I've been trading for 8 years.
Tried everything...
ICT.
SMC.
CRT.
Fibonacci.
Trendlines.
Liquidity.
VWAP.
Order Flow.
Footprints.
EMA.
RSI.
MACD.
Bollinger Bands.
All I can say is...
NOTHING WORKS BETTER THAN SIMPLE SUPPORT & RESISTANCE.
There's ZERO debate here.
Brutal truth about trading:
The 2nd and 3rd years can be more difficult than your first.
You're grinding, without seeing significant results, and your initial burst of motivation is dwindling.
The real victor in this game is the one who pushes through these challenging times without giving up.
Brutal truth about trading:
The 2nd and 3rd years can be more difficult than your first.
You're grinding, without seeing significant results, and your initial burst of motivation is dwindling.
The real victor in this game is the one who pushes through these challenging times without giving up.
I'm 55.
I wish someone had told me this at 25.
21 sentences that'll get you ahead of 99% of people:
1. In your 20s, you arrogantly think you're 100% right. You are almost certainly not.
I am the only person in the entire world who has the secret.
The recipe.
The sauce.
It’s a heavy responsibility that God has given to me.
I won’t let him down.
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Yall know I trade 1:1 risk reward that's no secret
But it's also funny that all my mentees who have went fulltime also trade 1:1 risk reward
That's a pattern
Should probably listen to that pattern fam....
Trading will not make you rich.
At least not next week, month, or year.
🔻🔻🔻
But if you don't give up,
protect your capital, and
compound your returns
you will make it...
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
2:1RR AND 40% WIN RATE IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME INSANELY RICH.
I once met a woman at a trading meetup in Amsterdam who had been profitable for 4 straight years
$780,000 in total payouts across forex and futures
She worked a full-time job as a nurse for the first two of those years
Trading only the NY open
45 minutes a day
I asked her what her edge was
She pulled out her phone and showed me a notes app
In it was a single paragraph
Her entire trading plan
Entry criteria. One setup. Risk 0.75% per trade. Max one trade per session. Done by 9:45am EST
That was it
No Discord. No signals. No YouTube rabbit holes at 2am
I asked when she wrote it
'Three years ago. I haven't changed it since'
Her win rate across those three years was 61%
Average RR was 1.1
Nothing flashy
But she'd scaled to $1.8M in combined prop firm capital by reinvesting almost every payout back into new challenges
She told me the hardest part wasn't finding the edge
It was doing the same thing over and over when everyone around her kept telling her to 'level up' her strategy
Add confluence. Go for bigger targets. Try ICT. Try SMC. Try this, try that
She ignored all of it
'If it's not broken, why would I fix it?'
By the time she quit nursing, she was making more in a single month of payouts than she made in a year at the hospital
Not because she had a complicated system
Because she had an extremely simple one
And the discipline to never deviate from it
Most traders are still searching for the strategy that's going to change everything
She stopped searching three years ago
That's the difference
Every trade you place can lose.
Regardless of how big your edge is.
This is the reality of trading.
If that doesn't instill a deep sense of humility in you, success in trading will be challenging.
I met a trader who made $340,000 in prop firm payouts last year.
He trades 4 days a week. Maximum 1 trade per day. And he targets 1:1 risk-to-reward on every single trade.
When I first heard this I thought he was joking.
1:1 RR. That's it. No 1:3. No 1:5. No "letting winners run."
Just 1:1.
So I asked him to walk me through his numbers.
He had $2.4M in funded capital across 11 accounts. Average monthly return: 2.5-3%. Win rate: 71%.
At 1:1 RR with a 71% win rate - you're profitable. Obviously. But the real advantage wasn't the math.
It was the prop firm drawdown rules.
Most of his accounts had max drawdowns of 10%. With 1:1 trades risking 1% each - even a 6-7 loss streak didn’t ruin him.
While other traders were breaching accounts chasing 1:4 setups that didn't hit... he was calmly collecting payouts.
He showed me one month where he went 11 wins, 4 losses. Total gain: +7R. No breached accounts. No drama.
Then he showed me a trader he knew who ran the same capital - $2M+ funded - but targeted 1:4 RR. 60% of his accounts were breached within 3 months.
The high RR trader was resetting challenges constantly. Spending $3,000-4,000/month on new fees. Mentally exhausted.
The 1:1 trader was reinvesting payouts into more challenges and scaling.
This is what nobody on trading Twitter wants to hear:
You don't need big RR to make serious money. You need funded capital, a decent win rate, and the discipline to protect your accounts.
1:1 with 65%+ win rate SCALES.
High RR with 40% win rate BLEEDS.