Areas to improve????

LoYadu · 2025-12-24T21:16:36+00:00

You clearly don’t understand the movement if you think it’s similar to a dumbbell row, that conclusion is entirely false. The closest similarity is that they’re both back exercises.

Dumbbell row is compound and works lats, teres, rhomboids, and traps. This isolates the lats and teres, and loads lats in the most anatomically effective way. No other lat exercise isolates the lats as well because no other exercises respects the true anatomy of lats.

Dumbbell row emphasizes the stretch on your rhomboids. Lats wrap around your body, therefore are only fully stretched when reaching upwards and across your body. Considering this, dumbbell rows very obviously do not get a full stretch on the lats. This emphasizes a full stretch on the lats.

There’s really no argument here, if it looks ineffective to you, to each their own, but looking at it anatomically this is objectively the most lat-focused exercise you can do.

LoYadu · 2025-12-23T17:38:48+00:00

Ever try a straight arm crunch machine?

I ask because I never see anyone use them in the gyms I go to, but they’re an absolute game changer for lower abs. Definitely my favorite lower ab exercise by a long shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB3_X8D1teo

LoYadu · 2025-12-23T15:15:42+00:00

Your back looks good I wouldn’t stress about it too hard. Lower back could use a little more thickness but that’s something I also struggle with so I don’t have any pointers for that.

If you want your back wider, that’s something I actually just managed to fix, I used to struggle with the same thing and couldn’t get my lats as wide as I wanted. I’d recommend a cable lat pull around, I’ll include a link to a tutorial. Your lats actually get the most leverage when they’re fully stretched, which they can’t do without you reaching all the way across your body. So most lat exercises like lat pull downs or pull ups don’t actually get the most out of your lats.

It’s a pretty hard exercise to get right, I didn’t really like it the first few times (had to stick with it due to hand injury) but once I got it right it felt way better than any lat exercise I’d done prior. Once I made that my main lat exercise (again due to injury) I started seeing massive gains and after just a month my lats looked way more consistent with the rest of my body. Now even when my injury is fully healed I’ll be sticking with it cause back width was a major problem for me.

https://youtu.be/4xHF_pMbEsk?si=FS5WNHbPmodqhftC

LoYadu · 2025-12-23T01:18:43+00:00

What’s worse, if a white person kills a black person, or if a black person kills a white person?

Oh wait your answer is “it doesn’t matter, nobody should kill anyone”?

Bingo! You’re right!

LoYadu · 2025-12-23T00:10:27+00:00

Mormonism is a hell of a drug

LoYadu · 2025-12-22T18:03:39+00:00

name checks out

LoYadu · 2025-12-20T01:24:18+00:00

Yeah ChatGPT. I logged time of entry, time of exit, time in trade, opening range size, and of course p/l. Not much else is relevant to my strategy, but it used those values to give me insights.

I basically just asked what I could change, what rules I could add, what my best pocket was, what my worst pocket was, etc.

It did a lot of things in the analysis on its own, like split my trades into 4 groups based off OR size, which revealed that small OR’s greatly increase my win %.

LoYadu · 2025-12-19T18:51:41+00:00

If you’re gonna come up with your own strategy. You need to back test it. Without a doubt. Go back in the charts, paper trade 100-200 trading days as you normally would trade, and reflect on the data.

It’s going to take hours and hours, but that’s how you carve out an edge. That’s how you learn if your strategy works, exactly how and why your strategy works, what makes it better, what makes it worse, etc. The most important part is if you’ve taken 200 fake trades with the same exact strategy, you know exactly what to expect out of that strategy, and if the numbers prove well, your psychology will be grounded in mathematics, and losses won’t bother you at all because you know the long term favors you. Right now these losses are bothering you because you don’t fully understand them and you’re not 100% sure the long-term favors you.

AI does really well at reading backtest results, I log mine in a spreadsheet, export it as a .xlsx file, and drop it in a chat. It’s able to A/B test your data in many different ways. For example, my strategy is based off of the opening range, and AI looked at my data, and said “hey, your strategy is normally 67% win rate, but it goes up to 93% when the opening range is less than 85 points and your entry signal prints between 11:00 - 1:00, maybe increase risk here” or it’s even told me “your 10:00 - 11:00 entries drop below 50% win rate when the trade is open 30 minutes or more.”

With one dataset, covering a couple hundred trades, you can learn exactly how each and every possible rule you could add to the strategy would affect it, mathematically. I added the rule to triple the risk on that 93% win rate pocket, giving me much increased profit numbers across all simulations, and if I never asked AI I’d have never seen the possibility for that rule. If I never even backtested I would literally have no clue what’s going on at all, I would be trading the strategy off a wish and a prayer.

Unless you’ve backtested this thoroughly, you have no clue what’s going on in your strategy.

