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i tracked 1,347 trades across 22 funded traders in my 1 on 1 over 6 months sorted every single trade by hold time the data wrecked everything i thought i knew about "letting winners run" here's the breakdown: UNDER 5 MINUTES (scalp range): - trade count: 412 - win rate: 61% - average R: 0.9 - net expectancy per trade: +0.31R - account survival rate: 89% these traders had the highest win rate AND the highest survival rate. they took small wins and small losses and never gave the market enough time to hurt them. 5 TO 30 MINUTES (intraday range): - trade count: 538 - win rate: 54% - average R: 1.4 - net expectancy per trade: +0.42R - account survival rate: 81% best expectancy of the entire dataset. these traders were trading the actual session moves - entering on displacement, exiting on the next liquidity grab. clean. mechanical. boring. 30 MINUTES TO 4 HOURS (extended intraday): - trade count: 286 - win rate: 43% - average R: 1.8 - net expectancy per trade: +0.17R - account survival rate: 64% win rate fell off a cliff. expectancy halved. the traders in this bucket were almost all converting losing trades into longer holds by "giving them room." every one of them said the same thing in the post-mortem: "i wasn't planning to hold that long. i just didn't want to close it at a loss." OVER 4 HOURS (overnight or multi-session): - trade count: 164 - win rate: 31% - average R: 2.1 - net expectancy per trade: -0.38R - account survival rate: 22% NEGATIVE expectancy. 78% account death rate. the longest holds were the most likely to blow the account. every single one of them was originally a smaller trade that "didn't go the right way" and got upgraded to a swing in real time. here's what the data actually says: your hold time has nothing to do with your strategy your hold time has everything to do with what you're emotionally willing to close the winning traders held under 30 minutes because that's how long their actual edge plays out the losing traders held over 4 hours because they couldn't bring themselves to take the loss while it was still small the trade duration is the SYMPTOM. the inability to close losers is the disease. "letting winners run" is a phrase invented by people who can't close their losers and want a noble reason to justify it. real winners don't run. they expire. on schedule. inside the session window. for 1-3R. and the trader closes them because the setup is done, not because the price hit some imaginary moonshot. if your average hold time is over an hour and you're not profitable: you're not trading. you're hostage-negotiating with your own bad entries. (free discord in bio. DM "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching. i only take 1-2 traders at a time to work fully private with - this is a high ticket offer)

yes, this was 3 years ago. sad

Hey @coingecko I’ve been collecting Gecko Candies for almost 3 years now… 😭 and somehow reached 50K+ candies Many users have been grinding daily for years, hoping these points might someday be converted into $GECKO. Should we keep collecting them… or just stop farming these candies now?

@sol_nxxn remember Neonexus

@coingecko i think i am giving up on waiting for @coingecko to do anything with candies 🍬🍬 so will probably stop visiting site everyday to collect

Is it just me or where did everyone go?

This is a message for the fucking mopes out there: Fix yourself. Physically first, then mentally. Stop reading the doomer nihilistic bullshit. You are bringing weakness into yourself and projecting it out onto the world. It will drag you to hell.

Everyone faces challenges at some point. But it’s never too late to start over. Setbacks. Failures. We all hit moments that feel like the end. But they don’t have to be. Some of the most successful people started later than you think: 👨‍🏭 Henry Ford launched Ford at 40 🍗 Colonel Sanders started KFC at 62 👗 Vera Wang entered fashion at 40 📰 Arianna Huffington built HuffPost at 55 💼 Ray Dalio rebuilt after near-bankruptcy in his 40s They didn’t wait for perfect timing. They moved forward anyway. You can start over whenever you choose to. Here’s what that looks like: 1️⃣ Embrace the reset ↳ Failure is never the end. Instead, it gives you new information. 2️⃣ Focus on what you can control ↳ Your skills, your effort, your next move. 3️⃣ Keep moving forward ↳ Progress matters more than perfection. I’ve lived this myself. From being laid off as an engineer... To starting over in trading with no roadmap, To building everything from scratch. The reset is where growth begins. Your story isn’t finished. It’s just getting started.

Consistency isn’t a personality trait. It’s a side effect of discipline. One pattern keeps repeating in conversations with experienced traders. Things didn’t improve when they chased bigger wins. They improved when they focused on protecting capital. The upside wasn’t dramatic. The losses just became controlled. When risk was fixed and size was consistent, decisions got clearer. Less second-guessing. Less emotional swings. Execution improved because the structure was already there. That structure creates repeatability. And repeatability builds confidence. Most people are sold freedom first. Professionals build constraints first. The boring approach doesn’t look impressive. But it lowers stress and reduces self-inflicted mistakes. Over time, that’s what compounds. What rule in your process protects you from yourself?

El periodo más difícil en la vida de un trader es después de 2 años operando… Demasiado avanzado para rendirte. Demasiado quebrado para continuar. Tu familia te pide que lo dejes. Sabes que puedes hacerlo, pero no puedes demostrarlo. Todos piensan que estás loco. Es extremadamente doloroso…

Paul Tudor Jones on Patrick O'Shaughnessy's Invest Like the Best, on what his 83-year-old GP told him about longevity: "You retire, you die."

The actual variable is **execution under pressure**—specifically, emotional discipline and strict process adherence. Knowledge is cheap. The ones who turn it around finally accept that losses are the cost of doing business, stop revenge trading/revenge sizing, and trade a simple, repeatable edge with ironclad risk rules (usually 1% or less per trade). They shift from "being right" to "playing probabilities consistently." The game becomes boring and mechanical. That's when it flips.

