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The goal in trading isn’t to win today.
It’s to still be here in 20 years.
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Jason Berry | MrConsistency
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Jason Berry | MrConsistency
@JasonHBerry
Co-founded Positive Equity in 2008. Built alongside partners and traders who raised the bar. Still here. Risk first. Ego last.
Europe Katılım Şubat 2026
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@Off_The_Tape I know right? All that size, all that geopolitics and energy backdrop… and we get a clean trend into the close.
No panic, no chaos. Market just doing its thing. Yawn.
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$5.7 trillion in options set to expire in today’s triple-witching
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@NickSchmidt He who picks bottoms gets dirty finger.
The body of the trend is where the real consistent money is made.
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If you catch the exact bottom you might make enough to cover the losses from all the previous attempts.
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@usmanashraff Some strong risk control ideas in here
But if the trade is repeatable and the edge is real, u must methodically increase size
You don’t protect a winning streak. You execute yer edge and manage risk
If you’re 50/50 with a nice risk/reward, then sure. But that’s not real edge
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A winning streak is just a losing streak waiting to happen.
Here's how to protect it before it turns:
1. Track your average winning day. If you usually make $200 and you're up $400, walk away.
That's not weakness. That's discipline.
2. Size down as the week goes on. Great Monday and Tuesday? Go smaller Wednesday. The more you've made, the more you have to lose.
3. Set a daily loss limit and never cross it. Decide before the market opens how much you're willing to lose.
Hit it? You're done for the day. No exceptions.
4. Set a weekly loss limit too. If you've had multiple red days, stop trading for the week.
Switch to paper. Reset your confidence.
5. Never increase position size on a green streak. Your brain is telling you to go bigger.
The market is waiting for exactly that moment.
The traders who last years all share one thing in common.
They protect their winning weeks harder than they chase new ones.
A winning streak is a gift. Don't give it back.
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Excellent.
We have trainees sim for 9–12 months before going live. Thousands of trades. Thousands of data points on what works and what doesn’t.
By the time they go live, they’re executing, not experimenting.
Yumi🌸@samuraipips358
The moment you add a new variable in live trading, you are no longer executing. You are starting research with money at risk. Live is not where you find a better system. Live is where you run the version that was already defined, tested, and practiced through your own hands. The sample size in live is far too small for testing. So you will end up changing things based on wins and losses. That means randomness is now controlling your behavior. That is how you enter an endless loop of improvement. The only thing you should be improving in live is your execution. Why did you fail to follow the rule. Why could you not do what was already decided in advance. Focus on that process, not on the trade result. For that to happen, your testing and practice must already be finished.
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The moment you add a new variable in live trading, you are no longer executing.
You are starting research with money at risk.
Live is not where you find a better system.
Live is where you run the version that was already defined, tested, and practiced through your own hands.
The sample size in live is far too small for testing.
So you will end up changing things based on wins and losses.
That means randomness is now controlling your behavior.
That is how you enter an endless loop of improvement.
The only thing you should be improving in live is your execution.
Why did you fail to follow the rule.
Why could you not do what was already decided in advance.
Focus on that process, not on the trade result.
For that to happen, your testing and practice must already be finished.
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Stoic is someone who “transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.”
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75% right.
Without edge, this is just well-managed losing.
Build/develop your edge first. Everything else sits on top.
Trader Theory@tradertheory
To become a successful trader you must act like one: ✅ Only take A+ setups ✅ Manage your risk impeccably ✅ Never break your trading rules
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@tradertheory Good points. But edge HAS to come first.
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To become a successful trader you must act like one:
✅ Only take A+ setups
✅ Manage your risk impeccably
✅ Never break your trading rules
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@thisshod @tradertheory Bingo. Everything else sits on top of it.
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@tradertheory Having an edge comes before any other thing. Having an edge early will cut off years of you struggling as a trader.
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What's the one piece of trading advice you wish you had when you started?
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Well said.
A lot of what looks like difficulty is just lack of edge.
With enough screen time, good setups repeat and the strike rate should reflect that over time.
The rest is execution… and dodging the occasional steamroller.
Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎@TheOneLanceB
It sure seems like every online trader is a fraud and that this whole industry needs to burn. The big-name influencers are frauds, the funded trader affiliates are frauds, even the small nobodies are frauds. There is one point that I think is very important to underscore: This dynamic exists because being consistently profitable at trading is THAT hard. Not even to make millions, but to just make $200k/yr consistently. So if you EVER see someone only posting wins or selling a lifestyle or talking about how their followers are all banking…. RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIFE! And if you ARE able to make a consistent living trading, even with the ups and downs, know that YOU ARE FAR MORE TALENTED THAN YOU IMAGINE! If you feel inferior but are able to support you and your family by trading, know that you are a FUCKING HERO! Every pro trader I know struggles. Tends to have 1-2 months per year of drawdown. Tends to have a <70% daily win-rate. Yet go ahead, ask Grok to analyze what percent of pnl posts by Patrick Wieland or Matt Coward are wins. The response is all you need to know. 95%+. When you see the funded trader influencers or any trader only posting wins, just know: IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION DUE TO BROKEN INCENTIVES BECAUSE REAL TRADING IS THAT HARD!
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@TheOneLanceB @TheOneLanceB
Well said. Not talked about enough.
Reality isn’t very marketable.
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It sure seems like every online trader is a fraud and that this whole industry needs to burn. The big-name influencers are frauds, the funded trader affiliates are frauds, even the small nobodies are frauds.
There is one point that I think is very important to underscore:
This dynamic exists because being consistently profitable at trading is THAT hard. Not even to make millions, but to just make $200k/yr consistently.
So if you EVER see someone only posting wins or selling a lifestyle or talking about how their followers are all banking…. RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIFE!
And if you ARE able to make a consistent living trading, even with the ups and downs, know that YOU ARE FAR MORE TALENTED THAN YOU IMAGINE!
If you feel inferior but are able to support you and your family by trading, know that you are a FUCKING HERO!
Every pro trader I know struggles. Tends to have 1-2 months per year of drawdown. Tends to have a <70% daily win-rate.
Yet go ahead, ask Grok to analyze what percent of pnl posts by Patrick Wieland or Matt Coward are wins. The response is all you need to know. 95%+.
When you see the funded trader influencers or any trader only posting wins, just know:
IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION DUE TO BROKEN INCENTIVES BECAUSE REAL TRADING IS THAT HARD!
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@maxtradeswell @Positive_Equity Nothing fancy. Just preparation, repetition, and trying to make fewer mistakes than yesterday.
Everyone talks about making fewer mistakes and not repeating them. That’s in every book.
The part you don’t find in books or on Twitter is edge.
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@maxtradeswell @Positive_Equity Review my trading from the day before: what I did well, what I didn’t, whether I’m risk on or passing on certain setups.
Check markets again, read news, scan recent highs/lows across products. Awareness, not trading levels… this isn’t 1995.
Then into US data and the open.
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If anyone has trading questions, post them below.
Happy to let you pick my brain a bit.
Just not too much… I still need it for trading, my wife, helping my kid with algebra homework, and working with the trainees and traders at @Positive_Equity
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@jackschwager I’m not sure anyone wants to hear me read my own chapter… but I’d be open to giving it a try.
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The audio version of Stock Market Wizards (the only MW book which has not had an audio version till now) has just been posted for sale. Would like to know how listeners like the new narrator (the previous narrator has left the business). Would you like to have the new narrator also narrate the upcoming Market Wizards The New Generation book?
audible.com/pd/B0GSSBBWPZ?…
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@Positive_Equity Happy to answer trading questions.
Edge, risk, traders doing stupid things, and why pros survive while retail traders at home in their underwear are often one trade away from blowing up.
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@JasonHBerry taking trading questions today.
If you’ve got one, drop it below.
Jason Berry | MrConsistency@JasonHBerry
If anyone has trading questions, post them below. Happy to let you pick my brain a bit. Just not too much… I still need it for trading, my wife, helping my kid with algebra homework, and working with the trainees and traders at @Positive_Equity
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@gfc4 The other side to that is that the market makes it as hard and uncomfortable as possible for you to stick with a good position, to squeeze you out. If the plan is good, stick with it. Dealing with discomfort and uncertainty is what alpha traders do.
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator quote of the day:
I admit that I do get irresistible impulses at times to do certain things in the market. It doesn't matter whether I am long or short of stocks. I must get out. I am uncomfortable until I do. I myself think that what happens is that I see a lot of warning-signals. Perhaps not a single one may be sufficiently clear or powerful to afford me a positive, definite reason for doing what I suddenly feel like doing. Probably that is all there is to what they call "ticker-sense" that old traders say James R. Keene had so strongly developed and other operators before him.
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@gfc4 CL moving 100 ticks in a bar many times a day.
ES moving 10 handles in a bar.
About as good as it gets.
If this is chop, I’ll take a lifetime supply.
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