@Egalmar1 How often does something T12 halt and open up higher after? Feels like it’s a downside risk more than anything else but still painful to be short during
@TannersTrades How do you typically go about finding news articles and dates for stuff in the past like 1998? I've been using perplexity for looking up old catalysts and news but it still misses things even on recent news sometimes.
Curious if you have any tools you particularly like
@traderprad@NotSoEasyMoney Not to mention the ones still around and dropping heat like Tyler The Creator, Kendrick, Earthgang, JPEGMAFIA, etc etc
Drake was always definitionally mid and part of the overratedness. Him sliding off never mattered at all to me
@traderprad@NotSoEasyMoney Rap peaked in terms of mainstream popularity. Which honestly I think is good for the art. Way less trash artists propped up by rapping about the things you mentioned
There’s still a base of great early career artists tho. JID, Denzel Curry, Vince staples, Smino, Little Simz, etc
@MikeBellafiore@smbcapital How have some of the more discretionary traders been using AI tools to help their trading? Giving it backtest work? Feeding it execution data to come up with more insights? Anything else?
@MikeBellafiore@smbcapital What’s the range of different breathing exercises you guys employ at the screens, if any? When do you tangibly use them? Before open, after closing a trade, after noticing a personal trigger, etc?
The damage that sports betting and easy access gambling through sports, options trading, prediction markets, etc. has done to Millennials and Gen Z is probably far worse than anyone realizes.
Gambling used to be restricted to Vegas and casinos, now it’s as accessible as making a phone call, sending a text, checking your email, etc.
The younger generation is already under pressure and feels hopeless as traditional paths to wealth and home ownership seem unattainable, dangling the “golden goose” or “ticket to freedom” gambling carrot in front of younger people is pretty gross. What’s worse is how complicit the media companies and sports leagues are with it as well.
Think this normalization will be looked back at as a big mistake years down the line.
Note to myself:
Super performance doesn’t just come from the good trades you take.
It also comes from the discipline to avoid the trades that never should’ve been touched.
The impulsive setups, the forced entries, the trades that don’t fit your plan—they are the silent killers. Small losses stack. Confidence gets chipped away. Over time, they do more damage than one bad day ever could.
Most of the PnL comes from being in sync with the right stocks, the right sectors, the right moments. That’s where the edge lives. But if you let the “shitty trades” creep in, they dilute everything. They distract you from your real setups. They erode your conviction.
And too often, traders risk more on these poor setups than on their true A+ trades. That flips the whole game—underexposed on the winners, overexposed on the losers. That’s how edges die.
The realization is simple: greatness isn’t just built on the trades you take. It’s built on the ones you refuse to take.
Protect your edge. Protect your capital. Protect your confidence.
The trader you want to become lives on the other side of that discipline.
@TheOneLanceB lol good reminder for me to not think about it too much. Sometimes I’ll feel the drift to peek over and look at this stuff in a “I’m smart, I can learn this” but as an intraday trader there’s really no ROI on time for me here.
Will just watch and listen. Stick to MY edge
@rick_alarcon1 Do you typically take the 9ema retest near the break of highs or was it too fast to get a decent bid in lower (I'm assuming you mean the 9:36am candle for the 9ema retest vs later)
@limeperriere@KaterinoB I would definitely consider these all "in play" due to technical levels/breakouts from the Daily and market environment.
It's very rare to see a high beta hit 2x 3x RVOL that you want to see in a mid cap to consider it in play, so the definition will be different for large caps