Devin Dillard

i tracked 1,347 trades across 22 funded traders in my 1 on 1 over 6 months sorted every single trade by hold time the data wrecked everything i thought i knew about "letting winners run" here's the breakdown: UNDER 5 MINUTES (scalp range): - trade count: 412 - win rate: 61% - average R: 0.9 - net expectancy per trade: +0.31R - account survival rate: 89% these traders had the highest win rate AND the highest survival rate. they took small wins and small losses and never gave the market enough time to hurt them. 5 TO 30 MINUTES (intraday range): - trade count: 538 - win rate: 54% - average R: 1.4 - net expectancy per trade: +0.42R - account survival rate: 81% best expectancy of the entire dataset. these traders were trading the actual session moves - entering on displacement, exiting on the next liquidity grab. clean. mechanical. boring. 30 MINUTES TO 4 HOURS (extended intraday): - trade count: 286 - win rate: 43% - average R: 1.8 - net expectancy per trade: +0.17R - account survival rate: 64% win rate fell off a cliff. expectancy halved. the traders in this bucket were almost all converting losing trades into longer holds by "giving them room." every one of them said the same thing in the post-mortem: "i wasn't planning to hold that long. i just didn't want to close it at a loss." OVER 4 HOURS (overnight or multi-session): - trade count: 164 - win rate: 31% - average R: 2.1 - net expectancy per trade: -0.38R - account survival rate: 22% NEGATIVE expectancy. 78% account death rate. the longest holds were the most likely to blow the account. every single one of them was originally a smaller trade that "didn't go the right way" and got upgraded to a swing in real time. here's what the data actually says: your hold time has nothing to do with your strategy your hold time has everything to do with what you're emotionally willing to close the winning traders held under 30 minutes because that's how long their actual edge plays out the losing traders held over 4 hours because they couldn't bring themselves to take the loss while it was still small the trade duration is the SYMPTOM. the inability to close losers is the disease. "letting winners run" is a phrase invented by people who can't close their losers and want a noble reason to justify it. real winners don't run. they expire. on schedule. inside the session window. for 1-3R. and the trader closes them because the setup is done, not because the price hit some imaginary moonshot. if your average hold time is over an hour and you're not profitable: you're not trading. you're hostage-negotiating with your own bad entries. (free discord in bio. DM "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching. i only take 1-2 traders at a time to work fully private with - this is a high ticket offer)

@SamaHoole #gagreflex

If you have to take your liver as a capsule, that is your body telling you something. If you have to whip it into a pate with half a pound of butter and a fistful of bacon so you can get it past the back of your throat, that is also your body telling you something. The thing your body is telling you is that you do not need to be eating liver right now. The gag reflex is one of the most accurate diagnostic instruments you have. It is, at this moment, quietly suggesting that you may already be at the upper end of your vitamin A and copper tolerance, and would prefer not to deal with another hit of either. Trust it.

