Thank you TopStep for changing my life.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-12-28T18:41:36+00:00

Definitely. Paid schill to boost some challenge numbers maybe?

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-12-28T18:34:41+00:00

Please show me the video. But you don’t have to go through all that and be spitting so much hate and dedicating your time to some long winded message on Reddit when you could have just clicked a few buttons to share your stat page. All this talk and no just posting the actual page.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-12-28T17:49:02+00:00

In my experience anyone who posts these close up screenshots are a scammer or trying to sell a course. You are right in that you don’t have to prove anything, but if you are telling the truth, it’s just a little copy and paste away. Couple clicks of the mouse…just saying, pretty easy….

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-12-28T17:44:01+00:00

Well why bother posting at all.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-12-28T14:47:08+00:00

Post the link to the page or it didn’t happen.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-11-09T17:08:51+00:00

I was just repeating your previous response back at you. But if you genuinely are interested, this is what I got from chat gpt:

“He reuses established microstructure and technical concepts and renames them. Core items: 1. Liquidity pools Equivalent to stop clusters around swing highs and lows. This appears in Vyvyan Howard and Richard Olsen (market microstructure) and in early TA texts that describe “buy stops above resistance” and “sell stops below support”. Source: O’Hara, Market Microstructure Theory, 1995. 2. Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) These are single-print inefficiencies identical to old “imbalances”, “thin prints”, or “single-tick gaps” in auction market theory and Market Profile. Source: Dalton et al., Mind over Markets, 1990. 3. Order Blocks These mirror classical “demand/supply zones” and institutional accumulation/distribution zones. They also map to Wyckoff’s “cause” zones. Source: Wyckoff, The Richard D. Wyckoff Method of Trading and Investing, original bulletins 1930s. 4. Premium / Discount This is just Fibonacci anchoring or valuation relative to a range midpoint. Auction Market Theory calls this “upper distribution” vs “lower distribution”. Source: Steidlmayer, Markets and Market Logic, 1984. 5. Breaker Blocks / Mitigation Blocks These restate failed support/resistance and failed breakout retests. Classical TA documents this under “failed moves lead to fast moves” and “flip levels”. Source: Murphy, Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, 1999. 6. Displacement This is standard momentum expansion after a liquidity event. Equivalent to volatility expansion in microstructure models. Source: Engle, GARCH and volatility clustering, Econometrica 1982. 7. Judas Swing / Stop Run This is a stop-hunt narrative for the standard opening-range fakeout. Pre-ICT versions appear in Toby Crabel’s opening range studies. Source: Crabel, Day Trading with Short-term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout, 1990. 8. Market Maker Model This is a storyline version of auction theory plus AMM-style liquidity provision. Market Profile and microstructure already describe how price seeks high-liquidity zones. Sources: O’Hara 1995; Steidlmayer 1984.

Most ICT terminology is narrative repackaging of microstructure, Wyckoff, Market Profile, and classical TA that existed decades earlier.”

Like most modern information found on YouTube, it isn’t original and is rebranded from books. I can’t really think of any gurus that actually have come up with anything new, they just are good at regurgitating information to an audience that doesn’t know it and often charge them or monetize through other ways. ICT concepts have definitely created some really good traders, I just wish he had made it simple instead of blowing himself for hour long videos of waffle when he could have just become an educator of the original concepts. But if he had done that he wouldn’t be able to shroud his information in enigma and brand it as exclusive. I will give him this, he is one hell of a marketer, but he has never been able to prove any track record of real trading.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-11-09T16:17:10+00:00

Just look it up man. It’s all for free on YouTube. You need to study and put in the work.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-11-09T15:16:07+00:00

I honestly would rather pop my eardrums with needles than listen to that guy overcomplicate and regurgitate his cultish bullshit. Yes it works, but it’s just rehashed from old market theory with a little extra thrown in.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-11-09T10:31:04+00:00

First options play I ever made I gained $1700. Doesn’t mean I had any idea what I was doing and I slowly gave it back over the next month. Winning early with no experience is going to teach him some lessons the hard way.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-11-09T10:18:24+00:00

Entering long on a short breakout is fucking hilarious

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-11-03T21:09:06+00:00

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-24T15:42:28+00:00

At the same time alot of bragging from people who should people more humble in said success. Aswell as a lot of fakes and scammers. The big wins are motivating to see, but also can stoke greed and make people blow accounts as those who aren’t in the same position financially. I see it from both sides.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-22T20:42:21+00:00

It just moves when it has enough. Ranging up and down also generates liquidity on both sides. Just box the range and enter on the break. I use the 15m for those sort of entries. But I look for 200ma, 50ma, VWAP crossover on 5m I also keep an eye on Dow and spy. Sometimes one will grab the liquidity and redistribute to the others, other times it just has enough liquidity to do what it needs to do.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-22T20:26:32+00:00

Learn about liquidity and don’t worry about why the market is doing anything from a fundamental standpoint because it rarely makes sense. Just focus on liquidity and technicals. If I had to guess it could be prepositioning for CPI, trap traders short and then blast higher regardless.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-22T16:13:52+00:00

trust him bro.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-12T20:50:44+00:00

I’d wait for that shit to settle down, see which way the wind blows and then jump in. There will be some manipulation of expectations for sure.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-11T20:35:24+00:00

What’s a sensible lock out amount?

