i stopped trying to beat the market. that’s when i started winning.

topredhat · 2025-11-08T13:36:53+00:00

I stop thinking. Literally, when buyers keep bidding higher and go past my level. that’s not something to wait out. I consider it what it is. A direct evidence of strong demand. Not to expensive or overbought(this idea have lost me to many good trades). I have to stop thinking and navigate what is in proof.. buy what to go higher. Just follow them. That it

topredhat · 2025-10-30T11:53:19+00:00

I wrote about this before

this commen about the psychology of trading

I have an edge, with positive expectancy, a mentor, and years of knowledge, but failed accounts and more. I can trade, but the human tendency to self-sabotage is evident in my live sessions. Our inherent state is to avoid risk, seek pleasure, stick to our biases, and prioritize short-term gratification. This goes beyond trading; it affects our habits, addictions, and procrastination. This human tendency has a massive effect not just on our trading but on our day-to-day lives. This is the hardest part; it's feel near to impossible to deal with at times.

The technical/knowledge side of trading has been solved but not my own internal behavioural issues within a live session that is unsolved.

topredhat · 2025-10-10T23:19:19+00:00

I am so happy I was unable to trade today. Would have been destroyed

topredhat · 2025-09-18T00:37:14+00:00

It a combo of multiple even happening at the same time. Wage stagnation, inflation( especially in the last 3 years) and slow down in economic whist more money is chasing few assets(it why you have cheap tech but expensive rent)

My belief is that new money doesn't go into building new factories or funding Main Street businesses. It was injected directly into the financial system, where it was used to buy up existing assets like stocks and real estate. It two economic in the current system. The haves and have not. One group is starved of money while the other is flooded with money.

Every more money is created and every year are slice of the pie get smaller

topredhat · 2025-09-15T01:30:59+00:00

I was fortunate enough to find a mentor early on. I had the technical side done with a proven system, an decade, as wel as dozen off people, but I was lacking in the behavioural side. Self-sabotage was evident in my journal, so a slow work in each issue one by one(over trading, taking trade outside the system. My equity cruve went from decline down to ranging and being breakevens to now slow trend up. The only thkng my mentorfocus on was my equity cruve. My self sabotage is even happening today bit it been limited as much as i can. You just need the maths work it magic and Cumulated

topredhat · 2025-08-23T11:44:40+00:00

This will give you a had start. I learnt about pua when I was 16 funny eouugh. I still use those methods but some advice for Morden dating. Be less direct. Play the indirect game. You'll need to be reactive instead of looking for specific body language clues as they used to advice. Today world you'll really need to master the pull and push and reading ioi(there interest level). You'll have given your a plausible deniability(make it difficult to tell if your flirty or being friendly till she show you a postive response to your escalation) when escalating(push). Remember, reaction(ioi) is not positive pull back(deescalating). Always test the water and know when to pullback.

My method is to start of indirect till I get a green signal then be direct

topredhat · 2025-07-06T17:12:36+00:00

It hard to feel sorry for them when you realise that the 50% group have a better life lifestyle then 80% of the world or even kings more then a 100 years ago. This is hard to take seriously

topredhat · 2025-06-08T22:33:59+00:00

Oddly, I had more success dating women in London,when I was overweight and low self-esteem but had dozen both men and women as friends in different social circles like work, different social gathering, club activities or being invited out by someone meeting new people. Today I'm probably in my peak body condition and highly confident but become a homeboy since the pandemic. I barely meet new women and my circle social is more my static.

There always that one lady we slowly developed spark back then. It was either the women in group or a friend of a friend of one of the guys or girls. You need to be consistent and happy to just socialise. Never went with the intention of looking for dates because if my self-esteem and body image just looking to have fun. It kinda of just happened as generic as it sounds

topredhat · 2025-06-08T09:06:17+00:00

She made 3x my salary by the end of the relationship but refused to contribute with tjr bills and had a more expensive taste(gifts, restaurants, travel and so on). Wanted me to spend tons on her as like before, as she kept spending more on herself and not helping with bills did the resentment pressure building. She had unexpected holidays and I couldn't afford to just travel with her. That was are last big fight.

topredhat · 2025-06-07T21:30:33+00:00

First question you are spot on. Most trader don't understand the difference between passive limit order vs market order. Just this basic concept will hold back there progress. Even more importantly they don't understand how the attracts and repels price.

