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Things I implemented from the book "The gap and the Gain" that helped me improve my trading.🧵 @DrBenjaminHardy 1. Capitalizing on Losses: Reframing the Raw Material of Growth Perception shapes progress. Losses—missed trades, blown P&L, or flawed setups—aren’t just setbacks; they’re data. Hardy’s point is that devaluing experiences (e.g., “I’m a failure for missing that move”) stalls learning, while reframing them as capital (e.g., “That miss taught me to watch volume spikes”) accelerates it. Your shift to seeing rules and setups emerge from past mistakes is a textbook example of moving from the "gap" (what you lack) to the "gain" (what you’ve built). In trading terms, this is like treating every red day as a post-mortem goldmine. For instance, a blown stop-loss might reveal a pattern—like entering too early on a breakout—that you can codify into a rule: “Wait for the retest.” Over time, this builds a feedback loop where losses stop being emotional sinkholes and become the raw material for tighter hypotheses. Your long-term mentality shift mirrors what elite traders do: they don’t mourn the tuition; they cash it in. 2. Stopping the Self-Beatdown: Breaking the Tilt-FOMO Cycle You’re absolutely right—tilt and FOMO are trading’s twin demons, and self-punishment is their fuel. Beating yourself up after breaking a rule (e.g., chasing a trade) doesn’t fix the mistake; it fries your emotional bandwidth, setting off a shame spiral. Guilt and tilt aren’t just in the moment—they linger, clouding your next setup even if you’re “not trading.” Hardy’s insight here is about self-compassion as a growth hack: if you’re stuck in the gap of who you should be, you can’t focus on the gains you’re making. Channeling that energy into a detailed post-trade journal—what went wrong, why, and how to prevent it—is a brilliant pivot. It’s productive, it externalizes the emotion, and it turns a high-energy “I screwed up” rant into a concrete fix. For example: “Entered without confirmation, felt rushed—next time, I’ll wait for the 5-minute candle close.” This aligns with the point about growth being non-linear—like the market, it zigs and zags, but the trend matters more than the noise. Kindness isn’t weakness; it’s a shield against tilt’s compounding losses. 3. Setting up my environment: Decision Fatigue and the 20-Second Edge His take on decision fatigue and the 20-second rule is a game-changer for trading execution. Trading is a mental marathon—every “Should I enter? Exit? Adjust?” chips away at your willpower. By prepping your environment so decisions are front-loaded, you’re not just reducing fatigue; you’re separating planning from execution, which is a pro-level move. Amateurs analyze mid-trade and hesitate; winners execute what’s already baked. Your daily process—pre-made plans, alerts for price levels, reminders for rules or breaks—is the 20-second rule in action. If your chart’s ready, your entry’s plotted, and your phone’s on Do Not Disturb, you’ve shaved seconds (and stress) off the “start” button. Conversely, adding friction—like keeping Twitter off during market hours—cuts FOMO noise. Technology amplifies this: a TradingView alert for “Price hits 50 EMA” or a sticky note reminder keeps your brain on rails. Hesitation dies when the plan’s already loaded. This ties your environment setup to capitalizing on losses (past misses fuel hypotheses) and sidesteps self-punishment by focusing on execution over emotional churn. It’s about stacking the deck so you’re trading the system, not your impulses. 4. Trade Like Your Future Pro Self Already Exists A long-term mindset in trading, tied to my "future self" strategies from The Gap and The Gain, is about building for the trader I’m becoming—steady, sharp, and profitable—not just scrapping for today’s P&L. It’s zooming out: future me doesn’t freak over a trade’s every tick, like checking P&L nonstop. I’m in it for the week’s edge, the month’s growth, the year’s payoff. Losses, slip-ups, bad days? Tuition for the big picture, not disasters. It shapes how I roll. I’m crafting systems—journal, prep—like I’m already running a million-dollar account, because future me doesn’t flail, she executes. I measure gains looking back (e.g., “Am I sticking to rules better than last month?”), not agonizing over some unattainable “guru” gap. Short-term traders hunt dopamine; I stack habits. Skipping that instant reward, as I’ve learned, rewires me to see trades as steps to wealth, not ego boosts. $spy $spx $qqq $es_f $nq $iwm $dia $xle $xlv $smh $soxs $gne $nvda $smci #tradingpsychology #tradingmindset #nasdaq #daytrading #futurestrading

@InternetH0F I think the chicken was more visible/ bigger and since it was breaded resembled grain

Apparently chickens prefer cannibalism

@marlene_mo17247 @ShintouGenesis @stepfanie @fiat_money Again, billionaires are not needed for this. Have many groups instead only 2-3 big groups. Better for the end consumer which I assume it's you.

