Glorythmic

After 5 years of trading, I finally had my first $17k month. The money isn’t what I’m most proud of. I’m proud that I can finally say the results are coming from a process I’ve spent years refining not hope, luck, or emotion. Q2 Recap • $20,923 made • $17,002 in June • $13,129 prop payouts • $2500 personal withdraw • Personal account: $3,200 → $10,994 • Moved to a Topstep Live account • Scaling into additional firms Five years ago I was looking for the perfect strategy. Today I’m focused on executing the same process over and over again. That’s what changed everything. On to Q3.

Yea cool bro. Mechanically letting your edge play out over time worked for me too. Do you use discretion for risk at all, or just keep same risk across every trade? I trade the same 2 models, and I’ll use my discretion to filter out bad setups or scale in. I’ll avoid unnecessary losses, and in some cases I’ll miss out on random wins. Over a large enough sample the wins I do scale in and losses I avoid offset those wins I miss out on.

@Glorythmic Yes 99% mechanical with some discretion at reading EMAs to determine trend in some days. Nope, no internal filter at all. I’m a fan of random walk theory.

I see that people talk about good PA and bad PA. I believe that it is truly subjective, one person's bad PA could be someone else's good PA since every strategy is different. Main takeaway is to not let anyone's opinion of PA affect your system UNLESS there is strong evidence.

@jqthe1 Hm interesting, so you trade purely mechanically? No kind of internal filter for your good setups or bad setups?

@Glorythmic Yea agreed that experience is key. But I personally don't do discretion since it is hard to quantify. I sometimes believe that good discretion and bad discretion will cancel out each other too.

@joseftrades Double edged sword, you have a lot of distractions but it’s also never been easier to learn. Just need to get ahold of the real value.

Sometimes I think trading would've been easier... if social media didn't exist. No screenshots. No million-dollar days. No feeling like you're behind. Just you... and the charts.

@LPH733 100%. It’s so so easy to just focus on losses that we easily forget about when things went right

Remember to county your lucky stars! Too often as traders we get caught up in the times we get stopped out by a tick, and we subconciously build a bad luck bias. I make a point to keep track of the times where good luck is in my favour, could be an exit right before reversal, or like this trade from yesterday. I believe I got that tip from @jaredtendler Don't be a negative Nancy

@TindallOG Focused on real life 💯

Doesn't take much to have a great day. 5 shots of espresso deep 317 pushups done so far Getting what needs to be done out of the way Asia session later tonight. Couldn't ask for much more.

@TindallOG Yea and honestly I think the best way to rewire that is by experiencing enough pain. At least for me lol, my brain didn’t rewire until I kept screwing up so much I couldn’t handle losing anymore and had no choice but to change.

It's crazy how much of a rewire you need to give your brain when it comes to trading. We're used to that 9-5 mentality. More work = more money. That way of thinking does not apply to trading. As you said, more often than not, NOT doing anything is where most of the work is done.

A lot of traders mistake activity for progress. Another setup. Another adjustment. Another trade just to feel productive. But the strongest trading usually looks uneventful. You wait. You repeat. You let most of the market pass without you. The moment you stop needing action to feel successful, your decision making changes.

@AdamWTrades Regardless of the strategy, you’re always going to have good pa and bad pa. It’s up your discretion to decide when to trade. Experiencing the good and bad conditions is how you train your discretion for next time.

Atleast I know I’m not the only one getting cooked right now 😂 Seeing a lot of ICT traders struggling in these conditions makes me feel a little better. The price action has been brutal. Although I wish I wasn’t getting cooked this often 💀

@AdamWTrades Now you just have to actually stop yourself from trading next time lol

@Glorythmic Slow candles, volume imbalances, no fvg’s being created. Today I shouldn’t have traded

Once again, I took losses from choppy PA. I just need to find a way to identify beforehand when price action is going to be poor. Any suggestions? I trade ICT, so I’m only looking for ICT based ideas.

@ProcessTrader_ Facts just keep collecting your data and increasing your sample size

Stop Loss Hit ✅ Process Took one trade today. Got a clean reaction from my zone and the setup met all my criteria. I executed the trade according to my rules with a clear target in mind. Stop loss was hit. Mindset takeaway: - A planned loss is just part of the business. - When you follow your rules there is nothing to be emotional about. These are the kind of days that build real consistency and confidence in the process. Process. Discipline. Execution.

@tradermike1234 I think that pain you experience is necessary. Everyone has a different tolerance, but once you hit your limit that real decision to change becomes more than just words.

Here is the dark truth about trading.. ☹️👇 It can beat you down without mercy for YEARS. Constant pain. Being misunderstood by friends and family. L after L after L. Blown account one after another. Pain that feels it never ends Then you look in the mirror. You get pissed. You decide it's time to get serious start being disciplined. You take self-accountability and in ONE YEAR...you can be financially free living your dream. It all starts with YOU. So fuckin start.

@champagneszn777 Yea I don’t think there is really anything inherently wrong with affiliates. As long as real value is provided and they don’t need the money because they actually make money elsewhere. That way there is no real conflict of interest.

I know yall hate affiliates but they aren’t all the same. There is a huge difference between affiliates who mean well and affiliates who make ALL of their income from their code. A HUGE difference.

@LPH733 100% speaking from personal experience it’s a tough cycle to break until you lose a lot.

@Glorythmic This is solid advice that more people should follow. You see it all the time, traders who keep going until they are green on the day, have an amazing run, then give it all back because they cannot take a red day!

The most dangerous trading mistakes are the ones that make you money. A forced trade wins. You break risk and survive. You ignore your rules and get rewarded. Now the mistake feels justified. Losses expose bad habits quickly. Wins can hide them long enough to become part of who you are. Never let profit convince you a bad decision was a good one. Judge based on your process and good habits not profits.

@Clem0NQ Good luck bro, just stay focused on you and your process!

i was the last few days on vacation but now im back with a fresh new funded account and my priority is to be trading with rules and not breaking them and slowly build profits with consistency

@TindallOG Morning bro, good luck to the rest of your week!

GM Morning sun and espresso. Can’t get much better than that. Managing risk on the charts has never been more important. Stay sharp and keep a level head.

@RealizedTrader Yea exactly, and those old expectations can easily kick in to self sabotage and bring those old results.

@Glorythmic Absolutely. I've realized profitability doesn't automatically update your identity. Part of you still expects the old outcome. That's why I think the real work is continuing to become the person your results are already introducing you to.

One of the strangest parts of improving as a trader is that your results can change before your identity does. You can become more disciplined. More consistent. More profitable. And still feel like the trader who used to lose. That old version of you doesn’t disappear the moment your P&L improves. You have to keep proving to yourself that the cycle is actually broken. Sometimes the next level is not learning how to trade better. It is learning to believe you are no longer the trader you used to be.

@SpeculatorFL Too many traders just ignore variance and treat it like something is wrong. Your strategy will have random wins and losses, it’s not about each individual trade but about a large sample size overtime.

A trading strategy only manifests its true results when it's executed over a large sample size of trades. Changing even a small rule because of an isolated loss, or a drawdown changed the whole dynamics of the strategy... and then you're no longer trading the same edge. Ponder.