Trading wisdom I wish I'd known from the start - passing these lessons forward: You need 2 things to win in active trading: - Way to measure momentum - Way to tell the difference between current session and an average session - Some tools: market profile, vwap, time & sales, depth of market, other quant tools But at the end of the day, its just tools. If you don't have an above average brain, you won't win regardless of tool. In general, the more desperate you are for money or results, less likely to succeed. You must devote few years to understand the governing dynamics. The most difficult trades are the most profitable and make least sense. In a BULL market, buying the most expensive company is better bet than searching for discounts. In a BEAR market, selling the cheapest company is better than waiting for values. You won't have a great idea every other day, but when you do, you should hodl. It's easy to be pessimistic, its easy to be bearish on everything and find flaws. Its hard to find solutions. Optimists make changes. Optimists make money. Before you win, you must learn to lose. Your ability to trade well depends on your ability to read market momentum. Your ability to read market momentum comes down to how experienced you are and how focused. Stocks are like waves. They don't go linear. They go down up down up. There are 4-5 kind of issues a trader faces in his life. Right diagnosis is important for correct cure. Which one of this is you? - Cluelessness - Psychological drama - Analysis paralysis - Execution issues - Weak minded Benefit of short term active trading is you can memorize several thousand patterns within a short span of time if you pay attention. Remember: you pay attention. Attention pays you. Once the water has gone under the bridge, it ain't coming back. There are only 2 ways to get out of the hole you are in: 1) Take the loss 2) Double down and dig out of it Your moment to moment thinking and mindset will decide rest of your life. 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Specific skill and knowledge is to be able to read market momentum through price, volume and volatility aka order flow. The Question is never about haves and have-nots. Or equality. Its about the experience. And price to have that experience. A High price must be paid for highest of experiences. You are not what you were 5 years ago. Or last year. Or even yesterday. You are what you are right now Stop regretting the past. Life starts now. Start living it now. What has happened in the past will happen again and again, and again. This is because human nature does not change, it is human emotion, solidly built into human nature that always gets in the way of human intelligence. Observe what majority people say. When they buy or say we are going up, sell. When they sell or get very fearful, buy. Rinse and repeat. Don't be so obssessed with inverted charts and non inverted. Remember, markets like simple More complicated your analysis, less profitable it is. If your wealth increases suddently but your wisdom does not, you will not keep that wealth. This space is not about getting lucky. This space is about learning a new set of skills and capitalizing on those skills for the next 10 years and printing money with extreme prejudice while everyone else cries for UBI. If you're around sheep, you'll become a sheep. If you become the strongest sheep, you'll still lose to the average lion. If you're given a choice to train with sheep or train alone then train alone until you find those who can beat you and then learn from them. When you insist you want to be right in the market at all costs, you're saying "I know more than any other trader. I have more funds than any other trade. I am more talented than any other trade." You know how ridiculous it sounds? 😂 To be a GOOD TRADER, you need: Medium to longer term context and shorter term execution talent. 3 factors: - Price - Volume - Volatility Your success in trading world resides in your ability to adapt to what you see. This is directly related to your ability of keeping your losses small. Remember all tools whether they are RSI or volume profile, they are simply painting a picture of past They are not going to predict. Thats your job. There is a moment in time when risk is very small. If you cannot find this moment, there's no point trading. Investing is better. Those who can find this brief window of time should only actively trade. It's okay to be wrong. Its NOT okay to stay wrong. You get fucked not when you are wrong. You get fucked when you stay wrong All TA is not created equal. You ignore who's active in market. You dont want to know who's buying or selling and how much. You ignore what's driving market in your time frame. 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All sessions are alive and are unique. No 2 sessions are alike. A common cuck indicator junkie thinks his indicator works in all markets at all times. Not true. an RSI of 70 doesn't mean same thing every dayevery day context and drivers change. Always serve others. always give back. always fill your own cup up so much. you can spill it into others glasses. always remember how you make money. always remember to pay it forward. always be grateful so that you can achieve true happinesss. Most of you are not capable of imagination & independent thinking. You're running on useless emotions . You don’t even own these emotions, they have been installed by external forces who wanna use you for their end. all cognition is a result of elimination of noise keep reducing noise until you reach which of which there no whicherworld is designed to increase noise Your job is reduce noise every day Have a vision and dream greater than your current existence if you want to rise above. 