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How To Reach Peak Trading Performance (Thread)

 Trading is you versus the Market. It’s a one on one battle with a system designed to take your money if you lack discipline and an identifiable edge.
To achieve success and be able to take on this opponent, you must conquer your own faults and work towards incremental improvement.

Learning to trade, analyze charts, and manage risk are skills that you can carry with you for a lifetime.
However before you can reach the performance phase and consistently capture alpha, every trader must go through learning phases.
Your journey begins as a rookie trader, thrust in the midst of a pitched battle between yourself and the market.
Traders in this phase have no cohesive strategy or feedback loops which they use to test ideas and then improve. They take trades based on FOMO, what friends are saying, and what is claimed to be a sure thing from pundits and social media.
During this phase, this is a significant lack of discipline and accountability. Any profits are attributed to skill and any losses are the fault of algos, the fed, or the smart money. The focus is on getting rich quick, excitement, perfect stocks and perfect indicators.
There is no thought of risk management and often traders in this phase will experience large drawdowns and frustration when the market becomes choppy. Batting averages will fluctuate and average gains will be much smaller than average losses
For many this will be the only phase they experience before giving up.

However with discipline and hardwork, everyone can move on to the next one
The next phase begins with a commitment to yourself.

Do you want to learn and improve at trading and build wealth over time?
Are you willing to put in the work of reading books, taking courses, watching webinars, and researching edges to accumulate the knowledge necessary to successfully and consistently trade?
Once you make this commitment, you have begun the transition into the consistency phase.
In this phase, you must focus on the process of trading, not the potential rewards.
You should be building comprehensive rules which will govern your trading decisions from stock selection, buy/sells, position-sizing, to how you will deal with different market environments.
You should also focus on building habits that prepare you for the trading day. Most of the work should be done pre/post market and on the weekends.

Position Sizes, entry points, and stop-loss levels can all be determined in advance.
Trading is about fixing your problems. You have to be a good problem solver and not an excuse maker.
Here are some common issues of traders in the consistency phase:

Focusing on low potential/quality stocks & setups
Entering at non-optimal points (extended from a pivot/support)
Being inconsistent with position sizes and stop losses.
Trading out of tune with the market
The solution to all these issues is discipline and hard work, there are no shortcuts here. Focus your efforts on the identification of issues with your trading and then obsess over solving them.
The length of the consistency phase depends on how much deliberate study a trader does.

Books, seminars, and videos from experienced traders sharing mistakes & lessons can provide the foundation to quickly accelerate your learning curve.
During this phase you start to realize that after a certain point, trading is less about the perfect setup and being right, but more about being in sync with your own emotions, the market, and managing risk above all else.
At this point the focus starts to turn less from being right to targeting high potential setups and taking only small losses when wrong.

Having the discipline to wait for the right pitch becomes critical.
The consistency phase naturally transitions to the Performance phase in trading as you identify your edges and manage risk effectively.

During this phase the goal is to simply perform.
Traders become confident in their chosen setups and narrow their focus to only stocks which meet their strict criteria.

Daily and weekend routines keep them in touch with market conditions, what types of setups are working, and high potential ideas for the trading day.
Every day these traders do their homework and prepare for success.

The goal is to perform when the conditions are right and increase their equity curve, and then scale back to minimal exposure when conditions change.

Go flat, perform, repeat.
Trading is a lifelong journey and traders in every phase experience drawdowns, knocks to their confidence, and poor performance periods.
However, while newer traders might get frustrated during bad times, over trade and size up to get back what they have lost, more experienced traders in the performance phase fall back on their risk management rules, their routines, and scale back until they find their footing.
They recognize that trading will be an ever evolving process and that the market will always be there. They are involved in the markets to perform not for the action.

Learn to recognize which phase you are currently in.
Identify your weaknesses through post analysis and strive to address them by adding rules and routines.

Focus inward, not on another trader's action on twitter who may be in a completely different phase than yourself
It’s all about incremental improvement and growth and being better than yourself one year ago.

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There is only one proven way to prevent blowing up your account:

Setting Stop losses.

Properly setting & implementing stop losses will save you millions over your career.

