Trading any derivatives market (not only crypto) with high leverage should have been viewed as a job; if you decide to trade instead of just passive investing, you can view it as starting your own job. /cont
There are two essential problems when it comes to trading. 1) You are getting spammed 24/7 with success stories of others 2) You are on your own sitting naked at home most of the time.
This can lead to the urge of "speeding up" the whole journey, but same as starting any other business, it's not smart to just wake up one day and be like "fuck it, I'm just gonna yolo send it here and hope for the best"
Another thing with trading is that I hate to break it to you, but you could probably teach 10 year old doing simple technical analysis and being able to spot some trades, because of that you will be wrong a lot and lose money a lot.
This is fine because if you can apply proper risk management and every time win just a little bit more than losing you will make it, not one trade, but in the next 1000 trades.
Trading is hard, it is mentally draining and can bring the worst of us, that's why the vast majority lose money, not because of leverage, exchanges, indicators, but because of greed and lack of determination and not knowing what they are doing.
Margin trading is not the only way how to make it, especially now in crypto you have so many options, its safe to say margin trading might be one of the hardest way of actually making it and you should always remember that your job as a trader is to show up tomorrow.
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A little bit about orderflow and footprint. I'm still getting an overwhelming amount of messages and screenshots from people sending me bid/ask footprints with delta asking if this is absorption or breakout and so on. 1/
As much as I can understand using these new tools can be exciting, when you are learning something new it is really good to just start with the basic stuff first and slowly build upon it. 2/
I have recently noticed this great post from @NOBStrades about these two types of patterns. There is no bid/ask or delta, this is just a simple y-axis volume profile for each bar.
ttps://twitter.com/NOBStrades/status/1423107825564332033?s=20 3/
/1 thread about daytrading.
I gained lot of followers lately, although its still not much compared to others, it comes very clear that most of you people are trully dumb as stick. I wish there would be another way to say it.
2/ and this is something big account dont tell you to just look good, but most of you people are just lazy bastards who keep crying in the comments as you made number one mistake in trading which is getting emotionally involved in assets you trade.
3/ as much as I think crypto is awesome and it is innovation we wont see again in our lifetime, if you want to actually trade instead of just investing you need to put big man pants on otherwise you get utterly fucked.
at this point I get 50 same questions everyday so here is a little thread so you can leave me alone.
- I use sierra chart and I watch Bitmex data only, I don't look at any other exchange or even aggr T&S.
The reason for it is that I get information overload if I do look at more
- You can use Exochart (with Tradingview combo) or Quantower if you like, all platforms can do the same things. I used Sierra for years now, they are a terrible company but I'm used to the platform. The bottom line is platform choice is 100% up to your taste.
- Although I execute trades on LTF I find my trading setups at 30min (sometimes 60) that are a combination of PA, TPO levels or levels from composite profiles. Besides that, I have weekly and monthly pivot points on the chart. I'm not scalping, I only take 1-3 trades a day.
1/ my Twitter was always mostly about sharing trades from Eurex futures but since I started focusing again more on BTC huge amount of people followed me. This is cool, but the messages I get are fucking insane.
2/ lot of you are reading the blog or even considering getting the Blueprint but coming from the place where you either lost a lot of money or you don't know much about trading.
3/ although this is probably not the best marketing if this is your case I highly recommend you not getting into day trading yet. There are a lot of moving parts that are really hard to digest and I'm sure 99% of you would be better of just DCA or taking swing trades.
ok so after posting some bearish crypto takes I got called larp and new to crypto few times, but I spent last 7 yrs in crypto and tradfi working in prop now so here is list on how not to get absolutely fucked and spend as little money on education 1/cont
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1) tradingriot.com no mercy I will shill my site first, this probably would never exist if I wouldnt be in lockdown but I spent so many hours on this, read the blog and get the Blueprint that will save you lot of money from other courses as it cost like €150
2) @paracurve Fxsanalytics is amazing course and active dashboard about daytrading ES, honestly even that I dont trade ES Steve shares so much stuff about the markets that paying $500 one time is well worth it
Good spot for some short squeeze here. Inside day low, 2-day composite value area low and lot of selling pressure with signs of LTF structure reversal.
$BTC
someone clearly hates fun.
Trade idea is still valid but understanding why the price is pulling back and on what magnitude can be very helpful for active trade management.
for this example when you are in long and you see a large seller stepping in you want to give this little bit of room as 2 things can happen.