you're addicted to learning and allergic to doing you've watched 8 hours of "new ICT model" you're "backtesting" a new "90% WR" system you're in 5 discord groups you're looking for the "magic strategy" you're not a trader you're a strategy collector and you're broke the killer? he's been trading the same fucking setup for 3 years he's not "learning" he's executing he's not "backtesting" he's printing but here's the part nobody explains: WHAT does "mastering one system" actually look like week by week? because "pick one system and stick with it" is useless advice if you don't know what DEPTH looks like here's what depth looks like: WEEK 1-2: you learn the cycle price moves from external liquidity to internal liquidity. sweep the stops. fill the gap. target the opposite side you mark 100 examples. not 10. one hundred. you sit there and mark the cycle on historical charts until your eyes burn. by the end of week 2 you see the cycle everywhere. on every chart. every timeframe. you can't unsee it that's not mastery yet. that's just literacy WEEK 3-4: you learn to read the candle above you every setup exists INSIDE a higher timeframe candle. the candle determines whether your setup has room to work you learn OHLC vs OLHC. how the 4-hour candle formed. not how it looks - how it FORMED. did it open low first and push higher? or open high first and drop? you go back through your 100 examples. tag each one: was the setup inside an expansion candle or a reversal candle? the wins were inside expansion candles. the losses were inside reversal candles. you see it in YOUR data. not because i told you. because you tracked it WEEK 5-6: you learn the session rotation you go back through 30 trading days. mark what London did. mark what the 6AM candle confirmed. mark what NY did after London reversed → NY continued. every time. nobody reversed → NY reversed. every time you stop showing up at 9:30 blind. you start showing up knowing the direction. because you tracked 30 days of session rotation and the pattern is undeniable in YOUR data WEEK 7-8: you learn to check the second chart you pull up ES next to NQ on every one of your previous entries. the breakout entries where you got wicked out - ES didn't confirm. the reversal entries that ran to target + ES diverged at the level you add YM. same thing. YM diverges and the strong asset switches to weak at every reversal. you see it 40 times in your data. now you can't enter without checking WEEK 9-10: you learn the confirmation you tag every entry: was the V-shape there? expansion in, displacement out, gap forms the entries WITH V-shape: 63% win rate the entries WITHOUT: 29% same levels. same gaps. one had displacement. the other drifted in sideways by week 10 you have a system that's not built from a youtube video it's built from YOUR data. YOUR trades. YOUR charts. YOUR evidence and here's what happens to strategy collectors during those same 10 weeks: week 1-2: "learning" ICT silver bullet week 3-4: "that didn't work, trying SMC now" week 5-6: "SMC is confusing, found a new guy on youtube" week 7-8: "this new system has a 90% win rate backtest" week 9-10: "it doesn't work live, maybe I need a course" 10 weeks. 4 strategies. zero depth on any of them. zero personal data. zero conviction. same win rate as week 1 you spent 10 weeks going WIDE the killer spent 10 weeks going DEEP you have 4 strategies you can explain but can't trade he has 1 system backed by 300 data points from his own charts that he trusts with his life that's why he clicks buy without hesitation and you hover over the button wondering if this is "the right strategy" depth beats width every single time stop collecting start digging (free discord in bio. if you think you're a good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching. i only take on 1-2 traders at a time to work with fully private)

When I was learning how to trade, I was part of a big trading Discord. There was a guy in the Discord everyone respected. First to post charts. First to mark levels. First to explain why price should move. If someone asked a question, he had the answer. Honestly, if you judged trading ability by analysis alone, he was the best trader in the room. But here’s the part no one knew: He never made money. I found out after talking to him privately. While everyone assumed he was funded, he was still blowing challenges. Same pattern every time. Perfect analysis → no entry. Missed move → late chase. Late chase → emotional stop. Or even worse: Perfect setup → smaller size “just in case.” Mediocre setup → full risk because it “felt good.” On the chart, he was surgical. In execution, he hesitated. He wanted certainty before clicking buy or sell. And certainty doesn’t exist in trading. The market doesn’t pay you for being right. It pays you for acting under uncertainty with controlled risk. Eventually he admitted it: “I’m scared to be wrong.” That fear kept him safe emotionally - but broke him financially. Some of the “worst” traders I know make money. Some of the smartest never do. Because trading isn’t about who understands the market best. It’s about who can execute a simple idea the same way over and over again.

