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[Matt Petrallia, CMT @theEquilibrium]

New FREE Stack

In collaboration with the extremely talented @KynaKosling

Environment Over Setup: Action ≠ Progress

Most traders focus on learning yet another setup, whether to use candlestick or bar charts, or whether the 20 SMA or 21 EMA is better.

None of that moves the needle.

Focus on impactful decisions.

Over 27 years of trading, after learning risk management, I’ve found nothing to move the needle on your returns more than learning to:

➡️Get aggressive in a conducive environment.

➡️Back off in a poor environment.

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[Marios Stamatoudis @stamatoudism]

Regarding the recent action:

You can't make big returns without giving some back.

If you have a system that is based on big/home run trades and selling most of your shares on weakness in stocks, you must accept 5 facts:

1. You can't have outliers by intervening too much into strength.

2. We can never predict the power of a stock beforehand, so there is no reason to judge.

3.Not all drawdowns are created equally. There are drawdowns from peak capital and drawdowns on the money we actually own. There is a difference between the two. We can't avoid the first, but we can do a lot to have protective measures for the second.

4. We are the ones who create our portfolios. If we have a lot of volatile names in our portfolio, we must anticipate and accept the volatility that comes with them, both on the positive and negative side. We need to understand what's normal to give back.

5. No matter how many Market Awareness flags are evident, you can't shift your stance 180 degrees from one day to the next. We take progressive actions into defense as more and more signs appear.

Giving back some profits is not a bug.... It's a natural thing that should happen in a system like this.... It's a healthy sign that you were positioned correctly in a good run, in good stocks, and followed your principles..... You should be proud instead of being salty....

The damage is not caused by giving some profits back

The damage occurs when you are surprised by this fact every time, when it is actually a normality and violate rules after the fact.

The damage occurs when you don't understand how much is normal to give back based on the volatility of your own portfolio in each regime.... 8%, 10%, 15%+???

The damage occurs when you aim only for offense without having defense mechanisms pre planned. Mental and technical.

To be honest, instead of being salty, I treat these corrections as healthy.... More time for research, for refining skills, for time with family....and for new leadership to emerge... Especially when you have made a good buck over the past 2 months....Recharge your batteries , your clarity and be ready again when things turn!

[Qullamaggie Wisdom @QullamaggieHQ]

𝗤 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀) 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁.

It’s scary. It’s one thing taking a big loss, but it’s another thing holding a big profit, and especially if it’s a profit that’s bigger than you’ve seen before. That’s one of the most stressful things ever. It’s just so scary, but you really need to believe it can go further in your direction.

That’s really what happened on TSLA. I was up 650k, I thought it was gonna go down another 50, 100 bucks, and then it just reversed back higher and I gave back most of that profit. But then I re-nailed it, and that was a big one. You really gotta believe it will do what you think it will do.

[J Law @JLawStock]

When markets crash, the hard part usually isn’t the chart work.
It’s keeping your emotions under control.

Most traders have a system, a plan, clear rules.
But when your P&L swings tens of thousands in a day, all of that gets stress‑tested.

Fear, anxiety, regret, anger – these emotions can destroy more than the sell‑off itself.
Over the past decade, I’ve traded through multiple crashes, panics, collapses and violent corrections.

What I’ve learned is this:
Your long‑term results are not decided by how well you predict the market,
but by whether you can stay rational when the market is at its messiest.

In this post I’m sharing four mindset and strategy shifts I consider most critical.
I hope they help you make better decisions the next time the market tanks.

📎What’s the mistake you’re most likely to make in a big sell‑off?
💬Tell me in the comments

🆕 Champion’s trading method — now on IG too.
👉 Follow us: IG@jlawstock2

[Martin Luk @martinlukkt]

On bounce days after a distribution day, I was often tempted to go long and found myself mostly on the wrong side of the trade and getting stopped out. Those losing trades guided me to learn and develop the pullback short setup.

Those days are tricky and deadly. They don't only dig you into a deeper hole; but more importantly, throw off your rhythm and alignment with the market, which could easily lead to chasing or revenge trading.

Take a break and come back with a refreshed mind later. I wish I can learn it earlier.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl

[James Muninn @Muninn]

Based on the Qullamaggie deep dive research bundle I built https://t.co/YYRRJGdZ9h

[Enkhbat Dangaasuren @enkhbat]

Нэг л өдөр эргээд харахад таны амьдралыг өөрчилсөн мөч бол “агуу санаа олсон өдөр” биш, харин “анхны жижиг алхмаа хийсэн тэр өдөр” тань байна байх.
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[Ted Zhang @TedHZhang]

75% of a stock's movement is decided by the general market.

50% of a stock's movement is decided by the group it is in.

Focus on major factors and everything becomes easier.

[J Law @JLawStock]

After a market correction is over, don’t be too quick to sell the stocks that rally first and show the strongest relative strength.

That is not always “risk management.”

In many cases, it actually increases the risk of missing a potentially massive winner.

Even today, I still make this mistake sometimes.

Why?

Because the stocks that recover first after a correction are often not just random bounce plays.

They are usually the names where money is flowing back first.

They show relative strength before the crowd fully realizes the market has turned.

They may be the next leaders of the new uptrend.

Real risk management is not selling a strong stock simply because it has gone up.

