TimeandPrice

I’ve spent about 5 years of my adult life with unlimited free time. Early on, I often just devolved into endless video games, drugs, women. A never ending, pit of no responsibility. As time progressed, I learned a few essentials: I need 2 hours minimum a day of walking and 2-3 hours of reading. As long as I’m getting THAT, especially the reading.. Man you can spend entire weeks contemplating a single book of philosophy 9-5 jobs morph our minds ability to maintain long form pondering because of the scheduled time changes

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom

@idyllicmusing This follows in other high skill domains - in speed typing, the fastest typers look furthest to the right. In MOBAs, elite piloting of top down perspectives involves entirely ignoring your own character and becoming completely immersed in the environment.

The secret to winning more chess games is looking at absolutely nothing. When analysts put eye-tracking glasses on players, they discovered that grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen actually focus on the empty spaces instead of the physical pieces. Amateurs exhaust their mental energy by constantly jumping from piece to piece across the whole board, but masters completely ignore the irrelevant areas. Hard data shows that elite players use their peripheral vision to read the board in giant clusters, processing an entire position in a fraction of a second without even moving their eyes. In fact, cognitive scientists can actually predict a win before a match even begins because a master’s eyes immediately lock onto the hyper-specific geometric crossroads where future lines of attack will collide. While an amateur stares at what is currently happening on the board, a grandmaster’s calm gaze is already resting on the exact blank squares where the game will be decided. This visual discipline keeps their breathing and heart rate completely steady during peak tactical moments, revealing the exact millisecond their subconscious mind spots the winning path long before their hand ever reaches for a piece.

“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

@ramb0shi that tattoo is in honor of my father. ❤️

@TimeandPrice I just went and read Luke 15:11 and the story - max chills brother... Thanks for being such an inspiration to the world

1 year ago exactly, I was laying on the ground dying When tumors latch onto nerve cells, that results in 24/7 electric burning. Non stop. Every moment. I had the image in my mind of being able to walk again, swinging my arms. I died on that floor… no family.. living in a toxic strangers house, dying of stage 4 cancer. but trading out of my fucking mind Today I am cancer free ahahaha The divine is in you You have deepest access to the divine in your darkest moments - the precious jewels of your divinity will be found in the underworld Then it’s your job to come back with those jewels - and don’t look back and bless the world

@AC_Trades Thank you bro. <3

@TimeandPrice THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing this. Now your story can help thousands. Congrats on being cancer free fuck cancer

@AKsJournal and what is liquidity and inefficiency you may ask.. that would be a swing high/low inside a FVG/Vib :)

Defer your attention from people constantly talking about PD arrays…What ICT has taught and what he continues to bring public is NEW information to YOU, but it’s nothing new for the algorithm itself. The algorithm refers back to time. What time and what price was it trading at? The macro EFFICIENTLY delivers to two things - LIQUIDITY & INEFFICIENCIES - that are SO PRECISE. There are orders YOU can’t see. There are algorithmic signatures in price that efficiently deliver. It never changes, it’s coded that way and it’s on the basis of premium and discount. That’s it.

That’s all there is, my friend. The search for the right model is a long path filled with darkness and uncertainty. After spending so long in those weeds, it almost feels weird to finally arrive at profitability. I can sit at home all day and play video games and wait for trading alerts to hit and I can outpace my job. it takes some time for that reality to settle in, but it will. This is real. Real money, real lives are CHANGED in these markets

Experienced traders (5+ years), I have a question for you: I’m in that phase of my trading journey where trading doesn’t take much time from my days and I don’t have that hunger to gain new knowledge anymore. (Not saying that I know everything of course, I hope you get my point.) It feels so weird tbh. I just feel like I need to execute what I built this past years and that’s really it. Is all this normal?

@Cbizzye Thank u bro 😃

@TimeandPrice This is fucking awesome to hear bro❤️‍🩹 congratulations

@eshanbuilds I have always been in awe of ants and have thought we discredit them deeply with our “#1 species of the planet talk”. Thats amazing to know that 😃

the system you're describing has a name and 150 million years of data behind it. stigmergy. ants and termites coordinate decentralized knowledge across short-lived individuals using chemical trails left in the environment. the ceiling is the termite mound. cellulose tubes with built-in air conditioning. impressive for insects, nothing close to civilization. eusocial insects had every precondition octopuses lack. colony lifespans of decades. tighter social structure than any primate. dry-land chemistry. they built nothing past their nests.

