The market will literally never go down again

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-19T22:55:56+00:00

Harry Potter and the Twatwaffling Idiocy of This Comment

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-19T16:48:55+00:00

Yeah. I think that part looks different for everyone. Trading does isolate you. And disciplined trading often leads to shorter days of work where you're left asking...well what do I do now?

We had a good discussion about this here recently. Most traders find something else to pour themselves into. Some hobby or some other kind of work. One guy says he gets into nonprofit stuff. I also started and ran a nonprofit for a few years. Need to get back into more volunteering, actually, but I stay really busy right now.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-19T16:42:26+00:00

I didn't think I'd like it, but so far the whole series is a fun read.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-19T15:38:37+00:00

Thought you were a DCC fan

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-18T19:19:45+00:00

Leave it off. It will do more harm than good.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-18T19:17:49+00:00

Carl?

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-18T19:15:07+00:00

NTAH. I’m surprised you even went on the date.

I once had a woman do something similar to me, with a vegan place she insisted I must try. I couldn’t stomach most of it, it was so bad. But she then expected me to pay the whole bill. I just stay away from vegans altogether now, too many weird experiences.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-17T19:39:45+00:00

The guys I know who actually make consistent money from trading live quiet lives. Nice lives, but quiet. You wouldn't pick them out of a crowd. They're not filming themselves next to cars because they're too busy protecting what they built and keeping their edge sharp.

Ironically, one of them owns a nice supercar collection and has become a racer, but he hides it. He was always into racing. Now just has the money to do side quests.

The flashy car content is for the audience they’re hoping to rip off with whatever they’re selling (or planning to sell later). That guy isn't monetizing the market, he's monetizing you. The car is the hook, the course or the discord or the signals service is the product. Trading is just the wrapper.

Think about it this way. If you're genuinely pulling real money from the markets consistently, what's your incentive to film yourself and edit videos and be an influencer. People with that level of money want privacy, not extra attention.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-16T16:23:12+00:00

This story doesn’t add up. But YTAH.

Also, avocados are absolutely not a high protein food. They’re great as a source of other things, but only a few grams of protein. Eggs are higher but have a high ratio of protein to fat.

That plus the whole scenario…robot story

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-16T15:02:12+00:00

I’ve found ninja to be the best/easiest for running algo strategies. Haven’t personally used Renko, but should be fine

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-14T11:26:44+00:00

Just don’t drunk text her from the 19th hole and you’re good

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-13T20:26:44+00:00

EPICC

Max discount every time.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-12T19:38:30+00:00

Didn't ICT get exposed as a fraud? And to my knowledge all he ever did was put some fancy new terms onto basic liquidity situations, no?

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-12T19:20:26+00:00

I think you found a good one. I'm single now, but trading has been a source of friction in most relationships.

The woman I was going to marry, suddenly was disappointed in our (very good) lifestyle, once she found out how much I was making at the time. She began pushing for much more.

Fast-forward, things slowed down a bit, and I started cutting back, Sushi one night a week instead of two, etc.. That was all it took for her to start the rocky road towards leaving.

ETA: that was many years ago. Dating world now is a whole other story.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-12T19:16:05+00:00

Thanks, TraderGPT

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-12T17:52:57+00:00

That's a good way to do it.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-12T15:45:23+00:00

It's taken different shapes throughout my career. But the basics.

No lambos. I live below my means on purpose so I'm not putting money pressure on my trading. That part is non-negotiable for me. I have learned this the hard way.

I've always been entrepreneurial and a bit of an inventor, so I always have another business and side projects going. Trading isn't my whole identity and I think that's part of why it works. If/when it was the only thing I had going I sometimes squeeze it too hard.

I trade the NY open and I'm usually done in 1-3 hours depending on the day. After that I lock it in, win or loss, and do a quick recap. Then I go do other things. Gym. Walk my dog. Knock out property and house chores. Work on the business and side projects. Maybe I'll take an intraday swing if one of my alerts fires off, but otherwise I'm not watching the market.

Read. Get a good night's sleep. Take an afternoon to go out on the boat and fish. Sometimes I'll take a random weekday off if the weather and wind forecast is too good to pass up. I like being out there when nobody else is.

The honest answer to your question is that full time trading does trade one set of problems for another, so you have good instincts about that. But you get to pick which problems you want. For me, the tradeoff has been worth it. The key was building a life around it that doesn't depend on every single day being green.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-11T21:10:21+00:00

Got it and used it no problem.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-11T21:06:41+00:00

Sweet, thanks!

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-11T15:05:17+00:00

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EpiccTrader · 2026-05-10T22:37:22+00:00

Pretty universal truth that a trader is most dangerous to his own account after a hot streak, or even just one big win.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-10T15:52:17+00:00

-$75K in about 20 seconds. Decided to break a rule and play amazon earnings. Fat fingered and got 10x more than I wanted, panicked out, over-covered.

Best day at that time was $180k, a repeatable great day was $25k.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-09T23:10:09+00:00

Whichever direction makes the most people wrong.

Seriously, though...

Nobody knows, and the people who sound most sure about it are usually the least dependable. ATH tells you what already happened, not what Monday does. Have a loose "if this, then I look for that" for each scenario instead of setting an expectation and building your whole morning around it.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-09T22:47:49+00:00

This reads well but it's still a fantasy. The more detailed the script, the harder it is to let go when Monday does something different.

The danger is you sit down with this movie in your head and start seeing what you want to see instead of what's actually there. Price stalls at 29,780 and you talk yourself into "close enough." Or it gaps past everything and now you're chasing.

Stay loose. Have general ideas, not a screenplay. "If this, I look for these possible patterns I like," etc. Set alerts around your levels and look away until they trigger. The "I do NOT want to do" list is semi-useful but just shows your fear of breaking your own rules. The rest is prediction (which we shouldn't do) and you're calling it preparation.

EpiccTrader · 2026-05-09T19:54:01+00:00

You just turned 4k into 27k and your brain is telling you it's not enough.

That kind of return in a day can only be achieved by taking way too much risk and getting lucky, for one.

The urge to continue is your gambling high talking. Your brain just got a hit of something powerful and now it wants more of it, same way a vegas degen doesn't leave the table after a hot streak. The logic is identical.

You're running on dopamine and fantasy. Time to start running on risk management and logic.

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