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[Frieesy @Frieesy_]

@yeTTizTV @Die_Libertaeren Hurensohn

[XO @Trader_XO]

Beyond A Decade of Setups

The technicals, the probabilities, the execution, and the trader.

---THE TECHNICALS---
For me, technical improvements came from being able to read the market in real time and understand what was likely happening underneath the surface at inflection points: the flows, the positioning, and the reaction at a level.

That’s where microstructure started to matter.

The signs of price failure. The shift in momentum. Tape speed and volume being supported by flows. Understanding price and flow mechanics when the same conditions kept showing up again and again.

I saw it enough times that eventually it stopped feeling like noise. It became data I could interpret and reason about.

Once I could define the structure, understand the pattern, and recognise the flows behind it, I knew I could read the market in almost real time and identify a possible execution trigger.

But from experience, that was still only a small part of the game.

---THE PROBABILITIES---
One of the questions I started asking myself was: how do I grade my performance if I don’t even know how to measure or quantify what I’m actually trading?

For example, placing a stop at some random swing high. How do I measure that over 100 trades? What parameters am I actually tuning? How do I know what’s improving and what’s just noise? Are my MAE/MFE stats meaningful at all?

That was a big realisation for me. How could I really perform at a high level if parts of my process were still random and carrying a high degree of variance?

Maybe I could do okay.

But was okay good enough?

The real question became whether I could trade this with a measurable probability in my favour.

Not perfectly.

But consistently enough to know I wasn’t just operating from randomness.

I was operating with purpose and probability.

---THE EXECUTION---
The deeper work, for me, has been myself as the trader and the process - not just the technicals alone.

I spent a long time obsessing over price action, order flow, and technicals, while neglecting the part that was actually affecting my performance.

I realised I could study price charts all I wanted.

Technical skill alone wasn’t going to move the needle.

I got better technically, but the same flaws in my game kept resurfacing because I hadn’t dealt with them properly.

For me, the strategy in isolation was never really the issue. It was executing when emotion was at its highest.

In my own trading, the problem often wasn’t that I lacked a setup. It was the execution around it - entering too early, exiting too late, cutting too soon, sizing poorly, or freezing when the decision actually mattered.

So I had to ask myself...

Could I explain one of my execution strategies in detail, beyond just saying “look for an SFP”?

Could I explain the logic behind it?
Why it works?
Where it should work?
What I’m actually trying to capture?
Because “look for an SFP” isn’t a strategy.
It’s a label.
Second-guessing, hesitating, cutting too early, oversizing, and letting fear, frustration, or ego influence the decision-making process.

I’ve dealt with all of it for years. And if I’m not fully locked in, it can still creep back in.

For me, the struggle hasn’t always been finding opportunity. Opportunities always exist.

The challenge is executing cleanly when it matters.

The entry. The management. The exit. The full trade life cycle and the statistics around it.

That’s the part I obsess over most now. It serves as a constant feedback loop - the quality of which depends on how honest I’m willing to be with myself.

I know what I’m looking for. The countless hours spent testing, reviewing trades, studying price, and collecting data are all part of turning that into a real strategy.

So the focus is simple: better preparation, better review, better sizing, more patience, and cleaner execution.

Small improvements, repeated consistently.

The 1% changes that compound - think Atomic Habits.

---THE TRADER---
At some point, trading became less about proving I was right and more about executing what I said I would execute.

Not forcing trades. Not reacting emotionally. Not needing to be right. Not caring as much about what everyone else is doing on X.

Just trying to execute a defined process with purpose.

Variance will always exist. Losses will always be part of the game. But with enough data, review, and self-awareness, I started to move away from randomness.

I started narrowing the window of variance - which, in my opinion, is one of the hardest parts of becoming a better trader.

Because if the parameters I journal aren’t quantifiable, what am I really journaling?

Dogshit data.

Randomness.

This matters with things like stop placement, sizing, and trade management.

