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@shionharuki We are giving away free evaluations, try your luck. You never know it could turn around 👌🏻

"I’ve been in the trenches for a few years now, grinding to provide a better life for my family since my day job just doesn't cut it. I’ve had some wins, but to be honest, the losses have been bigger. I can’t afford monthly copytrader fees or Telegram signal rooms. I trade on my own with whatever pocket change I can spare. It’s incredibly frustrating to miss out on runs like The Black Bull and $ANSEM, especially living in a country where I have to work 5x harder just to make $1 USD. This is just a vent. I know there are thousands of stories out there just like mine—people chasing a dream, a breakthrough, or even just the thrill of it. I’m staying resilient, because I know my turnaround will come."

@Thedreamtrader2 @fundingpips Daily drawdown limits aren’t targets 🎯 should be keeping well below them anyway, think longevity

Lost a $10k @fundingpips flex account due to not knowing the daily Drawdown limit. My fault 🤦🏾‍♂️

Conversed with a lot of traders this week on the edge of tilt or have completely full-titled... Tilt doesn't feel like anger. It feels like conviction. How to catch it by behavior, not emotion 🧵 1/ What it is: Tilt is decision-making degraded by a loss you haven't accepted yet. It presents as urgency, size creep, and 'making it back' logic — usually within 20 minutes of the trigger trade. 2/ Why it matters: You can't feel your own tilt reliably — it masquerades as confidence. But it leaves behavioral fingerprints you CAN measure, and measurement beats willpower. 3/ The numbers: The tell is tempo: your average time between trades collapses. Baseline 40 minutes between entries → three trades in 15 minutes = you're not trading anymore, you're spending. Track the timestamp gap. It's a tilt detector that never lies. 4/ Worked example: Post-mortem of a −6R day: trigger loss at 10:02 (−1R, fine). Then entries at 10:11, 10:19, 10:24, each bigger. Tempo tripled, size doubled, checklist score fell to 2/5. Every signal was in the data before the damage was done. 5/ The mistake almost everyone makes: Trying to out-discipline tilt in the moment — negotiating with a brain that's already compromised. The fix: Pre-commit mechanics: after any −1R loss, 10-minute mandatory break, order ticket closed. 6/ The rule to keep: Tilt can't survive a delay. Buy the delay in advance, while you're calm. Don't take my word for it — the drill is in the thread. Run it on your own last 30 trades and reply with what you found.

Highly recommend getting a work from home gig while your trade. Not everybody needs to be a full time trader.

@AdamWTrades The market will always be there, nothing to rush. Finance X has made passing evals in one day the norm, they dont show they 6 they blew trying to get that post

Fresh funded account on a Monday morning. 🚀 Excited to see what I can do with this account. No rushing. No forcing trades. Just taking it slow, staying disciplined, and being consistent. Wish me luck. 🤝

@spideycrypt The only thing backtesting is good for is to attempt the edge live. Otherwise you're fireing live shots at something where there might not even be an edge.

Unpopular opinion: Backtesting is mostly a waste of time because it completely removes the element of live execution anxiety. Agree or disagree?

@AdamWTrades For every 1 eval that is passed in a day there is a trail of people who have blown up trying to attempt the same. Congrats, but this doesn't have to be everybody's story.

I could’ve taken a month to pass this eval… Or I could pass it in 1 day like I just did. Your choice.

@LalsTradingEra This is exactly how it's done, more of this!

Followed yall’s advice Small steps > rushing to funded Took a small win today, not mad about it🤝

@bepotrades how many trades does it usually take for your strategy to get out of drawdown?

Rough start of the week for me in the markets, down -2R in the first 6 days Anyways last 2 months were incredibly good so even if I close this month for a loss idc Focus on the process...

Most trading problems are emotional problems in disguise.

@1MINUTETIP say it louder for the people at the back 😅

Trading is mostly the art of not taking a trade

Print these. Stick them on the monitor: → One asset, one timeframe, until you're consistent on it. → Done for the day means done. Closing the app is the rule. → Don't trade tired, drunk, sick, or furious. Ever. → If you're checking the P&L more than the chart, step away.

@TradeDadLog Take a break, just watch the market. It will always be there on your return. Get to the core reason of why you need to make money. You have kids, im only assuming you're trying to do the best for them. Don't allow this to become a sad story. Take your time man.

@TMJournals I need to break this cycle for real.

I don’t know how I still haven’t learned this lesson.😡 Last night I activated 4x 50k MFF Rapid accounts. I told myself: if I hit $3k profit, I lock the day and walk away. I reached $3k… and then greed took over. Changed the target to $4.1k, hit it. Then $5.1k, hit it. Then $6.1k… Next: all 4 accounts gone.☠️ A potential $10k withdrawal completely destroyed.🤡 All because I couldn’t stop when I was already winning.🤦‍♂️

@victorogedeode Take a step back, we are giving away a free evaluation and trading tools. Start small and build again with confidence, check our pinned post if you'd like.

Found my last 15k and blow it all 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔 Fuck trading 😭😭💔💔💔💔 Fuck trendline 😭😭😭💔💔 Fuck stop loss 😭😭😭😭😭 I'm don trading 💔💔💔

@katsinawafx reflect on the data, its comforting to know a bad patch isn't the end of the world

Trader to trader How do you manage your emotions when a trade isn't going in your Favour!?

@NoirFX19977 FTSE is a lovely market, gl for the rest of the week though

End of my winning streaks on uk100 finally took an L -1R on uk100, was so close to TP 😪 On to the next 👨🏼‍🍳🔥

The unsexy truth about trading psychology that actually grows accounts 👇 1/ When the trade feels personal, you've already lost the edge. 2/ When you start negotiating with your stop, the trade already owns you. 3/ Revenge trading is just donating to people with more patience than you. 4/ The market is indifferent to your rent, your ego, and your hope. 5/ Make it a rule: if the reason for the trade disappears, the trade does too. Bookmark it. The market will remind you why.

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