Most traders think the answer is another indicator or signal.
But when I interviewed Luca, a trader who went from losing 6 figures to making consistent 5-figure months, his turning point had nothing to do with strategy.
It was all mindset.

(Thread 🧠💹) 2/10 When I met Luca, he was talented but broken. He knew how to trade. His entries were solid. But he couldn't stick to his rules.
One good trade? He’d size up like crazy the next. One bad trade? He’d revenge trade it all back.
Sound familiar?

THREAD: Mastering Pullbacks — The Trader’s Edge 🔍

Most traders confuse pullbacks with reversals and get chopped.

In this thread, I’ll break down:

What is a Pullback (with examples)

How to avoid traps using VWAP, JLines, and Fibs

When a pullback becomes a reversal

🧵 (1/9) (2/9) What is a Pullback?

A pullback is a temporary move against the prevailing trend — often caused by profit-taking, low volume, or consolidation.

Price dips... but the structure remains intact.

Smart traders use pullbacks to enter strong trends with better risk/reward.

1. After 25 years of trading futures…

I’ve tried every timeframe, every indicator, every setup.

Most traders think it’s about the perfect strategy.
But the real edge?
→ Timing.
→ Confluence.
→ Patience.
Let me show you how I simplified it.
🧵👇 2. Forget crypto, small caps.

We trade ES, NQ, FDAX, CL, GC, 6E, 6B, EUR-USD, Big caps, Mid Caps — instruments with real volume, liquidity, and precision.

No hype. No random pumps.
Just clean levels, readable order flow, and structured setups.

Christian Flanders’ s Strategy: 433% return in true US Investing Championship

#thread 🧵

Most traders look for the next setup.
Few know how to recognize when a stock is about to change character.
That’s the moment I want: The episodic pivot.

Here’s how I spot it, how I play it, and why it changed everything for me: 1. You don’t need 10 setups.
You need one moment when the market overreacts to a powerful event.
That’s an episodic pivot:

A gap, a surge in volume, and a clean range all triggered by a real catalyst.
You’re not guessing. You’re reacting to force.

📊 Indicator Roadmap 2.0

Most traders use indicators the wrong way.

They overcomplicate. They lag. They confuse.

But when used right? They confirm edge, clean up entries, and help you time exits.

Here’s your no-BS guide to the most effective indicators 🧵👇 🔹 VWAP – Volume-Weighted Anchor

Tracks the average price weighted by volume.
Used by institutions to assess intraday strength.
• Price above VWAP = bullish bias
• Price below = bearish tone
Great for trend confirmation and mean reversion trades.

How to Recover When You're Deep in the Red

Anyone can trade well when things are going great. What separates real traders? How they manage the bad days when confidence is crushed and the account bleeds.

In the last weeks I decided to challenge myself with a small account and I found it very hard.

So I spoke with some friends, profitable and professional traders of prop firms, hedge funds, individual traders.

I asked them some tips and here's what they told me. 1️⃣ ACCEPT THAT BAD DAYS ARE PART OF THE GAME

You will take losses. You will have brutal days. Even the best traders go through drawdowns, sometimes for weeks or months. The difference? They don’t panic or abandon their process. Your job isn’t to avoid losses, it’s to control them so they don’t wipe you out. If you want to trade long-term, you must get comfortable with setbacks and see them as part of the journey.

What You REALLY Need to Day Trade for a Living

So, you want to day trade for a living?

Forget the Lambos and “get rich quick” dreams. The truth is, trading full-time is a business, not a side hustle.

Here’s what you ACTUALLY need to make it work (and avoid blowing up): 👇🏼 1️⃣ A setup isn’t a strategy

A good setup is just a starting point. If you think you can make a living by spotting a bull flag or a double bottom, you’re in for a wake-up call.

A full strategy includes risk management, trade execution, and the ability to adapt.

After a life time in trading first italian markets then Us, I’ve tried nearly every broker out there.
I used plaftorms like realtick, metatrader, sterling, das trader pro.

Here’s the truth: the right broker = your success.

Often traders want to save money but would you race in Formula 1 with a cheap car?

Here’s my breakdown of the top brokers/firms and how to choose the best one for YOUR trading style. 🧵 1/ My top pick for the best broker for U.S. traders: Cobra Brokerage @cobra_trading

This is for advanced traders, who can open an account above PDT.

With lightning-fast executions and one of the best inventories of hard-to-borrow stocks, it’s built for professionals who demand top-tier performance.

