Philip D.Chia

FINANCIAL MARKETS TRADER.

[Riz Iqbal @Wordsofrizdom]

Trader Kane built a 7-figure futures career (and holds a record-breaking prop firm payout of $1,866,230) breaks down the trap most funded traders fall into.

One of the unprofitable traders in the room passed his funded account in May, nine months into trading seriously. He blew the whole account in two days.

Kane doesn't sugarcoat it: "You're basically on full tilt. You're hoping the market is just going to do what you're predicting. You probably don't have an edge."

Then he gets into why that happens.

"A lot of successful traders will say full time trading is actually part time trading, because a successful full time trader actually has a bit of an identity crisis from a routine perspective."

"It all sounds well and good, being your own boss, going to lunch with your friends, playing golf all day, until you're not making money for two months. Your bills are racking up. You're putting money on your credit card. I've seen it all. I've lived it all."

His fix isn't a new strategy. It's removing the pressure.

"Having an income outside of trading allows you to stop making emotional decisions, because right now the only way you're going to make money is by making money in the market."

"I imagine having some sort of steady income is going to relieve some of this stress. Because right now you're in fight or flight, no doubt."

So before you quit your full time job, ask yourself this:

How much of your worst trading is really about the chart, and how much is about needing the money?

FULL EPISODE���

[R O N D O🀄️ @RondoFx]

I failed 14 prop firm challenges.

Spent money I didn’t have on resets.
No mentor. No model. Just guessing.

Then I committed to one thing; key levels.

Daily level tapped.
H4 rejection confirmed.
M30 break.
Enter.

That model got me funded on 5 different prop firms.
Including a $100,000 account.

I wrote everything down.

43 pages. 19 real chart examples across Forex, Gold, Indices, and Bitcoin. The pre-trade checklist. The risk management rules that keep funded accounts alive.

[Bitwise @Bitwise]

Just in: $HYPE is now officially part of the world’s largest crypto index fund: $BITW - The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index ETF.

Hyperliquid’s rise has been meteoric. In the first half of 2026 alone:

- $1.34T in trading volume
- $320M in revenue
- HYPE up 165% YTD, currently 9th-largest crypto asset by market cap

And now in the Bitwise 10!

Congrats to the Hyperliquid community on yet another huge milestone.

[trade.xyz @tradexyz]

S&P Dow Jones Indices and trade[XYZ] have joined forces to launch the first official S&P 500 perpetual contract, available exclusively on Hyperliquid.

For 69 years, the S&P 500 has been a defining reference point for global finance. Until now, access to that benchmark has been shaped by market hours, intermediaries, and geography. Today, that changes.

The S&P 500 perp is now available 24/7/365, anchored by the official index data required for deep liquidity and institutional confidence at scale. 

SPDJI helped define modern indexing. They are stewards of an iconic benchmark, the standard against which portfolios across the globe are measured. We are honored to bring that legacy on-chain.

Trade[XYZ] is bringing the world's most iconic assets towards a future of global, continuous markets — a future powered by Hyperliquid.

[MrPeak.eth @MrPeakFX]

Understand people.
Understand what they can do for you and what they cannot.

Don’t allow expectations disturb your peace.

[LU$O🦇 @OnlyLuso]

With the right mindset, the only difference between you and your goals is TIME.

After getting access to the right information, with a delusional mindset and the right discipline, the only factor that comes in between you and your goals is time.

So when finding profitability seems quite complex and you just don’t seem to get it, It’s not any demon, it’s DEFINITELY NOT because you’re gooning. It’s not any generational curse, it’s just TIME DOING ITS THING.

Trust me, if you’re consistently repeatedly executing the right information, it’s only a matter of time before you’re up asf.

Avengers, let’s learn to enjoy the process and carefully take lessons on whatever TIME has to teach us while we’re pushing for our individual goals.

I know one day real soon, IT WILL MAKE SENSE and we’re able to make the ones that matter to us happy in life with this skill but for now, let’s lock in.

