Kasper

[Afyz @XYJtrades]

You do not become a disciplined trader in one day.

You become a disciplined trader through a series of small & boring, actions, repeated everyday, until they become instinct - who you are.

These actions are not heroic, they do not garner attention, praise, or really much at all: they are identify forming. 

Just as you drink water when you are thirsty, or brush your teeth before bed, these low intensity actions are almost instinctive.

So keep your trading a clean space. The right thing to do is often the boring one. That's how you reprogram your overstimulated limbic system.

Kaizen: incremental improvement by making small, sustainable changes over time.

The solution is not a grand set of rules, a half-assed promise to yourself to "do the right thing starting tomorrow" or "never over-leverage again"... it is instead to make small, calculated redirections, to shape your long-term behaviours and nervous system responses.

Here is a simple framework based on the Japanese philosophy of kaizen to approach rewiring your responses to losses.

1. When you lose a trade, immediately stand up, walk to the sink, and drink a glass of water.

2. At the end of the trading day, red or green, journal, and reflect on just two question:

i. Did I get up, and drink a glass of water when I lost today?

ii. Did I blow my account today?

What you are doing is creating space between stimuli and action. Your instinct is to revenge trade, make it back, over leverage etc.

Instead simply drink some water, chill the fuck out, and realize that as long as you have equity to trade with, meaning the answer to question (ii) at the end of each day is "No"... you will be absolutely fine.

In time losses will mean significantly less to you, and your nervous system will not see a loss as such an imminent threat, which justifies a huge action (an action[s] you almost always regret afterwards)

Identify areas of your trading, and moreso your life, and apply kaizen. Small incremental changes, to reshape your identify.

You will never be a perfect trader, nor a perfect man. You will still have bad days. You will still make mistakes. That is the human condition.

What will change is the long term destructive spirals. The type of spirals that walk you back to square 1 each time; the spirals you promised yourself 100 times you wouldn't see yourself in again.

You do not need to become a good trader immediately; you simply need to become a person who destroys themselves a little less each day... that's it.

No need for perfection; no need for destruction. No "changing your life in 30 days" or resetting your funded account stack every 2 weeks.

Slow, boring, repetitive, identity shaping.

Wake up, brush your teeth, take your trade, win? great. Lose? drink your water, journal your 2 questions.

Afterwards.... go on about your day and live your life. Repeat.

Slow, boring, repetitive, identity shaping.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

-1.5R | $NQ

Trading the 2AM candle

D1 SMT

H4 C2 / PSP

H1 SMT fill

Choppy price action and poor trade management are not a good combination.

[Accurate Tradez @AccurateTradez]

Even if you fail, the worst case scenario is you get a job like everyone else.

Your worst case scenario is everyone else reality.

So go take the risk, you got nothing to lose.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

2 losses today. Re-entered after the 6AM open with half size using the same idea. The idea was right, but the outcome was unfortunate this time. $CL

[Kasper @qtkasper]

-1R | $CL

Trading the 2AM candle

D1 SMT

H4 2-stage SMT, not confirmed yet

H1 2-stage SMT, tried to use H1 C2 closure to confirm the H4 swing point, but it didn’t work out in my favor this time

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Such a clean delivery on $CL around today’s 6 AM open, but no trades since price didn’t fill my limit orders. It is what it is.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

+3R | $GC

Trading the 10AM candle

H4 2-Stage CIC

H1 2-Stage CIC

[Kasper @qtkasper]

@eriktrades_ Wish I woke up earlier, but still managed to get 2R with a similar idea coming into the 2am open.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

+2R | $SI

Trading the 2AM candle

SMT on H4

H1 2-Stage CIC confriming reversal

M30 2-Stage CIC confirming continuation

[Kasper @qtkasper]

+3R | $CL

Trading the 2AM candle

Daily cycle SSMT

H4 candle 2/PSP

H1 2-Stage CIC

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Trading the 2AM candle

2-stage CIC on H4 & M90

Targetting the previous day high

+4.6R $CL

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Yesterday’s loss on $NQ

Trading the 2AM candle

Daily candle 4

2-stage CIC on H4

C2 closure on H1 and SMT on M30

Targeting a failure swings under the 18:00 open

[Accurate Tradez @AccurateTradez]

You wanna stop doing dumb shit when trading?

Get a pen.
Get a notebook.

Write down the life that’s waiting for you if you don’t change.

Write it until it feels real.
Until it scares you.

It should make you so scared, that you never want to do break rules again.

Because that future isn’t bad luck.
It’s the path you’re on.

Then choose.

Change…
Or accept that this is your reality.

I choose change.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

I need to go fully into futures. This fill is insane.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Trading the 6AM candle

2-stage on daily

H4 C2

Smt fill with NQ & PC with RTY on M30

BE on $YM

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Trading the 2AM candle

2-stage CIC on H4 & H1

Targeting 18:00 open

$NQ

[Kasper @qtkasper]

$NQ Trade from H1 swing to 5min equal lows.

Breakeven trade.

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Days like this are just something else.
$NQ

[Kasper @qtkasper]

Perfection.
$NQ

[Kasper @qtkasper]

@JacobSpeculates Nice, merry christmas!