Das tader pro and sterling

🧵 Trading Success in 5 Steps: Your Blueprint for Growth 📈

This is the sum of principles that traders like Mark Douglas author of Trading in the Zone and other traders as Ray Dalio have 1/ Step 1: Master the Basics 📚

Take one month to build a solid foundation:
•Choose a market/asset (stocks, ETFs, etc.)
•Understand market fundamentals
•Learn technical and fundamental analysis
•Practice with demo trades
•Master risk management and trading psychology
•Test strategies & review your trades

Nail the basics first.

5 Ways To Read Price Action

1. Highs and Lows 2- Support and Resistance

Avoiding the Traps in Small-Cap Stock Manipulation

5 minutes worth 8 years of studying and tracking small caps 🧵 Small-cap stocks, known for their high volatility and low liquidity, often attract traders with the promise of quick gains. However, these same characteristics make them prime targets for manipulation. Understanding these traps is essential to navigating the landscape safely and profitably.

TRADING PLAN

1/9
Don't trade without a plan! 📋
A written trading plan guides your decisions. It includes:
Where, how, and why you enter/exit trades
Risk management strategies

How to find trades and much more 2/9
How to manage your trades:
Define your entry/exit points: stop loss, profit target, trailing stop loss, or indicator

Always have a reason for your moves!

12 Top Traders and their Best Tip 1.The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham:
•“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.”

Market makers and institutional players often employ sophisticated strategies to capitalize on retail traders’ behavior.

Here’s a short breakdown of some of the “secrets” and tactics used 1. Retail Traps and Market Maker Tactics

Market makers use strategies like “spoofing” and “layering” to create a false impression of supply and demand. They might place large orders on one side of the order book (which they have no intention of executing) to push retail traders into a position. Once retail traders react, these orders are pulled, and the market maker takes the opposite position

I'm writing a COMPLETE THREAD about one of the Best Trading Strategies “The Ross Hook”

Trading it on my accounts swing and European stocks since 2003

❤️ this post if you are going to READ it 1. ROSS HOOK TRADING STRATEGY

To trade the RH pattern, we need to follow several steps:
1Find a 1-2-3 pattern.
2Wait for violation candlestick to emerge (it is considered to happen at the breakout of point 2 of the 1-2-3 pattern).
3Open a trade after the point 2 retest.

This is all you need to know about strategies

1. breakout
2. pullback
3. crossover
4. reversal

Give me 1 minute to explain them to you First you need to learn the wyckoff cycle which is formed by:
- accumulation
- markup
- distribution
- mark down

I'm 43.

I've been dreaming, thinking, loving trading for more then half of my life.

I spent over 39,000 hours studying the best traders, practicing, testing, trading, and having mentorship with them.

Here’s what I found on how to become a day trader: The market is a jungle.

You are going to trade against the biggest, most powerful, and highly resourced institutions like Citadel.

For example, they have 100 portfolio team managers running operations.

Hear it from Keith Griffin himself in this insightful

8 most famous risk management quotes to learn by heart

1. Paul Tudor Jones: The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offense. 2. Warren Buffett: Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing

🚨 THE MOST POWERFUL SETUPS

Small caps are very manipulated.

You can focus on news and you will see good news dump and bad news run.

You can focus on dilution and you will see often that stocks with dilution run and stocks without dilution fade.

So where to find edge?
🧵 1. Volume is key

Volume will never lie

Use volume to find confirmation for
- runners with high buying pressure
- faders with heavy selling pressure
- exhaustion for reversal
- capitulation for reversal

But volume alone is not the answer

Trading Lesson on Volume - AVOID THESE ERRORS

Learning how volume works will give you an edge in trading. These are my tricks that I learned during the years observing the market.

#thread 🧵 1. High Volume Reversal Setup

How many times they told you buy the breakout on high volume. WRONG! If you do this often you will get trapped on liquidity trap by smart money.

Becoming a better trader #thread

It took me 25 years to improve this process but this is what my 6 & 7 figure traders that I mentored have been doing to become successful.

I am going to share all this: My Goal: improve my trading skills and focus the next week only on the best trading opportunities.

Let's take small caps for example ( I will do a different one for mid&large caps)

1. Analysis 3 categories

First I analyze all the "hot stocks of the week" and divide them in 3 main categories

- gaps above 30% with at least 1M volume traded
- non gaps stocks that extended after the open 30% +
- overextended plays (runners for more then 1 day)

An example below of a scanner with edgetotrade