from an old journal entry: "...therefore it MUST be different, or no difference will be made."

ok when i read my tweet it sounds silly. the context was it was a time when i was in a place of not getting changes i wanted across. so it was kind of a statement to myself like, look man you've tried to implement this and felt just as optimistic about this several times now.

GM GM GM GM GM! I'm going live on stream in a few minutes: youtube.com/@ninjatrader

ES model (one of the items pictured in the process diagram I posted last week) over past 4 sessions 👀:

Happy Saturday!

This putt for one under on the front!!

Did not make the 30 footer.

Look at my MAN stowe42 passing the apterostrading Tryout as of today-with flying colors. 💪Absolutely thrilled to have him on the live prop desk and support him in any way I can to help him be his best. cc: OrderFlow Labs NinjaTrader Anthony Crudele 🙏

I'll be streaming live from 8-10amCT this morning. Come hang out! Stowe will be joining in as well. youtube.com/@NinjaTrader

currently vibecoding and have Claude 4 telling me, "oh i found the problem, the data is from Aug 20th which is in the future!" [implementing fix] i think you software engineer guys are pretty safe for a while longer.

What are the best ways you've found to review each trade you made? Two things I think are super important are: 1) Was the trade entered and managed according to process? 2) Was the trade aligned with my contextual read/prep? What are your most important things?

Two things I'm seeing helping guys on the desk in 2025: 1) Using tech to help 'see' things previously used to look for manually. 2) Giving the 'boring old' ES a chance instead of only high flying NQ for normal short term trading.

Man, I keep thinking about Tommy Fleetwood after his first win on Tour... He had a long history of near-win and painful 'disasters'/'failures.' After his first win a few weeks ago, he said how this doesn't change anything for him. He's always seen himself as that 'winner.' It

We're launching some big things in the coming months. One thing I am definitely going to include is an awesome tool that shows short-term places where orderflow 'overheats' and reaches points where it's likely unsustainable/capitulatory. Been working on this for years.

I think we'll call it the "DD" indicator. I've always liked the concept of "energy" as it relates to short term movement. In this case it's the energy being released that causes the... Delta Destruction!

We had a good LIS today for ES (despite it's lackluster sluggish trading). Here's where we left off when I signed off the stream- discussing how LIS was still bullish, and how to 'more safely' play it, and the downside scenario if it failed. Hope some of you caught a piece!

of if you'd like to hear it laid out: youtube.com/live/m0xvSJalO…

Curious for input from prop folks: what do you see as the real advantages of sim-funded vs live?

At what point do you consider your trading “in a drawdown”?

One of my top Jr traders shorted ZN essentially from HOD to LOD today. The thing that strikes me about him (consistently) is that he's able to block out any variable other than his process. Few.