Pratheesh Karthikeyan

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[Mark Minervini @markminervini]

I’ve had this on the wall in my office for almost 20 years, and I still read it every morning

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Study yourself. Your thought patterns. Behavior. Habits. Compulsions. Anxieties. Insecurities. Addictions. These are the very things standing between you and the life you actually want to live. Sit with them. Once you face them, the unconscious becomes conscious. And when you finally understand what they are and how they control you, you awaken. You become... unstoppable.

[EliteOptionsTrader @EliteOptions2]

Go from a zero to million dollar mindset today. You just need to:

1. Stop trying to get rich this month.
2. Pick 3-5 tickers and never trade outside them.
3. Mark your levels every Sunday. No exceptions.
4. Delete every indicator on your chart.
5. Size every position assuming it could go to zero.
6. Then size down again.
7. Stop watching PnL during the trade.
8. Decide your risk before you enter. Not after.
9. Never average down on a losing position.
10. Stop trading when you're emotional.
11. Stop trading after a revenge impulse.
12. Stop trading out of boredom.
13. Learn to sit on your hands for days.
14. Learn to miss moves without flinching.
15. Accept that FOMO is self-sabotage.
16. Never size up after a win streak.
17. Never size up after a loss streak.
18. Journal every trade. Win or lose.
19. Find your self-sabotage trigger and remove it.
20. Wake up early. Every single day.
21. Meditate before the market opens.
22. Move your body. Sleep 7+ hours.
23. Separate your self-worth from your PnL.
24. Detach from needing to be right.
25. Let winners run to plan.
26. Stop micromanaging trades.
27. Prove consistency before scaling.
28. Increase size slowly. Never emotionally.
29. Focus on process not outcome.
30. Grade your execution weekly. Not your PnL.
31. Eliminate one mistake at a time.
32. Never strategy hop.
33. Never indicator hop.
34. Never copy random traders.
35. Trade the first hour whenever possible.
36. Master one setup.
37. Define when NOT to trade.
38. Walk away after two bad trades.
39. Review losing trades deeper than winners.
40. Identify if you cut winners early.
41. Identify if you hold losers too long.
42. Protect capital like it's the only thing that matters.
43. Withdraw consistently. Every single week.
44. Avoid all-in mentality.
45. Avoid "this is the one" thinking.
46. Build tolerance for drawdowns.
47. Accept flat months.
48. Accept slow growth.
49. Accept boredom. Boring is the goal.
50. Never trade to recover.
51. Never trade to prove something.
52. Never trade to escape.
53. Trade to execute. Nothing more.
54. Stay small until the process is automatic.
55. Prioritize survival over speed.
56. Build emotional stability before you build size.
57. Think in years not months.
58. Stay in the game long enough to let it compound.

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@Barchart Short Nike.

Just do it.

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@EliteOptions2 $SPX is opening right at the upper end of the 5 day balance. If no buying up there, equal chances of a quick rejection from 7700 into 7640.

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@OhMyOhMar Was literally a call to short straddles intraday 😀

To be fair to him though, may be he meant NVDA results.

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@Mr_Derivatives Looks like a good short candidate to me as it loses momentum. It seems to resemble what Lance Breitstein calls "Bouncy ball"

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@SJosephBurns Most underrated? Self-introspection

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@TechCharts And Dow Jones poked below a crucial support and back up with volumes. Hmmm..

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@SJosephBurns Appreciate it. Been reading your stuff for a while 🫡

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@Barchart And WTI is down 2% :)

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@RichardMoglen Longs: $DASH, $PYPL, $PLTR, $URA, $ORCL
Shorts: $XLF, $GLW, $APLD

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

@Ashish1Nanda Do we have a performance split between intraday traders vs others?

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

7/ I stopped optimizing for excitement a long time ago. Everything I post from here is what that looks like in practice — real setups, real reasoning, as they happen

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

Physical commodities trading, then derivatives trading, then a decade of figuring out what actually works. 🧵

[Pratheesh Karthikeyan @pratish87]

6/ These days, I run two setups, built for minimum cognitive load, the same way every time. No more hunting for better. Just execution — and the results are even better than how I visualized them