🧵 HOW TO TRADE — explained by an idiot who has paid the market approximately £40,000 in tuition fees. I’m an uneducated idiot. I can’t write for shit. And English isn’t even my first language. So if you see a tweet in this thread that is somehow written properly… IT’S THE AI. 😂 I’ve watched and traded the markets non-stop for 5 years. At work. In the car. At home. Basically anywhere I could sneak a chart onto my screen. I’ve taken good trades. I’ve taken fucking awful trades. I’ve entered randomly. I’ve overtraded. I’ve held losers like a complete muppet. I’ve probably made every stupid mistake you can make. And collectively, those mistakes cost me around £40,000. But after 5 years of staring at charts, losing money, making money, and doing it all over again… I’ve actually learned a thing or two. So this thread is going to be me explaining how I trade. No Lamborghini bullshit. No “100% win rate” nonsense. Just charts, mistakes, risk management, entries, exits — and how I learned to sometimes get in and out of a trade within 15 minutes. If an idiot like me can learn this shit… Maybe there’s hope for you too. 😂 Let’s fucking go. 👇

Here’s another example. Around a PPI/CPI period I was watching: TOTAL3 ETH XLM XDC The market had been heading down. PPI came out and we got another move lower. But afterwards I noticed something interesting. On the 30-second chart, ETH started recovering and building an upward structure while some of the others weren’t responding in quite the same way. Then approaching the next major data release, I started seeing ETH and XLM showing little bursts of strength while the broader move was still trying to push down. Now THIS is where experience can become useful. I’d seen markets do something before major news: Push one direction. Wipe people out. Violently reverse. Wipe the other side out too. Then finally choose a fucking direction. 😂 So my first thought was: DON’T TRY TO BE A HERO. WAIT FOR THE DATA. When the release came, the market took a deep dive. I waited for that move to exhaust itself and then hit BUY manually. I happened to catch very close to the bottom of that move. Not because I possessed some magical fucking CPI crystal ball. 🔮 I didn’t KNOW where the bottom would be. And the same setup next time could behave completely differently. What helped me was recognising behaviour I’d seen before and being READY to react instead of trying to predict the exact price beforehand. That’s another reason I like the 30-second chart. Sometimes I’m not trying to place the perfect limit order and pray price touches it. I’m watching the move happen and, when MY conditions appear, I hit the fucking button. OBSERVE → RECOGNISE → WAIT → REACT. Not: GUESS → PRAY → GET LIQUIDATED. 😂 I’ll keep posting examples of these behaviours when I catch them so you can see exactly what the fuck I’m talking about.