making $100M+ from trading is easy all you have to do is fake everything and flex the P&L lmao here's how to ACTUALLY make $20k+/month from trading: first thing - most of you who trade don't know that every asset you've ever traded has correlated assets that CONFIRM or DENY your entry before you take it and you've been entering blind this entire time here's the play: STEP 1: BUILD THE NARRATIVE you're opening a 5-minute chart and looking for setups. that's like reading the last page of a book and trying to guess what happened in chapter one the narrative starts on the WEEKLY chart. not the 5-minute. not the 1-hour. the weekly the weekly candle tells you the entire story for the week. and you need to know how it FORMED - not just where it closed go to the daily chart. look at the last 5 daily candles. those 5 candles ARE the weekly candle broken down did the weekly candle open low first and push higher? that's an OHLC weekly candle open, hit the low early, then expanded to the high and closed near the top. bullish. the narrative for this week is: the low was put in early and price expanded higher did the weekly candle open high first and push lower? that's an OLHC weekly candle - open, hit the high early, then sold off and closed near the bottom. bearish. the narrative is: the high was put in early and price expanded lower this tells you which SIDE of the weekly candle you're on right now. are you in the expansion phase or the protraction phase? are you trading WITH the weekly direction or AGAINST it? most traders have never once checked this. they show up monday morning with zero idea whether the weekly candle is expanding or retracting. this is exactly what you are doing wrong STEP 2: FRACTALIZE THE 4-HOUR same logic. drop to the 4-hour chart how did the current 4-hour candle form? not how does it LOOK - how did it FORM OHLC on the 4-hour: opened, hit low first, expanded higher. bullish profile. supports expansion to the upside. your long setups have PERMISSION to work OLHC on the 4-hour: opened, hit high first, sold lower. bearish profile. supports expansion to the downside. your short setups have permission large wick on either side: the candle spent too much time in protraction. the body will be small. expansion is LIMITED. your setup might look clean on the 5-minute but the 4-hour candle above it isn't going to let it reach your target this is candle fractalizing. what the weekly does, the daily does inside it. what the daily does, the 4-hour does inside that. models inside models. every timeframe confirming the one above it if the weekly is bearish and you're trying to go long inside a 4-hour candle with a bearish profile - you're fighting two timeframes at once. that trade is dead before you click buy. and you'll blame the setup when the NARRATIVE was against you the entire time STEP 3: CHECK THE CORRELATED ASSETS now you have the narrative. weekly direction. 4-hour confirms. you know the direction and you know the candle supports expansion but you still don't know if the MOVE is real this is where most traders get destroyed. they see NQ break a level and enter. 3 minutes later it reverses. "the market wicked me out again" no. you entered without checking the triad NQ, ES, and YM move together. when they stop moving together - when one breaks out and the others don't - that's a crack in correlation. the breakout is fake here's what the crack actually tells you: one asset swept a level and grabbed liquidity. the others refused to follow because institutions aren't committing in the same direction across all three. the sweep on NQ was a grab. not a breakout and here's the part nobody talks about - YM is the one that matters most. because YM is correlated with NQ and ES but ALSO correlated with RTY which NQ and ES are NOT correlated with. YM sits at the center of two independent correlation structures. one chart. two confirmations. almost nobody has it open STEP 4: IDENTIFY THE PROTECTED SWING this is where it gets real when all three assets - NQ, ES, and YM put in a swing low at the same time and the crack in correlation CONFIRMS that low (strong asset switches to weak, weak switches to strong at that level) that swing is PROTECTED protected means: institutions committed across all three assets at that level. they're defending it. they filled orders there. they don't want price to go back below it because they're positioned above it a swing that only ONE asset made is NOT protected. only your chart put in a low. the other two didn't confirm. there's no institutional commitment at that level. price will go right through it you only trade AWAY from protected swings protected swing below you + weekly narrative bullish + 4-hour profile supports expansion = you trade long. away from the protected low. toward the next level of liquidity above failure swing below you = price is coming back for it. your stop is sitting right where the market is heading. you ARE the liquidity this is why you keep getting stopped out at "perfect levels." the level wasn't protected. one chart made the swing. the other two didn't confirm. no institutional commitment. price swept it and kept going STEP 5: ZOOM IN FOR THE ENTRY ONLY after all of this is confirmed: - weekly narrative set (OHLC or OLHC on the daily) - 4-hour candle fractalized (profile supports expansion in the right direction) - correlated assets confirm (crack in correlation at the key level, YM confirming from two structures) - protected swing identified (all three assets committed at the level) NOW you drop to the lower timeframe look for the V-shape. expansion into the key level. sharp displacement candle in the opposite direction. new gap forms. price expands away V-shape present → enter the gap. stop behind the protected swing. target the next relevant level no V-shape → don't enter. the reversal isn't confirmed. capital preserved the entry is the LAST thing you do. not the first most traders start at step 5. they open the 5-minute. they see a gap. they enter. no narrative. no profile. no correlation check. no protected swing. just a "clean setup" floating in space with no context that's not trading. that's pattern matching on the lowest timeframe and hoping the 4 timeframes above you happen to agree sometimes they do. most of the time they don't. that's why your win rate is 35% now scale it: $300 prop firm challenges. pass at 0.5% risk. stack to 10-20 accounts. trade copier. one entry. multiple accounts. $20k-$50k/month total personal capital at risk: $0 total education cost: $0. everything i just told you is free that's the real play not photoshopped P&Ls from guys who've never opened YM in their life (free discord in bio. if you think you're a good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching. i only take on 1-2 traders at a time to work with fully private)

