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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

When wife asks how long until trading starts to pay the bills

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

this shit is ultimately just really hard. learning to not fade trend days, learning to trade the way that makes sense for you, learning how to recover from drawdowns without it killing your soul, etc. it's an infinite ammt of things to learn and fuck up, but it's a great game.

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@thetastowe42

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The single best thing I ever did for my trading was when I completely stopped reading other peoples plans, predictions, and thoughts on what the market was going to be up to that day / week / month etc. hands down.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

Scalping is a pain in the ass but man does it feel good to give zero fucks about swinging geopolitical risk, whatever the hell the 10y is doing, etc, and just have a weekend. Video game turns back on on Monday, enjoy your fam enjoy your life.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

RULES. Make em or die. I got fucking smoked today out the gate and hit 3 stops in a row. In the past 3 years of my trading there has never been a day when I hit 3 stops & end up not losing way more, so that’s my rule: “3 stops? Shut er down, your read is trash today.”

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

There is a thing that happens to me every quarter or so where I am in process and doing well and my greed does some degen math on how much money I will make and how my family’s life will change if I keep this up. Then I eat a drawdown. I am in this moment now trying to defeat it.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

3 months

2.5 years ago i spent about 6 months trying and failing to pass my first trading eval. it was brutal. everything was terrible, my mental was bad, trading was horrible. this month i passed about 10 additional evals to add to my "prop" capital. screen time / persistence is a thing.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

typical doomer twitter jackass: "i've built a large core short position based on my thesis that the market is broken, tech is over valued, ai is a bubble, america is descending into anarchy, and people don't tip on their door dash deliveries." the position:

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

14 days

Wanted to share this for accountability and shit or whatever but, I have really struggled this week. Process wise, I’ve been a fuckin mess, and if you wanna read about it you have to click the thread because I’m still not giving Elon 8 bucks or whatever, sorry 😭🧵

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

2 months

I wanted to share something about my trading and more specifically my risk management that’s really helped me, but because I’m cheap and don’t wanna buy a blue check I had to make a thread, so if you wanna read it you gotta scroll, sorry. 🧵😩

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

normalize showing executions in all their painful glory.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

2 months

I ate shit today. DLL on 4 accounts. Should’ve shut down after losing the 3rd account. A year ago I would’ve wiped out months of work on days like today, instead lost a few days worth of gains. This is my damn Everest.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

At this point I’m so jaded that I assume that post about dude blowing up his account and quitting is just engagement bait for the coaching service he’s about to start.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

1 month

been staying up till 2 am every night for weeks workin on my downside game. it's been a serious leak for me. hit 3 well placed short trades today, feels good man.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

You have to sit in the room with explosives all day, and you have to smoke 4-8 cigarettes when you’re in there. If you don’t blow up, you win.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

Hit my DLL in cash today, switched to some evals and torched those too. Really unimpressive bullshit from me all around today, not super stoked about it but also not gonna think another second about it. Dusting off and trying again tomorrow.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

i can't overstate how much literally dogshit "education" i had to wade through before finding anything substantive to learn from and start to develop my process. i hope if we accomplish one thing with @paint_the_tape it's cutting down on that initial search time for new traders.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

After second listen I can now confirm that @donnelly_brent ‘s book alpha trader is the best trading book I’ve ever read. It is relatable, honest, contains zero platitudes, has many ideas and pov’s to trigger critical thought, and in general is refreshing / not boring.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

GM. trading is cool because you can have a real lucky couple of months and think your process is on point and then get your ass handed to you with a couple bad weeks and be back at square one. why it's important to take chips off the table when you're up. variance always lurking.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

Me, 1 trade away from my DLL at 9:34am

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

Introducing: Painting The Tape I’m very stoked to be a part of @paint_the_tape and what I think will be a cool soapbox for intraday traders to experience. You can listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts and also here:

Painting The Tape

Painting The Tape is a podcast by traders, for traders, that focuses specifically on the work done by intraday traders in the heat of battle. Our hosts Leo and AJ are (somewhat) normal guys who...

paintingthetape.buzzsprout.com

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

sharing my daily review today because i ate shit and that's not really a common thing to get shared, maybe somebody reads this and doesn't fuck up like i did. prob not, but maybe. gonna drink beers now.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

prayers please

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

How I treat my trading account: So, imagine you have just recently taken a job at a warehouse that stores explosives. The pay is incredible. The only job is:

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

It’s nice to laff and laff at furu who feel the need to point at their calls and zones like anybody gives a shit. It’s nice to have your own brain and do your own fucking work and be responsible for your own trades. It’s nice to trade the market however the fuck you want. HAGW.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

just finished automating what should amount to 95% of all the prep i do at night. looks like sierra chart just gave me 250 hours of my life back, per year. what the fuck.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

