So I spent 8 hours listening to the Trading in the Zone audiobook on youtube, here are some cliffs notes.

TLDR below this tweet. Trading is a paradox. The market often proves or disproves our beliefs/edges. You will enter the zone once accepting this uncertainty and trade appealing to our edge in the long run. Strive for this consistently and you will become a trader, and the zone will come naturally.

We all see winners here, every home run, every insane call.

I’ve yet to see though, people posting a losing period, how they managed it and what they learned.

This is my current equity curve.

A thread on headspace, fear and some takeways for moving forward. First let’s take a look at the first half of the PNL (it took me a month to get used to the new params I had, so excuse that bit of time).

Looks like price action wouldn’t you say? Could even do TA on it. Anyway, active, volatile and trending, upwards.

1/ On the anticipation of swing points; getting front ran or getting run over 2/ Front running is when an anticipated level gets traded right before reaching it, leaving basically everyone with no fills.

Most of the time it's a very obvious level, namely round numbers and historical levels.

1/ By now you should be ingrained with how bullish, bearish and ranging environments look and behave like 2/ Bullish enviroments are quick, give almost no time for doubters to hop in and enjoy the uptrend. Highs get taken like there's no tomorrow. Any deviation or retrace gets erased quickly by violent pumps. Have your take profits ready, they may hit quicker than you think.