Kostcha_Trades

Stocks, golf and life on a farm. Tweets are not financial advice. Tesla and $TSLA. FSDBeta

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

Fully update Strat Combos! Thanks to @TradeSniperSara and @RobInTheBlack #TheStrat

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@algotooza @PradeepBonde Lots of options. Stockfetcher is about $7/month. Super easy to use, your favorite ai can probably write the scan.

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@AT09_Trader @gfc4 Through the first 6 chapters. Such a phenomenal book and those lessons echo loud and clear throughout the book.

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@TheOneLanceB Enjoy vacation!! Well after the ipo anyway ☀️

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@Qullamaggie @IUTraders @jackschwager @gfc4 Just listened to your chapter on audible. Amazing! This new book is 🔥🔥🔥 thank you for sharing your story!

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

Growing into the winning relationship

Holding period and pyramiding/doubling down into a winner or loser have the biggest impact for the aspired master trader.

These are not small variables. For the trader who aspires to the top, they are the only true variables.

People like to begin with entries. Fine. Entries matter. But the first real work is finding the pockets of edge: small caps, mid caps, large caps, each one becoming over time a liquidity-driven sliding scale forcing the growing trader to shift into a new version of himself. What worked at one size stops working at another. What looked like skill at one level becomes noise at the next.

Then comes compounding. Usually through an R system, whether you fully systematize it or compound naturally. Directly or indirectly, you are always measuring risk. You are always deciding how much of yourself to put behind the idea.

Then comes noise reduction.

Seeing less. Focusing more. Finding structure inside chaos. Learning what not to look at. Learning what not to care about. Putting structural elements (like scanners, prep, automated systems) in place. This is harder than people think, because most traders are not defeated by what they miss. They are defeated by what they cannot stop seeing.

Only after that do you earn the right to size exponentially.

Adding to winners. Averaging in. Pressing when the trade improves. Holding when the easy exit appears. Accepting that win rate and risk/reward live on a sliding scale, and that every serious trader must eventually decide where he belongs on it.

At the end, the game becomes judgment.

Can you grade the setup as it moves from bucket to bucket? Can you recognize when a B has become an A, when an A has become an A++, or when the thing you thought was elite was only dressed that way for a few candles?

This is most true in deep value. It is also true in parabolic shorts. The opportunity does not arrive fully formed. It reveals itself. Then your sizing and your holding period must adjust to the reality in front of you.

So here is the question.

Should you wait for the A++ entry when the A is already available?

Or would you rather miss the first entry so you can pyramid with greater certainty once the trade begins to prove itself?

There is no free answer. There is only the trade-off you can actually live with.

Win rates are easy to manipulate. You can raise them by taking profits too early, sizing too small, avoiding discomfort, and calling cowardice discipline.

But risk/reward and dynamic sizing are where the real alpha hides.

That is where the market wizardry is.

Not in being right often. In being enormous when it matters and pushing beyond, by appreciating the power of the true outliers and the range they offer as they reverse (or continue for some breakout strategies).

And that privilege is not given cheaply. The ability to push, to pyramid, to become your biggest in the best opportunities, comes only after mastering every earlier step.

You do not get to size like a monster because you are excited.

You get to size because you have earned precision. You have earned conviction. You have lived through dozens of account pullbacks, recoveries, new highs, false dawns, and near-breaks in belief.

Only then can you tolerate a smaller win rate in exchange for a huge winning tail.

Only then can you hold the trade long enough for the rare thing to pay you.

That part is not technique.

That part is earned, respect, held on to like a religion.

At the end all that remains is the tail, the tail of the alpha that blows off into account growth.

Are you truly able to get to that last stage only depends on building the strong foundation needed to support the monument that might live on in history.

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@RealSimpleAriel @CathieDWood I remember the COIN ipo too. Talked about it this am. Was hoping she would skip this one til the price comes down.

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@alphaticaio How does the am expiration figure into tomorrow? How much gamma is erased with the am vs pm spx options?

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@TheRealNasa00 June 8c getting some decent flow. Put wall at 6

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

Straight facts. Preparation, skill and grit give you the opportunity to be lucky.

[THE SHORT BEAR @TheShortBear]

Luck has surface area.

