Daraban Ion

[FABIAN 🇨🇭 @FabianFindsEdge]

📈 +522% IN 2 YEARS. NOW LET'S SEE HOW HE DID IT.

Yesterday, 90,000 people watched Clement Ang explain his favorite setup.

Today, I'm sharing something even better.

Two actual trades. Explained in just 10 minutes.

Clement walks through his entries using Oliver Kell's Price Cycle and the EMA Crossback.

I wish I'd studied this years ago. It was a game changer for my own trading.

These 10 minutes could be the beginning of your own playbook. Potentially worth millions over a trading career.

Big thanks to @Clement_Ang17 and @WordsofRizdom!

🔖 Save this one. You'll want to study it again. 👇

[𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗽 @nobrainflip]

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[Monis @mmonis]

Nice read

[Mustafa. @oprydai]

you need four hobbies. no more, no less.

create
bring something into existence. write, draw, build, code, cook. creation grounds you. it turns thought into reality.

consume
read books. watch films. study art. this feeds taste and perspective. good input sharpens good output.

cavort
move your body daily. walk, lift, run, dance. motion stabilizes the mind. a stagnant body distorts thinking.

commune
have a community. friends, family, peers. isolation corrodes judgment. shared reality keeps you sane.

miss one, and the system degrades.
keep all four, and life stays balanced, generative, and human.

[breakout stocks @gbstocks]

Scans I use every day:

- @Qullamaggie’s EP: https://t.co/Zfn3mT5QpS

- @PradeepBonde’s EP9: https://t.co/wQ3dal48hG

- @PradeepBonde’s 20%+ in a week: https://t.co/SR8kF7ZHbg

- @jmoneystonks’s top gainers (nightly): https://t.co/riPUXWMHAI

[TraderLion @TraderLion]

Pradeep Bonde (@PradeepBonde), founder of Stockbee, is a mentor to market wizards.

He obsesses over magnitude moves, not duration.

His focus: short, aggressive bursts for maximum impact.

Here's his full playbook in 10 clips 🧵👇

[Mustafa. @oprydai]

be a modern polymath;

not the romantic version. the functional one.

stack domains until they fuse into leverage.

learn code so you can automate.
learn electronics so you can build.
learn mechanics so you can design.
learn physics so you can reason.
learn math so you can model.
learn systems thinking so you can integrate.
learn history so you can see patterns.
learn finance so you can fund your ideas.
learn writing so you can transmit your mind with precision.

the goal isn’t to “know everything.”
the goal is cross-domain mobility.
the ability to move from software to hardware to strategy to design without breaking flow.
the ability to absorb any field fast because you’ve built the mental infrastructure to handle it.

this is the only real edge left:
range + depth + synthesis.

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Pavel Durov, Telegram’s billionaire founder, is 41 & looks 28.

He hasn’t had alcohol, caffeine, or meat in 20 years. He doesn't use a phone.

He’s only been sick once in the last 15 years.

Here are his principles for elite health, mental clarity & performance: 🧵

[Glenn @Tradr_G]

1st time I have seen this video!!

It really is the only trading video needed out of the million trading videos out there. If you can do this 100% of the time you will beat 99% of the traders.

Tim @timothysykes goes on for 19 minutes repeating the one rule needed. I loaded up the headphones and listened to the whole thing during my walk. He must of said it 1000 times or more! Each time in a different expression and tone and with humor.

I recommend watching the entire video and ingrain into you head!!

"Cut Losses Quickly"

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[Vérdé @verdetrades]

1/x
going into my 11th year trading and figured i'd share a few observations from along the way:

1) knowing when to press and when to lay off is probably the easiest sounding but most difficult to execute with discipline. Mistakes here prob lead to the biggest drawdowns

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[Daraban Ion @johnny123ion]

@compoundlessons Hey man, what's the name of the indicator on Tradingview? Looks like some sort of EMA cloud with gradient

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

How do you fail at trading?

By ignoring the best opportunities laid out by @TheOneLanceB, and more importantly, by not reviewing the best setups in the market, period.