I will be eliminating a lot of noise around me in the next few weeks. sad reality of my journey is that while i am fortunate to have made friends with many of my mentors and folks who inspired me, most of the folks i came up with have quit or busted. time to tighten the fuck up.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

1 month

I remember when I first became a dad, I envisioned the great responsibility before me. Being a rock for my girls, leading by example, real alpha male stuff. Turns out the main job is just walking around the house turning off lights in rooms no one is in.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

The best part about the market is that at the end of the day, irregardless of how many motivational tweets you’ve tweeted or platitudes you platted (?) you either won or you lost. And no ammt of dumb bullshit you type into the internet can bring that money back.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

didn't trade today or yesterday, just opened charts. if anyone told you to short this thing today at any moment after 10am, that's straight to jail territory. may much shame be upon you.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

Did you miss the move today anon? Don’t worry, you have all weekend to scroll through a feed of numerous financial geniuses who caught it perfectly. Let the hate flow through you.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

So, my DLL is 350 points (mnq) and this is why it exists. Without it, I would’ve probably continued to tilt and be wrong all day yesterday until every last dollar I had was gone. Instead, I died a little but left myself outs to play today. Always leave yourself an out.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

I’m starting to believe that the entire fintwit community is just 30-40 dudes with 100 burners each

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

22 days

you guys wanna see a dead body?

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

23 days

was reminded today how short life is. drank 3 beers, so some advice: if you're thinking about doing something you've always wanted to do, just fuckin do the thing. the perfect opportunity will never come so just plan for it to be a little messy and figure out the details later.

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@thetastowe42

3 months

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

2 months

Waiting for my apex payout is exactly like the time I asked Jackie to the snowball dance in 7th grade, in between classes, while holding my baritone saxophone case. I know she’s gonna say no, but I gotta ask so I can tell my autist friends I tried.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

started at the bottom now we here! massive thanks to @ES_F_Leo @eliasjg0 @DeltaGrooves @FigJamCapital @StackSignls @trader_debo & @orderflowlabs for some personal hand holding. don't be scared of SC, if i can figure it out literally anyone can 😂

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

23 days

it's ok to get smoked fading a trend day. literally everyone has done it, many many times. don't let anyone make you feel like a moron just because you're not where they are on the journey, just learn the lesson and turn the page. all you can do.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

17 days

reading through my feed and i can't help but think that if some of you were just a LITTLE bit stupider you could've made some money today.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

If I am your counter party, this is who you’re trading against

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

played cards this week and realized that my ability to understand and execute fold equity in poker is excellent while in trading it's dog shit. makes zero sense. mapping this correlation and making my brain fold trades as well as i fold hands is now priority #1 .

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

1 month

This game will take everything from you if you let it. I have eaten shit for many years just to be BARELY profitable. Don’t give this game more of yourself than you need to, don’t bet more than you can afford to lose, and remember money is fake, you’re worth more alive than dead.

Markos Mom

@Markos_mom

1 month

Your feed will be full of apex phaggots showing you they had the best day ever, whilst you blew through account after account. So let's inject some honesty into the feed. I started trading in 2021, when I made lots of money off a lucky GameStop punt, having seen it on Reddit.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

If you’ve enjoyed my free vague / condescending post about entries and exits this week, please consider paying me money for even more vague and condescending posts about how I view auctions. :kek: someday they gonna take all these Mfs straight to jail.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

this week beat me up a bit. it's ok. it's only the 1000th time that's happened. gonna drink beers, look at my shitty fills, and then move on, because i'm built different. i will never quit, because i am an idiot. and also because i'm def not gonna start delivering mcdonald's.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

here's a fun tape replay from a time when Set claimed to have "market bought" 100 lots at 15300. he deleted the tweet for good reason (it def didn't happen.)

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

1 month

lol some of you could save us all some time tweeting your macro takes and just say “I didn’t trade in 2022 and I’m scared now.” 😂

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

28 days

Market seems to be rewarding short memory, no bias, and taking profits quickly. Lucky for me I’m a moron that trades on vibes so this has been a nice week.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

Episode 2 of @paint_the_tape is live! This episode dives into finding edge in execution and is available on all podcast platforms. We appreciate the response so far. if you like it, hit us with a like and retweet, it really helps us spread the word!

