Anthony Diaz

[Martin @martinfxtrade]

Signs you’re improving:
• You trade less
• You wait more
• You feel calmer
• You follow rules

Notice this.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@iamdisplacement It’s never been about that “freedom” for prop firms, it’s always been about the leverage.

If you already have liquidity, then sure, trade your own account. If you want the leverage, then you play by leverage rules.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@PeterWhites7 @Tradeify @BrettSimba They had a tournament style thing previously that was as close as possible to what you want, but what you want is not possible due to gamblers.

[Trader Theory @tradertheory]

Every profitable trader was a noob once.

Losing money.

No idea what they're doing.

The difference is they kept going.

Then one day it clicks.

Everything makes sense.

Your life changes.

But you have to survive long enough to see it.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

No matter how many rules you have, no matter how good your strategy is, you will not stay consistent.
This is not a discipline problem.
Trading is a trust game.

Consistency means executing every trade at the same quality, under the same rules, regardless of what the last trade produced.
A loss and a win are both one sample.
Neither is special.
Neither changes the next execution.

But maintaining consistency requires you to believe that the profits will come later if you stay the course.
And no result will ever come first to prove that belief is correct.
You must keep executing before any confirmation arrives.

That is why trading is a trust game.
And most traders lose it not because they lack trust, but because the trust they built cannot survive pressure.

There are three levels of trust.
Most traders never get past the first.

Level 1: Trust from knowledge.

You read your system has a 55% win rate.
You understand that drawdowns are normal.
You can explain why any single result is meaningless.

This level feels complete.
You believe you are ready.

Then a losing streak arrives, and every word you memorized disappears.
But often the problem shows up even earlier than that.

You sit in front of a live chart.
Not a textbook example.
Not a screenshot with arrows.
You cannot tell whether your setup is there or not.
The rules sounded clear when you read them.
Now the chart is moving and nothing looks the way it did in the examples.

Knowledge told you what to look for.
But recognizing it in real time, on a chart with no labels, is a skill that reading cannot build.

Level 2: Trust from someone else's experience.

You watched another trader execute through a drawdown.
You saw their test results recover.
You studied their data and believed the numbers.

This is stronger than Level 1.
But it is still borrowed.

When your own drawdown arrives, not theirs but yours, something breaks.
Their data showed recovery.
But your hands are the ones shaking.
Their experience cannot reach your body.

And there is a deeper problem.
Their rules contain decisions that only make sense if you built them.
You read the same words and execute differently.
Not because you lack skill, but because you lack the understanding that only comes from building.

You trusted their proof.
But proof you did not build yourself has a shelf life, and it expires exactly when you need it most.

Level 3: Trust from your own practice.

You tested your own system with your own hands.
You watched your own rules generate a drawdown and recover.
You did not read about the worst stretch.
You executed through it yourself, in your own practice.

Not in someone else's results.
Not in a few demo trades.
In the repetition you performed until the worst your system can produce was something you had already survived.

When that work is done, something shifts that cannot be faked.
The next loss is not a threat.
Your hands stay still.
Not because you are forcing them.
Because you have already lived through this and know what comes next.

If you still feel the urge to move your stop, skip a setup, or check your P&L after every trade, Level 3 is not finished.
The work is not measured by whether you did it.
It is measured by whether it changed you.

That is Level 3.
And it is the only level where consistency becomes automatic.

Most traders are stuck at Level 1 and do not know it.
They have memorized enough to sound ready.
They have not practiced enough to be ready.

The gap between Level 1 and Level 3 is not talent.
It is not discipline.
It is not time.

It is the difference between knowing your data and having lived it with your own hands.

They told you to be consistent.
They never told you that consistency is impossible until you build Level 3 trust, and that no one can build it for you.

And Level 3 has a prerequisite that most traders skip.

Before you can practice, you need something worth practicing.
A system with a structure that produces the same decision every time the same conditions appear.
Built by you, for you.

Without that structure, practice has no foundation.
You are rehearsing something that changes shape every time you sit down.

The trust game begins with a system worth trusting.

The blueprint that gives your strategy edge and repeatability — pinned post 📝

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@RIPS Setting up an annuity that will pay me for life with $10,000,000, then paying taxes and setting up annuities for my siblings. Can live pretty chill with just half a mil of passive income in perpetuity, everything else is just gravy for me to get fancy with other businesses.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@hkbrit @sumitbafnafx Also, yeah, it is for ease of leverage often times.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@hkbrit @sumitbafnafx 1) Less income reporting implications.

If one is for example day trading whilst disabled or on welfare, the prop firm account is a shelter where one can pull out cash as needed instead of the ebb and flow of a personal account.

2) Asset protection

If markets blow past stops…

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

https://t.co/I9kX99yk3q

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@gman5180 Partnerships can overcome economic slavery.

If she was married it would be easier and if she split the apartment with another couple (siblings or in laws) she would potentially reclaim 30 hours of her freedom splitting the load with others.

Living alone is not the way.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@faizdikra @DeltyThe73rd Yeah, lol, I just logged in and realized it is impossible to hit that level of red crit without Kullervo. Gonna have to finally subsume him and stop slacking. 😅

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@faizdikra @DeltyThe73rd Nice, hehe, I’ll have to whip out mirage to have some good fun with my Deathscythe contagion build.

Beyond eclipse, do you run thermal sunder’s augment, or some other replacement over top of prism?

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@DeltyThe73rd I actually miss my exodia contagion Deathscythe. Might have to go back and mess with it again.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@elvenmaidinn I want the first game that has all enemy’s playstyle determined by generative AI. Additionally, swap precedurally generated maps to AI generated maps, and I’m good with it. Just a matter of the AI being 99% faithful to the art style.

Can only imagine @PlayWarframe doing this. 🤤

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@RatuMofokeng @Cobratate @grok 10 years* can’t quite compare someone near their 40s to someone that isn’t even 30.

Prime of life vs receding portion of life makes all the difference.

https://t.co/tDY1KQhT1m

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@RatuMofokeng @Cobratate I would not be the least bit surprised if he is ~15 years older than the person he lost to. Accumulated trauma on the body makes future victories that much more challenging.

@grok can we factcheck who he lost to and both participant’s age?

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@Lunathean @MelvorIdle Seems it has been around and is a work in progress that Patreon users can playtest. Alpha version though. https://t.co/II5IIPhZbZ

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@MelvorIdle @Suicune57378350 O.o was unaware this was already partially available on patreon, gonna have to check it out once i finish the first game.

Thanks for sharing!

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@MelvorIdle Any chance all enemies will attempt to scale in terms of GP per hour as things get harder?

Currently chickens are a crazy good value that is hard to top in adventure mode no matter how hard I search, below level ~40 every other combat is inferior GP per minute wise.

[Anthony Diaz @Jaesais]

@RIPS @trader_goals Dang, trading on that level of sleep is rough brother. Moments like that when daily livestreams set you backwards instead of just taking the day off. 😕

Slick monthly PnL though, the weekly is basically a scratch by comparison. 💪🏽