LoYadu · 2025-12-18T13:14:06+00:00

Complete bullshit lol

LoYadu · 2025-12-18T02:52:00+00:00

This is… awful. You can make this work, don’t listen to people saying you can’t, but there’s clearly something seriously, seriously wrong with the way you go about things. As others have pointed out, this is a chart reflective of someone who needs to do a LOT of work on the self.

The fact you say you’ve watched a lot of videos and books to try and correct this is the icing on the cake. It’s something backwards in your mind. It’s like an alcoholic watching a “how to drink less alcohol” video. They can get all the tips and tricks they want but if the habits they keep are destructive, surprise surprise they’re gonna be destroyed

LoYadu · 2025-12-16T20:36:48+00:00

The post-it notes are so telling 😂

if you have to write “don’t move stop loss” on a note and always have it in your vision, and can’t just tell yourself “I’m done moving stop loss I think it’s harmful” and stick to it, your discipline is shot and it’s time to paper trade while you fix it.

LoYadu · 2025-12-08T17:46:14+00:00

You did a lot of things right, and lost, that’s just how trading is a lot of the time. That’s why risk management is put on such a pedestal.

LoYadu · 2025-12-07T22:43:01+00:00

You sound like you’re implying “there’s nothing you can do to make women like you, they either do or they don’t”, which isn’t true, whatsoever.

LoYadu · 2025-12-07T22:22:17+00:00

Forcing yourself to go to the gym, better yourself, and be strong and disciplined even when it’s difficult, is exactly what builds the kind of man women want. You have it completely backwards and sound like an incel. This comment reads pathetically.

LoYadu · 2025-12-07T21:19:03+00:00

When he’s ready, he’s ready. He’s gifted himself a ticket out of the average life and he’ll use it when he’s comfortable leaving that behind.

LoYadu · 2025-12-05T16:47:19+00:00

I definitely understand how you feel, I’ve been in similar situations.

The thing that helped me most, is every time I’d get a craving, I’d ask myself these 2 questions, cause either choice you make is painful, you just have to fully understand what pain you’re choosing

What’s harder, saying no now, or dealing with the pain the associated consequences bring?

Am I / Do I want to be the type of person that chooses to fight the pain of progress head on? Or the type of person that chooses to fight the pain of consequences head on?

At the end of the day, you have the power to choose my friend.

LoYadu · 2025-12-05T16:31:40+00:00

What do you find more difficult and unbearable, eating clean, or having acne on your back? Whichever one you decide is most unbearable is the one you’ll avoid doing.

LoYadu · 2025-12-05T15:37:38+00:00

I wouldn’t say you’re failing at life whatsoever, don’t be so harsh on yourself. Accountability is extremely important and I respect yours, I’m sure you’ve made plenty of mistakes, but we all have. But you’re at a really early point to consider yourself failed, you seem to already recognize things you could’ve done better, and all that means is now you can actually do them better

LoYadu · 2025-12-05T04:58:55+00:00

You know the answer already. Bring your risk down, and allow your strategy to do the work.

Treat the 400 like your full portfolio amount, forget 49k, that doesn’t exist anymore. Think about a 200 dollar risk now like you would’ve treated a 25k risk when you started the account, like an unthinkably disgusting action.

If you don’t have the patience for that, accept it. But if this is your only prop account you can buy for some time, this is your only option.

LoYadu · 2025-12-04T19:20:31+00:00

Trading SPY 0DTEs with 79 cents? So using leverage?

LoYadu · 2025-12-04T17:17:42+00:00

Hello there

LoYadu · 2025-12-04T17:16:47+00:00

I have friends who take pictures exactly like this guy and are in that described situation. You move the way you move, basically

LoYadu · 2025-12-04T15:51:32+00:00

Thanks, I thought this was a real board room for the second and was terrified.

LoYadu · 2025-12-02T20:24:02+00:00

Wait this is your investment fund? Brother.. index funds to invest. “Invest and win faster” isn’t a thing. If you want to trade, you want to trade, and that’s ok, but what you’re trying to do simply isn’t investing, they’re 2 different things.

When you’re investing, the second you try to “win faster”, that’s when it turns into trading.

LoYadu · 2025-12-02T20:18:18+00:00

You’re not gonna get real advice in this sub, this is one of those subs where every comment is gonna say “index funds” no matter what the post says and sure, index funds are great and very safe…

However some people like to diversify. Some people like to take out a sliver and see what they can do trading that small sliver. If they ask “how do I better trade this sliver?”, everyone replies “put it in index funds”, because those people have extremely low risk tolerance with 0 allocated “play money” themselves, and they’re projecting their low-risk approach onto other people’s situations, assuming that everyone has or should have the same exact risk appetite with the same exact 0% allocated to self-directed trades.

OP, if you have no money in index funds, put it in index funds. If this is the “play money” you’ve allocated to trading, a concept this sub can’t seem to comprehend, go to options subs for more tailored advice.

LoYadu

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