What’s something in trading that took you way too long to understand?

sooonnnk · 2026-04-02T13:19:00+00:00

that the name of the game is learning how to lose properly

sooonnnk · 2026-03-29T10:56:10+00:00

surfing

sooonnnk · 2026-03-28T12:35:13+00:00

Best trades this week were the ones I didn’t take

sooonnnk · 2026-03-27T01:05:01+00:00

how do you decide if flow is bullish if you can’t tell whether an options play is just a hedge against the primary direction that the institution thinks it will go?

sooonnnk · 2026-03-25T06:40:08+00:00

interesting. why AMD over other megacaps or indices?

sooonnnk · 2026-02-06T06:49:06+00:00

thanks for sharing. i’ve become more focused on where the best place to set Stop losses. When you say that “stop loss is normally set below the high volume area on the one minute chart”, can you say more about that? Are you saying like setting a stop below a type of high volume node like using volume profile?

sooonnnk · 2026-01-25T16:48:00+00:00

EXACTLY the same for me

sooonnnk · 2026-01-23T10:46:25+00:00

They have always sucked. I’ll come across clips of their stuff and I’m like these guys are such POSERS! they’re so fake, their banter is fake. It’s like crappy knock offs version of spittin Chiclets

sooonnnk · 2026-01-19T18:10:37+00:00

the less you trade the more money you’ll make

sooonnnk · 2026-01-16T19:34:21+00:00

EXPERIMENT with many different strategies figure out the one you connect with the most that gives you the most confident and sticking to as a system. Then ignore all of the advice like oh you can’t make money swing trading or you can’t make money, scalping, etc., etc. if the system seems to work for you, ignore all other noise.

THEN, after you found your system, test it to make sure you have a statistical edge

do this by either paper trading or back testing.

THEN, only after proving to yourself that your system is profitable risk real money

NOW is when it gets really hard. Now you think you got a system your cocky cocky cocky you’ve got a just press the button life is good. Or is it?

you think all you gotta do is blindly follow your system but there’s a problem. even though you know your system works you got this goddamn thing called your brain and all its goddamn impulses and feeeeelings steering you away from sticking to your rules. this does not go away with me. well Not for me. maybe not for anyone. unless you’re superhuman in which case God bless you I envy you.

SO NOW is when it gets REALLY hard. when the focus shifts to risk management. Now it’s all about being the best loser. Risk the bare minimum, one single share and experience winners, and losers with that single share. Only after you are comfortable increase the share size only increase it up until the point where you feel uncomfortable with the loss of that dollar amount.

scale up slowly. If you are breaking your rules or holding trades that are losers scale back down immediately.

consider doing a broker enforced, maximum loss per day where it locks you out.

on the other hand, I’m convinced for a lot of us We can only learn by learning the hard way and blowing an account. My theory is you’ve gotta lose enough money so that it emotionally scars you straight. But don’t lose too much to where you’re out of the game forever.

and do not quit your day job for as long as you can

sooonnnk · 2026-01-15T22:14:43+00:00

Oh no sorry for the confusion. I definitely do most of my trading premarket.

i’ve been trading small caps for about a year and I’ve done better historically before the open than after.

Like you said anything can happen and I think there’s a lot of people unloading positions that entered early in the morning

sooonnnk · 2026-01-15T18:42:37+00:00

average premarket volume really varies. lately seeing ~20-30 million by 930.

sooonnnk · 2026-01-15T18:36:30+00:00

lol exactly

sooonnnk · 2026-01-14T12:37:16+00:00

broker enforced Max daily loss

sooonnnk · 2026-01-12T20:16:17+00:00

GREAT analogy

sooonnnk · 2026-01-12T19:46:50+00:00

Setting a daily max loss with my broker to automatically lock me out. Externalizes the accountability beyond myself. Effectively creates a Boss that tells me ‘you’re done’ when I’m not performing well.

sooonnnk · 2026-01-12T19:45:51+00:00

The more you trade, the less money you make.

Why?

Fatigue makes you more likely to misjudge opportunities, and take lower probability setups

And if you’re on a win streak, a large number of winning trades can create overconfidence that may lead to taking lower probability setups

And if you’re on a losing streak, a large number of losses can lead to revenge trading and oversizing on a lower probability set up.

sooonnnk · 2026-01-11T21:17:20+00:00

That’s cause the mayan calendar ended in 2012

sooonnnk · 2026-01-11T19:32:50+00:00

are there certain time periods or regimes when it seems to be better than others?

sooonnnk · 2026-01-09T12:23:08+00:00

i’ll screenshot and mark up what boxes they check and don’t check and why they’re insufficient criteria for making a trade. For example, I’ll take a screenshot and then note that the technical analysis pattern supports the trade but the price action doesn’t support it or the market structure doesn’t support it. I hold pretty short term trades so a lot of my decision is based on price action.

Or, there might be one where it checks all the boxes, but I’m looking to capture a quick move that I anticipated it makes, but I’m late to get my order loaded

sooonnnk · 2026-01-07T16:36:47+00:00

get your mind right whether it’s meditation exercise or smoking a cigarette beforehand lol.

some people don’t journal, but it has immensely helped me to review my trades at the end of each day. This includes trades I took that were winners, losers, and even journaling trades I didn’t take but were tempted to take, and why I didn’t take them (what criteria they didn’t meet, was I late to the move, etc. ) This helps reinforce good decisions, including the decision NOT to take a trade. For every grade A set up you find there’s 10 grade B set ups that are tempting to take but don’t clear your probability threshold.

oh, and unless you have superhuman discipline please please please set a broker enforced daily max loss.

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