joelle 1.0

To be a strategy trader. Trading is a marathon. sometimes less is more.

[Ricky @rickytradez]

One year ago, I was working 50–60 hours a week.

Fast forward to today.

Over $375,000+ in payouts.

I will never have to work a job again.

Trading gave me that freedom.

Lock in.

[yaseen @yaseeen76]

Trust me… ditch all the ICT bs. Stick to the basics. In a Downtrend, rejecting Opening Range Low + Low volume node. Short with stop above, targeting the low. Gets slammed right down.
I took this setup in front of you guys so many times; don't make it harder than it needs to be.

[Memphis🔱 @IamM3mphis]

The best traders I know are both extremely patient and extremely aggressive.

Most struggling traders are aggressive at the wrong time, then hesitant when it actually matters.

Good traders have 2 modes:

WAIT

They can sit for hours doing absolutely nothing.

No boredom trades.

No forcing mediocre setups.

No need to participate just because the market is open.

They are incredibly difficult to convince into a trade.

Then the conditions they’ve been waiting for finally appear.

EXECUTE

All of that patience disappears.

No hesitation.

No second guessing.

No suddenly becoming scared because real money is on the line.

They just execute the trade they already decided was worth taking.

Most struggling traders have this completely backwards.

They’re aggressive when nothing is there...

then cautious when their highest EV setup finally appears.

Patient enough to wait forever.

Aggressive enough to act immediately when it’s time.

[Memphis🔱 @IamM3mphis]

friendly reminder: $20k/month in prop firm payouts is

10 accounts requesting $2k
5 accounts requesting $4k
4 accounts requesting $5k

one account won't change your life.

[Tony Trades @ScarfaceTrades_]

I lost money for my first 3 years trading.

My strategy kept changing.
My mistakes didn’t.

After 9 years into this and making $15-$20k on a good day, here are 5 things I’d tell myself on day one:

Be careful what you get rewarded for.

You move your stop, double your position, and the trade comes back.

You made money.

You also gave yourself permission to do something stupid again.

That’s how a lucky recovery becomes a habit that eventually destroys your account.

Review your green trades too. Some of your worst decisions are hiding in them.

Pick something you can actually get good at.

Every time you switch strategies after a bad week, you restart the learning process.

You never learn what normal losses look like.
You never collect enough data.
You never find out whether the problem was the setup or how you traded it.

Define the setup. Test it. Review the results.

Give yourself something concrete to improve.

Put your ego on a smaller position size.

Someone else has already made the mistake you’re about to make.

Ask them questions.

Find out how they handle losing streaks. What they stopped trading. What they wish they’d tracked earlier.

And when you study a successful trader, pay attention to their decisions.

Copying their entry without understanding their risk is how you end up in the same trade having a completely different experience.

Make time for the part nobody sees.

Watching the market is entertaining.

Going through your last 30 trades and admitting you broke the same rule in 12 of them is uncomfortable.

That second part deserves a place in your schedule.

Close the charts. Review the trades. Find the recurring mistake. Decide what changes tomorrow.

Otherwise you’re just showing up every morning hoping experience will fix you automatically.

Build confidence you can explain.

“I’m due for a winner” isn’t confidence.

Neither is increasing your size because you’re tired of making small money.

Confidence comes from having evidence for your setup, knowing your risk, and keeping promises to yourself.

You can believe you’ll improve while admitting your current approach needs work.

I wasted years collecting information while repeating the same mistakes.

The hard part was never writing down the rules.

It was following them when I was down money and desperately wanted it back.

[DayTradingRauf (DTR) @daytradingrauf]

Why you keep losing the 9:30 open

> 8 mistakes + the fix for each ↓

[The Way of Jerz @TheJerzWay]

Wealthy families do not sell assets. They pledge them.

Swiss banks will lend up to 80% against a portfolio at around 3% in francs.

You sell nothing. No realised gain. No taxable event. Nothing remitted.

This is why the very rich appear to have almost no income while spending freely.

They are not avoiding tax. They are avoiding the transaction that creates it.

[The Way of Jerz @TheJerzWay]

Repeat after me.

If you are NOT American, do not hold VOO or SPY.

Buy the Irish-domiciled version instead. Same underlying companies. Same S&P 500.

Difference: no US estate tax exposure, and the Irish fund reclaims US dividend withholding at 15% instead of you eating 30%.

One ticker change. Six figures of difference to your family.

[The Signal Investor @thesignalinvest]

Reminder of my previous & future Turn Dates:

March 30th: Major low of the year
June 2nd: The AI trade topped
September 17th: The current rally triggered

Here are the next three turn dates:
October 1st
October 27th
November 14th

[Elliott Wave Strategy @ewstrategy]

There’s the pullback we were waiting for 👀

Nasdaq came into the marked area and is already moving higher again. In our last update, we talked about these smaller corrections inside a strong trend. Now you can see one on the chart.

I’m looking for another push towards the upper channel line. First, let’s see Nasdaq get through the previous high.

#nasdaq #us100 #elliottwave

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

Dear traders..

I know many of you have half-assed your way to some career success.

You’ve been in your field for 5+ years, have gotten a few promotions, and doubled your salary in that time.

You clock-in..get your work done in 2 hours.. and the remaining 6 you’re just bullshitting on your phone or with your co-workers.

You can’t explain with real conviction why the company can’t just replace you with someone younger who makes 2x less than you by tomorrow. But they never ask, so you just keep showing up.

That approach DOES NOT work in trading.

You are trying to make a doctors salary with the same work ethic as a deadbeat.

