Traders have been infected with the constant urge to trade any condition, even without an entry trigger, any system or any reason.
Make the 6 Changes Below.
1. The Trading Journey.
Please understand that's there's no target or destination to be achieved or reached.
Trading is filled with errors, stumbling blockade and even Liquidations that will lead to costly mistakes.
Your aim is to accept that market will change, strategies will become useless and edges will die.
Adapt or Die.
Be ready to learn a new edge, a new Pattern. To restart.
2. Stop Chasing Profits.
The lust of trading lies in its rewards.
The pursuit of profits and prestige can hinder your trading performance, if that's all you concentrate on.
Winners separate emotions from these outcomes.
Be present in the process and not lost with the rewards.
So take trades based on the strategy you have and not Based on the dreams you have.
Be completely present and focussed on the process of taking a trade, on the trigger for entering a trade and controlling your Risks.
Keep these in control and not focus on your dream profits.
3. Be a trading business, not a Trader.
I learned this too late. Remove all distraction while trading and delete all Physical inconvenience.
Know the software and the system in and out like the best mason.
And remember, anticipation of success leads to entitlement...
I learnt that You can find the perfect set-up and execute perfectly, but you can still lose.
Markets change.
You will lose all the time. Just don't lose so much that you lose it all.
Expect losses, have plan B if trade goes wrong and Have Pre-determined Exits.
Know your exits.
4 Unrealised PnL is Just a Number.
Took me a long time to realise- Hindsight thinking in trading should be AFTER the profit is realised and moved to the bank.
Unirealised profits are just smoke and dreams unless captured.
Unrealised profit build up the anticipation for more.
A Pro Tip- Whenever you want I Screenshot your unrelaises profits to Show off, exit your trade. That's the sign of Euphoria.
Please Pay Special attention to Point 5.
This step will turn you into a real trading Business.
I wish I started doing it earlier, specially in Crypto.
5. The Auditor Monk.
This is a common sense I wish I syatyes in 2016. Take accounts. Be Okay about it. At a pre determined interval, you must reset.
A. Re-balancing the trading portfolio.
B. Moving a proportion of the profits to cash.
C. Adding the rest to the trading balance.
This keeps your trading business, your risk mindset and the machinery of trading and betting on Check.
You must be your own Monk auditor, do your own scrutiny at regular intervals, move the profits from Ponzi money to real money, at regular intervals.
Do this. Please.
6. The Fallacy of Backtesting.
Backtesting trading systems is good but it is I'll never fully prepare them for real-world deployment.
As much as fractal traders would argue, history only rhymes, doesn't repeat.
Each trading session is unique. Fractals don't work truly replicate hence here's a way to learn the market via the
'Tuition Fee Method'
Even if you're already an intermediate, you can try this method.
There's no options for beginners, you MUST try this method.
Learnings
1. No edge will be permanent, your observations will decay. You will have losses. Be in the business regardless.
2. Focus on the trade, scrutize the setup before entering, judge your bias and be slow before entering.
3. Remove all physical distractions while trading.
4. Understand the software and the setup, the rules like the back of your hand.
5. Don't enter unless you know when and how you will edit in case of a profit or a loss.
6. Don't trade it you don't have a system.
7. Rebalance like a monk, transfer to cash and trading account.
I wish I had implemented these small changed which would have compounded to huge gains today.
I make Bitcoin Trading Tutorials every week in a Lazy fashion, made for normal IQ people with practical trading on mind.
Some Changes I would make to my trading if I started again.
1. A few winning trades is a myth. Don't Listen to stupid influencers who keep telling you that you just need a few winning trades. You can't 2x your portfolio by risking it all in one trade and then assume you'll keep doing the same forever.
You need to risk small or maybe higher if you're very sure about the trade with higher conviction.
Higher risk has always blown portfolios. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling a course for a living.
Small risks, many trades. If you're really sure or early or have insider info about a trade, then can skew the risk higher.
2. For swing trading, nothing is more important than market structure and people make losses because they don't want to believe the market structure or keep holding onto a losing trade, even when they can see a different market structure.
Market Structure is there for a reason, use it, study it and believe in it.
3. You can't me use the same mindset, data and zones for different types of trading.
Each type of trading, Scalping, swing or investment is to be done in different time scales and you need a different zone and need to ignore a few zones for different time length of trading.
A Mega Thread for All Major Altcoins and how to trade them.
Book Mark and Study for your trades.
BNB
Since our last update, we flipped the 0.0093 resistance level, now forming a new range
Expecting a small range against BTC here before continuation higher.
Suggestion - Hold on to bottom entries if you bought with me around $500.
SOL
Tricky situation, if we hold range high we just flipped, I expect to reach $170 soon
Bidding region would be under $135 sweep based on BTC chart.
1. Visible Range OI Delta Profile on @coinalyzetool
Shows where traders are entering and exiting. Use this like VPVR.
Use this indicator on LTF to identify trading levels in a trending market.
In range, use this to scalp on either side as target when price deviates.
2. Aggregate OI:
Having net open interest across all trading pairs is very useful.
Sometimes, one exchange will market enter large long positions while there is no action or selling action on other exchange. This filters out misinterpretation of that data to a large extent.