Painting The Tape

Painting The Tape is a podcast by traders, for traders, that focuses specifically on the work done by intraday traders in the heat of battle. Our hosts Leo and AJ are (somewhat) normal guys who...

paintingthetape.buzzsprout.com

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

I am blessed with a beautiful and healthy family who I love very very much and I’d just like to say that, aside from them, Sierra chart is the best thing that’s ever happened to me 😂

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

22 days

Got fucking ROLLED today by the way, no pun intended. Nasty day, I think I was wrong maybe the entire time? None of my stuff was working and I still traded for like 6 hours. Major waste of mental cap. Blech.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

So, you’re gonna have down / bad / frustrating days while at the same time your buds you trade with have baller bad ass days. Be stoked for them, lift them up, tell them they are awesome and those were sick fills. Love the game.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

2 months

Some Sunday platitudery. Pretty sure the job is: 1. See pattern 2. Manage risk 3. Click button 4. Profit / loss Anything that doesn’t serve this process ultimately detracts from it so as an intraday trader I am best served by constantly eliminating noisy outside inputs.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

played today on pure emotion and bullshit. few things are worse than when you look back at your process and see what should have been a green day. it's a mean game but this is why it's great.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

Did you spend your weekend rooting for war so your 2 spy put contracts would print anon? Don’t worry, you would’ve closed them early anyways.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

11 days

My dude lives in datasets all weekend so you can day drink all Sunday but still suck less as a trader when market opens. Great thread.

LeoTheTiger

@ES_F_Leo

12 days

In the trading community we hear and repeat many things that are widely accepted as fact, without anyone really challenging the view. Here’s an example: ”Markets stay in balance 80% of the time and trend 20%” of the time" Lets talk about it...

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

since for whatever reason equating trading discipline to poker discipline seems to be exactly how my brain wants to process that so i can effectively execute, i will now become insufferable with poker/trading analogies for the foreseeable future.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

let it be known. a new era is rising. one free from the same boring ass furu fuckery. their bad haircuts, their claims of entries and exits that do not possibly exist. their use of the word "folksy" for no reason. on notice.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

3 months

The best part of having a good trading day is telling no one, drinking a couple extra beers, and winking at your wife a bunch like you did something wrong while you pass out watching a baseball game.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

Ate my daily loss limit today. It ain’t fun but that’s why it’s there.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

post trend days are some of my better playbook trades. good clues here, and might as well hit it twice right? risk was tight af so much r was had. gonna let the runner go, poss will fade that 676 if it breaks for a trend day retrace.

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@thetastowe42

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

16 days

Well that was a long fucking day. Came out on top but spent the whole session at the desk. never ideal. Some days this damn game feels like war. War you can wear sweatpants to ofc.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

1 month

was talking to the dudes last night on a @paint_the_tape episode that'll be out soon about this, working on flipping with the trend especially early in the session. lose weekly open, look for reoffer and hit it. stoked on this one.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

Reminder: if you find yourself trading a day that is breaking many statistical norms, don’t forget to delete that days data from your data set so you can sleep sound knowing your statistical edge is still alive and well.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

8 months

Man. The amount of people who believe that a grown man spun up 5k into 100k and then gracefully retired / parked cash in tbills because vol went down & now prefers gig work, where you trade the value of your vehicle for cash and a 1099 at the end of the year…it hurts my brain.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

2 months

As we creep into “election season” I’d just like to say that: - I don’t care what your political opinions are - you shouldn’t care what mine are - I value memes above all else, and that is true for this and most other “serious” parts of life. - bet more

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

14 days

I think I need to find something else to do to fill that missing spot. Not sure what to do but I’m gonna take some time and think about it. Hope this helps anybody reading it and also know that this app isn’t just filled with awesome times and lambos. Trading is weird and hard.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

got some DMs this weekend since leo pumped my follovers so to answer some shit here's a smol thread (because i will never ever pay elon 8$ or whatever it is) on what i value as a tradoor / actively work on, in order. :pepethread:

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

stole this tweet idea from @eliasjg0 kinda but for real, the moment that you get comfortable with stopping out and reentering into positions, that is a spot where the game changes quite a bit.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

Man, I’m seeing a buncha folks got smoked today, that sucks. I have been there. You gotta have a daily loss limit. You can’t just fucking blow up, you need to protect yourself from the inner gambler that sees emotional PA as an opportunity. If you blew up today, remember it.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

15 days

i have said "what the fuck is this shit now!?" out loud, to no one but a computer screen, at least 100 times this week. mental game: part 2 of the @paint_the_tape podcast is out now on spotify and apple if you want to hear more about what happens when i tilt.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

only taking 30 points of a monster move used to pain me but these days i'm happier to just take a couple points till i find somebody i can actually lean on (ty v much to the chad in the 730s) and then get some better positioning on from there.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

drank 3 beers, so some smol real advice: don't get bogged down with all the weirdos on here pretending to trade. there are plenty of semi-normal autists just in their lane chillin with equal weight memes and alpha posts, follow them and grind. make money. be grateful.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

22 days

some days all your setups fail, market doesn't care about the stuff you trade, and you lose money. then the next day your fav day type shows up and you press and make money. all you gotta do is stay in the game and win more than you lose and you too can be a professional gambler.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 days

