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Focus on the process.

@sam_kb_ Shout out Claude

Coding portfolio tools whilst Evie watches Disney makeup unboxings. Dad life is great.

@ChartKumar That’s not my TP, it’s a backtest tracking MFE sweetheart

@ACtradesfx I love how your TP is set to the exact pip where the price reverse. You must truly be a magician or the market maker.

Life.

@0xfs7 That’s the goal

@ACtradesfx life looking peaceful

@HarryPayneee1 🫶🏼

Wisdom. 🧠

@apparentlytrder 🫶🏼

@ACtradesfx 🔥🔥

@JerichoTrades Vamos

@ACtradesfx *best life

@TraderFraserM I mean basically everything lol, as much as I can

@ACtradesfx What metrics do you track?

@Draackito49iw Just some old AOC 27” curved

@ACtradesfx Hello my friend, do you have the reference of your main screen

@rotrade93 @DarwinexZero @PropFirmMatch @TradingLucid Good luck man

Right now I’m sitting at 700k in prop firm funding with CFDs, a 200k challenge in P2, 300k in challenges in P1, and my @DarwinexZero account has officially completed its calibration phase. With that progress in place, I’ve decided to expand into the futures space starting Monday. I’ll be taking advantage of the @PropFirmMatch offer with @TradingLucid that was recently added to the platform. Stepping into a new arena always comes with a learning curve, so I’d really appreciate it if you could share your top advice when it comes to trading futures. Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend. If you’re looking to start a new challenge and save some $ take a look for the best firms&deals inside the website: (use the link below and use the code “MATCH” at checkout. propfirmmatch.com/?a_aid=SnDLab

@tjfreeman_95 Good write up

I've been following Lance Breitstein on X for a few months now and somehow only came across this interview today. Two hours in, I had to stop and just sit with it for a minute. This is one of the most honest, dense and genuinely useful conversations about trading I've ever listened to - and I've listened to a lot of them. Lance was the number one trader at Trillium, one of the oldest and most respected prop firms in the world. He started as one of the slowest learners in his class, struggled for two years, nearly got cut, and ended up becoming one of the best short-term intraday traders on the planet. Fun fact: Lance also did a 10-figure trade live on Twitter during the Yen squeeze in August 2024. The man has earned the right to say everything he says here. Here's what stayed with me most. 1. The environment you learn in is probably the single most important variable in your development. Lance said something that I haven't been able to stop thinking about since I heard it - that if he had been on the retail side, he genuinely believes he would not have made it. Not probably. He said he can guarantee it with 99% confidence. The reason is that the feedback loop, the competition, the mentorship, the constant exposure to people performing at a high level - all of that is what actually accelerates learning in a way that sitting alone at a screen simply cannot replicate. He described watching his trainer make six figures on a single trade and thinking: what he did was not that different from what I just did. That moment of proof, of being able to see what's possible from someone operating in the same environment on the same setups, is something most retail traders never get. Finding the closest version of that matters enormously. 2. Deliberate reps beat passive time every single time. This is the meta-learning concept Lance keeps coming back to throughout the entire interview, and the golf analogy he uses is perfect. Hitting 500 balls with the same broken swing cements the broken swing. Five intentional swings where you actually fix the problem are worth more than the 500. The same principle applies directly to trading. A trader who sits at the screen for 500 days but spends half of it distracted, zoning out, watching Netflix on the side monitor - they might accumulate maybe 20 to 30 genuinely focused, intentional days of real learning. Meanwhile someone who is drilling chart writeups during every slow period, watching tape in half-speed, identifying their weakest patterns and actively working to reprogram them - they could get 100 meaningful reps in a single day. Lance was watching his trading tape in slow motion and then in 2x speed so that by the time the real setup appeared in live trading, his pattern recognition was already trained beyond what anyone else was doing. That's why he went from the slowest in his class to one of the fastest traders in the world. Intentional screen time is the real edge. 3. Edge is positive expectancy, and you need to know exactly where yours lives and where it doesn't. Lance was emphatic about this, and it connects to something I've been documenting through journaling for months. Every trader has a set of strategies, and almost nobody properly tracks which ones are actually generating returns versus which ones are quietly draining the account. He gave the example of a trainee who was convinced he made money in IPOs, which was technically true, but when he crunched the data he discovered he was making money on two hot IPOs and losing on eight garbage ones, and the losses were offsetting a significant portion of the gains. The fix was simple: stop trading the garbage ones. But without the data, he never would have seen it. 4. Bet big on pocket aces. Build consistency on everything else. One of the most important frameworks Lance shares in the entire interview is the poker analogy for position sizing and trade selection. The best traders in the world make roughly 90% of their P&L from 10% of their opportunities - the pocket aces, the setups with the highest expected value, the moments where every variable is aligned and the edge is at its clearest. The job during the other 90% of the time is to play the singles consistently, build the cushion, and stay in the game so that when the aces finally arrive you have both the capital and the mental clarity to bet as big as the setup deserves. The traders who flatten their bet sizing across all trades are leaving an enormous amount of money on the table. And the traders who only wait for aces and trade nothing else lose all the compounding value of the consistent singles. Both extremes are wrong. The right framework builds consistency on the easy trades and bets hard when the best opportunities arrive. 5. Untrained intuition is dangerous. Trained intuition is one of your most powerful assets. This one landed particularly hard for me. Lance's framing is that most amateur traders have intuition working actively against them - when the stock is panicking, the untrained gut says sell, which is almost always exactly when the opportunity is at its highest. When the stock is ripping and feels obvious, the untrained gut says buy, which is often exactly when the move is nearly exhausted. The reason most amateurs lose the more they trade is that the market is specifically designed to punish untrained psychology. The good news is that intuition can be trained. Through enough intentional reps, enough tape review, enough honest self-assessment of where the pattern recognition is wrong and why - the gut starts to flip. The pit in the stomach during a panic becomes signal. The discomfort of a choppy, directionless session becomes a clear directive to stay out. That retraining takes years, and it only happens through the kind of deliberate, reflective work that most traders skip. 6. The learning curve is longer than anyone is telling you and that's the most important thing to accept before you start. Lance was direct about this in a way that I genuinely appreciated. At a top-tier prop firm like Trillium or SMB, with Professional Resources, experienced traders around you, full-time commitment and firm capital - the learning curve is still roughly two years. For a retail trader doing this part-time with minimal capital, limited mentorship and no professional environment, that learning curve could easily stretch to five or six years. The most harmful thing in the space is that nobody with an affiliate link and a funded account program to sell will ever tell you that. Accepting the real timeline before you start is what allows you to structure your life and capital appropriately, stay in the game long enough for the process to compound, and not abandon something that was working precisely because you ran out of runway before the results arrived. These were just some of the notes I took and honestly, I could have kept going for another ten lessons without running out of material. Go watch the full interview in its entirety, and then watch it again - I know I will. @TheOneLanceB @Wordsofrizdom @smbcapital youtube.com/watch?v=sMofWA…