A female octopus dies the day her eggs hatch. The male dies a few weeks after mating. The species has no parents. No teachers. No elders. No one alive when a young octopus emerges has ever met another octopus. This is the part of the "octopus civilization" claim that the claim itself never addresses. Civilization is not just intelligence. It is intelligence transmitted across generations. Octopuses are extraordinarily intelligent for animals their size. They pass mirror tests. They solve novel puzzles. They use tools. They have personality differences across individuals that are stable enough to qualify as character. The neuroscience of how they process information is unlike anything else on Earth — two-thirds of their neurons are in their arms, which means each arm partially thinks for itself. None of this is in dispute among biologists. What is in dispute is whether intelligence alone is the precondition for civilization, and the answer that most evolutionary biologists give is no. The preconditions are roughly four. The species needs long enough lifespans that knowledge can accumulate within an individual and transfer to the next generation. Humans have 70 years. Elephants have 60. Whales have 80. Octopuses have one to two years for most species, three for the largest. The species needs social structure that brings individuals into sustained contact. Humans live in groups. Chimps live in troops. Wolves live in packs. Octopuses are aggressively solitary. They actively avoid each other. When researchers put two octopuses in the same tank, they often kill and eat each other within days. Recent observations of small "octopus cities" in Jervis Bay are exceptions notable precisely because they are exceptions. The species needs cultural transmission. Parents teaching children. Skills passing across generations. Information accumulating beyond what any single brain can hold. Octopuses do not have this. The mother never meets her young alive. There is no one to teach them anything. Every generation of octopuses learns from scratch what every previous generation already learned and then died with. The species needs an environment that permits the technology stack. Fire is the foundation. Metallurgy follows fire. Chemistry follows metallurgy. Electricity follows chemistry. Underwater, none of this is available. You cannot smelt copper at the bottom of the sea. You cannot run an electrolysis reaction in saltwater without it being immediately disrupted. The path from stone tools to civilization that humans took relies on dry-environment chemistry that does not exist in the ocean. Octopuses have one of the four preconditions. They lack the other three by deep biological commitment, not by minor circumstance. Changing any one of them would require evolutionary restructuring of the species across millions of years. The interesting thing about the octopus civilization claim is what it reveals about the popular model of civilization. The popular model assumes intelligence is the bottleneck. Evolutionary biology suggests it is one of the easier ingredients to evolve. Long life, social structure, cultural transmission, and a chemistry-permitting environment are the harder ones. Humans had all four. The next civilization, if there is one, will probably come from a species that already has at least three of them.

i had the privilege of a 2 hour conversation with my 94 year old Grandfather today the most soulful and wise man in the room, completely immobile and in great pain he seems a great wise sage. he carries himself with dignity and grace, from another time. a time rich with human interaction, no screens, life was slow.. but each moment was filled with more juice and vitality, or so i can glean from experiencing him.. i've heard stories of him being a Freemason, and so I asked him today "are you a Freemason Grandpa?" he said, "I don't know what I am, and I'm not sure if I'm free." and he winked at me. he's lived 3 of my life times, that's amazing

@Cbizzye @IgorTradesX 😂😂😂

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@IgorTradesX let’s go boss, may the best man win

@Mr930nq Seek and destroy is a dream if you are aligned with time and soup not as much a dream if ur just slapping a 150 handle tp and praying

If you know how to identify and trade high probability failure swings, you wouldn't give a rats ass about ChOpPy price action or ANYTHING else for that matter

I think procrastination is a choice but the person is willingly in denial of this choice. Procrastinators don’t believe in themself. Why else would you put off things that help you? No one is measuring dopamine levels in real time, completely fabricated science garbo. You either believe in yourself, or you don’t. It’s really that simple folks.

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one. A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty. But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding. The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted. The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

@phreakydev What makes a real job a real job? The great trap is that a real job is one where you’re not enjoying yourself. Do you have to produce something to have a real job? It’s a genuine question.

The most accurate description of the workplace right now. Merit doesn't matter. Skill doesn't matter. The only things that matter are your "soft skills", which roughly translates to "Appease the gaggle of stupid bitches such that they believe you like them but not so much that they accuse you of the great evil of offending them." Literally EVERY environment with a group of women turns into this. Everyone else is tired of this balancing act. Schrodinger's Boss Babe. Strong enough to work a job but too weak to handle any interaction that requires discernment. Anything that involves a plural amount of women in close proximity means an impending age of witch hunting and social warfare designed to absolve them from responsibility and accountability. And there is no way to play fairly and win because the very pursuit of victory is a waste of time. You will gain nothing by calling them out, correcting them, separating them, teaching them. Your company will gain no productivity. The ONLY solution is to disenfranchise them, socially and economically. There should be no refuge for the disagreeable, unproductive woman. These types of bitches need to be broken.

@AymanTabji @TritonTrades I’d love to know the mechanism.

@TimeandPrice @TritonTrades even if you chart with nq, if you execute on mnq you're gonna get stopped out by these random wicks

there's a 50-point wick on MNQ that isn't on NQ market makers stopping out all the retail traders trading micros

@omor214 Prop firm mindset to have no stop. Might as well drive down the highway with loose lugnuts.

Your mental stop loss can save you 100 times until the one time the market rips your face off. You are one candle away from losing your account every time.