@ShintouGenesis @stepfanie @fiat_money EXACTLY her point. Workers are fungible, the means of production/intellectual property is not. Without the means, no product would be created. Without a group of workers, other workers would be found.

If you hate billionaires, go all the way, pussy. Ditch the iPhone, the laptop, the tablet. Get off the internet. No Amazon, no big box stores, no Starbucks. Grow your own food. Thrift your clothes. Walk everywhere. And obviously no working for, buying from, or interacting with any company that scales beyond a farmers market. Enjoy your abundance.

@stepfanie @fiat_money Even more likely billionaires buy other people successful family businesses and if they don't want to sell, well hostile takeover. All the brands that used to be good, go to shit shortly after being acquired.

@fiat_money They just create things out of thin air? Interesting. So why do they work for someone else?

@stepfanie Proof of limited mentality here, small businesses can provide a lot of the services we need, we actually do not have to be slave to big corp to have food, clothing and other necessities. People were getting entertained before Netflix, perhaps more.

$ES_F $SPX $SPY — Bearish divergence noted. Stats still support new ATH possible this year, but probably after a corrective scare. Strong bullish weekly & monthly candle → we’d likely need **distribution** first Rare yearly setup I normally only have stats on daily/weekly — flagging potential back toward April 2025 lows (~5100). Hard to believe we go that deep now. Watching closely. Longer-term constructive, shorter-term cautious.

@kpak82 It's not going to crash from here, it needs some doji's first, look at those candles!

$SPY $QQQ both made new ATHs with weekly bearish RSI negative divergence.

@Canine_World @MichaelPBento The market is not rallying because USA winning but the opposite, it is rallying because it is losing and that is why people are baffled. DE-DOLLARIZATION

@MichaelPBento For some reason, I’m worried that Trump was trying to cool the markets so much that what happens next could be scary… is it just me?

If you were long today I hope you sold before the close. You no longer have the supportive gamma and the bearish institutional options flow stepped on the gas AH. Next week we probably get a pullback

@Paulfdrs @Daves_Not_Here6 @RoyLMattox it's from the post above 😆

@Daves_Not_Here6 @RoyLMattox How you know that? Imminent? 3-8% or 1-2% or 6-9%. Pulling these numbers out of thin air..

This is literally the most extreme momentum event in 40 years of recorded data. The Nasdaq 100's RSI went from 28 (oversold) on March 30 to 70.5 (overbought) by April 15 — in just 11 sessions. That is the fastest oversold-to-overbought transition in the Nasdaq 100's 40-year recorded history. The previous fastest was 25 sessions after Liberation Day last year. The historical average is 60+ sessions. Benzinga According to Bespoke Investment Group, this also marks the fastest move from a correction of this size to a new record high since 1928. Yahoo Finance The forward return data is actually quite bullish long-term. Across all 44 historical episodes where the Nasdaq gained 11% or more in 10 sessions, the 12-month forward return averaged +24%, with a median of +30%, and a win rate of 80%. At 6 months, the win rate is 74%. Benzinga But the near-term pullback is almost guaranteed. The average maximum drawdown following these signals was −18.39% — meaning while the 12-month destination is historically higher, the journey involves deep, punishing pullbacks that can severely impact over-leveraged portfolios. Ainvest The key number to watch: Based on the 6 most comparable historical analogues — COVID recovery (−8%), Liberation Day 2025 (−4%), Fed pivot 2018 (−6%), Asian crisis 1997 (−7%) — the most probable near-term pullback is 3-8% within the next 2-4 weeks. The April 22 ceasefire expiry is the most likely trigger. After that consolidation, the historical data overwhelmingly favors a resumption of the bull trend. The S&P 500 has experienced average intra-year declines of roughly 14% since 1990, even in years that finish strongly positive — and the average correction (10-20% decline) lasts just 17 days. U.S. Bank A pullback here isn't a disaster; it's the historical norm and historically the best re-entry point. Wes and I are extremely well positioned in the leaders.

