Our house help used to walk 25 mins to our apartment in the morning, work for 4-5 hours non-stop,
then travel to Prabhat Road (barely 1.5 kms away) using bus (1 hour minimum by bus) and then work there for another 6 hours.
Total income per month, 25k. Hours worked every day (no weekends btw) 10-11 daily. Not counting travel.
My parents and her children had to force her to quit her second job because she was falling sick every other week.
This is the woman that our entitled, asshole, middle class public complains about because she gets 1200 Rs a month in Ladli Bahin Yojana.
There is a reason I call the Indian middle class the worst human beings in the world (not all, there are many nice, humane folks, but a staggeringly and shockingly big percentage are shits).
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#repeat Life isn't complicated. You don't need religion or sadhu-babas or philosophy.
Do your best to live a free, happy life (ideally purposeful). Don't hurt others. Be on side of truth and justice.
That's it. Literally everything written in every religious book, every sermon given by a religious leader or a sadhu baba, everything that *truly matters*,
is covered in what I just said.
Now there are more nuances, core personal dilemmas, like dealing with pain, understanding death, dealing with injustice etc. And everyone deals with them in different ways, but all that comes *after* the rules I just gave you. Those never change.
And btw, anything you believe or do that goes against the core rules I mentioned, then you are wrong. Period.
I get asked all the time... "Why do you swing trade?"
A lot of traders are working 10x harder for 1/10th the reward.
The market has spent decades proving that most of the money is made by simply surviving the close and showing up the next morning.
Overnight gains >
1 of the best habits I've built is not looking at my P&L while positions are open.
Green P&L makes me want to sell too early, and a red P&L makes me want to do something stupid.
The chart doesn't care about either, so that's what I try to focus on.
I'm curious to know... what's 1 small trading nuance that's made a bigger difference than most people would expect?
I'll probably lose followers, but I've never seen anyone on X talk about this concept... so let me be the first.
1 of the most unexpected things trading has taught me is that my biggest enemy was never the market.
It was ME.
For the first 2+ years, I thought my problems were technical. I thought if I could just find the right scanner, the right setup, the right indicator, or the right mentor, everything would click. But over time, I started noticing something uncomfortable... the moments that hurt me the most weren't happening because I lacked knowledge. They happened because I wasn't doing what I already knew I should be doing.
- I knew where my stop belonged, but I moved it.
- I knew I should wait for my setup, but I got impatient.
- I knew I should sit cash, but I felt like I needed action.
- I knew I shouldn't revenge trade, but I wanted my money back.
The market has a funny way of exposing what's already INSIDE OF YOU.
If you're impatient, it'll expose your impatience. If you're prideful, it'll expose your pride. If you're fearful, it'll expose your fear. Trading doesn't create those things... but reveals them. And the more time I've spent in this business, the more I've realized that many of the struggles traders face aren't actually trading problems at all.
They're HEART problems.
That's a realization that completely changed the way I view this business.
As a Christian, I believe there's a constant battle taking place inside all of us. There are things we know we should do, yet we find ourselves wanting to do the exact opposite. The crazy part is that most traders already know what they should be doing. They know they shouldn't overtrade or chase stocks into oblivion. They know they shouldn't average down on losers, and they definitely know to wait for their A+ setups.
Yet we do it anyway.
BUT WHY THO?
Because knowing and doing are 2 completely different things.
And I think that's why I've become so convinced that trading is one of the greatest self-development journeys a person can go on. The market doesn't care what you say you believe. It doesn't care what books you've read or how many years you've traded. Every single day it asks 1 simple question:
"Can you execute what you already know is right?"
That's relatively it.
And if I'm being completely transparent, some of my biggest breakthroughs didn't come from studying charts. They came from spending time in prayer, reading Scripture, slowing down, and taking an honest look at myself. The more I grow in patience, self-control, discipline, and contentment outside of trading, the more those same qualities naturally show up inside of trading.
I've found that when I'm walking closely with God, I'm less emotional. I don't feel the need to force opportunities. I don't need to make money today or tomorrow. I don't need every trade to work... I can simply wait.
And waiting is a SUPERPOWER in this industry.
The irony is that the market constantly rewards qualities that our flesh HATES. It rewards patience when we want action, and rewards discipline when we want excitement. It rewards humility when we want to be right, and it rewards self-control when we want immediate gratification.
Maybe that's why so many people struggle.
Not because they don't know enough.
But because becoming consistently profitable requires becoming a different person than the one who first entered the market.
So if you're reading this, I'd encourage you to ask yourself a question that has challenged me deeply.
What do I already know I should be doing... but keep refusing to do?
Because I have a feeling the answer to that question is probably worth more than the next setup, scanner, or strategy you'll learn about.
Trading has taught me a lot about stocks over the last 5+ years. But far more importantly, it's taught me about MYSELF.
And for that, I'll always be grateful.
I'm now done with my yapp session, so enjoy the rest of your day!
God bless.
"There are two types of stock moves. Magnitude moves and duration moves.
Magnitude moves are moves in which a stock makes a very big, rapid move. The magnitude and speed of the move are critical in this kind of move. Stock goes up 20-50% in just a few days, or makes a triple-digit move in a few weeks.
These are explosive momentum burst moves and are more common.
Duration moves are when the stock keeps going up for a long time. But speed may not be fast. There are stocks that go up slowly in a stair-step fashion.
As a trader, you need to choose which one to focus on, as that has implications for your entries, exits, and sizing.
I only focus on magnitude moves. I have no interest in duration moves.
Understand wick
Wick is a temporary pause within the expansion. It can happen where stock has rejected day high and closed at mid of the day/ little higher range of the day showing sign similar to half squat and next day the price instead of continuing falling and following the previous day's selling (which it showed in the half squat), it stops and start to trade in the previous day closing and high range marking a wick. There are few more ways to look at it as shown in image.
Type 2 - It can happen where stock instead of continue to expand take a pause but still trades in the higher range of the previous expansion showing sign of urgency without any major pullback
Yesterday after the gapup we are witnessing wicks across our watch list/holding which is a very very positive sign. Stocks breaking above today's high (wick high) are likely to show a strong expansion days.