Sanjay Bodhi

Buddhist/ Student of Trading/ Entrepreneur/ Father/ "Striving to be better today than I was yesterday"

[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

"When your determination changes, everything will begin to move in the direction you desire. The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success" - Daisaku Ikeda

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

Most people think success in trading is about finding the perfect setup.

It’s not.

It’s about becoming the kind of person who can execute the same edge… over and over… without letting your emotions sabotage you.

The market will test you every single day.
Not just your strategy — your patience, your discipline, your ego.

Some days you’ll feel unstoppable.
Some days you’ll feel like the market is designed to humble you personally.

Both are traps.

The traders who actually make it aren’t the ones who hit one big trade.
They’re the ones who show up the next day with the exact same focus… whether they’re up 200k or down 20k.

No revenge trading.
No emotional sizing.
No chasing candles because Twitter is screaming.

Just process.

Because the truth is — consistency in trading isn’t built during your winning streaks.

It’s built on the days you don’t feel like showing up…
and you execute your system anyway.

Anyone can trade when they’re confident.

Professionals trade when they’re disciplined.

Stay sharp. The market rewards the patient.

[MikshuAlpha @MikshuAlpha]

This was a student's update for me before our 4th Zoom session yesterday.

Before:
• Random trades
• Strategy hopping
• Consistent losses

After 3 sessions:
• Structured process
• Patient entries
• Green streaks (green 6 days in a row) → booked 5 more sessions

Progress doesn’t come from more indicators.
It comes from better decisions.

[MikshuAlpha @MikshuAlpha]

FOMO isn’t a personality flaw - it’s a training problem.
And it’s fixable with the correct guidance.

Different student this time - also just 3 sessions in - and the shift has been clear.

He’s gone from frequent losing trades to waiting, executing only strong setups, and finishing days green.
We didn’t “trade more”.

We tightened his system, reduced noise, and ran specific exercises to build patience and discipline — both indirectly through structure and directly through practical rules (waiting for candles, setups , and confirmation).

The result: calmer decisions, fewer trades, better outcomes.

He’s now signed up for more sessions off the back of that turnaround.
This is how real progress starts: quietly, systematically, and without forcing trades.

[MikshuAlpha @MikshuAlpha]

A small snapshot of what can change when structure replaces guesswork.

One of the most encouraging things as a coach is seeing decision quality improve before the P&L really matters.

This is a student who’s only had 3 sessions so far and by his own admission needed to learn from scratch. This week he traded multiple names, managed size well, scaled intelligently, and finished without a single loser.

The decision-making was anchored in relative strength, market regime awareness, waiting for clean, strong setups, and - just as importantly - psychology. Knowing when conviction is lower, trimming without ego, re-entering with clarity, and letting winners work while protecting capital.

That’s the foundation we’ve been building together. Results follow process, not the other way around.

This is exactly the kind of early progress I like to see.

I tried to tell him he's ready to cut the umbilical cord but he wants 10 more sessions to cover more complex trading topics and see where his ceiling hits.

[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

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[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Your job is to wait; doing nothing doesn't mean you're being lazy.

You can't wait if you don't know what you're supposed to be waiting for.
Define clearly the trades you should be waiting for and the trades you should actually take.

What you need to do:

- Build a system with an edge through exhaustive testing.
- Define clearly which trades you should take, and spell out explicit rules (including rules for what you must not do).
- Draw up your trading plan (scenarios) in advance, and then do nothing but wait until the market matches that plan.
- When that plan materializes, execute without hesitation (don't think! If you still need to think in order to execute, keep practicing until it's drilled into your body and you can execute without thinking).

The opportunities you are desperately hunting for are almost never any good.
Only take the opportunities that come to you.
Trading is not about chasing; you trade only when you "have no choice but to trade".
Set your own opinions aside and only execute trades that are defined by the rules—trades you genuinely have no choice but to take.

Probability works on the sample of trades you accumulate.
Don't contaminate that sample with off-plan trades.

The quality of a trade is not determined by whether it wins or loses.
Quality means whether you followed the rules of a system with edge.
Don't treat a loss as a low-quality trade.
A loss cut in accordance with the rules is a high-quality trade sample.
A system with edge is designed so that, by cutting your losses according to the rules, you're still left with profit overall.
Don't forget that stop-losses taken strictly by the rules also contain edge and are evidence that the system is functioning properly.

What matters is how consistently you can "take planned trades exactly as planned".
Your job is to keep functioning, as precisely as possible, as one component of the system.

Don't try to win, and don't try to avoid losing.
Make a plan and act according to it, and keep building up a collection of high-quality trade samples over time.
Then leave the rest to the law of large numbers and the convergence of probabilities.
The point at which probability really starts to work is much further out than you think.

Even if you can't see your system's edge right away, it's growing steadily, like a plant putting down roots beneath the soil.
Don't stop watering it.
Understand that your harvest doesn't come now, but much further down the road.

Good night 😴

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

I've made 8 figures trading.

Here are the 4 skills that mattered most:

1. Risk management (not strategy)
2. Emotional control (not analysis)
3. Patience (not speed)
4. Consistency (not home runs)

Everything else is bait.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

A missed trade has zero impact on your sample size.
A bad trade taken outside the rules contaminates it.

Probability does not punish you for waiting.
It punishes you for inconsistency.

This is why professionals feel no regret when they miss a trade,
but feel pain when they break a rule.

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

This is the best trading advice I ever received:

Don’t aim to trade more. Aim to trade better.

The best traders don’t wake up to play around.

They wait like hunters.

Most of you are losing not because of

“bad picks”

But because you’re swinging at every pitch.

Trade better.

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

Hard truth: most traders are addicted to being “right” more than they are committed to making money. If you can’t detach your ego from the outcome, the market will rip your identity apart until you learn or quit.

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

People think trading is about charts and indicators.

It’s not. It’s about control.

One morning, before a huge CPI print,

I felt the anxiety building. Hands sweaty. Mind racing with “what ifs.”

Instead of staring at the screen:

I closed my eyes
I breathed
I let it pass

Market opened volatile. Choppy. Most traders got chopped to pieces.

I waited…

Patient. Clear.

Two hours later,

The move appeared.
Clean setup.
I hit it.

Walked away with $75,000 profit.

The meditation didn’t just calm me down. It gave me clarity.

Clarity gave me timing. Timing gave me money.

The edge isn’t in the charts.

It’s in your mind.

[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

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[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

The moment you truly feel you’ve improved as a trader is when your mind remains calm even in the midst of a losing streak.

You’ll realize, “I’ve learned to trust probability.”
Data and experience are the only weapons that can grant you deep understanding, transform your beliefs, and silence your emotions.

Your emotions will no longer be swayed by wins and losses, but they will shift to feeling a strong aversion toward breaking your own rules.

That is what it means to have learned to trust probability.

[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

@samuraipips358 Another fabulous post - and you nailed it with “the fear of giving up unrealised gains”.

[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

@traderstewie Wish Sophie the very very best. My prayers for her continued progress 🙏🏼

[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

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[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

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[Sanjay Bodhi @originalnanda]

@ripster47 After a good first week, its on my agenda for tonight. Loved Accountant 1. Definitely one of my favs as well. Ben Affleck was made for that role. Have a great weekend.

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

You want to stop giving back all your gains?

After a big day, don't trade the next day.