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Joined December 2021
Praeenz retweeted
Weekly Recap📆 11 Trades: 5W, 1BE, 5L I don't repeat myself here today. I said it often enough what I did wrong over and over again. On FOMC I had problems with fomo + sizing and hit Lucids DLL so fast I revenge traded the same account on in london. I already said what I need to fix. I want to show it.
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Green on an HRL day. First trade: 2mIFVG, 1 micro, scratched at BE. Then shorted the LRL.. 1 BE, 1 small win. Got back in on the 30s IFVG. Took some off + added on the 1st.P.FVG. Trailed the stop too tight at the end. Messy process. Green day. I’ll take it.
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This is why I wanted to stay neutral here. Nothing really changed. PWL sweep was too shallow. Looks like sellside to me now too. Daily FVG from last time probably didn’t hold. Watching how we trade around the C.E on Monday. FOMC Wednesday might open things up.
As long as we stay under this Daily SIBI, I’m pretty neutral. Don’t really like this Daily right now. Too slow. Just consolidating between bullish and bearish PD arrays. Keeping an eye on the fresh FVG we formed. Hope we break out soon.
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I’m not a fan of indicators. Since I started learning ICT concepts, I draw everything myself. Takes longer. You mess up at the start. That’s the point. I group it. Name it. Delete it when I don’t need it anymore. That’s how I actually learned the concepts. And that’s how I started trusting my own eye.
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Curse broken. Wanted to end the session like I said. Price cleaned up slowly… I couldn’t sit on my hands. 2 longs. 2 small base hits. Especially that Data High after the first one. Account’s locked now 🤙
Call me Mr. Break Even today. Second trade I fucked up because I wanted the whole run instead of taking the first buy side target. Tried to micromanage it. Hard to do when the market is just chop. Wanted a short after that. Got BE twice again. Week’s over for me.
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My family was broke our whole life. Every vacation meant flipping every last penny. Eating out almost never happened. At some point the family fell apart… and now everyone lives on their own. I never had the best relationship with my parents. But I still want to give something back. They never had it easy. Watching that taught me more than any book. I’m in a better position now because I learned from the life they had to live. They showed me what being broke feels like. So I save as much as I can. I invest. I build a skill that actually pays. Besides my brother, almost nobody knows what I really do. I will retire them all. Mark my words.
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My main goal here is to build a solid community. Where we support each other and grow. I wanted to release this server earlier, but I said myself I wait until 1k followers. Fuck it. I want to be more helpful and give something back. It literally changed my life being here and I found so many wonderful people! Here’s my free community server: discord.gg/SZBPxcXjAG
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London is goated. 3 trades today. 2 wins. 1 BE. Kept risk small on purpose. Just counting reps. Feels like I got my mojo back. First short into the 15m Sellside with 1mOB + 30s iFVG. Second was a wrong read. Quick BE. Last one was a 2m iFVG.
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Weekly Recap 📅 Got funded on Friday. Fresh calendar. Clean slate. Doesn’t feel like a win yet. Feels like a reset. This week I made a lot of mistakes. That’s the part that hits different. Not the losses.. repeating the same leak after you already spotted it. I know my weaknesses. Oversizing when I feel behind. Forcing when the session isn’t mine. From now on it’s simple: Proper size only + setups I actually want to review later. Work puts me on London next week. New chapter starts now.
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I finally found a routine that worked. Then my job took it away. Three months ago I started night shift, and I actually loved it. For the first time in a while, the days felt like they belonged to me. Then my company couldn’t keep three shifts. Just like that, it was gone. I got anxious about it. Not because I haven’t done the two shift system before, but because I finally had something that worked and now I have to let it go. The last weeks were heavy. I was worrying about the future more than I wanted to admit. And before that, for the first time in this journey, I hit payouts back to back. Then I started trading in a way I never do. Too much size, rushed setups, revenge trading. I lost evals because I couldn’t accept that I wasn’t in the right headspace anymore. A week before that I was performing well, and I wanted so badly to keep that version of myself. It was a mix of uncertainty at work, bad sleep from night shift, and post payout tilt. I saw it happening. I just didn’t want to admit it. Now I can’t hide from it. I need to start slow again and rebuild my London routine from scratch. The last two days I tape read London. Yesterday I couldn’t stay disciplined and blew my Tradify account. At first I panicked. Today it hit me that I just put way too much on my back for the situation I’m actually in. I know I will work this out. I always do.