Lance breaks down each play in detail through Magnum Opus, his charity initiative.

If you want to both support a good cause and learn directly from him, you can donate here: https://t.co/LiPKbA2S1k

To be clear, Lance did not ask me to do this, we were simply talking about how to make the biggest impact for charity today in Norway, and as Lance continues his great efforts to do good, I wanted to proactively reach out to provide value while helping the cause.

More exciting things will develop into the end of the year and into 2026!

Lance broke down every single best play for active traders since November 2022 on Twitter-X and proceeded to make a video for each month breaking these down in detail for his charity.

I will provide the list below of tickers which lance has tweeted out, feel free to study these on your own but he also broke down each one through videos which I would recommend to learn from.

TOP OPPORTUNTIES SINCE 2022

2022

November 2022

-BTC (11/8–9)
-AAPL (11/10)
-TSLA (11/10)
-USO (11/18–20)
-MRTX (11/22)
2023

January 2023

-BBBY (1/10–13, 1/26)
-GNS (1/19–20)
-NFLX (1/20)
-LCID (1/27)
-AMC/APE (1/27)
-MSGM (1/31)

February 2023

-MSGM (2/1)
-MGAM (2/1)
-CVNA (2/1–2)
-META/TSLA (Fed 2/1–2)
-BBBY (2/6)
-Oil headline (2/10)
-LUNR (2/22–23)
-OCEA (2/22–23)

March 2023

-WAL
-FRC
-SIVB
-Regional banks
-AI (best)

April 2023

-CXAI
-FRC
-TOP

May 2023

-ATLX (5/3–4)
AMD/NVDA (5/4)
-GLD/USO (5/4)
-TOP (5/4)
-IEP
-FSLR (5/12)
-MBOT (5/22)
-NVDA (5/24 AH)
-Semis/AVGO
-SDA (5/31)

June 2023

-UCAR (6/1)
-BA (6/6)/2)
BA (6/6)
-AHI (6/9)
-AI
-CVNA
-SONN (6/17)
-BTC (6/30)

July 2023

-MULN
-CRBU (7/6)
-NVS (7/7)
-PWM (7/6–7)
-ATVI/Gamers (7/11)
-BTC/COIN (7/13)
-NKLA (7/13–14)
-MSFT (7/18)
-AAPL (7/19)
-CVNA (7/19)
-AMC/APE (7/21)
-SIRI
-EOSE (7/27)
-LYV (7/28)

August 2023

-NKLA (8/1, 8/4)
-VTGN (8/7)
-AMC/APE (swing)
-SPGC (8/15)
-BTC (8/29)
-ICCT
-RAD
MSOS

September 2023

-VERB (9/5)
-HKIT/HOLO
-DIS (9/11)
-ARM IPO
-CART IPO
-RNAZ (9/25)
-SLNO (9/26)
-Oil (9/28)

October 2023

-TSLA (10/2)
-RIVN (10/4–5)
-NFP (10/6)
-TPST (10/11)
-MTC (10/20)
-TLT (10/23)
-F (10/27)

November 2023

-NCL (11/7)
-AMC (11/9)
-FIVN (11/16)
-AI (11/20)
-SHOT (11/22)
-IRBT (11/27–28)
-VVOS (11/29)
-SNGX (11/30)

December 2023

-FIVN (12/4)
-NKLA (12/6)
-BLUE/CRSP (12/8)
-/NG (12/11)
-GPN/FOUR (12/14)
-DOCU (12/15)
-COIN/MARA (late Dec)

2024

January 2024

-COIN/MARA
-CYTK (1/8)
-NVDA (1/8)
-DOCU (1/11)
-SAVE (1/16)
-PHUN (1/16)
-SMCI (1/19)
-MARK (1/30)

February 2024

-USO (2/1)
-SMCI (2/5)
-BMR (2/12)
-SMCI
-LUNR (2/22)
-PDD (2/23)

March 2024

-SMCI (3/1)
-BTC (3/5)
-NVDA (3/8)
-FSR (3/13)
-SOUN (3/14)
-NOVA (3/14)
-RDDT
-MSTR (3/28)
-CLSK (3/28)