@kieran__duff @DarwinexZero @Darwinexchange Good lord

Rare portfolio update as I'm too busy to bother much with social media these days as it's a cesspool of idiots. Less than a month ago, XAQP crossed $1M in investor capital. Today, it sits at $1.62M through Darwinex with an additional $1.78M through boutique fund agreements. February tested the portfolio’s architecture. We closed the month down -0.71%. Now, midway through March, the system is executing its recovery, currently sitting at +1.60% for the month. Scaling capital doesn't change the mandate. The focus remains entirely on risk-adjusted returns and downside protection. Core stats since inception: Total Return: +46.40% Max Drawdown: -4.33% Darwinex investor cap: $1.6M+ Todays rank: 110 out of 11,000 traders. Back to stress-testing the models, with a focus on increasing capacity.

@JamesBruce131 @FTMO_com Solid consistency lad

Another 100K FTMO phase 1 and 2 passed. So right now I am sitting on 300K live funded with FTMO. 1 of the 100K is due for the scaling plan and I am going for max funding of 400K. Been a good run. @FTMO_com

@fttcceo I feel you on this

Bitch stopped me out with this SMT 🤣🤣🤣 This month hates me for real!

@josh_traderr Too clean

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@TraderBinkoo Love this man!

$EURUSD Some nice longs, probably done for the week. Question for you guys, what would you like to see more of on my page? Want to be more active and not only post some of my trades.

@TraderBinkoo Cheat code

@ACtradesfx Claude is crazy good

Drawdowns are completely normal, remember that. Shoutout Claude for the graphic

When it comes to trading, it is better to look toward the future. Think positively, gain as much experience as possible, and move forward. Don’t mull over the past, looking for past errors. You will waste your time worrying when you could be trading and building up the skills.