The more you try, speak, build, share, prep, review, think, work... the larger the surface luck has to collide with.

Most people don’t succeed because they bat 100%.
They succeed because they take thousands of swings instead of dozens.

Then add the dedication to show up each day and work on prep and review... showing up every day long enough to improve the batting average/odds.

Luck isn’t static.

It compounds around action, repetition, and grit.

The so called market wizards almost all, 95%+ blew up, with multiple years of trial and error before they got lucky.

In that sense, compounding is the universe’s way of scaling luck.

Liftoff takes the most, enormous energy.
Escaping gravity takes continuous focused energy.
But once trajectory and escape velocity are achieved, compounding does much of the heavy lifting with risk systems in place.

The hardest part is surviving long enough to reach that phase. The light at the end of the tunnel, small and dim but there yet.

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

All depends on how you use it. I can use it to aggregate new sources, create a daily dashboard based on what I am looking for, help create trading lists, aggregate my reviews so I can analyze them deeper. Yes, my pnl is increasing. I use it to simplify my trading. Not to further complicate it.

[Ariel Hernandez @RealSimpleAriel]

You want to know a secret that changed my mentality around money?

Scenario: April 1st your portfolio was 100k and we went on this magical run where it climbed up to 140k as of yesterdays close. Then a day like today comes along and you happened to get stopped on all your positions and you are now sitting at 130k. Did you lose 7.14% today or is your portfolio up 30% in a month?

Unrealized gains ARE NOT YOURS. They belong to the market! If you want to mitigate volatility, trim into extensions. But if you are going to stress out about every down day as if the money was yours on an open position, you'll never truly be able to scale up comfortably.

Treat every new buy or sell based on it's individual price action. And stop looking at your portfolio value every evening as if the money on open positions belongs to you. Checking portfolio value every 10min only leads to emotional and sloppy execution when you look at the whole and not the individual parts.

If stock A is still acting great then it shouldn't be sold just because you took a small loss on stock B. Exit stock B and continue to let stock A work for its own merits. The minute you start to make emotional decisions because of money is when you ruin your chances at real growth.

[Vinod @BoxTraderVK]

$TWLO $WOLF $FIVN $MRAM $AAOI $BAND $SIMO $XNDU $TEAM

After EXTREME hard work — grinding thousands of charts, endless backtesting, live trading every single day, learning from every loss, and refining rules until they became second nature — I’ve organized everything I’ve e posted into one clean, logical library.

This is the exact playbook I use. No fluff. No theory. Just what actually moves the P&L.

1. My 5 Core Setups + Qullamaggie Momentum Mastery🔗 My exact 5 setups I trade and focus on (the foundation of everything) https://t.co/tN9B2qsGMw
🔗 Qullamaggie’s most misunderstood concept (best breakouts happen at the 10/20 MA) https://t.co/VjUcYpyBy6
🔗 Full MA surfing rules: 10/20/50 + Holy Grail exit + market regime filter https://t.co/I2PJ9rsnsG
🔗 How Qullamaggie made millions with ONE intraday indicator (VWAP parabolic framework) https://t.co/lIPiUzQTmy
🔗 Complete Qullamaggie playbook (all setups I trade): Top 1-2% stocks, MA coils, tight flags, HVE gaps, campaigning winners https://t.co/T5HeP6h9Nz

2. Scanners & Pre-Market Leader Finder🔗 Pre-market setup cascade: Macro → Catalyst → Sector → RS/RW (how I find leaders proactively) https://t.co/jEAITyl4lF
🔗 Pre-market scanners & tools I actually use every single day https://t.co/VWwM9FBhJS

3. Psychology & Process Mastery🔗 Your P&L is a reflection of your nervous system — 8-step operating system for emotionless trading https://t.co/fvNgrMbBpM
🔗 Most traders have a process problem, not a strategy problem — my full daily routine & checklist https://t.co/EF4N1z6qXR

4. Intraday Execution Arsenal🔗 30-Min Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategy — exact framework I use https://t.co/TqwrzrPGqf
🔗 13 non-negotiable intraday rules & checklist https://t.co/aRmJxAY3vF

5. Short Selling Domination🔗 Complete shorting playbook: 5 setups on former leaders (LSFB, DTSS, POD, SGD, H&S) + exact rules https://t.co/ApC5fHGrk7

6. Advanced Shakeout Tactics🔗 Undercut & Rally (U&R / MAUR) — the setup most traders sell, smart traders buy https://t.co/OckVXhLWW6

All posts = education only. Not financial advice. Trade at your own risk. Results not typical.