met a guy from Atlanta who traded for 2 years and couldn't stay consistent no matter what he did blew over $800,000 in 2 years. switched strategies 11 times. joined all the discords. then we added ONE thing to his process and passed 20+ challenges in 60 days $1.5M in funded capital. $48,000/month. same strategy he was using before the one thing wasn't a new setup. it wasn't a new indicator. it wasn't a new timeframe it was a second chart he was trading NQ with one screen. seeing breakouts. entering. getting reversed in 3 minutes. blaming the strategy. switching. repeating for 3 years every single trade was a breakout entry on NQ where he went long or short based on ONE chart I said "open YM next to it" he pulled up YM on every single losing trade YM didn't confirm the move. NQ broke out. YM sat there. didn't sweep the same level. didn't follow. didn't commit the breakout was fake on 90% of the losses. and the chart sitting 2 inches to the right of his screen would have told him that in 10 seconds I lost $800,000 over 3 years because I didn't open a second chart? yeah pretty much lmao then I showed him YM YM is the one nobody talks about. because YM is correlated with NQ and ES but ALSO correlated with RTY. NQ and ES are NOT correlated with RTY so YM sits at the center of two independent correlation structures. indices AND small caps. when YM diverges from NQ at a key level - that's not one signal. that's two independent systems disagreeing NQ sweeps a high. you check ES - ES didn't follow. SMT. that's signal one you check YM - YM is closing bearish while NQ is still at the top of the range. strength switch. the strong asset turned weak. that's signal two from a completely different correlation structure two cracks. two independent confirmations. the breakout is fake before your 5-minute chart even shows the reversal he started checking all three. NQ, ES, YM. side by side. every session here's his data over the next 60 days: trades where all three confirmed: 64% win rate. 2.5R average winner trades where only NQ showed the move: he didn't take them anymore BEFORE (3 years, one chart): - 11 strategies tried - 9 challenges blown - $800,000 in losses - win rate: 38% - consistency: zero AFTER (60 days, three charts): - same strategy he was using in year 2 - 5 challenges passed - $500,000 funded - $38,000/month - win rate: 64% he didn't learn a new strategy he opened two more charts the strategy was never broken his CONFIRMATION was broken he was entering based on what one asset did and ignoring what the other two were screaming at him 3 years. $800,000+. 11 strategy switches. 4 courses. 6 discords and the answer was a free chart on TradingView that he never opened "why didn't anyone tell me this?" because the guys selling you courses make more money when you stay confused. a confused trader buys another course. a funded trader doesn't the triad - NQ, ES, YM - is the single most underused confirmation in retail trading not because it's complicated because nobody who sells education has an incentive to show you something this simple it would end their business open the three charts tomorrow morning watch what happens at the first key level of the day when one breaks out and the other two don't - that's your answer it's been your answer for 3 years you just never looked (free discord in bio. if you think you're a good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for private coaching. i only take on 1-2 traders at a time to work with fully private)

Trading for '1-2 hours a day' is a lie sold by people who don't actually trade I'm on the charts most of the day Not taking 20 trades But watching Waiting Ready for my A+ setups That level of screen time is what made me profitable in the first place You can't learn price action by staring at charts for 90 minutes, at least not at the start

@rawsalerts Hide ya kids hide ya wives !

🚨#BREAKING: Officials say an underwater explosive device has been discovered at a dam supplying drinking water to the entire city of Mobile, Alabama.

For anyone who still hasn't had the memo: - Oatmeal = sugar - Quinoa = sugar with a marketing degree - Brown rice = sugar wearing a tiny bran cardigan - Wholewheat bread = sugar that went to a wholesome photoshoot - Sweet potato = sugar the wellness influencers agreed to forgive "Complex carbohydrate" is one of the great triumphs of food branding. It sounds like something that takes effort to break down. Something virtuous. Something earned. It's a chain of glucose molecules holding hands. The chain breaks in your gut within minutes. By the time it crosses into your blood, it's the same glucose as a spoon of table sugar. Your pancreas has never once read a label. It doesn't care that the oats were steel-cut, organic, and recommended by a man in running shoes. It sees the glucose. It pumps the insulin. Same response. Every time. The packaging is for you. The bloodstream isn't fooled.

@EthanLevins2 Trump does jagerbombs with Xi. Gets drunk and beats up a black lesbian transgender quadriplegic.

Trump has never had alcohol in his life. China gave him a beverage to toast, and Trump drank it. This is a very subtle, but STRONG statement on who’s really in charge. x.com/MAGAVoice/stat…

@its_The_Dr Where do you sleep at night ? What time do you go to bed ? Do you have any firearms ? How much cash do you usually keep in your wallet ? Fn idiots..

