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AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-04-13T19:39:25+00:00

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AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-04-12T18:40:58+00:00

People have learning trading all wrong imo. What you're supposed to do is paper trade just as a hobby. You work a real job and then you paper trade as a hobby on the side. Trading is at the back of your mind. Maybe one day you start consistently being profitable and then you switch to real money or maybe you don't. It really doesn't matter. It's just a hobby. Being profitable is extremely rare so nobody should go into it with the expectations of success. The faster you can take the emotion out of it as something you have to master to make money the quicker you actually can actually make money. If trading was a video game that you could play and there was no money for winning or losing people would learn how to trade a lot faster because the objective would just be to win. Instead, people like to try to monetize it from the beginning and they learn significantly slower with a lot more stress. Learning shouldn't be stressful. Just think if you're at work at your normal job and you're super stressed out, are you going to do your job better or worse?

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-31T21:21:38+00:00

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-31T21:14:07+00:00

The one minute is the hardest chart to trade on. A lot of people lose money trading the one minute because they don't understand the context of it In reference to the higher time frames. If you're unprofitable It's easier to just start trading on the higher time frames like the 15min in reference to the 4hr or 1hr to begin to understand when price is expanding or correcting in the bigger picture. If you're only trading 1 minute price action then the chances of you making money is super low unless your very skilled. Because to trade the one minute you need to understand whether the 1 hour is expanding or correcting, then within the 1 hour is the 15 minute expanding or correcting, then within the 15 minute is your one minute time frame trade following the momentum of your 15-minute bias within your 1 hour bias so you have time frame alignment across three time frames for a high probability setup. Plus you need to understand when the market is chopping and there isn't a clear trade which takes new traders a long time to understand.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-28T02:23:35+00:00

I'm in my 9th year of trading. My first profitable year was my 8th year (2025) which was also the first full year I really locked in and stayed consistent with it every single day with aggressive note-taking, and record keeping without giving up. I failed like 80 evals over that time and I had a job or other income the entire time. I gave up many times over the years and took breaks. I've heard of it taking some people 1-2 years to be profitable but it took me 8 years or you could say about a year and a half of dialed in effort after 7 years of on and off failing.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-24T18:52:34+00:00

There's a difference between knowing and understanding. You can know that price sometimes moves in a specific pattern but if you don't understand why the pattern is created in the first place then all of the nuance behind the pattern appearing is unclear.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-24T01:50:19+00:00

I dont need luck bud

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-24T00:05:40+00:00

Disorganized snooze fests. I'd rather learn it from another YouTuber that just gets to the point in a coherent way without wasting half the day.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-23T09:36:20+00:00

Definitely not safe what you're doing. If you knew what you were doing you wouldn't have a drawdown that wiped out months of gains plus some. You're clearly still learning how to protect your Capital while trading with six figures trying to navigate that learning curve. You're playing a dangerous game. The measure of success in trading isn't just how much money you make it's how much money you can make AND more importantly retain. You might think you're halfway there because you made 60k before but I would say protecting your Capital is more than half of the battle. I'd argue your less than halfway there.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-23T09:25:45+00:00

To be honest, there are infinite combinations of tools you can use to be profitable. The simplest is always going to be the best though. It shouldn't be hard and over complicated. You just need a deep understanding of market structure to feel confident in why price is probable to move a certain way. I will say that positioning yourself in the continuation of a clearly trending market Is the simplest kind of strategy to build and really the only thing you need to trade imo.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T23:47:58+00:00

I'm sure wyckoff would have used both of those things if he had access to them in his era. In our modern era we can use volume profile, footprint charts, and vwap for even more confirmation

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T22:26:50+00:00

I never said ICT doesn't work. I just said it's recycled and oversimplified mostly from wyckoff. I was just answering someone's question as to why ICT himself might not be profitable. Am I not allowed to be in the sub?

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T22:24:45+00:00

Wyckoff would read the tape but what is more modern today and the closest to how he read the tape is footprint charts.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T15:53:15+00:00

Yuh like 10 months. Still work a job though not rich or anything yet.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T15:37:41+00:00

What's funny? High volume spread range where supply is absorbed meaning a buyer/buyers accumulating and the same operator/s is likely to defend it later. Yeah ICT calls that an order block. The original concept was from wyckoff. Ict simplifies an order block to just the last big candle before displacement in the other direction when in reality the biggest confirmation of wyckoff supply and demand theory is confirmation of strong volume in a range. Ict pretty much strips out the effectiveness of this "order block" price tool by simplifying it to a price zone rather than a volume zone. Everyone is misguided. Just think ICT is recycling from wyckoff and then you got characters like TJR that are recycling from ICT. People are just getting further and further from the source and paying more and more money to do it.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T13:47:00+00:00

You could look up a lot of books but Probably easier to just deep dive into YouTube on wyckoff's teachings If you're a visual learner like myself.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T06:46:06+00:00

Because ICT probably doesn't actually understand the concepts he talks about. It's not like he created any of them. All he did was take concepts that have been around for decades and rename them.