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Slowly coming back. 2 BEs and 1 win again. Was short term bearish to get bullish today. After the first BE I knew the lows were getting taken first. So I stuck with it and didn’t hunt the whole run. Just me and my base hits. Confluences: 0.5 RTH ORG + 1st P. FVG + 1m OB + 30s IFVG
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3rd payout this month. Crazy to think I couldn’t get a single one the entire year… and now I’ve taken out $1.8k in one month. I stayed careful on purpose. Didn’t aim for the maxed payout because I needed to build more confidence first. Still got a lot to improve. But I’m seeing real progress…
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Saved my account again! Wanted to paper trade today… but somehow decided to risk the account that was already near dead instead. Ended up being a light bubble. Sometimes the best trades come when you’re not supposed to be trading at all. Confluences: 5m FVG + 30s IFVG + beautiful LRL
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You lose some… you win some. After I lost the funded account I wanted to end the day. But I wasn’t that emotional. Took a short break, then hopped back in. Traded purely off the RTH ORG today. Took 2 shorts based on structure + ORG. No forcing. Just clean setups. Confluences: 0.5 RTH ORG + 30s OB + 30s IFVG + EQLs
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2nd payout this year. 2nd payout this month. This month isn’t easy at all. That’s why this payout hits different... even though it’s not a max. I’m finally starting to clean up my habits, my tilt, my risk management, and my emotions. One step closer to where I want to be.
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Weekly Recap📆 15 Trades: 5W, 6BE, 4L Secured another payout this week. I took way too many trades at the beginning of the week. Deep down I was chasing the money, that’s what created most of the pressure and struggle. A mix of slower price action and greed got me in trouble. From Wednesday on I started being more selective and my win rate improved. Overall… still an incredible week.
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3 months ago I started this journey. Today we also hit 600 followers. I started because I wanted to be more accountable to myself. I believed that if I stayed as transparent as possible, the constant reflection would force me to improve. Before this, I was losing evals back to back and tilting almost every week. I was so mentally down that I forced myself to trade demo for a full month before I even made my first post. It felt wrong at the time, I wanted to buy an eval so badly when I saw myself trading well. But looking back, it was necessary. Since then I’ve slowly built a real community here and met so many genuine, supportive people. I’ll be forever thankful for everyone who’s been part of this. In just 3 months there were so many ups and downs: Scaling too early and blowing accounts with zero payouts… Getting ghost banned twice… Losing Evals near to funded back to back.. To now hitting 2 payouts in this month alone. It’s a reminder how fast life can change when you stay consistent. Thank you for being here.❤️
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Really proud of this one. Took a loss on one account… and still stayed completely calm on the second. I’m slowly building better habits, and almost all of my monthly goals are on track (except the X growth goal). Feels good to see the work finally paying off. I’m not chasing the max payout either. I’d rather take what I can right now and stay consistent. God is great.
6 day streak and payout ready again 🔥 Splitting the accounts today actually worked out well. Front ran the 1st.P setup with a lot of confluences behind it. Knew a quick BE would still be fine. Emotions stayed locked in, even after hitting DLL on the new funded account. Confluences: IRL Sweep + 0.75 RTH ORG + 5m FVG + 30s CISD
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Starting to scale slowly now. Didn’t want to get greedy and go full allocation. I need to see how I’m actually performing first. I’ll trade the eval and funded accounts separately and mainly focus on the funded one. Once I get the second account funded, the plan stays the same: Focus on the first one, take the payout, and keep it clean.
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Not my best performance lately… but still green. 2 BEs, 1 small L, and 1 big W. The long was pure revenge trading.. lucky I got BE. The second short was completely unnecessary. I forced it. I locked my emotions in better than yesterday, especially with risk management. But those two forced trades still sit with me. I can clearly see I was looking more at the money than the quality of the setup. Also half-passed a flex eval today. Confluences: 5m FVG + 1st P. BISI & SIBI respected + RTH ORG
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