This is So Good! TMZ was Trying to do a HIT PIECE on Spencer Pratt, Spencer contacts them Directly and This is what Happened!

@Jason______A Had it for 3 years. Been all over the country from FL to TN to CA to OR. Not one single issue. Ever.

HOLD UP .... Mint Mobile is like $20 bucks a month unlimited. Can pair it with 5G home internet for $45. Why am I paying T Mobile $200 for the same thing? I always thought Mint Mobile was for trap phones in the hood, never knew I could use an iphone with it. T Mobile owns Mint, so im getting the same exact service for 1/10th the cost.... Whats the catch here?

@syci_v It’s better than glue, but not by much.

Сварщик из Польши, пришел на выставку космической техники NASA, глянул на сварные швы офигел и говорит , я им не верю, что они в космос летают... 🤭😆

@WallStreetApes Whole home water filtration costs about $500-$600 initially, then about $1 per day to maintain. The whole home systems work really good too.

Residents in Cumberland County, New Jersey say they can’t even wash their clothes or drink their tap water because of the new META Data Centers - On resident messed up an entire load of white clothes because it came out stained because of the brown water - Multiple residents say they can no longer drink the water and must buy bottled water - 82 year old resident says she must move - 81 year old resistant also says she has to move - Another resident says “My electric and gas bill is more than my car payment” - One resident says the lights from the data center are so bright she doesn’t have to turn night lights on in her house at night - ER visits are being reported due to asthma linked to air quality Drastic increases in water pollution, air pollution, noise and light pollution

@TiffanyFong I can’t feel my face. I mean I can feel it, but I can’t feel my face.

I didn’t realize someone could be so annoying without saying a single word

The key is participation. If you aren’t present and keeping up with current market structure, then you just miss moves and have to wait for the next ones. Don’t have to be tied to your screens, but you need to at least keep up with where structure is setting up, at all times.

excess CO2 is killing your sleep and daytime productivity. don’t believe me? sleep (PMIDs: 26452168, 32979003, 37076419): <750 ppm = safe zone >900-1000 ppm: sympathetic nervous system activation, 1.3% decreases sleep efficiency, more time awake (5-10min+ per night), less deep sleep, morning grogginess, poorer next day cognitive performance. >1300 ppm (common in poorly ventilated bedrooms): 1.8% reduced sleep efficiency, 7 min less deep sleep, higher post wake cortisol, morning grogginess more pronounced. >2000-3000 ppm (extreme): strongly linked to fragmented sleep, morning sluggishness and markedly poorer cognitive performance. daytime (PMID 26502459): >945 ppm: cognitive function declines ~15% on decision making and complex tasks 1400-2500 ppm: dramatic drop (up to 50%) on complex tasks. performance becomes "dysfunctional." The solution is simple. Get a CO2 meter (NDIR is the best), use it, open windows and decrease CO2 levels as much as possible wherever you are, especially when you are sleeping/working.

@paulsaladinomd Exactly. More oxygen, less CO2, and you’re not boxed into a room with artificial lights.

Outdoor > indoor workouts…

@RadioGenoa If one would consider rape as goodness, blood spatter on sidewalks as art, and forced ideology as education, then he is technically correct.

Keir Starmer: "Muslims are successful, brilliant, and creative people. They have made an enormous contribution to Britain's history, in goodness, art, and education. They are the face of modern Britain. They are exceptional people."

@dom_lucre Nobody cares. They could show videos of them walking out of spaceships and shaking hands with people and the excitement would last like 3 days and nobody would care anymore.. Unless the news told them to care..

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Many Religious leaders have come forward to claim they were contacted by the U.S. government to 'prepare now' for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations involving Reptilian creatures (Draconians) and materials from ‘non human origin.’ Perry Stone, a well-known evangelist, author and Bible teacher from Tennessee, warned that fellow pastors were recently invited to a secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials. The evangelist claimed that pastors were told about the existence of 'reptilian' creatures, UFOs and materials from a non-human origin and 'other things that almost sound like something out of a sci-fi movie.' According to Stone, the officials warned a small group of pastors with a large reach in the Christian community that the government was about to release reports and possibly videos of aliens and spacecraft which were not from this planet.