Why is trading so fuckin hard? Because it's the only profession IN THE WORLD where you can work your ass off for YEARS Show up Put in the hours consistently And STILL...fall on your face and fail without anything to show for it If you never learn to accept Ls and think in probabilities it will never happen Psychology is the final key

You do not want this trade to be a loss. So when the loss starts growing, you wait a little. Maybe it comes back. You do not want to lose the profit you already have. So the moment it appears, you take it. Before it slips away. You feel like you are protecting yourself. But look at the shape of your results. Your losses grow large. Your wins stay small. You keep producing the worst possible structure with your own hands, again and again. The market did not do this to you. The strategy did not do this. You did, because you did not want to lose.

Never quit trading It took me 2 years of hard work to become consistently profitable Since then I have made $2,000,000 from trading and have a skill that will pay me for the rest of my life Imagine if I had quit during those 2 years I would’ve walked away with 0 and would probably be working a job that I hate All it takes is a few years of effort and then you can be free for life The grind is worth it - don’t give up

Introducing @ProprXYZ The first DeFi prop firm built on Hyperliquid, with safety, transparency and scalability as its top priorities. app.propr.xyz/r/PASTA This post is not intended to show the platform, nor explaining what a prop firm is and how it works (we'll do it in another post), the present is to showcase probably one of the best mathematical farms we've ever had. In fact, Propr is going to have a token ($PROPR). You guessed it -> POINTS The prop launched not longer than a month ago and the team said they intend to TGE the 24th of August 2026, meaning you are still early for points but with a TGE already behind the corner Their revenue - which stands already above $100k in less than a month with visible growth (started from 2-3k daily, now in the order of 7-8k daily) - is going to be used 40% for buybacks and 60% for growth of the business They are raising very little money to build a full prop firm that already prints and has hedging of their users positions, inspired by Hyperliquid, which means -> high $PROPR allocation for the community 45.5% of the total supply is going to the community and the users, including a 20% for the TGE How do you gain points? -Register here app.propr.xyz/r/PASTA (use my ref to support me) -Purchase a challenge (this is where you get the points) -Gamble if you want or try to pass it -Blow challenges -Maybe you will win one and get to the payout For every dollar you spend on challenges you get 10 points, so go crazy with challenges! Why you should farm @ProprXYZ instead of anything else? Because is the most mathematically +EV farm at the moment (even if you never pass a challenge) POINTS VALUE SHEET TIME!!!!! What we know: -20% airdrop -Seed round done at 17.5m FDV -Strategic round in progress at 30m FDV -Public sale later in Aug at 40-80m FDV What we don't know: -Total amount of points Now, applying the growth Propr had to the days remaining before TGE, we can project the total amount of points between 30 and 80 million (AI agrees with this estimate). For the sake of being conservative, we'll calculate it for 50, 80 and 100 million points FDV-wise, I'll use a large range that goes from $18m (just above seed round level) and $100 m. If we consider the private rounds are going for higher than 20m, it's easy to see $PROPR being vauled around 25-50m FDV. If we count in also the revenue (not considering growth and scaling) with a P/E of 20 -> $47.5m FDV With 50m total points and a FDV of $18m, we'd get 7 cents of dollar per point. Since for every dollar spent you get 10 points that means you get $0.70 in airdrop for every dollar spent You recover 70% of what you spent in the ABSOLUTE APOCALICTIC WORST CASE SCENARIO You get a free 2x if FDV is above $50m Due clarification: with 50m total points, it means that Propr has sold a total of $5m in challenges in just 4.5 months -> annualize that is $13.3m -> P/E of 5 is $66.6m FDV. So yeah, I'm being extremely conservative Purchasing challenges is not only buying points, because you can pass the challenge and get to the payout, turning the cost of 0.1$ per point into a negative one if you are profitable There are also weekly $HYPE airdrops for points holders and leaderboard There really is no reason to not farm it! IMHO, you shouldn't waste time. Who knows when we are going to see another mathematically superb play like this app.propr.xyz/r/PASTA

Having an edge is rare. Sticking to it is rarer. The game is mostly emotional stability. Find a positive expectancy system and survive long enough for compounding to work.

The more you try to avoid losses, the more profit moves away from you. People who do not want to admit a loss delay the stop. People who do not want to give profit back take profits too early. As a result, the worst possible risk reward structure is created. Small wins and large losses. Avoiding losses and leaving profit are completely different things.

I met a trader in Dubai who was doing $80k/month in prop firm payouts. He showed me his stats. 71% win rate. Average RR: 0.8R to 1.2R. I asked him why such low risk-reward. 'Bro, I tried the 1:3RR+ thing for 2 years. Blew 40+ accounts. My win rate was 25%. I'd have 8-10 losing trades in a row and couldn't handle it mentally.' 'Then I switched to taking quick profits. 1:1 mostly. Sometimes less if price shows weakness.' 'My win rate jumped to 70%+.' He was running $2.8M in combined funding across 8 accounts. Some months he'd make 1%. Some months 5%. But he was consistent. And the psychology was easier. Winning 7 out of 10 trades feels completely different than winning 3 out of 10. Even if the math says they're equal. Your brain doesn't care about math during a 12-trade losing streak. He told me: 'I don't need to be right about where price is going long-term. I just need to be right about the next 10-15 pips. That's it.' Most traders are chasing these huge runners because someone on YouTube told them that's what 'real traders' do. Meanwhile this guy is taking home $80k/month with 0.8-1.2R trades. You don't need massive risk-reward to make serious money. You need capital + consistency + a win rate you can actually maintain. Low RR with high win rate will always beat high RR with low win rate when it comes to prop firm payouts.