Short at 29,493.00, target filled at 29,467.50 twenty-three seconds later for $510 — and then price kept going, clearing the 1:3 level by eighteen points. It’s the first winning day for the widest tar...
Two NQ shorts on Wednesday. Right on direction both times, stopped out both times, and both moves went on to clear 1:3 after taking me out. 51.25 points and $1,025 in under four minutes of market expo...
Four traders, identical expectancy, differing only in how they collect it. After 500 trades against the same drawdown, 95% of the small-win accounts are alive and 7% of the big-win accounts are. The a...
You’re hitting 25 points on NQ for $500 and you want $1,000 days. The instinct is to go for 50 points. The arithmetic says take two contracts to the same 25 points — and the reason isn’t that wider t...
No course, no Discord, no students — email is the only way anyone reaches me, which means I can answer honestly. Most of what arrives is about psychology rather than setups. Here's what I can help wit...
Not because volatility is frightening. Because volatility only moves one side of the trade — a stop is a market order that fills wherever price is, a target is a limit order that fills at your price o...
The standard advice is to make peace with losses. Professional CBOT traders tested for loss aversion showed more of it than students, not less. What separates the people who last isn't comfort — it's ...
Three honest answers — 20%, under 1%, and 1 in 2,456 — depending on what "profitable" means. One study followed every new index-futures day trader in a country for three years. Of 19,646 who started, ...
Why So Many Traders Play Poker (And What Actually Transfers) Susquehanna, one of the largest options market makers in the world, puts new traders through 100+ hours of poker before they touch a real p...
Why Institutions Win and You Don’t (The Premise Is Half Wrong) Two things are worth establishing before the advice starts. Active managers don’t reliably beat the market — 79% of large-cap...
