAH price will likely migrate toward the opposite boundary of volume (VAH/VAL) using the POC as “reload” area for continuation

• Acceptance above VAH usually signals repricing and continuation, rejection above VAH usually leads back into value because the auction failed to establish higher prices as fair value

• Failed auctions at distribution extremes often lead to aggressive rotations back through the profile (with high statistical probability) -> the bigger the extremes, the higher the probability

• Rejection from low volume areas usually brings price back toward high volume and fair value because low volume zones represent price levels where the market previously found little acceptance

• If the market cannot build acceptance above a level, the breakout is often just trapped inventory created by late buyers entering into poor auction locations

• A POC that keeps attracting price during trend usually confirms the “true business” and accumulation rather than exhaustion

• The longer the market balances inside value, the more meaningful the eventual expansion becomes once acceptance is established outside the range

• Consecutive higher value areas and higher POCs often reveal institutional acceptance of higher prices before trend continuation becomes obvious on the chart

• Alignment with COT makes the AMT trade/setup more reliable giving it a +1

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@MariusSm1th Would like to try looks really good Marius

[Marius 👁️⚡🌱 @MariusSm1th]

2nd BETA update for Hiddentrades (Hidden Liquidity Finder)

- Improved caching: overall performance increased by 2-3x

- overall Cap of MTF is now at 40 (even for LTF), which was 30 before (so total 41 chart can be scanned now, no matter the TF

-Fixed a bug in early breaker detection, where mainly stock had a lot of false/positive Breakers

- Added one overall mitigation setting

- Improved a bug in left edge Breaker timing

I will giveaway 2x Beta access to people who like, share and comment!

[Daniel @Daniel95443]

@Moneytaur_ Hi Master, is there a characteristic among the 1% of traders who make it that stands out to you compared to the rest that fail? I think i have an idea but would be great if you could share your perspective.