Alex

BSc. Computer Science. Tech Builder. Trader.

No risk, no reward. 📈

[Alex @stilla1ex]

Dear me, you'll be proud of yourself.

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@DemetriusRO6 How are you that patient

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prompting is basically just learning to explain what you actually want.

turns out most of us were bad at that before ai too.

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everyone’s building ai tools.

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automation is amazing until you realize you automated your bad habits too

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ai is great at explaining what happened on the chart.

it has no idea what it feels like to be in the trade.

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@Degrata254 Lol

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@hardexploit 💯

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phone notifications are a risk management issue and nobody talks about it

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@WatcherGuru

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my phone has 6 charting apps and zero discipline

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nobody warns you that trading is mostly sitting there.

waiting. doing nothing. watching price do nothing.

then 20 minutes of chaos and it's over.

[Alex @stilla1ex]

Start your day with your hardest task and watch the rest of the day flow easily.

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XAUUSDT

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Your first 100 trades aren't about getting rich.

They're about discovering:

What works.

What doesn't.

What you keep doing wrong.

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Most traders don't lose because their strategy is bad.

They lose because they can't follow it.

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A trade can be perfectly executed and still lose.

That doesn't automatically mean you did something wrong.

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Most traders don't lose because they can't analyze charts.

They lose because they can't wait.

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FOREX ACRONYMS EVERY TRADER SHOULD KNOW

MARKET STRUCTURE
BOS - Break of Structure
MSS - Market Structure Shift
CHoCH - Change of Character
HH - Higher High
HL - Higher Low
LH - Lower High
LL - Lower Low
EQH - Equal Highs
EQL - Equal Lows

PRICE ACTION / SMC
FVG - Fair Value Gap
IFVG - Inverse Fair Value Gap
OB - Order Block
BB - Breaker Block
BPR - Balanced Price Range
POI - Point of Interest
LQ - Liquidity
BSL - Buy-Side Liquidity
SSL - Sell-Side Liquidity
OTE - Optimal Trade Entry
SMT - Smart Money Technique

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
S/R - Support & Resistance
S/D - Supply & Demand
EMA - Exponential Moving Average
SMA - Simple Moving Average
VWAP - Volume Weighted Average Price
ATR - Average True Range
RSI - Relative Strength Index
MACD - Moving Average Convergence Divergence
SL - Stop Loss
TP - Take Profit
BE - Break Even
RR / R:R - Risk-to-Reward Ratio

TIMEFRAMES
HTF - Higher Time Frame
LTF - Lower Time Frame
TF - Time Frame
M1 - 1 Minute
M5 - 5 Minutes
M15 - 15 Minutes
M30 - 30 Minutes
H1 - 1 Hour
H4 - 4 Hours
D1 - Daily
W1 - Weekly
MN - Monthly

FOREX / TRADING
FX - Foreign Exchange
PIP - Percentage in Point
PP - Pipette
BID - Price at which you can sell
ASK - Price at which you can buy
SPREAD - Difference between Bid & Ask
LOT - Standardized Trade Size
LEVERAGE - Borrowed Trading Exposure
MARGIN - Capital Required to Open a Position
SLIPPAGE - Difference Between Expected & Executed Price
SWAP - Overnight Financing
BE - Break Even

ECONOMIC NEWS
FOMC - Federal Open Market Committee
Fed - Federal Reserve
NFP - Non-Farm Payrolls
CPI - Consumer Price Index
PPI - Producer Price Index
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditures
PMI - Purchasing Managers' Index
ECB - European Central Bank
BoE - Bank of England
BoJ - Bank of Japan
RBA - Reserve Bank of Australia
BoC - Bank of Canada
SNB - Swiss National Bank
RBNZ - Reserve Bank of New Zealand

SESSIONS
AS - Asian Session
LS - London Session
NY - New York Session
LON/NY - London/New York Overlap

RISK MANAGEMENT
RR - Risk-to-Reward
R - Risk per Trade
SL - Stop Loss
TP - Take Profit
DD - Drawdown
EV - Expected Value
WR - Win Rate
PF - Profit Factor

JOURNALING
BE - Break Even
MAE - Maximum Adverse Excursion
MFE - Maximum Favorable Excursion
R - Risk Unit
A+ - Highest-Quality Setup

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Why do you avoid trading during FOMC announcements?

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The consistency rule exists because they know exactly how you actually made the money.