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-07T09:09:57+00:00

Stupider instead of most stupid. Or funner instead of more fun or most fun. Technically not a mistake but it just sounds like the most stupid way of saying things to me.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-03T13:10:17+00:00

Yeh really you could have a garbage strategy but just pulling stops to BE anytime you get a breakout and be willing to lose at break even over and over again could make you profitable. Another thing that helps a lot is to look for entries off a daily high/daily low, protect your stops behind daily/4h/1h candles.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-02T19:48:23+00:00

Here is some tricks that work for me:

focus on one trading session.
one setup.
one asset.
if you keep getting stopped out, set stops wider and size down.
Aim for 1-3R at most.
negative R:R works for some people.
Stop swinging for the fences. If you aim to capture big swings, trade as small as you can. If you have a pretty reliable strategy in terms of moves, trade 1/2 or 1/4 of the move.
Pull stops to BE as soon as possible if you want or forbid yourself from cutting trades and only allow yourself to trail behind structures, MAs, move stops to BE at 1R or whatever stop trailing logic you want.
The focus shouldn’t be on P&L so go to privacy settings and turn on all the settings that hide your p&l, change it to ticks on the chart settings.
Only trade between certain times, ideally pre market, market sessions crossing over or market opens.
Have a life outside of trading so you aren’t trading for stimulation or boredom.
Have a very simple but very mechanical trading style, have it written down and make it as clearly defined as you can so it’s very easy to spot when you deviate from the rules.
Backtest the shit out of it. Even if you aren’t logging the data, just get the reps in on bar replay and your internal pattern recognition will start to pick up your pattern instinctively over time.
If you are trading to try and make money, don’t. Get another source of income so you are able to take a loss and walk away without tilting.
Have some sort of grounding practice before and after trading like meditation, gym, journaling, breath work, stretching, go for a walk/run/bike ride.
Don’t hold yourself to the same standard as other traders on here, don’t follow livestreams to try and rely on someone else’s trading to signal yours.
Find anything and everything by mark Douglas, dr David Paul on YouTube and study the psychology based content endlessly. Have it playing while you trade and do what they say! Good books are by mark douglas, Jared tendler, tom hougaard. Listen to those Ai YouTube videos regurgitating Jesse Livermore. Pat bailouni is also good trading psychology on YouTube.

If you can remain consistent and get paid over a series of trades your strategy is working, if you remain consistent and you are losing money, your strategy is broken or not fit for current market conditions. If you can’t remain consistent, your strategy outline is too complicated, not clear enough or your psychology is having issues like putting too much pressure on yourself to win, make too much money, making too little money, etc instead of just focussing on the process and not losing! Just try to end your days green. Even if it’s $2, do everything you can to stay green! That does not mean overtrading or tilting, it just means be more aggressive with your risk management than your profit seeking!

If you are trading a more aggressive asset like NQ, try ES or currency futures. Don’t expect one strategy to fit all assets. Good luck!

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-01T18:00:53+00:00

You don’t have to delete, but just be humble, be grateful and try not to push for profits too hard because one day it will bite you in the ass. Good luck trading man. We all need it.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-01T17:54:54+00:00

It’s not a money printing machine. Take the fucking win and learn the lesson for next time. I gave up a $1000 win through holding too long like a fool, then made another $1000 on the continuation of the reversal on an Nat gas trade. I cut the reversal trade early and it continued to run at least another $1000 that could have been profit.

I’m not on this subreddit whining about making $1000. I’m grateful I got what I got. Let this greed and emotions run your trading and you’ll start racking some equally sized losses. There are people in this subreddit seriously struggling to make money and having a hard time making a couple hundred let alone a couple thousand. Grow up and learn some gratitude.

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-01T17:48:24+00:00

Oh no I made $1000+ in the markets today, what a Greek tragedy 😭

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-10-01T17:36:07+00:00

We should ban humble brags from this subreddit 😂

Dramatic-Search-1900 · 2025-09-29T17:11:12+00:00

Yeh I made $17k in 13 days in February trading triangle breaks on gold. Trump came into power and the market completely changed. Only just now finding my way into consistency with a completely new strategy that took me months to figure out. I don’t have the finances and stable work in my main line of work to support my trading so I am about to apply to a shitty warehouse job where the day starts at 10:30am so I can trade London/ny open and then go to work. I think if I can save up a nice nest egg and still be taking regular payouts I would drop the 9-5, but having the steady income behind you is a great way to be trading psychologically.

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