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Look, if you've been trading for more than 6 months and you are still not consistently profitable, it's not the market. It's not your broker.
It's not the evil hedge funds. It's not your strategy.
It's you. You are the common
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denominator. The way you see yourself shapes every decision that you make.
And if you see yourself as someone who's trying to be profitable, then you will never become profitable. you will stay exactly where you are.
The person who is
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striving and trying rather than the person who actually is. My name is Brad Go and this is episode four of the Traers Code podcast.
This is where I break down the tweets that I've written myself going deeper into like the meaning behind this and just explain
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some trading philosophies. As you watch these episodes, I want you to just comment down below like your favorite quote.
This helps you remember the lesson and it also allows others to learn from your perspective too. Most traders spend years waiting, waiting for that perfect entry, waiting for the
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perfect chart, waiting for the market to feel right, waiting for all the stars in the universe to align. What they don't realize is that they aren't waiting for confirmation.
They are waiting for certainty. And certainty doesn't exist in trading.
So here's the tweet.
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Everybody is waiting for the perfect condition to enter into the trade when in reality the perfect condition is to enter the trade and then let your risk and rules do the work. The perfect setup does not exist.
The perfect condition is pressing the buy or sell button when
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your rules say so. Professionals don't win by predicting the outcome every single time perfectly.
They win by executing consistently. So press the freaking button when your system says so and let the risk
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management carry the weight and then live with the outcome because it's part of a larger game, not a single decision. So listen, you don't win because you know the future.
You win because you respect your system more than your fear.
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So back when I was a teenager, I cried myself to sleep every night. Growing up, I was always the smallest kid in class, the scrawniest, you know, the quietly awkward kid.
The one who got slept on the bus and couldn't do anything about it. The one whose own best friend kicked
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him in the face for fun. And then back then at home, my dad was struggling with bipolar disorder.
Like there was this one day he threw away my brand new bicycle and then next day he could be talking about deities and laughing randomly like the joker. So because of
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all this [ __ ] I escaped into video games, right? like I was playing CS GO, Fortnite, Apex Legends, whatever FPS game you name it, I played it.
It's really because I was escaping into worlds where I could feel like someone, you know, where I actually had the
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power. But at night when the noise stopped, I would lie there and ask God, why is life so difficult?
Why me? And every single night, I would look out of my bedroom window and I'll think about jumping out of it.
Not because I was weak, but because I couldn't see a
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future worth living for. Now, here's what most people don't understand.
I'm still the exact same person. I'm still him.
I'm still that guy. I didn't become someone new.
My name is still Brad. I didn't suddenly get confident or fearless.
The only thing that changed
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was my identity. A few months ago, I did something called shadow work.
I closed my eyes and I reached out to that scat little boy crying under his blanket and I told him it's okay and I hugged him and bro I [ __ ] you not I sobbed for like
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30 minutes straight and it's been like years since I cried because for the first time I stopped running from him I just understood him and I told him it's okay and I think that's when everything shifted. So remember your identity creates your worldview which is your
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paradigm which dictate what are the thoughts that you have which dictate your decisions and that leads you into taking actions which get you the results. So you are exactly where you are right now because of your identity.
That's the chain. Once again your
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identity shapes how you see the world right that's your world view and that shapes your thoughts your choices your actions and your life. And a lot of people they try to change their results.
They change their outcome without changing who they believe they are. That's the root cause.
This the results,
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the actions is just a symptom. The bullying taught me to be competitive.
The pain taught me to be relentless. The depression taught me that you can't heal by hiding.
All of those stuff like shifted my identity. I changed my life
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the day I decided that I was no longer the kid who wasn't enough. That was when everything changed.
That was the pivotal moment. I changed the story about who I am and the world started shifting with me.
I changed who I am and I changed my
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results. So if you want a new life, [snorts] don't wait for confidence.
Don't pray that it's going to magically land upon your lap. Don't wait for the world to believe in you.
Change your identity. the rest will follow.
So, when
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I first started trading, I thought success was about finding the perfect strategy. I'll spend hours back testing, analyzing every indicator, perfecting my entries.
But here's what's broke me. I will win eight trades in a row, and then
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I will lose it all in the ninth trade. I'll make $500 in a week, and then I will give back $1,000 the next day.
I would deposit 650 into my account and then I would blow it all in one week. And I couldn't figure out why until I
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realized something that changed everything. Trading is a zero sum game.
Wealth is a positive sum game. In trading, every dollar that you make, someone else loses.
You're not creating anything. You're just extracting value from the
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market. But wealth, that's different.
To me, I define wealth as having assets that work for you while you sleep. They make money for you while you sleep.
When you build a business, create content, solve real problems, everybody wins. The
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pie gets bigger for everybody. And I always like to think of trading as a vehicle for me to actually funnel my money into building long-term wealth.
Like funnel the short-term trading profits into building like long-term wealth. Which is also why if you don't know the difference between trading and
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wealth, you will always stay broke. You might make money, but you will end up giving back the profits you make back to the market.
You won't be able to keep what you have made. And keeping is all that matters.