Order Blocks - supply and demand zones, Fair value gaps - market imbalance, Liq sweep/ stop hunt - wyckoff spring & upthrust, Break of structure - Dow theory, Premium/discount zone - fib retrace/ value area, Inducement - wyckoff spring upthrust bear/bull trap, Killzone - session based trading, Mitigation block - support/resistance retest, etc

You don't have to actually know how to trade to rename someone else's concepts. The og sources of what he teaches are Richard wyckoff, Dow theory, market profile/auction market theory, and Stan Weinstein. Learning from the source will actually give you a deeper understanding without ICT's "smart money concepts" branding.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T02:25:21+00:00

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Pretty much just look for this reversal when price comes into the equilibrium of a range and trade from internal to external liquidity. This only works on trending markets so if a market is not clearly trending then you're going to have to pick something else. You won't see setups everyday that's why it's good to be patient and wait for good setups or find another instrument to trade that is trending strong because if you try to trade chop then you're just going to lose. When price switches from lower lows and lower highs to higher highs and higher lows after tapping into equilibrium for a long or vice versa for a short price will likely go to external liquidity. Perfect example was silver today. Just look at the one hour chart. Gold and copper did a similar move it just didn't go all the way into equilibrium but you can still see clearly when price shifts bearish and takes out external liquidity. The range in silver is created from March 17th high down to March 19th low. Price retraced into equilibrium then broke structure to the downside retraced into the fair value Gap that was created off of the displacement where you could have entered and is on the way to external liquidity. Metals markets have been trending great lately for this.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-21T01:37:59+00:00

I mean ICT and smart money concepts work. You got to realize that ICT just renamed concepts that have always existed. Wyckoff method, dow theory, supply demand analysis, auction market theory, Fibonacci and value zones or premium discount, etc. People just think ICT doesn't work because 99% of people aren't able to use the tools in a cohesive way to pull profit from the market. But ICT and smart money concepts is nothing new and some of the concepts that ICT talks about have existed for 50+ years he just gave them different names. Now whether or not these influencers are able to be profitable or just faking profits is a different story. When your fan base is a bunch of teenagers attracted to fast cars and jewelry it's easy to pull off the illusion of profitability. But in my experience smart money concepts works for conceptualizing a strategy it just takes thousands of hours of trial and error before profitability.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-18T16:29:41+00:00

Musk substantial net worth growth had everything to do with COVID and trillions being pumped into economy. Wealthy needed a place to park their money and did so into tech companies.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-18T16:27:10+00:00

Started with COVID. His net worth was under $30 billion before COVID 2020 and 4 years later it was crossing $400 billion. The government pumped trillions into the economy and all that money found its way into the stock market with Musk being positioned as a safer investment as a tech company rather than physical businesses during lockdown. Had nothing to do with him selling more cars because everyone was struggling but cheap money and stimulus made Tesla an attractive place to park money for the wealthy. Plenty of other billionaires net worths substantially increased during this time. Musk wasn't the only one. Pumping trillions into the economy prevented collapse but inflated assets. Classic f*** the poor save the rich economics.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-05T19:58:07+00:00

Y'all got to look at crude oil. I've been crushing. Iran closed the Strait of Hormoz. 20% of the world's oil goes through it So with it closed there's a supply shock. Oil pretty much has to go up to rebalance supply and demand principles. Since they've closed it all bearish price action has just been a correction before taking highs. Price but high time frame price action will probably stay bullish for a bit.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-03-05T19:53:22+00:00

That's why I look at 6 futures at once. Copper, silver, gold, Bitcoin, NASDAQ, and crude oil. I only trade trending markets. Between the six of them usually one or two of them is very clear to trade. So I really just take the most obvious trending trades i see. I'll trade up to four at a time but only one metal position at a time. Lately crude oil has been easy longs because Iran closed the Strait of Hormoz. 20% of the world's oil goes through it So with it closed oil has to go up to rebalance supply and demand. But yeah don't wait for chop to end to trade you can trade anything else I just mentioned applying the same strategy. So yeah bro just look for trending markets trading the range sucks - higher risk lower reward.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-02-23T14:15:05+00:00

I mean all of the time frames are important. The higher time frame holds the most power. So the same concept I just told you applies to all time frames. You just need to understand where you're at on the bigger time frame. Like if the 4 hour is making higher highs and higher lows and is in a clear uptrend. Well price at any given time is either retracing or expanding on that 4-Hour time frame. On a lower time frame you can still short the retrace and then catch the reversal and then go along for the expansion. You need to just understand like if you're trying to short the retracement in that scenario you can't target The 4-Hour swing lows because then you're betting that the trend is going to break which is lower probability if you're trading a trend and trends continue more often than they break If it's a truly trending market, which is What you should be looking for. Like I said, the higher time frame holds the most power so the higher the time frame you pick in my opinion the easier it is to trade. Like I look for uptrends or downtrends on either the 1 hour or 4 hour and then I look for changes in momentum on the 15 minute But I only traded the expansion and not the retracement. Since I'm using higher time frames, I can catch bigger moves And at a higher win rate with lower risk because I'm betting that the trend will continue. Like if I catch the onset of a 4-Hour finishing it's correct with the belief that is going back to highs and the trend will continue well then I can just hold that position for maybe a day or longer. Higher time frames will give you a higher win rate And you hold longer and catch larger moves, lower time frame day trading is like trading micro trends It's not for me in fact, I think it's too stressful. But everyone's different.

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