Real risk management is managing position size, knowing your invalidation level, and watching whether the price action actually breaks down.

If a stock remains strong, money is still flowing in, and the fundamentals and narrative are still intact, selling too early can actually be poor risk management.

So the key is not “never sell.”

The key is:

Don’t sell the strongest market leaders too easily just because you are afraid of giving back existing profits.

Many times, what truly changes your trading return curve is not taking small profits again and again.

It is whether you can sit through the right leaders long enough during a real market uptrend.

[Kyna Kosling @KynaKosling]

The error that has cost millions of speculators millions of dollars…

…and that has never been a bigger challenge for traders.

Lessons from Livermore:

“Wait, be patient, until as many factors as possible are in your favour, before making a trade—it’s the patience that makes the money.”

“Once a position is taken the next difficult task is to be patient and wait for the move to play out. The temptation is strong to take fast profits or cover your trade solely out of fear of losing the profit on a correction.”

If impatience was a common error 85 years ago, in a world without smartphones, social media or zero-commission trading…

…how prevalent is this mistake today?!

But we weren’t always so distracted.

So, why has impatience always been a challenge?

Probably due to misunderstanding about what professional-minded trading entails day to day:

1⃣ Do the unglamorous prep work every day.
2⃣ Sit on your hands more than you press buttons.
3⃣ Be prepared to be wrong more often than you’re right.

This new stack delves into each, with insights from @Clement_Ang17, @pwrdbyJUNO, @jfsrevg, @martinlukkt, @theogustincic, @SPTX806, and others.

We also discuss the key to developing patience as a trader, then close with some self-reflection on patience in writing.

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This Error Has Cost Millions of Speculators Millions of Dollars
The Livermore lesson that matters now more than ever
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[Shake Pryzby @ShakePryzby1]

Here is a short snippet from our weekly team call today preparing for the week ahead.

First I'm going over my trades from last week, the thought process behind all the executions and where my focus is to start this week.

In the $TWLO entry we talk about mixing the largest time frames with the smallest ones along with a myriad of other layers of probability that made it exceedingly attractive to size up in a given spot.

$DOCN on the other hand we talk about sizing differently and giving ourselves optionality depending how the market wants to start the week, what we want to see out of the action, spots we're looking to aggressively add risk but still positioned so we will not get shaken out of a quick down move if we were to open to weakness.

$DDOG we talk about sizing up in that first entry when it triggers and giving ourselves the ability to take profit into a momentum move higher, but still having enough stock to manage for the long term position trade comfortably.

Most traders out there don't look into these secondary characteristics of intraday action while mixing in the macro charts in which I feel is our biggest advantage in this market if you understand what to look for. This is where we find the real alpha.

We go over lots more in the video. In the full call we talk market expectations as well as individual member's ideas and go across all the current themes firing in the market.

We have such a huge advantage heading into the market each week in this manner, all in sync, with hundreds of eyes spread out tracking the information.

What an exciting time to be a trader! I can't get over the opportunity this market is set to provide. Hope you enjoy the video and get something out of it. 🫡

Other charts mentioned: $NAVN $INTC $QCOM $FROG $ARM $APLD $CRWV $AFRM $OSS $AAON $INFQ $MOD $AMKR $CCJ $AFRM $SEDG $IREN $AKAM $SATS $RKLB $NOK $ONDS $PLTR $SKM $AVEX $YETI $SEZL

[Matt Caruso, CFA, CMT @Trader_mcaruso]

Finding market winners is not just about buying momentum stocks or companies with fast-growing EPS.

It is about saying no to thousands of stocks. It is about understanding what a company can grow into that the majority does not yet see. It is about listening to what the market is saying. It is about finding a point where, if you are wrong, you know quickly and risk is manageable. Lastly, it is about knowing when the objective has been reached and the stock needs to be sold or you'll give back all your gains.

You need all of this for a repeatable process.

Today, we look at how to do that with a past example in a new series I’m calling:

What Makes This Stock Great

First up: $GEV 2024-2025
https://t.co/RwvaUA3pyy

[DB @DB009000]

@Trader_mcaruso @FranVezz Thank you @Trader_mcaruso :)

[Francesco @FranVezz]

Learnt this from @Trader_mcaruso years ago… great one to have on your daily

[Kyna Kosling @KynaKosling]

https://t.co/1V8aXxAIeJ

[Jeff Sun, CFTe @jfsrev]

there are sacrifices. the journey requires solitude and minimal distraction. be selective with how you spend your time everyday, down to every single hour. it's not about staring the live market chart, it's the post market process, including cultivating a sustainable lifestyle that's healthy and zen for mental well being.

[DB @DB009000]

@JLawStock I have poor English and know no Chinese. But after finishing all your English videos, I started watching the Chinese ones too. If you really want to learn, accent is not an issue at all. Great content matters most!

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is investing $2 billion in quantum computing companies and will receive equity stakes in return, per WSJ.

Details include:

1. $1 billion of the package will be awarded to IBM, $IBM

2. Chip maker GlobalFoundries, $GFS, is receiving $375 million in funding

3. The rest of the companies will receive $100 million each, except for startup Diraq, which is slated to get $38 million

4. Multiple other public companies will receive funds including D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Infleqtion

Trump's next big bet is on quantum computing.