April 2024

-DJT (4/1)
-TSLA
-GL (4/11)
-BTC (4/12)
-GLD (4/12)
-ARM (4/17)
-PRI (4/18)
-ANVS (4/29)
-Weeds (4/30)

May 2024

-GME/AMC
-ORCL (5/14)
-PARA (5/14)
-FFIE
-SMMT (5/30)
-CZR (5/31)
-SAM (5/31)

June 2024

-GME/AMC
-VKTX (6/4)
-NVAX
-AAPL (6/11)
-NVDA/Semis
-RIVN (6/25)
-CHWY (6/27)

July 2024

-GME/AMC
-VKTX (6/4)
-NVAX
-AAPL (6/11)
-NVDA/Semis
-RIVN (6/25)
-CHWY (6/27)

August 2024

-Panic (/NKD, /NQ, AAPL, BAC, CRWD, Semis, VXX)
-SMCI
-LUMN
-SAVA
-PCRX
-GNLN (8/12)
-ASTS (8/16)

September 2024

-X (9/4)
-LASE (9/11)
-RYDE (9/12)
-TUP (9/16)
-INTC (9/16, 9/20)
-TNON
-SMCI (9/26)
-“China gap” (9/30)

October 2024

-China tech (TIGR, FUTU, JD, BABA)
-Oil
-MSTR (10/11)
-ASML (10/15)
-BIVI (10/21)
-DJT
-PHUN
-SMCI (10/30)

November 2024

-SMCI (11/4, 11/19)
-BTC
-DJT
-TSLA
-DXYZ
-HON (11/12)
-SAVE (11/12)
-MSTR short (11/21, best intraday)
-BTC breakout (best swing)

December 2024

-SMCI (12/2)
-TSLA swing (12/5)
-TSLA/DXYZ/PLTR (12/9)
-QUBT (swing)
-Quantum names
-Euphoria reversal (12/27, 12/30)
-FNMA (12/30)

2025

January 2025

-QNCCF (1/2)
-FNMA breakout (1/15)
-NARI (1/6)
-FUBO (1/6)
-Quantum names (from 1/7)
-FTAI (1/15)
-ORCL (1/21)
-Deepseek (1/24, 1/27)
-Tariff tickers (1/31)

February 2025

-/MBT (2/2)
-/ETH (2/2)
-SERV (2/14)
-SOUN (2/14)
-WRD (2/14)
-DELL (2/14)
-PLTR (2/19)
-SMCI (2/19)
-HIMS (2/21)
-WRD swing

March 2025

-USO (3/3)
-Tariff headline (3/5)
-TSLA
-LMT/BA (3/21)
-VVPR (3/24)
-APP (3/27)

April 2025

-Tariff decision (4/2)
-China raising tariffs (4/4)
-RH et al (4/4)
-Market reversal (4/7)
-Fake tariff pause / denial (4/7)
-China headline (4/9)
-Tariff pause (4/9)
-NQ overextension (4/10)
-NVDA AH headline (4/15)
-HTZ (4/16)
-GLD (4/22)
-Trump headline (4/22)

May 2025

-KTTA (5/6)
-GOOG (5/7)
-Tariff announcement (5/12)
-PLTR (5/13)
-UNH (5/15)
-Debt downgrade (5/16)
-AEVA (5/19)
-NVTS (5/21)
-Nuclear Trump tweet (5/22)
-Trump tariff threat (5/23)
-SNPS, CDNS (5/28)

June 2025

-CRWV
-CRCL (best)
-TSLA (6/5)
-Oil (6/12, 6/23)
-RGC
-GME (6/11)
-HIMS (6/23)
-CYN

July 2025

-AEVA (7/1)
-BMNR (7/1)
-Copper (7/8, 7/30)
-BTC
-NVDA (7/14)
-Crypto bill (7/15)
-CRCL
-QS (7/21)
-OPEN
-KSS et al. (7/22)
-NVO (7/28)
-FIG (7/31)

[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

EASY MONEY TRADES EXPLAINED

I keep on getting tagged in this. I originated the concept of “easy money trades” at @smbcapital.