This took years of blood, sweat and screen time to build. If it helps even one of you become consistently profitable, it was worth every second.

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

RT @TheShortBear: Hard to fully explain but the way I watch markets for clues as to if we are ready for a potential try at a bottom include…

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

Get Izzy her account back! @elonmusk @X

[Izzy @msizzytrades]

My account was hacked by crypto scammers @_ms_izzy please repost to them from accessing information and hacking others, along with helping me regain access to my account @elonmusk @X

[Mike Bellafiore @MikeBellafiore]

You are meant to do something great!

Stop trying to "fix" your flaws to become a better trader. What if the secret to elite performance isn't patching your weaknesses, but weaponizing the strengths you already possess?

In this masterclass from the SMB Trading Summit NYC 2026, Dr. Brett Steenbarger—the world’s leading trading psychologist—flips the script on conventional wisdom. He argues that the move from "struggling" to "Market Wizard" isn't about pathology; it’s about Positive Trading Psychology.

Leveraging Your Signature Strengths
The core of Dr. Steenbarger's philosophy is that trading success is an expression of your existing character. Instead of trying to mimic another trader's style, you should identify what you have already done "greatly" in life—whether in sports, business, or relationships—and use those same skills as the foundation for your trading edge.

Identify Your Core 4: Pinpoint your top signature strengths (such as curiosity, temperance, or grit) and use them to define your strategy.

Curiosity as a Driver: The most successful traders are often driven by an "entrepreneurial curiosity" and a love for the discovery process, rather than just the financial outcome.

Avoid Over-utilization: Be aware that over-relying on a strength (e.g., independence) can turn into a weakness (e.g., refusing to listen to market data).

🔄 Breaking the Bubble
While identifying your internal strengths is the foundation, elite performance cannot be built in a vacuum. To truly scale, you have to dismantle the most common trap in this industry: World-Class Isolation.

🤝The Power of Teamwork and Collaboration
A recurring theme throughout the talk is the danger of "world-class isolation." Dr. Steenbarger argues that learning a high-performance skill like trading in a vacuum is nearly impossible, as the learning curve is too steep to navigate alone.

"Each One Teach One": Modeled after medical school rotations, traders should form "virtual teams" to share ideas, review performance, and provide mutual feedback.

Compounding Learning: In a team of six, you don't just learn from your own mistakes; you learn from the combined experiences of the entire group every single day.

Grounding in Training: Much like surgical residents who don't go "on tilt" during high-stakes procedures, traders need repetitive, supervised training until their execution becomes second nature.

🔄 Rewriting the Ledger
Once you have your team in place, the next step is changing how you measure your progress. You have to move away from a journal that only tracks failures and start building a blueprint for success.

📝Positive Journaling and "Reverse-Engineering" Success
Standard trading journals often focus exclusively on mistakes, which can inadvertently damage self-confidence over time. Dr. Steenbarger advocates for a "Reverse-Engineering" approach to journaling that prioritizes your best work.

The "One Good Thing" Rule: Every day, identify one thing you did well (even on a red day) and commit to building on it tomorrow.

Study Your Winners: Analyze the patterns, mindset, and planning that went into your "A+" trades to create a blueprint for your success.

Acknowledge and Solve: Identify one mistake per day and create a concrete, executable solution to ensure it is corrected rather than repeated.

🔄 The 90-Day Architecture
But insight is just the beginning. To turn these psychological shifts into permanent "muscle memory," you need a protocol designed for neurological change. This is where the 90 and 90 Rule comes in.

The "90 and 90" Rule for Lasting Change
To turn a new behavior or a psychological reset into a permanent habit, Dr. Steenbarger recommends the "90 and 90" approach, inspired by recovery programs.

90 Days of Consistency: Commit to a single process change (like position sizing or a new exit rule) for 90 consecutive days.

Repetition Cements Change: Emotional arousal acts as the catalyst for change, but only daily repetition makes that change a natural, effortless part of your process.