Here's a top down guide with everything you need to know about Stop Losses, broken down step by step 👇🧵

In this 🧵, we'll cover:

· The Goal of Stop Losses
· How to Place a Proper Stop Loss
· Answers to Frequently Asked Stop Loss Questions
· General Guidelines to Protect Your Account

& tons of examples!

Let's jump in 💪

Overall Goal of Stop Losses 👇

The goal of a stop loss is to cap your downside while maximizing the upside from proven setups.

It is impossible to be correct on every trade you make, so it is very important that you implement stop losses to contain your losing trades!

Let's look at some examples to show you how important stop losses can be:

$PTON (Weekly!)
$TSLA (2020 B/O)
$NVDA (1999 IPO B/O)
$AMPH (Last Week's Action)


In each of the examples above, you could have used proper stop losses to capture massive upside gains & protect yourself from huge downside losses!
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8 Steps to building a Trading System (Thread)

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Individuals must keep their personality, lifestyle, and risk appetite at the forefront of their minds when building their trading system.

In this thread we will break down the components of a successful trading system for consistent returns in the markets 👇

Components of a Successful Trading System

1. Market
2. Time Frame
3. Edges
4. Entry Tactics
5. Setups
6. Rules & Risk Management
7. Journaling
8. Post Trade Analysis

Let's discuss the first component, The Market.

The financial markets are divided into the following 👇

1. Equity
2. Bond
3. Futures
4. Forex
5. Commodity

Each market requires a different set of knowledge, skill, experience, and know-how.

Once you know which type of Market you want to trade, you must now choose your Time Frame.

Day Trade
Swing Trade
Position Trade
Combination of all the above

Time Frame often aligns with a traders personality, lifestyle, goals. 🧠
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3 Simple Steps to Quickly Grow a Small Trading Account

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1️⃣ Define a Repeatable Edge

A basis of any successful trading system is having an edge over a series of trades.

Without a well studied edge, you cannot succeed in the market.

Example of edges:

Trend system
* Trading during the power trend
* Trading stocks that are in uptrends
* Trading GROUPS that are in uptrends

High Volume Edges
* Highest Volume Ever (HVE)
* Highest Volume in > 1 Year (HV1)
* Highest Volume Since IPO (HVIPO)

2️⃣ Define Entry Tactics from that Edge

Once you have an edge, you need an entry tactic.

Entry tactics are repeatable and definable. You should know your entry and exit points before ever placing a trade.

Examples of entry tactics:

Trend system
🟢 Enter on two closes above a KMA
🔴 Exit on two closes below a KMA

High Volume Edge
📊 High Volume Close
📊 High Volume Support

Edges & Entry tactics have to be repeated CONSISTENTLY to reduce randomness when trading a small account.
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The best traders take advantage of alternate entries to build positions before a stock becomes obvious to the crowd.

Here are 7 lesser known Chart Patterns that are a MUST in any trader's tool box 🧵👇


#1: Alternate Pivots

Alternate pivots offer earlier entries when compared to regular pivots.

These pivots are important because:

▪️ They offer the same if not better R/R then regular pivots
▪️ Less volatility around these areas
▪️ Allow you to start positions EARLIER


#2: High Volume Close (HVC)

The HVC is created from a big volume gap up.

The close of this day is an important point for institutions to support.

If institutions are in supporting this point, price should be very responsive - making it a great, lower risk entry.


#3: Pivot Retest

The pivot retest setup happens when price retests the prior support/resistance point & then rallies back through.

This can be a powerful setup as it acts as a 'shakeout' and reverses higher with stronger hands holding the name.


#4: In The Wick Setup

We are looking for stocks that open in the wick of the prior session's bar.

The buy trigger is when price moves through the prior day's high.

The stop loss should be the low of the current day.
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What to do if you are not trading well. (Thread)

Impatience and instant success are built into our minds from the get-go. We want instant wins and instant rewards.

This has as much to do with our psychological build-up as it does with the society we live in.

In this thread, we will cover:

What to do if you are not trading well.
How to stop the drawdowns when no progress is being made.
How to have a systematic process that protects you from yourself.

So what is it that drives us?

We all want the market to reward us for our hard work, the effort, and time we put into it.

We want input to equal output.

However, there is no such thing as input = output in trading.