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Remember all bags are born as day trades which turn into bad investments. Market is random walk. Alpha is extracted over the next 1000 trades, not in 1 trade. Just never bet the house. Your job is to show up tmrw. to win in trading first stop making stupid meaningless trades,only trade when you have a reason. Don't have a reason? go find a reason.can't find a reason? Quit trading. this is how markets are: they are designed to scare the shit out of you. this is why they work You flinch, you lose At the end of the day nothing matters, things, stuff, money, al this is not what matters a good life can only be measured in terms of worthy goals and progressive realization of them. this is what separate men from animals Consciousness is a vehicle to explore. As long as you own your consciousness, you wouldn’t have to worry about anything. There are no limits or boundaries for those who own their consciousness. Don’t lose it. Don’t let it be stolen. Remember the cardinal truth about market: It goes where it can do most business. Be conscious when learning. Disregard the results. But document the process. Good trading is all about being good at “odd man out” GDP is best indicator if policies are working a growing GDP indicates country is progressing economically, its virile, good days are ahead. a weakening GDP is often a precursor to recessions, that winter is coming. If you have conviction, do it. don't worry about opinion or results. if you don't have conviction, don't do it, despite the popular opinion. Top Trading errors: - trading against the trend (cardinal sin) - lack of focus - lack of patience your intuition is far more powerful than your intellect (by a factor of 1000). Intuition will guide you to what the market wants and let you anticipate and react to her if your time frame is dozens of years, a correction of 10% shouldn't bother you. if your time frame is a few seconds to minutes, a correction of 10% shouldn't bother you. it's those in the middle who get crushed. Strongest and earliest odds of trend reversals are when a trending market falls back in prior balance. Time is ur friend in market . Time in market > timing the market People who have money don't think like those who don't have money. People who are successful at their game don't think like people who are not successful. Good traders are opportunistic, they flip flop. Bad traders are pigs. Good investors are dead (means they don't do anything, they HODL) Market is the cheapest when there is fear. Market is the most expensive when there is no fear. Your life will be where your energy is To come out of gutter, raise your energy. Everything else comes later Don't fight the process. If you are learning your losses will narrow and your win days will increase. If this doesn't happen, don't blame the markets or the furu. Keep at it. It will come to you. You will know when you gain 'unconscious competence". The greatest flex is having inner peace, reporting to no one, owning where and with who you spend time on The greatest wealth is health. The greatest joy is having no expectations. Informed players provide liquidity. Uniinformed players consume liquidtiy. Extreme prices creates sentiment. Sentiment creates bag holders. Bag holders create extreme prices. No one is going to think for you. No one is going to press the button for you. No one is going do it for you. You have to do it yourself. As a trader your job is one and only one: Its to figure out if buyers or sellers are more active and motivated A loss is not a loss in 2 circumstances: You dont take it You have gained something from it Market won't go to where you want it to go. She will go wherever market maker has least to lose. Weak men will avoid the short pain by making short term decisions which are bad for long term. Short term they gain small benefits but wreck the future permanently. Your job is not to chase the current thing Let everyone else do that. Your job is to figure out where the puck is gonna be in a few months from now. Watch your thoughts carefully as you are becoming that every day whether you notice it or not. Trading is not dealing in certainty. It’s dealing in uncertainty Good trading needs 3 things : 1. Context (which way wind blows) 2. Levels (knowing where cucks are positioned) 3. Execution (not pissing against wind) Good ideas will take care of themselves. Bad ideas will not. No one can predict market. You can only react to market - based on your skills and flexibility. Volatilitiy is designed to make you scared. True colors show under pressure. The dilemma of the unknown. Only the unknown can give any new experience - good or bad. Yet we are scared the most of the unknown. If you take risk & lose, it's far better than you never took risk and never won. There are no absolute wrong or right. Don't think in terms of price. Think in terms of value. Think in terms of possession. Do you possess scarce assets? If you do, then worry about what price you paid and what price they are right now. Basic principle of investing is same as planting a tree Best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. Second best time to plant a tree is today. No matter how small your tree, plant one today. Remember, market can do anything at any time to anyone. Never explain, never complain You just need to observe everything with an open mind. Question everything. But mind must not be so open that it falls out.

