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Scalp vs Swing Intraday trades and FOMO of “I can’t close it’s going higher.”

You’ll find yourself often caught between these feelings.

Looking at LTF for an entry, the market moves +10% and suddenly you find yourself looking to turn it into a swing.

The likely outcome in the MAJORITY of situations is:

Price pumping
Feel great about PNL
Look for higher targets
Price corrects
PNL drops
Either panic close before reversal
Or close at Break Even

The process is damaging to your balance and your psychology.
The reason is that your LTF entry is often unsuited as a swing entry point and if it is, your mentality is not prepared or able to hold for the swings.
This is an issue scalpers have to battle consistently. They will nail 3-4% moves while watching price often run 8-12% after.

You have to understand why you took your entry, what your expectations are and how you can manage the trade.
Converting from a LTF trade into a HTF one comes down to greed. We see green PNL and automatically start getting carried away with expectation.

In these conditions however there needs to be some grace given to that thought process. It’s possible but under management.
If you’re trading LTF you have so much opportunity so you can’t feel bad about closing. You are also free to enter the same market on a new set up. Nothing freezes you out.
You have a couple of options to deal with this process:

1. If you’re trading a scalp, take your profit, be happy, move to the next set up. As scalpers we have multiple opportunities to join trends and multiple markets. Just move on to the next flip opportunity.
2. Ride your position until the LTF trend is broken. You won’t exit at the top but you’ll know you’ve pushed your position to the limits of what is technically achievable during a LTF run.
3. If you want to run your scalp into a swing you have to imagine your PNL is $0. Your PNL should not matter to you as you’re not at target. Do not become fixated with your PNL dropping (because it will).

If you are unable to do that, focus on taking profit and moving on.
The crazy thing is that when price is moving we feel FOMO for closing a position “it’s going to go more, I can’t close now, I’ll chase price higher if I do.”
We tend to venture down a psychological confirmation path when we see green PNL. We automatically assume 2 things:

1. Price will go higher towards our new target.
2. We will manage the position well until that happens. (In reality we often don’t even think about this point.)
You have to remember the reality of the situation which is that you will not operate perfectly and you will not complete these things perfectly despite your mind convincing you that you will.

The market never makes it easy.
Now in the current climate there are differences you need to take into account:

1. Markets in price discovery should be treated differently. There is no resistance.
2. Markets are aggressively bought up from lows, manage your thought process.
3. Don’t look to short.
Play strength, manage your psychology, take profit and don’t get greedy. The market can absolutely rip apart your unrealised gains in record time.
Here’s an example of an $ADA trade I took last night and fully closed today for +17%.

$ADA might push higher but for me it’s a big win, easily hits my monthly target in a single trade and I’m very happy with the result. I pay myself and move on.
These conditions provide opportunity day after day, LTF and HTF, make sure you do not become fixated by your PNL total and making sure you try to make your big move in one trade.
The ape szn culture is fantastic in that the underlying message is GET LONG. Solid advice, you don’t want to be short in this market right now. But you also have to take profit and manage risk. The markets are volatile and while it’s good for gains, mistime an entry and its gg.
Stay safe, enjoy the szn and lock in money.
One last thing I wanted to add. If you want to be more degenerate and build a bigger position, compound don’t go all at once.

Build a base position.
Wait for pullback on LTF and add size.
Repeat until happy with degeneracy levels.

Far more effective than the coin flip all in.

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माता सीता भी हनुमान को पुत्रवत मानती थी। अत: हनुमान अयोध्या में ही रह गए ।राम दिनभर दरबार में, शासन व्यवस्था में व्यस्त रहते थे। संध्या को जब शासकीय कार्यों में छूट मिलती तो गुरु और माताओं का कुशल-मंगल पूछ अपने कक्ष में जाते थे। परंतु हनुमान जी हमेशा उनके पीछे-पीछे ही रहते थे ।


उनकी उपस्थिति में ही सारा परिवार बहुत देर तक जी भर बातें करता ।फिर भरत को ध्यान आया कि भैया-भाभी को भी एकांत मिलना चाहिए ।उर्मिला को देख भी उनके मन में हूक उठती थी कि इस पतिव्रता को भी अपने पति का सानिध्य चाहिए ।

एक दिन भरत ने हनुमान जी से कहा,"हे पवनपुत्र! सीता भाभी को राम भैया के साथ एकांत में रहने का भी अधिकार प्राप्त है ।क्या आपको उनके माथे पर सिन्दूर नहीं दिखता?इसलिए संध्या पश्चात आप राम भैया को कृप्या अकेला छोड़ दिया करें "।
ये सुनकर हनुमान आश्चर्यचकित रह गए और सीता माता के पास गए ।


माता से हनुमान ने पूछा,"माता आप अपने माथे पर सिन्दूर क्यों लगाती हैं।" यह सुनकर सीता माता बोलीं,"स्त्री अपने माथे पर सिन्दूर लगाती है तो उसके पति की आयु में वृद्धि होती है और वह स्वस्थ रहते हैं "। फिर हनुमान जी प्रभु राम के पास गए ।
🌿𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓 : 𝑫𝒉𝒓𝒖𝒗𝒂 & 𝑽𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒏𝒖

Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W


Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
#KrishnaLeela


The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.


One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.


Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"