Trading is about consistency, persistence, and hard work without the certainty of any reward.
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(And how to find them)

In one sentence a TML is an institutional quality stock in a leading industry group with superior fundamentals and technicals

These are monster stocks which over the course of weeks and months increase +100% to +5,000%

TMLs are popular with traders/investors whose methodology is based on the CANSLIM system developed by William O'Neil.

He called them Model Book Stocks. Huge winners worth studying to identify common characteristics that they all share

O'Neil studied over 1000 model book stocks going back to the 1880s.

Many are shown and discussed in these must read books

How To Make Money in Stocks, O"Neil
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Monster Stocks, John Boik @monsterstocks1

A Few Examples courtesy of @SystematiCK_

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There is only one proven way to prevent blowing up your account:

Setting Stop losses.

Properly setting & implementing stop losses will save you millions over your career.

Here's a top down guide with everything you need to know about Stop Losses, broken down step by step 👇🧵

In this 🧵, we'll cover:

· The Goal of Stop Losses
· How to Place a Proper Stop Loss
· Answers to Frequently Asked Stop Loss Questions
· General Guidelines to Protect Your Account

& tons of examples!

Let's jump in 💪

Overall Goal of Stop Losses 👇

The goal of a stop loss is to cap your downside while maximizing the upside from proven setups.

It is impossible to be correct on every trade you make, so it is very important that you implement stop losses to contain your losing trades!

Let's look at some examples to show you how important stop losses can be:

$PTON (Weekly!)
$TSLA (2020 B/O)
$NVDA (1999 IPO B/O)
$AMPH (Last Week's Action)


In each of the examples above, you could have used proper stop losses to capture massive upside gains & protect yourself from huge downside losses!
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You can spend years looking for the best trading indicator.

Or you can just read this:

I've spent the last 7 years meeting the best traders in the world... and I realized they ALL use the same indicator.

The absolute best trading indicator in the world is your gut.

Like every indicator—before it can give reliable signals—it needs to be studied.

Your intuition only becomes finely tuned after a lot of trials and errors.

Let me explain...

First, we need to understand what intuition is. (that gut feeling)

As traders, intuition is how we make decisions without conscious thought.

Intuition grows (slowly) every time you see the same pattern unfold.

In other words, the more you trade, the more accurate your intuition gets.

Intuition is no different from muscle memory.
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8 Chart Patterns by William O'Neil

Let's break them down one by one🧵


Perhaps the most famous basing pattern found in the market is the Cup with Handle pattern.

✅ Chart resembles a cup with a handle
✅ Base length: Minimum 7 weeks
✅ Base depth: 20-30%
✅ Buy point: high of the handle
✅ Handle length: 1 week
✅ Handle depth: no more than 15%


There is also a Cup without Handle pattern.

✅ Chart is just a cup, no handle
✅ Base length: Minimum 7 weeks
✅ Base depth: 20-30%
✅ Buy point: High of left side of cup


The Double Bottom chart pattern is also very common & is one of the most powerful patterns to learn.

✅ Base resembles a "W"
✅ Base length: Min. 7 weeks
✅ Base depth: < 40%
✅ Buy point: middle of "W"
✅ Second low must undercut first low


The Flat Base pattern is another well known structure coined by William O'Neil.

✅ Base resembles a shallow consolidation
✅ Prior uptrend must be greater than 30%
✅ Base length: Minimum of 5 weeks
✅ Base depth: < 15%
✅ Buy point: High of structure
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A brief introduction to trading/investing for beginners and why you should start right now (Thread)

A goal of mine is to introduce as many people as possible, especially my own age, to sound methods of how to trade/invest for their futures. Despite the stock market being open to all, in practice, not everyone is taught the value of it or how to use it to build wealth over time

This thread will hopefully help remove the knowledge barrier of how to get started. It will cover briefly:

Why you should invest (Start now!)
What even is stock?
Roth IRAs versus Traditional IRAs
ETFs+ Mutual Funds
How to buy/sell individual stocks.
Types of Investing/Trading

Now before we go further, I am not a financial advisor, I am speaking from my own experience and there are significant risks with the stock market so please consult a financial professional before getting involved. Alright let’s get to it.

First, why should you get involved and start ASAP, like tomorrow. The simple answer is compound interest and time.
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Amazon
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