DONTMI$$!!!

[DAX @thissdax]

FIX UP BRODY..

If your only proof of “being a trader” is your Twitter bio, before and after of the trades you never executed or made a dollar from: this is for you.

Real talk:
You spend more time arguing with strangers online than backtesting your own strategy. That energy you use clapping back at randoms? Redirect it. Put it into your journal, your risk management, your discipline.

Ask yourself the questions that actually matter:

◾️Is your family taken care of?
◾️Do you have a home you’re proud of?
◾️Are you building any real investments?
◾️Do you have more than one stream of income, or is trading your only shot, with no backup?
◾️Can you move around without depending on public transport?
◾️Are you taking care of your body, eating right, training, showing up as a fit and healthy version of yourself?
◾️Can you travel when you want to, not just when you can afford it?

If the answer is no to most of these, that’s fine; most of us started at no. But then the Twitter beef, the subtweets, the “I’m him” energy? That’s misplaced priority. Put that time into the work.

2026 is almost over. Again.

The market doesn’t care about your bio. It cares about your discipline, your risk management, and your patience.

Build the track record first. Let the results talk. Everything else: the car, the crib, the freedom follows the proof, not the other way around.

Fall seven times, get up eight. But get up working, not arguing❤️

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The South East is making a choice.

We will double down on eliminating illiteracy.

Every child who cannot read, write and reason represents lost potential for our economy, our security and our future.

We are studying the education systems that consistently produce some of the world’s strongest learning outcomes, including Singapore and China.

We are no longer educating children just to survive.

We are educating them to compete globally and lead.

That is the future we are building.

[Philip D.Chia @philipDChia]

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[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

Jeff Bezos on how Amazon wouldn’t have existed without the infrastructure that was already in place

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

Here are the three Nigerian students currently representing the country at the global stage of the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome. 🇳🇬🌍👏🏽

- Egejurum Onyedikachi Ethan (Age: 11)
- Onwubiko Chimduebube Victor (Age: 13)
- Don Anele Munachimso Marvelous (Age: 17)

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Hope is the wealth of an African man. He has nothing else than belief.

If you tell an African man that hope solves no problem he will hate you. If you tell him that the best way to solve problems is through practical approaches you will become the enemy.

I used to deny the truth that Africans are the most inferior race. Only a small number of Africans have a high IQ and critical thinking. The overwhelming majority are idiots.

If you are smart you are an outlier, and the majority dictate the narratives.

Stop trying to help who don't want to be helped.

Dear Mr @connectwithtola you underestimate human stupidity. These people can literally murder you. I don't underestimate human stupidity.

I want you to know that freedom fighters always lose. I want you to look at the world and observe that there is always a battle between good and evil and that evil always wins.

This realisation made me stop hosting Web3 educational spaces.

Where you come from, the best way to survive is to eat alone and serve the people crumbs and you will be their best man.

Never tell them this is how things are done because you figure it out. Use them. They love being used, they love deception as long as you can be a good actor.

Let the African Web 3 community be. If they say a hundred trillion token supply will hit 100 dollars per unit tell them to sell their properties and take loans and invest in it.

Follow them and tweet "LFG"! while you take your profit and bull post with them and everyone won't have a problem with you.

Lie and deceive Africans. Steal from them if you have the conscience for it they deserve it.

In this world, the weakest die in the hands of the strongest.

If you have knowledge use it for your own good, if you can use it to exploit others. Trying to show people the right way or telling them the truth will make them hate you so what is the point in trying at all?

End!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system

Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.

That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.

A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.

[MAJI @majimosess]

Emotional moment a Nigerian corps member shared the unexpected love he received from his students and management as he rounds up his NYSC despite religious and ethnic differences ��❤️

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Mark Zuckerberg is bankrupting a $22 billion startup because they refused to sell to him.

The company is Kalshi.