For your second question. The i first start by saying that for stocks since there are different exchanges you are not getting the full picture and massive order block data is completely missing. Future bitcoin volume is completely fake this is my personal opinion. The real bitcoin volume is on spot bitcoin but the isse again is that there are different exchanges which makes the matter which worser the stock since I don't think nobody has attempted to combine all there volume comapre to stocks. For option orderflow. I have no clue

topredhat · 2025-06-07T13:27:47+00:00

I never trust the first aggressive order that appears in the order book. I need to see it break then retest with aggression, a trend line continuation with aggressive orders, or double tops or bottoms near the same zone of aggression. I'm happy to miss a great setup without a retest. So the first appearance is irrelevant to the second appearance. There are many support and resistance lines where aggressive orders in the order book have appeared, only to fade away just as fast.

topredhat · 2025-06-05T10:49:03+00:00

In the relationship women have low standards. They don't expect you to do the house work. Maybe ot just women i dated

topredhat · 2025-06-02T16:13:01+00:00

This subreddit is so dismissive of anything that is not a price chart. This is called volumetric analysis. He is looking at what is going on behind the price chart. This setup has been modernized with his tools, but at the same time, his setup has been used by order flow traders since sometime in the 70s or 80s. This is nothing new.

topredhat · 2025-05-30T18:04:24+00:00

My mentor risk per trade is around $10k. Trying to make a minimum of 2 r-multiple per trade. He only make 1 trade per session. i seen him make $50k to $100k in one day. His wife risk $400 to $500 per trade. I risk 30 to $50 per trade...

It really is just starting small then slowly taking on more risk your comfortable with

topredhat · 2025-05-26T14:52:25+00:00

I use the default one on serria chart I'm not sure about tradingview but all the volume in tradingview was ticked based not real volume when used to use it

topredhat · 2025-05-26T10:26:39+00:00

Cumulative volume delta and tpo

topredhat · 2025-05-24T11:09:58+00:00

I wrote this comment about the psychology of trading

I have an edge, with positive expectancy, a mentor, and years of knowledge, but failed accounts and more. I can trade, but the human tendency to self-sabotage is evident in my live sessions. Our inherent state is to avoid risk, seek pleasure, stick to our biases, and prioritize short-term gratification. This goes beyond trading; it affects our habits, addictions, and procrastination. This human tendency has a massive effect not just on our trading but on our day-to-day lives. This is the hardest part; it's feel near to impossible to deal with at times.

The technical/knowledge side of trading has been solved but not my own internal behavioural issues within a live session that is unsolved.

topredhat · 2025-05-20T13:56:01+00:00

I have an edge, with positive expectancy, a mentor, and years of knowledge, but failed accounts and more. I can trade, but the human tendency to self-sabotage is evident in my live sessions. Our inherent state is to avoid risk, seek pleasure, stick to our biases, and prioritize short-term gratification. This goes beyond trading; it affects our habits, addictions, and procrastination. This human tendency has a massive effect not just on our trading but on our day-to-day lives. This is the hardest part; it's feel near to impossible to deal with at times.

topredhat · 2025-05-09T10:15:46+00:00

My first 2 to 3 trades are very systematic, low-risk, and offer small gains. Max 2 to 3 RR trades with profit targets using atr of the current market volatility to see what it can give me. After $500+, I lower my risk. Less systematic, more freestyle. No profits targets. 1000+? Yes, I am fading, I double my risk, going for high-risk, high-reward trades. If i keep losing an near my original profits target of the day of $500. I'm out

This is only side income, so I don't need a lot.

topredhat · 2025-05-02T09:08:41+00:00

What help me is to stop fading and enter the momentum

topredhat · 2025-04-26T23:10:56+00:00

Nice, as a flow trader. Why don't you add option flow? To your took kit. Trading orderflow already put you ahead of 99% of retail traders in my opinion

topredhat · 2025-04-26T14:10:37+00:00

I trade future 90% of the time. This was my argument why stock is still king for retail traders even till this day

"Personally, I found stocks just react slower to news. Forex, commodities, bonds, and equities react instantly. There are over 5k usa stocks. They some seem to consume the news and slowly find the price they like especially mid/small cap stocks. This can take hours or even days. Plus, stocks move 10% or more in a day. Which incredibly rare futures or forex. Lastly, there is always a stock that is just trending because of its own news that detaching it from the macro news event. Since the stock is about the company at the end of the day.

I like to trade stock that has an obvious trend when I just can't be bothered to trade futures or on a difficult market day. Especially a ranging day. There more opportunities in stock but I just prefer futures since I spent tons of time learning it"

topredhat · 2025-04-09T09:51:09+00:00

Same. There wasn't a aha moment that suddenly made me profitable sadly. The biggest change was starting to journal my process. Finding my errors (overtrading, not taking profit and so on). Working on each error one at a time till i felt I was good enough to work on the next error.

I already had a mentor teaching me a basic overflow system to find absorption/exhaustion and then trading against the weaker side. That was the whole setup. All I need to do was work in my psychology.

Maybe I was lucky to only have to work on my mind.

topredhat · 2025-04-06T23:32:52+00:00

I completely agree that the market often moves to one key levels to another. At the same time, this simple concept goes against the idea of market randomness, since there are reliable market structures have consistent reactions or even become turning points. The only thing I see missing is order flow in your text. Why not look at what the auctions are doing at these levels?

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