Don’t be like this. Don’t try and figure out how to trade and let it turn into a weird nightmare where you have to justify your trades via video proof to get your money out of a ponzi. The game is hard enough, just give yourself some grace and avoid this part of the hellscape.

kane🧪

@_traderkane

8 days

Apex requested the same video from me two payouts ago. I had to provide 3 videos, I submitted everything. It all got approved in around a week and payout was paid. Stop whining, you wanna play their game. Play by their rules. If not there are plenty of other firms.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

tip to not get swindled: if someone tells you something that is inherently against the norm, maybe consider that they’re lying. i.e. someone tells you they are a profitable trader, but also they deliver food for extra money, consider that maybe one of those things is not true.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

“The tricky thing about dreams though, is that once you achieve them there is a hole where the dream once was.” Ok, this is my final plea for you to read @donnelly_brent ‘s book alpha trader. I’ll finally shut up about it after this.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

OFL is the only thing in this space I have determined that is worth paying for. It saves me easily hours every day in prep time / saves my brain and eye balls from staring at the tape until I go insane. There’s no reason not to grab this free version and make your life easier.

OrderFlow Labs

@orderflowlabs

7 months

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

2 months

recouped all losses from yesterday and new accounts off to a good start. this is the importance of staying in the fucking game, however you have to do that, figure it out for yourself and set up guardrails so you don't donk off all your chips on a bad day. HAGW.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

finally got the better of a monday, they've been a real struggle for me this month. special thanks to these sellors who ate shit at 848. 😘

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

lol i guess block first then talk shit, another classic move. see you in hell you phony ass.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

1 month

listen, if you're a trader just trade, you don't need to hear shit about how banks are going to implode / fed is helpless / etc this is the same shit every macro bear always says because it's sexy to say. and if you can't trade high vol then don't because you will lose your ass.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

GM. Sunday platitude: Run your own race and define your own success by your own terms. Time spent chasing the results of your peers and/or strangers on the internet will only hinder your growth and poss prob also drive you insane.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

4 months

New @paint_the_tape episode is live! Episode 3, "All About Trade Management: Part 1," dives into topics such as taking base hits, choosing targets, holding trades, and adding to trades. thanks as always for helping spread the word! listen here:

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

Inside of you are two wolves: “Don’t say that out loud or you’ll jinx it.” And “Focus on that thing hard enough and you’ll manifest it as truth.”

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@thetastowe42

9 days

GM only to those of us who are only 2 days in to an entire year of making small talk with the other parents at the bus stop and are already out of shit to say.

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@thetastowe42

1 month

“The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.” HAGW.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

18 days

Me every day since I tweeted this:

stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

How I treat my trading account: So, imagine you have just recently taken a job at a warehouse that stores explosives. The pay is incredible. The only job is:

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

i'd like to say that writing a dumb inspirational note to myself this morning didn't help me, but it really did. the self platitudeoooooooorrrr

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@thetastowe42

7 months

GM

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

@therobotjames Sounds like “have a sizing plan for different vol environments or die?” 🫡

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@thetastowe42

14 days

Now that I don’t have to struggle, my mind seems to want to find ways to force me to struggle. Because I think my brain feels like struggle = work = self worth.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

9 days

recording a ptt episode in a sec, if you want an ict rant in there you gotta let us know in the next 30 mins, hit the comments

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@thetastowe42

1 month

This is really all I try and do: Show up every day. Play the game hard. Don’t take myself too seriously. Be process oriented not results oriented. Enjoy my life.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

i see timeline full of euphoric gigga chad longooooors and doomer perma mad amateur economists. fear not, market will humble you both. 🙂

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

5 months

I’m Just gonna trade rth tomorrow like normal and execute my playbook if there’s a shot. That’s the level of fucks I’m willing to give about the market.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

7 months

lissen, i am here to fucking gamble and press buttons. you notice all these dummies posting about their lebbels and zones and walls and shit all day? well they're not here to gamble and press buttons they're here to fap to their own hindsight greatness.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

friday night perspective (2 beers): stay in lane, be yourself, surround self with other people who like to be themselves, have fun, bet more, keep it light don't keep it movin. and lastly if this game isn't the most fun game you've ever played, stop doing it, it aint worth it.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 months

it's pretty curious to me that there's a billion accounts on here that endlessly repeat the same "all you need is a 30% wr to be profitable" mantra and then at the same time never post a losing trade. lesson there? lesson somewhere poss prob.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

3 months

In case you struggle with being able to get enough review/screen time in while you’re surrounded by your loving family and friends this weekend, just grab one of these, this is basically the same as a DOM.

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stowe42

@thetastowe42

6 days

Been crawling out of my drawdown for the last few weeks but hit DLL today because of a rithmic error. Almost smashed my keyboard but went for a long run instead. Small victory. Usually when it feels like I’m back at the drawing board is when the ship starts to turn around.

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