Use Emotional Arousal: To break through deep-seated negative patterns, you must create an emotional rejection of the behavior (e.g., "FU therapy" for negative self-talk).

🔄 The Holistic Edge
Finally, the most resilient traders understand that while trading is high-stakes, it cannot be their entire identity. True performance longevity comes from Life Diversification.

🌐Life Diversification and Vision
A major psychological "leak" occurs when a trader's self-worth is tied entirely to their daily P&L. True resilience comes from having a diversified life and a vision that extends beyond the numbers.

The PERMA+ Framework: Focus on Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment outside of the markets.

Vision Over Goals: While goals provide direction, a "Vision" (like a higher purpose or a commitment to a cause) provides the inspiration needed to stay disciplined during drawdowns.

Calendar Commitment: If a habit or a self-care activity isn't in your calendar, it isn't part of your professional process.

At SMB, we hope that at least one of these ideas from the greatest trading coach in the US, will help you recognize the possibility about your trading journey...You are meant to do something great!
#tradingpsychology #proptrading #trader

Surprising Advice From World’s #1 Trading Psychologist (Dr. Steenbarger) https://t.co/iEGAgNitNA via @YouTube @steenbab

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Kostcha_Trades @kostchamore]

@vulturetrades Guide

[SMB Capital @smbcapital]

Avoid the trap of chasing the front side of a move. Wait for a breakdown after a resistance test for a solid entry with defined risk. Your trading should be about precision, not impatience.

#trading #daytrading #stockmarket #trader #tradingstrategy

[VolSignals @VolSignals]

How do you use hedging data to trade?

1) Use charm to choose direction
2) Use gamma + charm to mark your target
3) Trade it w/ the right structure (butterfly)
4) Use 0DTE positions to know if you still have edge

..do I need to whiteboard it?

Paid ~$4.10

...$7.10 bid

[Vinod @BoxTraderVK]

Extreme Hard work and FOCUS

I studied Qullamaggie, Druckenmiller, Paul Tudor Jones & Stockbee for hundreds of hours, tested every system on real charts, and turned it into 17 complete long-form Articles.

No gatekeeping. No paywall. Pure alpha that leveled me up.

1. How to Draw, Confirm & Trade Trendlines the Right Way — https://t.co/45gAdlvMRx
2. The Multi-Timeframe System That Turned $5k Into $100M — https://t.co/WQmNSPlVXv
3. Smart Money Pre-Market Scanner: Finding Explosive Moves — https://t.co/7d8yiP9o3w
4. Pradeep Bonde (Stockbee) Complete Momentum Trading Playbook — https://t.co/XQJiGDttWQ
5. What It Really Takes to Go ALL IN Like Druck or KQ — https://t.co/v5uXLILJ6f
6. The Daily Trading Routine & Process of Professional Traders — https://t.co/y1KAobqtns
7. Paul Tudor Jones Complete Trading Playbook — https://t.co/PH99f6MwMU
8. Stanley Druckenmiller Trading Playbook (30 Years, Zero Losing Years) — https://t.co/YixfXW2ld6
9. Kristjan Qullamägi Trend Trading System (Stocks Move Like Stairs) — https://t.co/y6VmPHX8yk
10. All Flag Pattern Variations – The Complete Qullamaggie Playbook — https://t.co/mGhOJ8thhF
11. 12 Trading Mistakes That Quietly Kill Your P&L (Qullamaggie) — https://t.co/Aa9jpjswBz
12. Qullamägi Mean Reversion Playbook: Parabolic Shorts & Bounces — https://t.co/INohbFWmYE
13. Why the Best Breakouts Happen Exactly at the 10/20 Day MA — https://t.co/8L4IXkRF30
14. 8 Rules to Trade Without Anxiety & Emotional Control — https://t.co/dozDudbHyB
15. You Cannot Borrow Conviction – Qullamaggie’s Most Important Lesson — https://t.co/KvpNG48Zw4
16. Why 25% Win Rate Made Qullamaggie $100 Million — https://t.co/rRkJHHT6BT
17. How Qullamaggie Uses VWAP for Parabolic Shorts — https://t.co/WrYa63cJZT

Which one are you starting TONIGHT?

Me, i will go through everyone of them.