My short answer to this is that OP is missing the point of what these trades are and why.

To put this in poker terms, OP is pretty much saying he only wants to play Aces. Obviously we know that in reality no pro poker player only does that. Why?

Because there are tons of other hands with positive expected value that are far more frequent that you can hit singles on.

Why is that important?

Because hitting those singles lowers your variance and gives you more chips to bet on the pocket aces. It is the mathematically optimal way to maximize PNL, especially coupled with what I call “exponential bet sizing”. That is a mathematical fact.

Additionally, if you are a newer trader, you can’t just sit around waiting for home runs. You have bills to pay. These last couple years have been INSANELY active and opportunistic. Traders are making maybe 5x more these years than in normal years and prob 10x more versus difficult years.

What do you do when the market slows down? You need a diverse playbook of smaller easy money trades to survive the slow times. I think most long-term traders have experienced these times where there just aren’t a ton of big opps and you need to put pnl on the board (2011, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 for example).

Additionally, from training 100s of traders (yes, literally direct work with 100s by now!)… “easy money trades” help traders grow faster. It gives them reps and confidence and pnl cushion for the home runs. That is exactly what we saw w @brandonsochacki and Stephen H at @smbcapital (two of the fastest-growing and most successful rookies I’ve ever seen!). Brandon self-proclaims it was his “easy money” scalping playbook that rocketed his growth by giving him pnl to bet more on the Aces.

So yes, experienced traders w lot of pnl behind them might want to only trade the home runs. In fact, that is exactly what I do now.

But for developing traders, I strongly believe the growth-maximizing and pnl-maximizing strategy is to barbell your trading between “easy money trades” and the home runs.

Finally, I’ll say no trade is literally “easy”. To make money at all in trading takes immense skill. But there are tons of small scalps and little singles that are far easier to execute than trading $CRCL or $OPEN. Not necessarily higher EV, but you can consistently make your $200 or $2k and stack up some chips in between home runs. (A lot of what is “easy” base hit is relative to the trader of course.)

Ask FinTwit how much fun they had fighting $CRCL frontside or fighting the $245 buyer. That wasn’t easy but it was a home run opp. Far cleaner is a little scalp or a basic technical pattern.

(And yes, sometimes the home runs can also be easy money trades. Becomes a bit semantic and how one defines. But some home runs def can be “easy money trades” too!)

Finally… I’m not sure some of OP claims are even true. The best market wizards only traded the big opps and nothing in between? Data and examples needed. Bc I don’t recall that to be accurate at all. Absolutely they tended to bet exponentially bigger on the best trades. But they ONLY traded the big opps? Yea, data needed for that claim 🙄

The full video explaining the concept is here. I suspect there is a reason why it has 250k views.

https://t.co/lqBqUZjIj2

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

My Path

This is the first hot market I have missed in 6 years I think.

I was gone on vacation for 1 month and really thought about the way I want to approach trading and my life path going forward.
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The result:

I do not want to be actively trading anymore. I do not want the stress, the time involvement, the volatility, the toxic competition.

I want to compound and work/live around people I respect and love. I want those around me to prosper and the cake to get bigger for all, not for the piece to get bigger because I thought my friend for it (day trade vs investing/ finite vs infinite mindset)

It is hard to cut the ties because it is who I was for the past 10 years, however what is my goal and my position?

When everyone you traded with your entire career is still trading and they do so within a group, it is extremely easy to conform to the social pressure (be it hidden or not).
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Why did I trade

At my core, I wanted freedom which is what money gave me. I had nothing to lose, no lifestyle, no expenses... I was young, hungry to prove people wrong and gain my freedom through it.

I reflected on it all and I found a few answers.

I have freedom✅
I have the lifestyle I want ✅
I do not need to make it twice ✅
I live a stress free life(as much as possible)✅
I want more time to think and learn🚫?

Continuing to trade does not provide me a better life, heightens my stress, reduces my freedom through the time involvement and increases the risk of a black swan.

