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[Oukham @OPteemyst]

Sam’s monologue from The Two Towers

Frodo : I can't do this, Sam.

Sam : I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

[fttc | 🇺🇦 @fttcceo]

Bro: "I started trading 3 weeks ago and I'm already profitable. I'll quit my job today"

Me:

[whale 🐋 @FactSourceNow]

@TradersConf You don’t lack purpose. You outpaced meaning.
At 19, money solved survival before identity had time to form. Purpose comes after mastery plateaus, now your job is to choose a harder game than money.

[The Inner Circle Trader @I_Am_The_ICT]

Good Morning Dear Friends...

Allow me to greet you with Christmas cheer and blessings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is my hope that this holiday season blesses you and yours with health and happiness.

I'd like to take this opportunity to inspire personal reflection. Did you waste your time on people who are toxic, in 2025?

Did you spend your time in the gossip girls club? Did you chase drama and influencers that clearly want to sell you their wares and would say or do anything to monetize your attention and or engagements?

The best Christmas gift you can give yourself is to unshackle yourself from dopamine drama, wicked people, hateful envious personalities that spend their time, unsuccessfully, comparing themselves to others doing far better.

2026 is a new canvas, a new bridge to better living with purpose. Give your mind peace and tranquility to perform optimally and without wasteful worship on nobodies panhandling for your engagements.

Make 2026 a year you escaped the trap that social media ensnares millions with. Namely, division.

Unplug from them and make God, family and personal pursuits priority.

Merry Christmas and may the Lord bless and keep you and yours in the coming new year.

In Christ,
Michael

[Ryan @DodgysDD]

What happened here ICT? Lol

[benny @thayreenfx]

@I_Am_The_ICT brainrot mentioned

[𖣂JIK𖣂 @OS3992]

Motivational video for the day

"Life is short so live it to your fullest and be grateful for every breath you take ❤️‍🩹"

(21/365)

[Tom Dante @Trader_Dante]

When I said I was bid the ES last night, a few people seemed to assume that on such a volatile open with outright panic in the air, buying the market was akin to “gambling”.

As I replied to someone last night, I’ve seen plenty of traders who will lose thousands of dollars trying to scalp a market on a quiet day, and often in a quiet period of that day, where price is barely moving at all. They’ll sit there buying the high and selling the low, getting topped and tailed on these aimless drifts, bleeding money quickly and hitting their daily limits. Yet they don’t view this as “risky behaviour” because price movement is slow and controlled.

When the market picks up pace dramatically, they think stepping up to buy a rapidly declining market into an excellent level is, in comparison, “extremely risky and reckless”.

I’m not here to encourage one way or the other. It’s an individual journey and it’s down to your personal risk appetite. But I can tell you that when I look back: every major opportunity I missed in those early days of my career was because I thought trades looked too “risky”. I told myself “price is moving too fast”, “my level will never hold” and then proceeded to watch what might have been, had I actually grown a pair of balls.

Yes, thin markets with very low liquidity, can move insanely quickly. Yes, you have to think far quicker. And yes, if you get caught, the risks of poor fills increase exponentially with your size. I accept all that. But my personal approach to this has been to have a a plan, step up, size accordingly and hit the prices I believe have edge.

This is not gambling. This is trading.

[SUAREZ @suayrez]

@kirawontmiss Bro is the goat 😭

[Sir Boski of X @OblongBoski]

@DelusionPosting Car no go up steep hill when cold

Car slide down steep hill when cold

Brakes no work on 2 ton mass go down steep hill

Steep hill bad for Car

Car no go vroom if crash on steep hill

[amanda @amandabb__]

chat gpt is not your friend, therapist, confidant, doctor, or anything else. please go outside.

[Tom Dante @Trader_Dante]

I’m so tired of seeing people refer to what they’re doing as trading “prop”.

The definition of prop is using the firms capital and balance sheet to conduct your transactions.

If you are trading demo with a firm and you are not live with the companies capital, you are NOT a prop trader. Simple.

If you ARE trading the companies capital, then you’re technically in prop.

But if you aren’t being scaled up aggressively on good performance and you don’t have a team to support you with this - including a dedicated risk manager and not an auto liquidation engine, you’re not in REAL prop.

The End.

P.S. When asking questions like: “Does anyone know a firm that doesn’t penalise you for swing trading like the one I’m with?!”…please understand that no genuine firm would penalise you for any style. If they make their money from the trader, they should welcome anyone who can produce good risk adjusted returns, regardless of the way they do it.

[Gene @realweirdgene]

Only thing that matters really is your daily routine.
Wins or losses don’t really mean much in the long run as long as your daily routine is dialed in.
Deciding 7 years ago to focus on optimizing my daily routine has made me what I am.

[benny @thayreenfx]

@LongIt4BongHit He can't keep getting away with this

[benny @thayreenfx]

@_TraderR When will they see it

[Sham @SpeculatorFL]

@theMMXMtrader If you really want to invest in 'yourself', invest here.

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Kid creates a coin, pumps and dumps it, makes $30K, and ends the stream immediately

[benny @thayreenfx]

@Cloud9 Make this your mantra then you will realize it is a blessing not a burden 🗣️

[benny @thayreenfx]

@Cloud9 Let me send out my application, is former Clash Royale semi-professional sufficient enough for this role?