I've always wanted to be free.
I wanted to be able to do what I want, when I want, and where I want.
To be independent of anyone.
But the system is not supposed to be like that. To achieve your dreams, you have to do things differently.
That means not taking the easy way that everyone else takes. It takes courage to be different and do things differently.
Hustle in silence. Fail and fail again. Few know what you go through.
But it's worth it. The life you'll have is beautiful. There is so much to discover and experience, as it should be.
You can give back to your family and friends.
Achieve your dreams.
Believe in yourself! You are capable of extraordinary things if you truly desire them and put in the work.
Imagine being a hedge fund manager trying to price risk while the President sounds like he’s freelancing World War III from the toilet.
Nobody knows what the plan is. There is no plan.
The plan is vibes, caffeine, and one man screaming into his phone like the manager of a failing Atlantic City steakhouse.
You open your brokerage app and everything is red, except oil and defense contractors, because of course.
Of course.
Every time civilization starts wheezing, Exxon walks out in a tuxedo with a martini and Lockheed buys another island.
The Nasdaq looks like it got hit in the face with a folding chair because suddenly the market remembered that semiconductors do, in fact, require an operating global economy and not just TED Talk confidence and a black turtleneck.
And Trump, God bless him, is tweeting like a guy who was handed six different war briefings, understood none of them, and decided to freestyle foreign policy from the toilet.
“We may be winding down.” Great!
“We may obliterate their power plants in 48 hours.”
Fantastic!
“Oil sanctions are off, but also maybe on, but also maybe we’re taking the island.”
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
This is why the market can’t price anything. You can’t build a discounted cash flow model around a national mood swing. There’s no Bloomberg terminal function for “presidential posting episode.”
There’s no options chain for “what if the leader of the free world says three contradictory things before lunch and Brent crude goes vertical while JPMorgan analysts begin quietly chewing through their own ties.”
The average investor is just sitting there like, “I bought an index fund because they told me it was safe.”
Safe? SAFE? Your “safe” portfolio is now directly connected to whether some 28-year-old NSC staffer can stop a rage-post from becoming a missile exchange before the European open.
That’s your diversification. Congratulations.
You own a basket of companies whose earnings now depend on whether Hormuz is open and whether Trump has confused deterrence with posting.
And Wall Street still does the same little dance every time. “Well, maybe this is already priced in.”
Oh really? Already priced in?
Was the possibility of a full-blown oil shock, shipping disruption, inflation resurgence, and presidential caprice “priced in,” Chad?
Was it in the spreadsheet next to “soft landing” and “AI productivity miracle”?
No, it wasn’t.
What was priced in was endless delusion, infinite buybacks, and the belief that history had ended because the S&P had a nice quarter.
Now everybody’s doing that thing they do where they act shocked that war affects markets.
“Wow, yields are up. Wow, energy’s squeezing margins. Wow, rate cuts are less certain.”
Yes, genius.
That tends to happen when the world’s most important oil chokepoint turns into a live-action Call of Duty map and the White House communications strategy is basically drunk casino owner at 2 a.m.
This is the real genius of the modern empire. It can’t build a train station, can’t balance a budget, can’t explain what victory looks like, but it can absolutely vaporize your 401(k) with a single weekend news cycle.
That part works flawlessly. That part is incredible. The only truly efficient American institution left is panic transmission.
We get chaos from the battlefield to your Robinhood account faster than Amazon gets paper towels to your porch.
And the best part is that by Monday morning every idiot on television will sit there with perfect hair and say, “Markets dislike uncertainty.”
Wow. Thank you, Socrates. What a contribution.
They dislike uncertainty. Incredible analysis.
We’ve spent billions on financial infrastructure just to reinvent the village idiot pointing at the sky going, “Storm bad.”
That’s where we are. The market is a hostage, oil is a weapon, diplomacy is a hallucination, and the President is posting like a divorced nightclub owner who just found the nuclear football in a Denny’s booth.
Everybody wants calm, nobody has control, and your portfolio is being managed by events that sound fake even when they’re real.
Absolute clown planet. Premium clown planet.
Goldman Sachs clown planet with institutional custody.
You can’t have the same trade confirmation for every market conditions. There are certain contexts where a change in state of delivery after a stop run works for a reversal trade.
There are also different contexts where a CISD confirmation isn’t sufficient, and you require a market structure shift instead.
Tweak and refine protocols for specific market profiles. Trading is easy, but it is hard to pay attention to the details for every trade
As a full-time trader, I haven’t had a year where I felt like I was on the top of my game for 12 straight months.
Every year I’ve had months of outperformance and underperformance.
A select few months often would make my entire year.
To expect that you’re going to perform all year round is unrealistic.
The key is that you continue showing up regardless.
When I had that phase where I “fell off” few weeks ago, this was one of my major deficiencies.
I went from being disciplined, prepared, to being impulsive, emotional.
Yes, even seasoned traders aren’t exempt from this.
In this game you’re going to be in constant battle against yourself first. If you cannot defeat yourself, you cannot compete.
Amo el trading.
Lo amo porque me obliga, día tras día, a dar lo mejor de mí. Porque es capaz de sacar tanto a mis ángeles como a mis demonios. Porque me ha permitido conocerme a un nivel que jamás imaginé. Me ha enseñado disciplina, paciencia y gestión emocional.
No me imagino llegar a los 40 y no vivir de esto. No me imagino una vida “normal”, con horarios y ataduras. No me imagino pasar un día sin exigirme al máximo, sin aprender algo nuevo sobre los mercados… y sobre mí.
No me imagino una vida sin trading.
Honestly, with all the shit going on in the world, the best advice is to just focus on yourself
Tbh you have all the answers, you just lack faith/conviction in yourself. Shut out everyone else’s voice and focus on what you want and doing the things necessary.
@kowalski3109 Solo los que hemos sacado MH alguna vez sabemos que para sacar un 10 hace falta el doble de esfuerzo que para sacar un 8. GG sir, merecido 🐐
The goal isn’t to trade everyday, it is to leverage the fuck out of good market conditions.
Most people go into a spiral forcing trades in shit market conditions so that when good PA comes, they’re begging to just recover some losses
be obsessed with trading in your early stages
later, abandon the obsession
the less you care about any single trade, the better you execute
the better you execute, the more money you make