well the $XPL unlock wasn't handled so well & the Plasma community manager verified that. No Echo seed investor received any tokens lol & timeline has changed now I guess. So there's a reason that not a single token was sold during this bullish "unlock" bullish re-lock

this is how it looks on Echo btw no update for $XPL by Plasma team. I saw this morning ppl saying 33% unlocked for seed investors but no idea where that number came from.

about 20 mins ago, i moved my bag over to FOMO account i made this morning & posted a deeper thesis as to why I accumulated $ANSEM Stats on top holders have been updated. Moved to FOMO so ppl can just see you dont need 50+ positions nor have to trade 20X a day for a big W You just need onchain proof of a strong whale group & conviction on your thesis

Because there has been zero unlocks for $XPL no update on Echo for seed investors & next steps with the 1 year cliff having passed now. Waiting on the @Plasma team

Very sad to read this today. There's many unknowns, but, what I know 100% sure is I'm never going to bother recommending a @hack_vc backed product to anyone ever again. Rest in peace, @hsinju And I hope God or Devil (whichever is faster) gets those who inflicted this on you.

Current state of onchain is pretty much battle of who has more motion. CT influencers vs smaller accounts on FOMO have very different levels. some CT accounts with > 20,000 followers have less motion than FOMO accounts with 5000 followers. Real, proof of PNL matters.

At LAX & all i wanted was a quick bottle of water so i went to self check-out. How you asking for a tip AT A SELF CHECKOUT MACHINE?? the tipping culture in America has to change.

$STONK | $ANSEM side by side view seeing rotations back & forth a lot of rumors about STONK currently & teams past actions /how the tax works but all signs pointing that there's not enough new money rn onchain for both to run simultaneously. sign thats its still early stage

Last week after solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump updates came out, 8 different whales, some newly funded, came out to accumulate over 14 million tokens (~$2,400,000 million) & then Rasmr bought an additional total of $110,000 over the week. Chart reclaimed the 150mil range as well with successful daily closes over. Wallets: 34ZkXyd5D9VLPA3La3ineCsKbavCVGCz9kJP2MivZ2QT Dr5oMBL2wpxPUCcEmCKdXPhioAWNRWYBv8Vyx6LRU1w7 B9mtzoLoquB9a9eZ5qyP1Zepmjd8iqHS2uzY8NaCbTrB H9SJMc8aqBUUswex5w8rcQBopE4GCZFtcsQPWk5sRh1n 2MsW1rv316FT3ZD54HkiAotVnLQm1knVoLS2q6NbrFcB GpHkiRzoJDNPpDVgMx2E3xamrxogHKGaZg4HahQxhRVB fo6z1kTtYbgm6ipFowFyhRyipFu8zekJ9LBA24WSUaa aprKKvaxh2piT972Y42pH8VZG2nFq4VvKJZQXshBAj5

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Who is the next delusional group like $ZEC has? I've been accumulating solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump at $140mil MC & here still for few reasons: 1) a lot of finger pointing that side wallets all sold but I have not found any direct tangible evidence shared nor did Nansen/Astra find any after I linked Astra with my Quicknode account 2) a lot of the influencers/smart money wallets still hold > 30 days which is amazing given the short hold time many have on FOMO/pump (< few days) 3) Ansem did kick off alt season / "save" solana again. Also bc a lot of large accounts want to be close with him to get boost in their CT social/influential score, feel like thats a reason they hold & some have added back to their bags (ex. Rasmr bought back 40% more to his bag last night) 4) True circulating supply is only ~40% of total supply. Price can move fast. I dont think a billion+ MC is off the table in a short time frame.

What i learned from this "failed" $ZEC to $HYPE rotation: Your bag needs an insane delusional group who set targets that make it seem so unbelievable but due to the contagious energy & layering of narrative upon narrative (ex. $ZCAT pairing -> also $STONK eco) it becomes believable And then the targets raise & more ppl join in bc of a central belief that target is obtainable but also coin is moving bc of a higher purpose. I think once HYPE folks set targets for $100-150, while yes thats a good realistic target, people read < 2X & decided to for something bigger that came with something they can relate with. zcash | privacy | buying zec good for humanity reasoning

Just an observation but nearly within the same few minutes Anthropic's AI woke council got revealed was the same time $ZEC began to get the infinite bid & now nearly +13% for the day. Zcash got the bid over Bitcoin on the news.