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[zander @popflavius]

@marty_kausas @openknowledge I know it s an IDE, but works well. One downside looks like it does not keep a chat history like Antigravity. Maybe a future update.

[zander @popflavius]

@shannholmberg Dod you do some changes to this in the past months?

[zander @popflavius]

@fin_freedompath How do you plan on managing this position on Monday open?

[zander @popflavius]

@edgeful IB

[Crowded Market Report @Crowded_Mkt_Rpt]

Video coming tomorrow: "One of the things you must do if you want to do this. It's not for everybody. It's not spoken about enough. Your emotional construct is a very important part of how you survive this game. It looks lucrative, it appears exciting, but it's not. It's a grind. It's behavioral. It is knowing yourself. It is getting into the weeds of understanding your emotional construct. That's the most important part of being a bloody good trader." Andrew Perry (time stamp 21:50)

[zander @popflavius]

@chefbimal @fin_freedompath how often do you initiate the triple calendar? Does it matter if the current one is exited or not?

[zander @popflavius]

@chefbimal @fin_freedompath @fin_freedompath interested in the answer to that question as well. I just put one lot this morning for a test.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The worst mistakes in life are made when you try to do fast what’s meant to be done slow. Real, durable things take a long time to build. Careers. Businesses. Relationships. Health. No hacks or shortcuts. The long way is the right way.

[Mark Minervini @markminervini]

Anyone with a functioning brain can trade stocks successfully—so then, why do few succeed on a big level?
Because few are willing to admit one simple truth: you suck!
Your head is full—sucky opinions, sucky assumptions, and “logic” that feels right but produces the wrong results.
As long as your cup is full, there’s no room for anything that actually works.
Empty it!!!
Strip away the ego. Discard everything you think you know.
Then find someone who’s already done it—at a high level—and shut up long enough to learn.
And finally, the hardest part: commit.
Commit to a strategy. Commit to your coach. Commit to the process. Commit to the belief that you can do it.
No dabbling. No second-guessing. No halfway effort.
Because success in this game doesn’t come from intelligence—it comes from discipline, humility, and coachability.
And most people fail because they lack all three.
You don't know shit! If you did, you would already be worth tens of millions of dollars. But I'm here to tell you that you CAN do it. Because I did. Anyone who tells you can't, never did it themselves. That's the final peace of the puzzle. Stop listening to losers and self proclaimed gurus. If they are so smart and they know how to teach you. Why haven't they done it for themselves. Do you really think someone who hasn't made 100 million dollars can teach you how to do it? If you do, then, that's why you'll never achieve it.

[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

I TRADE CHARTS, NOT VIEWS

I can’t believe that the market is ripping to ATH so quickly. I can’t believe that oil is back to $80. Both don’t make sense to me.

How much have I lost short the market? $0

How much have I lost long oil? $0

It’s because I’m not trading my views. I know my views are total shit and useless. I trade hyper-specific chart patterns that have proven statistical edge. If my view aligns with it, that might help me size it. But never is a view ever sufficient for me to put risk on without the technicals backing it up.

[zander @popflavius]

@PavanCharts any insight on how can I create a similar dashboard?

[zander @popflavius]

@ZigsOnTheBid @thegexbot What sub level you need for this on the gexbot?

[Basis Points @basispointpod]

Josh Brown on dealing with other people's opinions:

"Well, they can kiss my a**. Everyone gets things wrong. You need to care enough to be able to put your ideas out there."

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you realize it’s never too late. You can wake up and choose to see things differently. You can completely reinvent your life. Too late is an internal fantasy, not an external reality. Every time you think it’s too late, it’s probably still early.

[TJ Freeman @tjfreeman_95]

Linda Bradford Raschke has been consistently profitable for decades. That alone should make you stop and pay attention to everything she says. Here are the five lessons from her latest interview with Jason Shapiro that hit hardest:

1. Most of your profits will come from a small number of trades - and that's completely fine.
Linda is very clear about this. Regardless of whether you're a day trader, swing trader or long-term trend follower, roughly 20% of your trades will account for 80% of your profitability. The implication is enormous - stop treating every session like it has to deliver. Your job is to stay consistent, protect capital, and be positioned correctly when the real opportunity shows up. The big moves in cocoa she referenced - ten solid weeks of downtrend - don't come around every week. When they do, you need to still be in the game;

2. Never make public predictions about market direction. Not even to yourself.
This one caught me off guard. Linda told Jason that when he asked her before the interview to share her market outlook, she refused - not to protect anyone else, but to protect herself. Once you verbalize a directional bias, it embeds itself in your subconscious and quietly destroys your flexibility. The market is a fluid, dynamic environment that demands constant adaptation. Locking yourself into a narrative - publicly or privately - is one of the most expensive things a trader can do. Stay fluid. Let the data speak.

3. Technical analysis is a risk management tool, not a prediction tool.
This reframe is critical. Linda argues that the primary value of technical analysis isn't telling you where the market is going, but telling you where it shouldn't go if your thesis is correct. Support and resistance define your risk. Everything else is just noise management. The traders who use charts to project targets and call directions are misusing the tool entirely. The ones who use it to define the conditions under which they're wrong - and act accordingly - are the ones who last.

4. Wear one watch.
One of the most memorable lines in the entire interview. If you're wearing two watches, you'll never know what time it is. Linda applies this directly to information consumption - five subscriptions, ten different voices, constant FinTwit noise. All of it creates confusion and erodes the one thing that actually makes you better: your own judgment. Do your own work. Build your own framework. When you get to a key level, you need to be able to trust your own read of what's happening - and you can only do that if you've done the homework yourself.

5. You need two things in any performance-oriented discipline: humor and patience.
Linda heard this from an Olympic equestrian coach in her 80s and immediately applied it to trading - and she's right. Humor keeps you loose and relaxed, which is exactly the mental state where your best decisions get made. The traders who are white-knuckling every session, anxious and desperate, are the ones who miss the obvious setups staring them in the face. And patience - everyone grossly underestimates how long this actually takes. Linda said she's been working on dressage for 40 years and still feels like an amateur. Trading is no different. The timeline is longer than you think, the immersion required is deeper than you think, and the ones who make it are the ones who accepted that reality early enough to stay in the game.

Go watch the full interview. Then watch it again.

@LindaRaschke @Crowded_Mkt_Rpt

https://t.co/qt843YhrAh

[Crowded Market Report @Crowded_Mkt_Rpt]

The interview with @LindaRaschke is now live! Sincere thanks to Linda for sharing her knowledge on trading & life. Easily a must watch for all traders.

https://t.co/3JxSjz8p5Z

[Deniz The Trader @DenizTheTrader]

Risk management is the most underrated trading skill.

You can win 5-10-20 trades in a row,
but lose everything with 1...

[J trader @jtrader]

The market is the only place on earth where effort does not guarantee reward.

You can wake up early.

Backtest for months.

Refine entries.

Journal daily.

And still lose.

Not because you’re wrong.

But because randomness doesn’t negotiate with preparation.

This is what breaks people.

They expect fairness.

But markets are not moral systems.

They are probabilistic systems.

When you finally accept that,
something shifts.

You stop asking, “Why me?”

And start asking, “Did I execute correctly?”

That question is power.

[zander @popflavius]

@damianplayer CLAWDBOT

[zander @popflavius]

@_breadgineer what's the background color and DVA cloud color? Thanks