Primordial

Trader | Author - In a capitalist society, money and life are the same

[Primordial @primordial_usd]

Nobody believes the economy is strong, but everyone knows assets will keep inflating

[Primordial @primordial_usd]

@duskfund @tradecopia One time in a chat with their support they were like nah Topstep accounts can't be slaves when nowhere in FAQ do they mention it. So confusing

[Primordial @primordial_usd]

This is the worst trading content on the entire internet. https://t.co/mK4xrLchih via @YouTube

[chartfanatics @chartfanatics]

You don't have 20 trading problems.

You probably have one problem creating 20 different outcomes.

Most traders think every losing trade has a different cause.

One day it's FOMO.

The next day it's overtrading.

Then it's moving stops.

Then it's revenge trading.

It feels like a new problem every day.

Jeff Holden shared an exercise that completely changes how traders look at mistakes.

For one week, write down every mistake you make at the end of the day.

Nothing else.

Just the mistakes.

At first, the list looks overwhelming.

But after a few days, patterns start to appear.

The same mistakes keep showing up.

Again.

And again.

And again.

What seemed like dozens of separate issues usually comes back to just two or three major weaknesses.

That's where the real work begins.

Most traders try to fix everything at once.

Jeff Holden teaches the opposite.

Find the one mistake that, if fixed, would move your trading forward the most.

Then make that your entire focus.

Because trading improvement doesn't come from solving every problem.

It comes from solving the right one.

Look at your trading honestly.

What mistake keeps appearing in your journal that you've been avoiding because you already know the answer?

[Dan Cooke @dancooketrades]

🚨PROP SCALING UPDATE🚨

Just added 5 x Traders Launch accounts to the stack.

Current lineup:

5 x Tradeify
5 x Lucid
5 x TopStep
5 x TopOne futures
1 x The Futures Desk
1 x Funded Next Futures
1 x Cash Account

One setup. Multiple firms. Same boring strategy.

[William @williamtradesnq]

$6,206 payout from @TradingLucid. 💸

One account. One strategy. One more step forward.

[Sahil @vedictrades]

Fumbled a $20,000 payout.

Was $600 away from it.

Very dumb of me.

No payouts for me in June. Sucks

[Andrew NFX @andrew_nfx]

Protect the account on your worst day and the good days take care of themselves

[Riz Iqbal @Wordsofrizdom]

$16M+ in verified trading profits. Alex Temiz says the most dangerous moment in your trading career isn't when you're losing.

It's when everything is going right.

"A lot of people feel like when they're on a win streak, that's when they're the most invincible. But that, to me, is when you're the most vulnerable."

Most traders treat a green streak like proof they've figured it out. They loosen up. They start attacking setups they'd normally skip. They stop questioning themselves.

And that's exactly when the market humbles them.

Alex doesn't even track his streaks. Not because he doesn't care about consistency, but because he knows what streaks do to your psychology.

They make you cocky. They make you sloppy. And before you know it, you're taking risks you never would have taken on a down week.

"If I was not self-aware and something crazy happened, I might be a little bit more loose with my risk."

His solution isn't complicated. When things are going well, slow down. Get more selective.
Treat the good run as a warning sign, not a green light.

The streak doesn't make you untouchable. It makes you a target.

Watch the Full Episode 👇

[Andrew NFX @andrew_nfx]

I met a trader who kept a "revenge log"

Every time he wanted to revenge trade he wrote it down instead of clicking

Six months later he showed me 40 entries

40 accounts he didn't blow

[Andrew NFX @andrew_nfx]

Every rule you break on a small account you will break on a big one

Fix it now while it's cheap

[Andrew NFX @andrew_nfx]

Risk small enough that being wrong is boring

That's the entire psychology game solved

[DionTrades ✪ @DionTrades_]

Losing the 60k wasn't the worst part.

The year after was.

I'd sit at my 9-to-5 doing the math on money that was already gone.

Smiling at colleagues who had no idea.

Coming home to charts that reminded me how much I'd lost.

The loss takes a day.

The shame takes a year.

Nobody warns you about the year.

[Fortune MMXM @FortuneMMXM]

It took me more than 4years to realize this truth

[Green Bird Trader 🦜 @greenbirdtrader]

The trade never went against me.

Not once.

A Globex short.
250+ points.
31 copy-traded accounts.
I spent hours managing the trade and never looked at my PnL.
At 11:30 PM I finally checked @Tradesyncer Cockpit:

💰 $276,135.94

Had I looked earlier, I would've taken profits at $150k and missed the biggest part of the move.

Watch price.

Not your PnL. 🦜📈

[Riz Iqbal @Wordsofrizdom]

Most traders have a system for entering trades. Hardly any have a system for what happens after a mistake.

One trader changed everything with a single rule.

Steven Dux.

He noticed a pattern that was silently destroying traders around him. A loss would hit and instead of stepping back, they would size up. Convince themselves the next setup was cleaner. More obvious. Go bigger to recover faster. And when that trade failed too the account was suddenly in serious danger.

He refused to let emotions make that decision.

So he built one rule. Every mistake cut the position size in half. Immediately. No thinking. No waiting to see how the next trade feels. Half the size. And if the next trade is a mistake again half again.

No negotiation. No exceptions.

Because the real damage was never the first loss. It was the emotional reaction that followed it. That desperate voice saying — just go bigger this time, the setup is obvious.

His rule silenced that voice before it could do anything.

Size went down automatically. Emotions had no say. And that one system stopped him from ever losing 50% of his account in a single session.

Not a new strategy. Not a better setup.

Just one rule — applied without question. Every single time.

What rule do you have that protects you from yourself?

[Primordial @primordial_usd]

@andrew_nfx Definitely but do you really think people only netflix and party in the weekend to waste time 😭

[Andrew NFX @andrew_nfx]

Most of you are unprofitable

And you STILL aren’t as working as hard as I am every day

You have to catch up so much - and you still aren’t giving it your all?

Skip the netflix and partying this weekend

If you really want this, you will hit the charts instead

[PropFirmTrader @PropFirmTrader]

Trading under pressure:

Force setups to pay bills
Overtrade to hit monthly targets
Spiral after one bad week

Trading with a salary baseline:

Wait for only A+ setups
Accept 3 trades a month
Let the edge breathe

One mindset funds a lifestyle. One destroys it.

[PropFirmTrader @PropFirmTrader]

The #1 FTMO trader on our podcast said something that hit different:

"Diamonds are made under pressure.
That does not apply to trading."

Most traders learn this too late.