"the beautiful thing about potential is the closer you get to reaching it,the further you get from reaching it. because the more capable you become, the more you become capable of"

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person." - Epictetus Daily Stoic

Big move up in oil today. Straight up since the open. $CVX liquid leader with a gap up thats holding up so far (notable given general mkt gap down today)

Oil stocks moving from stage 1 to 2. Tech stocks moving from stage 3 to 4.

Current selloff versus 1987, 2008, 2020 sell-off; The majority did not show the massive distribution that we broke down from this time. So this is not the same buy the dip plays we had earlier. I will posts some chart examples for reference:

No matter how much of an edge your system has, the reason you cannot realize it is always you🧵 Probability works through the Law of Large Numbers, and what is required of you there is consistency. 1/5

Ariel Hernandez Hah, just did the same. Per GPT ->

Weekend agenda ✨

Also, short float 45.63% Thanks Drew McConnell for putting this on my radar!

My fav new follow is Yumi🌸 Absolutely the best content on "trading psychology" i've ever come across! Every thread is a must read for me.

Here I break down exactly how to build systems that make your psychology irrelevant: ryanswright.substack.com/p/why-working-…

The Cost of Not Deciding The average person makes around 35,000 decisions a day. Most are noise: what to eat, what to click, when to reply. But for us in the market, a few carry real weight: the trades we take, the risks we avoid, the plays we pass on. Here’s the issue after

remember, it's not that, "the stock market doesn't care about anything anymore". It's that the market thinks other things are just way more important than the things you think it should care about. It's not the market that is distracted from reality. It's you.

Most "psychological" trading problems are symptoms of weak or ambiguous processes. Weak process → uncertainty → stress → impulsiveness → losses → emotional damage. Clear process → less ambiguity → lower stress → disciplined decisions → consistency. Your inner game is

Don't pick tops, raise stops. Stuff can go further than you think. Sit on your hands and let the moving averages be your guide.

Discipline:

Fintwit can be noisy. True. But it’s also where many ideas start and get refined. It’s where you can build genuine connections with like-minded people. And some tweets change lives. I attach Exhibit A — the tweet that started TTRH, which in turn has inspired many others to

Byron Wien: You once said to me that I was smart enough to get rich, but I did not seem to want to make a lot of money. What did you mean? George Soros: Business isn't that complicated. A lot of people of average intelligence make a good living. Really smart people can

"Hard work" in trading isn't forcing trades or staring at charts until your eyes bleed. The real hard work is done before the market opens: testing, planning, and defining your rules. The ultimate hard work is having the discipline to do nothing when your rules tell you to