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Winter Trades
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unpopular opinion:
your girlfriend is the reason you're not profitable
not because she's bad
because you're trading to impress her
and that's the worst reason to trade
talked to a guy who finally became consistent:
"what changed?"
"I got dumped"
"how did that help your trading?"
"I stopped needing to prove something"
"what do you mean"
"when I was with her, every trade was about showing her I made the right choice. quitting my job to trade. she'd ask how my day went and I NEEDED to say it was good. so I'd hold losers hoping they'd turn around. take profits early so I could tell her I won. revenge trade after losses because I couldn't go to dinner as a loser"
"and after she left?"
"nobody to impress. nobody to perform for. I could lose $500 and nobody knew. nobody cared. suddenly losses were just losses. not failures as a man. not proof she was right to doubt me. just losses. I cut them fast and moved on. that's when I got consistent"
here's what most traders won't admit:
they're not trading for money
they're trading for validation
from girlfriends who don't understand trading
from parents who think it's gambling
from friends who are waiting for them to fail
from society that doesn't respect their choice
every trade becomes a performance
and performance creates pressure
pressure creates bad decisions
bad decisions create losses
losses create more pressure to perform
spiral until blown account
the best traders I know:
single or with partners who don't ask about trading
parents who gave up trying to understand
no friends who trade
zero people watching their results
they trade in complete isolation
no audience
no performance
no pressure
just them and the chart
if you're trading to prove something to someone:
you've already lost
the need for validation is the leak in your psychology
plug it or stay broke
trade for yourself
or don't trade at all
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Your "ICT model" or "SMC setup" only works in specific market conditions and you keep wondering why you're inconsistent…
You're using a hammer for every job and expecting screws to go in
The market has 3 states. That's it
State 1: Trending/Expanding
- Clean moves
- Higher highs/lows
- Clear one-sided bias
Weapon: Momentum strategies (breakouts, trend following)
State 2: Ranging/Consolidation
- Sideways action
- No clear movement
- Lower Volume
Weapon: Fading the extremes
State 3: Retracement
- Opposite move from the HTF
- Slow af
Weapon: Sit the fuck down
Your ICT model? Only works in one state
Apply it to State 2, get chopped
Apply it to State 3, get liquidated
The traders printing $300k+/year don't trade "a strategy"
They identify market state first, then deploy appropriate weapon
You are missing narrative.
Monday trending = momentum strategy = print
Tuesday ranging =wait for one side of the range to get taken = print
Wednesday not doing shit = sit out = preserve
Thursday trending = momentum = print
They're not waiting for "their setup"
They're adapting to the battlefield
Your "one strategy for everything" mindset is amateur
Their "market state" mindset is professional
Stop hunting for the holy grail system
Start learning to read conditions
The strategy is irrelevant
Narrative is everything
That's the alpha nobody teaches because it requires thinking instead of blindly following
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Here are my thoughts markets as a whole for the near future. Nothing here is financial advice, but merely my perspective.
The Fed is ending quantitative tightening on December 1st. For the past three years, they've been draining over $2 trillion out of the financial system by letting bonds mature without replacing them. Here's what that means in simple terms: when the Fed owns a bond, they paid cash for it. When that bond matures (expires), they get their cash back. Normally they'd use that cash to buy new bonds, which keeps the money in the system. But during QT, they just pocketed the cash instead of buying new bonds. That removes money from circulation. Now they're stopping that process. Once that happens, they're going to start pumping liquidity back in.
This sounds great, but here’s what most people are missing. Every other time the Fed has done this, it was because the economy was falling apart. Markets were crashing, unemployment was rising, inflation was not a problem, and assets were cheap. They were trying to prevent a collapse. That made sense.
But look at where we are right now. The market is at all-time highs. Unemployment is sitting at 4.3%. The economy is growing at 2% annually. Inflation is still running above 3%, well over the Fed's 2% target. The equity risk premium, which measures how much extra return you get for taking stock market risk versus safe bonds, is at a razor-thin 0.4%. That means stocks are extremely expensive relative to bonds.
So the Fed is about to inject liquidity into a system that's already running hot. This isn't crisis management. This is stimulating into a bubble, and even Ray Dalio is calling it out as classic late-stage debt cycle behavior. When you combine massive government deficits with central bank money printing while asset prices are already at extremes, you're setting up for a blow-off top.
On top of all of this, Trump is expected to replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell in May 2026 with Kevin Hassett, who currently runs the National Economic Council. Hassett has been openly pushing for aggressive interest rate cuts even with inflation still elevated. He's criticized Powell for not cutting fast enough and said the next Fed chair needs to "clean house." This guy thinks inflation will magically drop to 1% next year while the economy surges, which would justify flooding the system with cheap money.
So here's the setup. The Fed ends QT and starts adding liquidity back in. A dovish new Fed chair takes over in May 2026 who wants to cut rates aggressively. And markets that are already expensive get flooded with fresh liquidity.
The result is a melt-up. Markets go parabolic not because fundamentals improve, but because there's too much money chasing too few assets. Stocks rip higher. Bitcoin and crypto explode. Gold surges as people look for inflation hedges. Everything inflates together as liquidity pours into already overpriced markets.
This sounds amazing, and yes - there will be opportunities in the short term, however this isn't sustainable growth. When you stimulate into a bubble instead of into a bust, you're adding fuel to a fire that's already burning too hot. The bigger the bubble gets, the harder it pops. Late stage debt cycles don't end with soft landings. They end with implosions.
What I AM doing, not advising you to do, is making sure I’m positioned to ride the wave up while understanding the context. This isn't a new bull market based on improving fundamentals. This is the final stage of a bubble getting one last push from central bank liquidity before reality catches up. I plan to take a lot of profits, likely by DCA’ing out of many positions, during a melt up if and when it happens. I will hold on to portions of my main long term assets (VOO, BTC, Real Estate, and high quality stocks) and sell the rest.
QT ends December 1st. Dovish Fed chair likely takes over May 2026. Money printers turn on. Markets melt up. THEN the implosion, but not yet imo.
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While many other projects are struggling to find their footing, $KORI is asserting its position.
The price chart is increasingly drawing a clear, sustainable and attractive trend.
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The power of the community, along with the support of cash flow, is creating huge momentum

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$KORI update
Orange targets 🎯
Feels like it's going to retest the red support this week-end... I can be wrong ofc, so trust your convictions 😅

dub@Oliv21703
$KORI update Didn't hold the white support (yet). Or going to the red target 7pm CET Or gearing up back to the white 11:15 pm CET
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