Don't tell anyone the moment you become profitable.
Not your girl.
Not your fam.
Especially not your friends.
You worked in silence to get here.
Keep working in silence to stay here.
The most rewarding trades often come right after 90% of traders get stopped out of the market. Once you see these stops get hit and people exit in a wave of panic, This is exactly where smart money and disciplined traders find the absolute best opportunities.
You need to stay calm and wait for the masses to exit during panic. When everyone gives up that's when you buy.
This is trading.
Everyone talks about "taking profit."
Nobody talks about the 73 times you stared at +40% gain, convinced it was going to +100%, then watched it reverse to -20%.
That's the real technical indicator: greed.
@ChessWarri42621@CheddarFlow Thanks for the reply. What is the best way to see these dark pools? And also do these get updated in a real time or when market closes? Thanks much!!
I've experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows with trading. Millions made and millions lost.
There's many times in the beginning where I thought about quitting. I doubted myself and questioned whether I made the right decision to pursue this path. It took me 3 years before I found my edge and a strategy that suited my risk tolerance. The market is the best at humbling a person.
Whether you have 1 month or 10 years of experience you have to stay on your toes each day otherwise you will get cocky and turn a good month into a bad one with a series of bad trades. It only takes 2 or 3 days of bad trading to ruin a month of good wins. You have to be consistent and adapt to the market otherwise you will eventually fail. Trading is not easy but if you can master yourself, anything is possible.
🚨 Stocks crashed out of nowhere. No headlines. No Fed meeting. No war. Just one thing: a “bad bond auction.”
What actually happened was deeper and more dangerous than it looked.
Let’s break down the 20-year bond auction disaster that rocked the market 🧵
A Trading Masterpiece 🤯
Yesterday, these whales added MILLIONS worth of $UNH Call LEAPS
They didn't even have to wait more than a day: These are already up +45%
They literally caught the lows after successfully shorting it down the days prior