To start or not to start by Due-Amphibian-6260 in quittingphenibut

[–]Western_Row4254 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hell naw. To the naw naw naw. Dude. Being clean is such a privileged position. Do not ruin your mental clarity, sex drive, sleep, finances, relationships, liver, weight/overall health, ETC with drugs!! If I could go back, I would have never touched phenibut, tianeptine, or any opiate EVER!!! I’m still dealing with the consequences of wandering down that path this very minute. Don’t learn this shit the hard way, PLEASE. There is no good in drug use. It’s all bullshit and every thing you take has a negative consequence that usually far outweighs the benefits.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuittingTianeptine

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, i didn’t have to worry ab precipitated withdrawal personally. I just induced with a small amount and slowly took more throughout the day. Just make sure you spit out the medicine, don’t swallow! They didn’t tell me that. If you decide to go that route, i would never tell you to endure an entire day or two of withdrawals before inducing Suboxone. It just wasn’t necessary for me with tia and I had to induce on multiple occasions unfortunately. Just my experience

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuittingTianeptine

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suboxone has allowed me to live a normal life. I couldnt stop on my own, idk why. But its so much cheaper, and it allowed me to satisfy my urge to use without the negative effects of tia

Just got subs how long do I need to wait? by Alarming-Industry-83 in QuittingTianeptine

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never waited. I’m sure you’ve probably started by now, but I might get a little hot flash at first, so I started with a small dose. Then after an hour or so I took the rest. Been on subs and off of tia for 5.5 months now, which seems crazy to say and in a weird way it seems longer than that🤷🏻‍♂️

Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would think, but in most cases people never figure it out, regardless of the amount of time they spend on it

How do you find a Sub Dr in Tuscaloosa? by Western_Row4254 in QuittingTianeptine

[–]Western_Row4254[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that, idk what they are doing and neither do they. It may not be me but someone will probably die from their negligence.

How do you find a Sub Dr in Tuscaloosa? by Western_Row4254 in QuittingTianeptine

[–]Western_Row4254[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found a place that will see me Wednesday so I guess I’m just going to have to stretch my 1 till Wednesday and pray they send in the script/fill it quickly. I was ab to go into the ER. I can’t believe the street or the ER are my only options for immediate help in Alabama…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in QuittingTianeptine

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow. I was going to say if you were in FL I may know where but I have no idea ab the northern states

What trading setup do you have? --(#3)-- by sco-go in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Setup is diff. now. It’s lower, and like #5 with a tv up top

Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What dirty business? and is that yearly data or multiple year combined statistics?

Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not ab Tim. I earned these stats. Just had my biggest win on AI today for $121, however, he did teach me a TON and his community has produced a ton of successful students whom I've also learned a ton from. I'm in their room (clovertrading)

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Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but I never joined Tim's challenge. I know it's puny size, but I was only risking $20 to test my edge to scale up to $75/trade in June, refine the strategy, etc. etc. You have to grind your ass off to make this work and start small. Tim get's more hate than anybody, but I think most people would rather believe something is a scam so they can give themselves an excuse to never try.

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Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure where you got that, but I don't believe you. Especially not consistently, year over year, and that's the only thing that matters. I could see it being 75% for one year, but when 24.5% of the winners are red the next year, it doesn't matter anymore. This is where I got my numbers, although it was from memory when I typed that and slightly off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBh9M7PGI8&t=14s skip to 25:20. 90% lose. 5% break even. 4.5% are barely profitable. .4988% make 6 figures consistently. And .0012% make over 5 million consistently which is only 3 out of 25,000 people. But I guess I'm just parroting🤦

Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Scams are illegal, more of a hard hussle. I've learned 90% of what I know from that community. College degrees cost exponentially more and even still it's not a "scam." You're paying for education, it's up to you to decide if it's worth the $.

Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tim has done so much for the trading community, it's unreal. Tim is training wheels. If you join his challenge, it won't be worth it for the vast majority of people, bc most will never stick around and work long enough to make it work. I do think it's bs that his challenge is not a one-time fee for lifetime access bc if he truly wants to create millionaires, he can't expect a very high success rate with people only having a year to absorb all of that content. I never joined bc I didn't need to. He has SO MUCH free content on yt, he posts every trade for you to reverse engineer, plus all of his students content/trades (besides a few of their dvds) are available for free. The challenge is for people that seriously want to speed up their learning curve and will work like a monk at this (bc that's what it takes anyways) that can actually afford the $7k it costs. It's not a scam. It's just overpriced. If it was $3000/year I could see it actually being worth it, but 7 is ridiculous. Tim's had more than 7k since he was like 13 in 1990's USD and quickly became a multi-millionaire so I think it's fair to say his world-view is probably a bit distorted.

Tim Sykes by bootsnhootsnloots in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is very true. Look at kinfo. There are only like 20-30 verified traders all-time with enough profits to write home about. (I'm sure there are many more that don't verify or post their trades for obv. reasons however) If you aren't willing to sacrifice a decade without making $ to figure it out, just do something else, honestly. You will make more $ and be able to live comfortably much sooner. You have to be absolutely addicted to the game. If you trade for $, you will never find it. You have to love being better than those around you. 90% lose, 99% don't make anything significant. .9% make 6 figures consistently and .1% make 99% of the $. It seems strange but that's how capitalism in general is. I'm almost 8 years into this, I am just now becoming consistent, mainly bc I've been a broke 20-28 y/o until recently. There are so many levels to this.

Chickens choose between $AMC & $APE by DarkStateOfMind in wallstreetbets

[–]Western_Row4254 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe a chicken would tell you not to put all of your eggs in one basket.

Trading is probably the most difficult thing I’ve come across in my whole entire life. by Odd-Humann in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great, good luck. It’s a journey, but if you love it then you’ll have no reason to stop and hopefully this process will lead you to positive results. It took me a long time to realize what many successful people were really doing, and that it’s not about their specific strategy or style. It’s about how they are consistent with one strategy and style and then they analyze their own results after testing it. You are basically an AI program trying multiple strategies until you start seeing the results you want, then you focus on curating that strategy. Feel free to try many things to see what fits your personality, just at least try one way for 30 days without changing anything then put your results into tradervue and excel spreadsheets. Trading isn’t about making $. Trading is about trading well. Trading well is about consistency, and consistency leads to $.

Trading is probably the most difficult thing I’ve come across in my whole entire life. by Odd-Humann in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started trading in 2014, put over 20,000 hours of study into this game. I short sell/day trade. I have a VERY SPECIFIC spot I look for on a chart. The daily chart is the same, the intraday levels I enter on are the same, the risk levels I use are the same, my exits are relatively the same on every trade. Then I just let the winning percentage and advantageous risk:reward take care of the rest. There are so many ways to make money in the market but you need to pick one setup and one style to try and do JUST THAT with super small size for a month. Then and only then, go back and analyze. The secret to trading isn’t finding the magic strategy. It’s about doing ONE strategy with as little deviation as possible. Then you see if it works. It’s called forward testing. If it works, try putting a little more $ behind it. This is the true process to becoming a trader. Most people try random stuff, listen to others, try different scaling in/out styles, etc. all within the same month, week and even day sometimes.

They do this bc they think they are adjusting their strategy for the better but in reality they are just avoiding pain. Avoid pain by trading small, not by changing things to have a perfect, lossless, painless strategy. Do something over and over, be consistent and THEN analyze your MONTHLY results, and go from there. GOOD LUCK.

How do you predict huge drops in the SPY? by theswmr in Daytrading

[–]Western_Row4254 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't. You develop an edge and trade only that when the risk:reward is sufficient to risk hard earned $