Stephen Borsy

It doesn't matter if it's just in your heads. The fear of not being good enough, the fear of failing, the fear of being ridiculed or humiliated, the fear of going back to where you came from, the fear that others are better than you — they feel real. This is where the market plays its sneaky trick: It gets inside your head and lights up these fears🕯️. It uses randomness to confuse and confound your thinking every time you enter the market. So whilst your job is to monetize value in the market, the crucial job beneath it, is to manage yourself. The first one isn't that difficult. The second one is? That's the real challenge — that is where victory ultimately resides. 📈⚖️

Here are some hard questions to ask yourself to improve your trading. The last question on today's post is the hardest question of all and perhaps the most important: traderfeed.blogspot.com/2026/04/asking…

@RIPS Granola and berries to start, then steak and eggs, with the eggs poached soft and break them on top of the hashbrowns

Good morning, chat! ☀️ What’s your Sunday brunch order? 👇

@RIPS @TradersParadise It was fun tho. Took some out both long and short side. Good times!

@TradersParadise “nah but let’s like rip higher first so we stop out people before we drop to hell” - NQ probably

The lowest Consumer Sentiment EVER in the Michigan numbers, in the history of the Michigan numbers Holy fuck - RIP economy

@RIPS @LingleTrades Hell ya! Congrats !

Congrats to @LingleTrades !!! He is the winner of this new beautiful trading setup! 🔥

When you start trading, forget how you think the market should work. Forget the textbooks and the dry economics degrees. The market doesn't give a damn about theories. To truly understand markets, and trading them, you have to bleed in them. It’s like learning to ride-a-bike! - You can read the "How To" guide, but you’re still going to fall and hurt yourself, probably several times, until you start to find yor balance. - And even then, falls and crashes will always remain a risk! You don't learn trading in a classroom or form a book, you learn it by taking the blows.

@verniman Maybe some presidential aide knows ..

#ES_F Bullish bias but who knows #daytrading ko-fi.com/verniman

@jadecap_ Postive Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steinbarger @steenbab Mastering the Mental Game of Trading by Steven Goldstein @AlphaMind101

Without giving you the obvious titles like market wizards, trading in the zone and reminiscences of a stock operator… -Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke -Traders of our Time by Bogdan Stoichescu -Market Mind Games by Denise Shull -The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates -The Drunkards Walk by Leonard Mlodinow

Stop targeting the symptoms. Start watching the Drift. 📉 Most traders spend their lives hunting for "glitches"—the massive blow-up, the revenge trade, or the obvious bias. They think that once their mindset is "right," these errors will appear as giant red flags. They won't. In trading, the failure we fear doesn't arrive with a bang (or the ding of a bell), it creeps up on us unsuspectingly, a kind of slow, silent drift⛵️ If you aren't vigilant, you won't even realize you’ve moved until you’re miles off course. Here is how the Drift undermines your performance: 1. From Purpose to Outcome 🎯 Your trading purpose/intention is to produce a return on the capital you apply, using a method/approach or system, which you feel/believe has a significant edge. The Drift pulls you towards an outcome focus (results orientation . You start trading for the P&L on the screen rather than the quality of the setup. - That P&L figure you see (or would not rather not see) is hugely disruptive Once the "result" becomes your purpose, your decision-making becomes compromised. 2. From Process to Ego 🧠 Process is you achieve your purpose or intention: Process keeps you objective and doing the analysis, assessments and execution within a set of guiderails. The Drift pulls you away from process and towards Ego. You stop following the guidelines and rules because you "feel" like you're doing the right thing in the moment, or you need to prove the market wrong. Your process isn't just disrupted; it’s being held hostage by your need to be validated. 3. From Presence to Absence 🌪️ True Presence is being tethered to the "now" of the moment, the market, your self, your process, your purpose. The Drift pulls you toward Compromised Presence. You aren't present to the market; you are present to your fear of losing or your desire to be "right". The Real Challenge: Spotting the Early Lean The glitches, the biases, and the blow-ups are just symptoms. They are the final destination of the drift. Most traders try to fix the "glitch" after the damage is done. The elite trader learns to feel the "lean." They recognize the microscopic shift in their internal state before it manifests as a bad trade. Success isn't about being perfect; it’s about getting ahead of the drift before it becomes a disaster. 🌊 #TradingPsychology #TradingMindset #ProcessOverOutcome #TheDrift

@RIPS Beautiful man! Congrats on the great week and congrats on the new ride. Always inspirational stuff from you !

Had a great week this week! It’s always good to treat yourself. Welcome to the family 2025 Ferrari SF90 Spider in Rosso Dino and full carbon fiber 🔥

@Tradeify @grok wow nice one!

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@RIPS Oh sweet! Rips giving away so much stuff here! Awesome

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Process, Process, Process There is a point in every trade where you cede control to the market. You have no influence over the outcome, the direction, or the volatility. You must abandon all control. Psychologically, this is an existential threat. We are evolutionarily wired to equate control with safety; abandoning it feels like facing a predator unarmed. This triggers the Amygdala, forcing the brain into Fight, Flight, or Freeze. The problem? Your trade doesn't need your survival instincts. It needs you to stay the course until a pre-defined exit rule is met (Profit or Loss). Whether that’s a hard stop/take profit or waiting for a mean reversion to play out, your biology is screaming at you to "do something" to regain safety. This is why the greats obsess over Process. Process isn't just a set of rules; it is the psychological circuit-breaker that separates your execution from your primal fear response. If you don’t know your process, or you don’t trust it, your biology will eventually override your strategy. Master the process, or be a slave to the impulse.

@baynkr Great info. Something that @AlphaMind101 talks about in his book and has labeled “behavioural slippage” which makes sense. Based on that, I created tags for my own personal slippage and started tracking which was a huge eye opener.

@EnickFutures @TradingLucid @RIPS absolutely love it! you're crushing it bro! happy for you!

LOCKED OUT OF MY 4 @TradingLucid FUNDEDS. Nearly 5 weeks of straight green on 2 of these accounts. Can't wait to get Live with them! Trade with the market always. You know you're good when @RIPS takes a trade before streaming and I had the exact same trade. Will be taking another payout again after the market close today. #DayTrading #FuturesTrading #PropFirm #FundedTrader #TradingProfits @ajtradinglucid

When we trade emotionally and blow up accounts, these are the most difficult questions to ask and the most difficult issue to face, but it's the one change you can make to turn everything around: traderfeed.blogspot.com/2026/03/how-to…

How can we change the negative mindsets that interfere with trading? Research tells us that, rather than combat the negative, there are four ways in which we can build the positive: traderfeed.blogspot.com/2026/03/how-to…