Shen Lao

i want to be honest with you. i have 200 followers. i'm not a guru. i'm not financially free. i'm a 32-year-old with two full-time marketing jobs who started taking trading seriously one month ago. but here's what happened in that month. i made a decision: no more setup hopping. no more watching 10 different tickers. no more indicators i don't fully understand. just $SPY. just 0DTE options. just one 90-minute window every morning. and just psychological levels — the whole dollar strikes where price tends to react because that's where everyone's orders cluster. no EMA. no VWAP. no RSI. nothing. just price. i ran that for a full month. ~100 trades. 17 wins. 3 losses. +$4,064 on a $3,000 account. my worst day was -$1,860 and i genuinely thought about quitting. i didn't. i came back the next day, stuck to the rules, and finished the month green. i wrote every single thing i learned into a playbook — the levels i watch, how i size trades, when i add, when i walk away, the psychology stuff that almost killed my account, and two full trade examples with charts. i'm giving it away free because i'm 200 followers deep and i just want to share what's working while it's fresh. if you're still jumping between setups, this isn't for you yet. if you've found something that works but can't stay consistent — i think this helps. comment "0dte" and i'll DM it to you. this is my most revamped version*

@JohnTBullard Same with you G

@tradinglao Learning

Which phase are you in?

@spyminute22680 Good place to be - Risk management? Strategy?

@tradinglao Definitely Learning …

@themarketvitals Good place to be

@tradinglao I’d like to think I reached learning…finally

@kootuandrice Sam with ya here man !

@tradinglao Feb-end of march was excitement because I shorted swings and followed the downtrend and made $$$. All of april was excruciating pain shorting the market in an uptrend. Now back to learning and telling myself to always follow the higher timeframe trend and be selective.

@eagleeyekai Pain and suffering as well lol

@tradinglao Lots of pain haha

@MurrV22 Yessir 🫡🫡

@tradinglao Lao don't you go full port 1 min after open tomorrow

@CREATEDXGAWD @powermatrixs True haha 😆

@tradinglao @powermatrixs Ok, but that takes work, Shen 🙄 People don't like having to do that

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@wazzallmeanz No discord only X

@tradinglao When is your discord dropping Shen

nobody warns you about winning streaks. everyone warns you about losing streaks. "don't revenge trade after a loss." "reduce size when you're down." "take a break after 3 losses." all true. all important. but here's what actually blows most accounts: a winning streak. here's what happens: you win monday. +$150. you win tuesday. +$180. you win wednesday. +$200. now your brain thinks you've figured it out. the rules feel unnecessary. you start sizing up. you start taking setups you'd normally skip. you start holding past your target. "just this once." then thursday comes. and the market doesn't care about your streak. what took 3 days to build gets erased in one session. because winning breeds overconfidence. and overconfidence breaks rules. and broken rules are where accounts go to die. and the market didn't get easier. you just got lucky enough to be in sync with it for a few days. stay humble. stay sized. stay consistent. because this happened to me trading $spy 0dte. rules: • winning streak = same size. always. • overconfidence is the consistency killer nobody talks about. • the rules exist for good days too. not just bad ones. practice this.

@JerrysTrades Truth!

@tradinglao Marry your process. And stay forever faithful.

@Baumer9787 Facts. Every trade is a new trade, irrelevant if your loss or wins prior

@tradinglao This can’t be emphasized enough. So important to never get complacent after wins

@CREATEDXGAWD Same man It’s the push and pull we need to balance

@tradinglao I've learned [the hard way, omg] to take a few days or even weeks off after big wins. Give my psychology time to reset.

@RyBred87 Ty man Yeah it’s needed to share at times

@tradinglao Haha its so funny how often “winners tilt” is discussed in poker and how little it is in trading. Nice post.

@TenzinYeong Can’t stress that enough!

@tradinglao Truth bomb just dropped ! Stay humble people ! Keep your gains !

@sergiustrading Yeah totally! Constant reminder of this is always needed Can’t happen anytime

@tradinglao This is so real. Winning streaks make you feel invincible, and then BAM, one bad trade wipes out all your gains. Gotta stick to the plan even when things are going well.

@yung_buffett def hard. human to robot

@tradinglao Best to leave emotions out. Good and bad. Yes, it’s hard because it’s not natural. But the best traders leave emotions out and trade like robots.

@gezelligheid_sc Greatly said man. Can’t agree with you enough

Mans been taking notes and making the effort to articulate wisdom to the masses. This is a very real tendency that I have fallen prey to many times. Only by respecting the twin pillars of responsible position sizing and strict risk management can one survive the maelstrom of short term options trading.

@leseaccount0815 @ml_lhammad Well said

@tradinglao @ml_lhammad swinging breaks mine compound is king after all survival matters the most

@RedGrindingHood @BobTheB56082678 Correct

@BobTheB56082678 @thetechlao Best thing you can do right now is step away, size down when you come back, and treat that 3k like a fresh start with better rules.

i lost $7,091 in less than 25 minutes. and i need to share this with you because i've taken you through this journey every single day since april. here's exactly what happened: april 30. 6:31am. i bought 130 calls on $714C. $18,791 deployed. my entire account.