This week we took 6 trades: 1 winner, around 4R 1 loss 4 break-even trades Not a perfect week, but still a profitable one. This is closer to what real trading looks like. Some trades work, some don’t, some get protected at break-even, and sometimes one good trade pays for the rest. I couldn’t be on the charts as much today, but even if I could, I wasn’t ready to put big risk on the table. It’s Friday, it’s the day of the SpaceX IPO, and the higher timeframe structure on NQ looked horrible. We were trading between two weekly gaps and two daily gaps, which increases the chance of messy, range-bound price action. In that kind of environment, forcing trades makes no sense. A lot of what you see online is filtered. I’ve been in plenty of groups where only the best trades get shown and everything else disappears. That’s not how I want to run this community. We’ll show the wins, the losses, the break-evens, and the days where the best decision is to do nothing. Over a full year, most of your PnL will usually come from a small number of trades. The rest of the time is about managing risk properly and not giving money back while waiting for those trades to come.

*** To increase participation, I’ll be giving away a 50K challenge at the end of every month to the person I believe has made the most progress and has consistently engaged with the community. *** I want to be honest with everyone. If you want to become profitable, you can’t just watch from the sidelines. We had a profitable week. We took good trades, followed the plan, and made money. Some of you could have caught the same moves if you had notifications on and were following the discussion properly. But more importantly, you need to understand why the trades were taken. The entries, the context, the risk, and the management are where the real learning happens. This is not a signal group. The goal is for you to understand the process and eventually make these decisions yourself. Turn notifications on, ask questions, study the trades, and use the community properly. The more you engage, the faster you improve.

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Drop a comment below introducing yourself: • Where are you from? • How long have you been trading? • What is your biggest challenge as a trader right now? • What are you hoping to achieve from this community? Welcome aboard.