My biggest takeaway from talking with so many funded traders who achieve consistent payouts is this: They don’t try to do anything fancy. They’re not trying to reinvent the wheel. They just repeat the same boring process over and over again. Consistent execution of their edge.

The less reactive we are to winners, the easier it is to tolerate losers. Come to the markets as a neutral operator.

You say you want to manage capital. Let’s test that. Can you trade for 6 months, execute perfectly, generate a flat return, and not change your system out of boredom? Can you watch the gamblers post lucky withdrawals while you sit on your hands because your setup didn't present

Imo, there's no better way to calibrate the mind than with morning self-imposed stress (good version of stress; eustress) on the body. That is, exercise to failure. I *never* wake up in a good mood. I'm either stressed (not self-imposed; distress) or feel a general existential

Starter positions with large stops followed by scale-ins with equally large stops on further additional confirming structure is the game for me. You can then trail to mitigate risk while not inviting sensible retracements to stop you out. This pushes me into swing trading

I've decided to mute all these prop service accounts highlighting payout denials. Too little due diligence, too much noise. I will judge top firms on my own experience only. I'm not saying props are always in the right, but it's impossible to tell what proportion of cases are

Could be total bollocks, but some thoughts on the idea of self-referencing in algos — I work on the assumption that modern market algo(s) ran by central banks are self-referencing to the patterns they produce in order to avoid any one model making too much profit. In some sense,

A future project of mine is to automate my plan through AI. I anticipate being able to simply talk to an AI to explain the mechanical plan. Will be interesting to test on a demo account and check with daily to see if anything went wrong. I can only take a limited number of

Being proud of a well-executed loss. One of the most underrated skills in trading.

I don’t care about achieving a $50k month where I broke my rules I’d rather have a $5k month where I followed them Until you reach this level of thinking, it’ll be hard for you to be profitable

A “good day” isn’t necessarily green. A good day is: I executed my process.

Structural edge is lost during red folder news releases because central banks can manually intervene in price action. Manual intervention invalidates the logic of algorithmic price delivery that underpins structural edge. This reseting of algorithmic logic doesn’t have to be an

If you torture data long enough, it will confess anything. And that’s not research. It's confirmation bias.

Backtesting can waste years that could have been spent learning the importance of consistent execution, better-tolerating losses, and not overstating the value of backtest results which fail to convey the variables of fees and changing emotional states. Backtesting can give the

Learned something new in the MT5 mobile app yesterday: Bulk Operations! I'm pretty much a desktop user only so never had a need for it, but flattening all positions before news has just become quicker by simply using the mobile app. I never liked closing positions one by one.

Technical edge is the foundation we traders work with, whether it's just liquidity, ICT, CRT, whatever. But it's impossible to have technical edge respected every day or even every week. Sometimes, the market is just going to behave in ways that seem as though our edge doesn't

If there is such as thing as basic/high income resulting from mass technological unemployment, I think there will be a twist that these futurists fail to anticipate. That humans will look out for their own against AI and choose to spend *more* money employing humans over AI. Not