By bringing more systemisation into my execution - whether that’s structured sizing, defined risk, Kelly Criterion, or whatever framework suits the way I trade - I can narrow the window of variance and trade with more intent.

Let the process do its work.

That’s what it comes down to for me:

Building the structure.
Refining the performance.
Becoming the trader capable of executing it.

Because performance isn’t just the setup.

Performance is how I execute the setup and manage the entire trade life cycle - from strategy creation, to initiation, to execution, to performance review.

Not really giving a flying f**k what anyone else says or does.

Just me against me - sharing my experiences and own journey... mainly talking to myself but hope someone finds it insightful.

[Astronomer @astronomer_zero]

I'm not here for inspirational quotes, as my focus is about creating actionable content helping you get closer to your goals in a very palpable way, not leading you in circles with one call after the other.

But if I had to write one quote out, it's what my mother always told me:

"Don't crave for the end destination, instead for the right direction"

As a youngster, I never understood it, but growing older and more successful, you realize, with success, comes a growing list of to do's, goals, what you want to achieve.

And so it all made sense. You slowly find out, you never achieve the end destination.

There is no end destination.

You start to understand it's not about that, it's about growth.

One little piece of edge or shift in mindset doesn't get you to your end goal. But it gets you one more small step aligned with the right direction.

Exactly that, is your growth, your every day joy and your "end destination".

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@PowerThru23 @astronomer_zero should he finish his post first before buying? 🤣 it probably took 10mins to write this

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@MuroCrypto lets goo, Muro Abi back mit den Videos

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@tradinglord I probably need to walk nonstop for 7 days

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@cecilia_hsueh @TheWhiteWhaleV2 @MEXC_Official Just give him HIS money back, fuck sake

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@trading_axe Bullieve

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@EmperorBTC European skye is depressing

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@EmperorBTC Currently while having a job. Goal. Fulltime

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@astronomer_zero "I am sure you remember it as if it was Yesterday."
tbh it feels like years.

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@degeneratrader @CryptoCred @follis_ @maruushae @Chroma_Trading Even with 40x lev you can risk only 1% 🤦‍♂️

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@follis_ let's wait for the weekly close

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[Benoit Dubosson @beniduboss]

Now that crime is legal I can brag about this publically

In 2021 I hit @CryptoGodJohn paid group for 6 figs by hunting the stops of their positions

I joined every single paid group on ct, mainly by using mirrors, and started tracking every single trade made on each. I quickly realized they were taking advantage of their users so I happily took advantage of them

I would use orderbook data and compare how each signal had an impact in the books

I had an automated Excel, it was fucking art with telegram notifs for every trade I should take

When I found guys who were heavily copytraded, I started wash trading and spoofing like a mfer to bring prices down and since they all used hard stop losses I would make bank on the slippage hit.

It wasn’t particularly hard since they would pick tickers with no liquidity to pump their own entries :)

shoutout @eliz883 who was by far the worst user of that predatory technique

I also made sure to hit you Eliz, in fact you were hit so often you started closing your positions 2 minutes after posting because I made your grift unprofitable past the pump and dump of your posts lol

It was the best on FTX because FTX OTC would buy my entire stack of some illiquid trash for like 4% from spot when it was literally empty and I had nuked it 20%+

Anyhow major thanks to @CryptoGodJohn

I ate real good thanks to your grifting, made more than 100k on your ass alone

I nuked you personally more than anybody else because I particularly hated how predatory you were to your users

Would be a shame if someone perpetuated what I began in 21 in your group again

I am an old man now, I retired from the shananigans

Thanks and fuck you

[Frieesy @Frieesy_]

@MuroCrypto Abi you don‘t have to apologize. We can think for ourselfs. We‘re happy that you share your ideas

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@CavanXy Makes sense. Hopefully, they'll be satisfied with their loot soon and send it by the end of October.

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@smileycapital to be continued