@badfella_007 @GAndersonTrades 😂

@GAndersonTrades Strong support at $300 and strong resistance at $300,000. I believe the next run will cross $300,000 and end up at the 1.318 fob extension of $470,000

John Loc has to be the ONLY person in FinX history to round trip an account from under $1,000 to 6 figures+ back to $0 TWICE

@GAndersonTrades he's probably going to do it again too

@michaeljburry True that ....

Markets have never seen a needle top.

@3peaksG @michaeljburry he said short are not forever ....he's been quite on point if you ask me

@michaeljburry Bro you’ve made 1 good trade in your life. What market have you seen?

@MomAngtrades Why do we need UBI if everything will be free and infinitely abundant?

I’m sure Elon is also going to give us all free robots and free Teslas with the UBI. I mean money is worthless then right? Right?

The market isn't trapped in some unbuilt peace architecture. It's just noisy and forward-looking, with different participants pricing different time horizons. Pattern recognition is fine, but calling standard futures-physical divergence a grand "structural trap" the screen is ignoring is overcomplicating basic economics. Supply shocks raise prices until the balance is restored. That's it. Supply, demand, and time lags explain it better than conspiracy-flavored poetry

The conspiracy framing misses the real story. This isn’t narrative control. It’s the Δt problem in physical markets. Futures price narrative in hours. Physical barrels clear structure in weeks. Screen: $90. The ceasefire headline. Physical: $120–$160. The Hormuz reality. That gap is not manipulation. It’s the market telling you the structural trap is still intact. Saudi Arabia isn’t complaining about the narrative. They’re complaining about the physics. The architecture of peace hasn’t been built. The screen just priced it anyway. Pattern > Noise. 🌹

🚨 Saudi Finance Minister EXPOSES the oil price : “You see $90 on the screen… good luck buying a barrel at that price.” Real price? $120–$160/barrel. The biggest gap between perception and reality in energy markets — ever. Who’s controlling the narrative? 👀

@DasCaliTex @AlaliQasem Maybe when the gap is 30 dollars, it starts to matter. CME sent a warning regarding manipulating the oil futures price, but I guess everyone forgot about it.

@AlaliQasem The markets are controlling the markets. When is the last time you looked at brent DFL’s or CFD’s Einstein? 2 weeks ago?????? You need a different brand of tea cuz yours seems to be opiated.

@CossamKapi11915 7 months? could easily be 7 years, this is not his end

DON'T QUIT TRADING

@wishbone80 @missmommymolly @BlondeOpinionX @Rightanglenews logic?

@wiser_trader @missmommymolly @BlondeOpinionX @Rightanglenews Careful... this sounds a lot like logic here. Why does the baby react to "no" that way - it's just gibberish.

Two gay men in Nashville are sparking nationwide outrage after recording a video of themselves mocking the baby they had via surrogacy as it cries for its mother for content. Man: “Who do you want, Dada or Pop?” Baby: “Mama” Man: “No, there is no mama.” Baby: cries

@rystm @HeidiBriones @imPenny2x

@HeidiBriones @imPenny2x Have you ever considered the possibility that some of us are able to grasp it yet we still don’t want it? Two individuals can read the same book and have two different opinions, and it doesn’t necessarily mean one of them didn’t understand it.

99% of people really do not understand abundance as Elon describes it. The fundamental reason is that they don’t understand compound growth. Same people who would probably pick 1 million dollars today over a penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days. It’s a bad choice by the way. You lose out on millions. Imagine if that doubling object was a labor producing robot instead of a penny. Compounding labor. It’s actually crazy if you try and wrap your mind around it. So Elon mentions Universl High Income and the midwits flip a lid. “The elites won’t share” You don’t get it. They won’t need to share. They will make everything so cheap, it is effectively free. Charities will have immense resources to distribute. Unfathomable intelligence will exist to help optimize production and distribution. An unfathomably large labor pool will exist that operates on solar power exclusively. The public work projects that are erected will be unseen before levels of breathtaking. I think we are incredibly blessed to steward this new age of abundance. Can you see it now? Can you see the future?

@Aaronbennett That never happened. He is most likely on a cruise somewhere...

My uncle saved $900,000 for retirement. Lived on nothing for 40 years to do it. Brown bag lunches. No vacations. Same car for 15 years. Clipped coupons until the very end. Died with $900,000 in the bank. His kids split it. Spent it in 12 months. He saved 30 years of living for people who spent it in a year without thinking about him while they did.

@Aaronbennett weren't they suppose to spend it?