I am in a different situation than others and thus had to truly reflect on why I am doing what I am. Even the biggest traders I know continued to trade past success, however none of them knew how to invest or even had the remote interest to do so.

I saw 9fig trades blow up and also nearly blow up. Does it need to be me?
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Resolution

My passion is not trading, it is the markets, it is the game, the quest for new mastery of a craft. I do not need to be actively trading to continue this path.

Instead I want to manage my portfolio for legacy. I want to compound and be in the game in 50y.

I am 23y old at this time and I have the biggest asset any super investor would want. Time to compound.

I will be continuing to learn from the masters out there like Buffett, Smith, Ackman and alike and aiming to match the ~15% per year returns. Additionally I will be investing/trading with a layer of pyramiding risk management as taught by Druckenmiller and Soros to maximize returns.

Trades, should I take any, will all be based around this philosophy:

"I will refrain from engaging in trades where an unfavorable shift against my position presents a more favorable opportunity, recognizing that it is within these realms that the elusive black swan resides."
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All my biggest losses and most stressful positions started as small positions, followed by adds while losing and I kept on being proven wrong.

The truth is you can not truly eliminate these situations from happening if strategies are build around reversion. You can stop out, however you will stop out in the spot that has better odds than the one you entered at.

Thus the more you are wrong, the more enticing the opportunity. You are constantly fighting between bad risk management and Win rate and it creates a heightened black swan potential and a shift in win vs losses distribution.
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🚫Reversion trades: Dip buys, parabolic shorts and capitulation trades.

✅Trend trades: Breakouts, EP, Investing

The overall shift in trading approach will get rid of high win rate strategies, but will focus on strategies based on RR. Risk-reward is where pyramiding reigns king and thus my expertise.

If I am right, I get the right to maximize positions to huge gains, if I am wrong I will take my small losses. A peaceful life.
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Bottom line

This new approach will allow me to focus on what truly matters and will be united with my values.
I will:
- not be exposed to career ending losses
- have time to learn (even outside of the stock market)
- use compounding as my closest ally
- allow for alpha to be captured

The hardest part about this all is to let go of preconceived notions, to walk my own path despite all my friends and trader friends walking another path and despite the countless conversations, messages and alike I get multiple times per day.

My success comes from the ability to do what other will not do.

First in small caps reading SEC filings and using data when none did. Second by learnings about macro and investing and 3x my account during the 2022/23 recovery.

Now it is time to adjust once more to the liquidity profile and overall goals and just like these prior paths, I will have to start walking alone.

The strategy will revolve around quality investing traded with a Druckenmiller/Soros risk management(pyramid) and accompanied by the alpha the select breakout opportunities will provide throughout time.

This will lead to a long term compounding effect with alpha being used to start new compounding positions.

Writing this out allows me to be more structured in my thoughts and this approach and I hope this now explains how I will proceed.

I do not want to close the door on trading, however this is for now, the journey I will embrace.

[Goshawk Trades @GoshawkTrades]

Books full of trading strategy ideas:

[George Ferman @Helios_Movement]

Fine, i'll do it myself.

The field of nutrition can seem very complicated in this day and age where there's an abundance of content around it.

So, if nutrition seems a bit confusing at the moment, start with these suggestions.

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[Abhi | AP Collective @0xAbhiP]

The most socially accepted form of self-sabotage:

Overthinking.

It’s why you can’t make decisions, finish anything, or sleep without scrolling.

The 6 hard truths from Naval Ravikant that shattered my obsession with "Mental effort":

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of cities at sunset 🧵

1. Rome, Italy

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Life in America 50 to 100+ years ago 🧵

1. A genuinely happy looking family, 1959

[Daraban Ion @johnny123ion]

@traderyos https://t.co/PQuPTJLMXi

@Guruleaks1 been right about him way back then lol

[GuruLeaks @Guruleaks1]

The Rapid Evolution of a TradingGuru ConArtist

From Unprofitable Student to Paid "Mentor" in 1+ years,

Will show you how to grow your account 230% in less than 60 days!

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cc: @SECEnfDirectors @HesterPeirce @SECHerrenLee @CFTC