You watch trading videos, and think you have a full system, but you’ve never spent intimate time trading and refining each piece before you start risking real money.

Then you wonder why this isn’t working for you.

Just admit that you’re fucking lazy right now so you can start using your brain again.. because we both know it’s been fried for years.

Between the brain rot and mundane job, you’ve totally lost your critical thinking skills.

You can’t make any independent decisions without consulting someone else… because that’s how you’ve been socially engineered by the corporate landscape.

Now you’re just another guy/gal down on their luck, spending their pocket change on lotto tickets hoping someone is coming to save them.

WAKE UP!

If nobody has come to save you by now… they never will.

Stop blaming the last course or mentor and take some self accountability for your own failures.

You don’t backtest.

You don’t journal.

You have less than 50 trades tracked using the same exact system/process.

Your emotions still control you even though you know it’s a problem.

Yet you do absolutely NOTHING to fix the problem and are confused why you get the same results?

That my friends is called insanity.

So please, do yourself a favor..

If you recognize the above is you and you’re totally unserious about trading and unwilling to change… just quit now and save yourself the headache.

Or lock in, take the 500+ hours of information you’ve consumed, and actually start APPLYING it.

The choice is yours.

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

Lifetime I've spent less than $300K on evals and made over $4.8M.

The $300K spend was funded by payouts.

When I first stumbled on FTMO back in 2020.. I had less than $20K in my checking account.

[Iris Hayes @irisneural]

THIS IS F**KING INSANE

This guy explained how he created 3 websites that generate $130,000 for him per month

In 25 minutes, he shows how he did it, step by step. Totally free.

Idea → Web → Monetize

Save this, you’ll thank me later

[DayTradingRauf (DTR) @daytradingrauf]

This is where I call it a week.

Beautiful run today on NQ for the downside literally the easiest way to trade the opening range is this:

> 8:12 to 9:12 time based range
> one side breaks
> buyers or sellers stepping in
> opposing end targets

Same thing ever since day.

[Triton @TritonTrades]

if you trade New York, pay attention to London session

- if London closes green > 78% chance NY closes green
- if London closes red > 62% chance NY closes red

the low or high of day will usually form during London

backed by 1 year of historical data from Edgeful

[Memphis🔱 @IamM3mphis]

If you want the full process behind how I approach prop firms, funded accounts and payouts,

my YouTube is in my bio.

[Nick @NickDoesFutures]

Stop trying to predict New York. Let Asia and London tell you first.

London sweeps the Asia high and distributes lower = NY continues lower.

London consolidates = wait. First side taken, NY goes the other way.

Asia builds the map. London picks the direction. New York delivers.

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

talked to a trader managing 11 accounts simultaneously

makes $40k-$70k/month

works less than 2 hours per day

asked him how he does it without going insane

his system is stupidly simple:

THE SETUP:

"11 accounts?"

"yeah. 6 at $200k, 5 at $100k. total $1.7M in funded capital"

"how do you track them all?"

"I don't. I take the same trade on all of them."

"at the same time?"

"same entry, same stop, same target. just different lot sizes per account."

THE LOGIC:

"people think managing multiple accounts is complex"

"it's not. it's simpler than one account."

"because you CAN'T overtrade"

"you CAN'T revenge trade"

"you CAN'T make emotional decisions"

"when you're placing the same trade on 11 platforms, you don't have TIME for bullshit"

"you enter, set the orders, and walk away"

"it's forced discipline"

THE MATH:

"let's say I take 3 trades per week"

"average result: +2R"

"on $1.7M at 0.5% risk that's $12,000+ per trade in profit"

"3 trades × 4 weeks = ~$150k/month gross"

"minus losing weeks, minus variance, minus payouts taking time"

"nets out to $40-70k actually withdrawn per month"

"all from the same 3 setups I'd be taking anyway"

THE SYSTEM:

"how do you choose which trades?"

"I wait for time frame alignment"

"daily direction → 1 hour structure → 15 min entry"

"if the daily isn't clear, I don't trade"

"if the 1 hour doesn't give structure, I don't trade"

"most days I take 0-1 trades"

"some weeks I take 2 total"

THE SECRET:

"the secret isn't the accounts. it's the patience."

"everyone wants to trade MORE"

"I want to trade BETTER"

"the accounts just multiply what I'm already doing"

"if you can't make money on 1 account, you can't make money on 11"

"but if you CAN make money on 1..."

"11 is just copy-paste"

his words not mine:

"stop trying to be a trader. start trying to be a trade MANAGER."

"you're not here to trade. you're here to get PAID."

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

First big milestone for most traders is just consistent profitability.

The next real big milestone is realizing that trading directionally on leverage is not the most efficient use of large capital.

Eventually when you grow and get more sophisticated you want to run:

10-20% portfolio intraday volatility (directional daytrading via index futures)
10-20% portfolio Swing trading (commodities/FX)
60-80% portfolio options selling and equities/ETF positions

Not only from a margin requirement standpoint.. but also for safety.

Large capital isn't insured at a small retail brokerage.. so if there's broker failure and you lose multi 6-7 figs, you're SOL.

Whereas if you have 6-7 figs in a larger regulated broker that manages retirement accounts, they will insure your account multi 7-figs no issue as long as a large portion is held in securities.

[TonySnip3r @tonysnip3r]

What money actually buys:

$10k = a safety net
$100k = options in life
$1m = freedom from worry
$5m = full financial freedom
$10m = problems disappear
$500m = you buy entire companies
$1b = you enter a different world
$10b = government take your calls
$50b = you fund entire nations
$100b = you start shaping the world

which level are you in?