Brian
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@brianisupercool
God 1st, Wifey 2nd, Forever LSU. Geaux Tigers!
Will note that I’ve spoken to many of traders who genuinely believed they’re the only one getting stopped out at the lows, revenge trading, FOMO’ing at the highs, and breaking their own rules. They think they’re the only ones who feel like absolute shit when a trade goes against them. That gut-punch feeling when you’re in a position you never should’ve taken as it goes against you. That sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach Sunday night or Monday morning when you open your platform and see your names gapping down. Here’s the truth: We’re all human. These feelings aren’t unique to you. Every single one of us feels it. I’ve met traders who struggled and underperformed for 20+ years before they finally put it all together and broke through. I’ve also met a handful of absolute prodigies who speed-ran the learning curve, put in insane hours, and scaled to ridiculous levels incredibly fast. Those are rare. Then there are the ones who stay stuck for years, repeating the exact same mistakes, unable to change their behavior no matter how much pain it causes. And I’ve met very smart, competent professionals who sit in front of a trading screen with real money on the line and fall apart emotionally. Logic goes out the window. Thinking you’re going to master this game in just a few years is unrealistic. It looks so simple in hindsight: “Buy here, sell there, easy profit.” But once you’re in it, you realize there’s a lot more to it. It took me 9 years to get where I am — 7 of those were brutal. And that was after a decade playing professional poker and following markets since my early 20s. A lot of you relate to my posts because this style of trading is constant stop-outs and trades reversing on. That’s never going to change. But once you truly accept it as part of the game, the pain starts to disappear. If you expect to win, every loss hurts. When you accept randomness, the emotional sting fades. When you believe you need to predict the future, every loss feels like a personal failure. When you understand that anything can happen and wins/losses are randomly distributed, being wrong stops defining your worth. The pain in trading comes from the gap between what you expect and what actually happens. Close that gap by dropping the expectations, and you can trade in a much calmer, clearer state. Mark Douglas said it best in Trading in the Zone: Anything can happen. You don’t need to know what will happen next to make money. There is a random distribution between wins and losses for any set of variables. An edge is simply a higher probability of one thing happening over another. Every moment in the market is unique.
you cannot have a bubble when everyone is calling it a bubble. that is not how it works. in fact its by definition the opposite of how it worlks. bubbles are born of participation, not price.
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