They run the largest prediction market in the US. Users bet real money on real-world outcomes.

Last year, prediction markets did $28 billion in monthly volume across the industry.

This month, they did $220 BILLION.

The sector literally 8x'd in a single year.

Bernstein now projects the entire prediction market industry will hit $1 TRILLION by 2030.

Zuckerberg saw the growth curve coming. Last year, when Kalshi was valued at only $2 billion, he sat down with founder and CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss buying the entire company.

Mansour said no.

Kalshi went on to raise at $11 billion in December. Then $22 billion in March. It is now pursuing a $40 billion round and openly weighing an IPO.

Zuckerberg's response:

He walked back to Meta headquarters, took every piece of information he learned in that meeting, and directed a small internal team to build a Kalshi clone from the ground up.

Meta's version is called Arena. It uses Llama to generate the questions. Every one of Meta's 3.5 billion daily users will get access.

And here's where the plan gets ruthless...

Meta is deliberately launching with play money. That single decision lets Zuckerberg dodge every gambling regulator on Earth while he trains billions of users to bet on prediction markets.

Meanwhile Kalshi is spending millions fighting state gambling laws, the CFTC, an Illinois sports tax, a Minnesota felony statute, and the Department of Justice.

Kalshi is the crash test dummy. Meta is the getaway driver.

The moment the regulatory war is settled, Zuckerberg flips the switch. Arena becomes a real-money market, and 3.5 billion users are already trained to use it. Kalshi's user base of a few million cannot compete.

This is the exact playbook Meta ran on Snapchat in 2016 when Instagram Stories launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on TikTok in 2020 when Reels launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on Twitter in 2023 when Threads launched.

The FTC took Meta to court over this pattern last year and called it "buy or bury." The judge sided with Meta. So the playbook is legally protected.

Tarek Mansour walked into a meeting with the most predatory copycat in tech history and gave him the entire pitch deck for the fastest growing product in Silicon Valley.

Six months later, Zuckerberg is executing on that intel while Mansour is stuck defending his company in courts across America.

Kalshi survived Zuckerberg's offer. But it probably will not survive Zuckerberg's clone.

Meta ended Q1 with $81 billion in cash. That is enough to buy every prediction market company on Earth six times over. Zuckerberg is choosing to STEAL them instead because he can, and because the courts already gave him permission.

The next 12 months will decide whether Kalshi becomes a $50 billion IPO or a cautionary tale about what happens when a founder says no to Meta.

What do you think?

[Techriz💯📈 @Techriztm]

One of the biggest mindset shifts a trader can make is understanding that the market doesn’t owe you confirmation.

Many people don’t actually want to analyze. They want the market to agree with what they already believe.

So they ignore information that contradicts their bias, hold losing trades hoping price comes back, and celebrate every candle that temporarily supports their opinion.

Professional traders do the opposite.

They actively look for reasons why they could be wrong.

The faster you can invalidate your own idea, the faster you protect your capital and move on to the next opportunity. Your goal isn’t to be right. Your goal is to consistently make good decisions with the information available.

Detach your ego from your analysis.

The market rewards adaptation far more than conviction.

GM💜

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Nigeria would have been a great country if not for its citizens.

I know you were expecting that I would blame the government because it's the easiest target.

But you are all wrong and I'm right. The problem of Nigeria has always been the citizens not the government. That's why South Africans are kicking them out.

I will always support South Africa and every other country in the world to kick Nigerians out of their country if they can.

The problem of every dysfunctional society is the citizens not the government, because the government comes from the citizens.

And Power belongs to the citizens not the government...

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

Look for this lil girl for me 🙏🏻

[Trader Nenyenwa 📊📈💎 @neehyeehwah]

$XAUUSD ✅✅

4RR✅✅

All that glitters na wetin I wan dey pack 🙂‍↔️

Gm💜

[Philip D.Chia @philipDChia]

I'm waiting for SOLANA at $35.