Not only keeping, you won't be able to compound what you have made. And you will always be running
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this treadmill of like trading so you can make more money. Which is why it's so important for you to not just get rich but become wealthy.
And a lot of traders think that they are building wealth. They're not.
They're just fighting over scraps in an arena where 90% lose. I think this was something
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that I learned the hard way when I was glued to my screen 16 hours a day. You know, chasing every trade and convincing myself that I was in fact building my future.
But all I was doing was burning out. That is when I realized that real wealth isn't made by clicking buy and
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sell buttons all day long. It's made by solving problems and creating value that compounds.
That's what creates generational wealth, not candlesticks. Trading is not a multiplayer game.
It is a single player
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game. The market doesn't give a [ __ ] about your excuses.
It doesn't care that you almost follow your trading plan. It doesn't care that you were just trying to make back your losses.
What you think, believe, and act, that shapes your reality and that shapes your
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results. When I was training in the military, all I had was a chair and a laptop.
No fancy monitors, no mentors checking in on me, no community, no accountability partners. Just me, my thoughts, my decisions, and my trades.
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That's it. And that's when I realized that my P&L wasn't random.
It was a direct reflection of my discipline. When I was patient, I made money.
When I got emotional, I lost. When I followed my plan, I won.
And when I didn't follow my plan, I paid for it. And that's why I
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believe that trading is single-handedly the greatest path to personal development because the market give you the fastest feedback loop on earth. You make a decision, the market responds, and then you see the result immediately and you know exactly what you need to change.
Your P&L is simply a reflection
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of your character. If you're impatient, your P&L is going to show it.
If you're undisiplined, your P&L is going to show it. If you're scared, your P&L is going to show it.
The market is simply a mirror. And most traders, they look in that mirror, they're scared of what they
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see, and they blame the reflection. Oh, the market is rigged.
Oh, my broker hunted my stop loss. Oh, I got unlucky.
Wrong. No, you got impatient.
You broke your rules. You didn't manage your risk.
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It's not the market's fault. The market is not wrong.
You are wrong. and the market just exposed what was already inside you and that's what you don't like about it.
So here's what I wish someone has told me like seven years ago. Don't blame the market.
Get better.
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Fix your character and your P&L will follow. Build discipline and your results will shift.
Stop trying to outsmart the market. Start trying to outlast yourself.
Because trading isn't about prediction. It's about execution.
Execution is character made visible. I
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will never forget the day where I realized that the market wasn't my enemy. I had just blown through $3,000 in two weeks.
Eight losing trades in a row. Each one made sense to me at the time.
Each one followed by me telling me
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I did my best. And that's when it hit me.
The market didn't care that I did my best. It only cared about whether I did what was required.
And here's the brutal truth that most traders never accept. The market is completely neutral.
It's not out to get you. It's not rigged
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against you. It doesn't hate you.
It simply is. Price move.
That's it. And here's why it feels so personal.
The market is a mirror and most people hate what they see. When I was still
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struggling, I thought my problem was technical analysis. So, I studied more patterns, watched more YouTube videos, bought more causes.
But my results didn't change because my problem wasn't the charts. My problem was me.
Every time I took a loss, I'll revenge trade.
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Every time I had a winner, I would close it early out of fear. Every time my plan said, "Wait, I would jump in anyway because I was bored." The market didn't create those problems.
It just exposed them. And this is why trading a life account is so different from back
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testing. On a simulator account, you are calm.
You follow your rules. You're patient.
But the moment real money is on the line, suddenly you are secondguessing every entry. You're moving your stop loss.
Oh, just a little bit and then you're checking your P&L every 30 seconds. The market didn't
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change. You did.
And that's my point here. Trading isn't hard because the charts are complicated.
Trading is hard because it forces you to face every weakness you have been avoiding. If you're impatient in life, the market will punish your impatience.
If you're
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undisiplined with your habits, the market will punish you for your lack of discipline. And if you can't handle stress, the market will suffocate you with volatility.
Whatever flaw you have been hiding from, the market will drag it into the light and make you pay for
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it. So if you want to win, stop asking, "Did I do my best?" Start asking, "Did I do what was required?" Because your best effort means nothing if it's applied in the wrong direction.
Your intentions mean nothing if your actions don't align. The market doesn't gr on effort.
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It grates on an execution. And here's what changed everything for me.
I stopped seeing losses as failures. I started seeing them as feedback.
Every loss was the market showing me that this is where you're weak. This is what you need to fix.
And once I stopped fighting
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that feedback and started learning from it, everything shifted. The market is the most honest teacher you will ever have.
It doesn't care about your feelings. It doesn't sugarcoat the truth.
It just shows you exactly who you are through your P&L. So stop blaming
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the market. Start thinking it because every loss, every mistake, every painful lesson, that's not the market being cruel.
That's the market making you better. Here's my brutally honest business advice that nobody has ever asked for.
Two years ago, I could have
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taken the easy route. you know, launch a quick course, rent a lumbumber for Instagram, sell the dream before building the product, make 50K in a month, go to Miami, and then spend the rest of my life like defending what I've made.
But I didn't. And here's why.
In the short term, the market is a voting
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machine. People vote with their wallets based on hype, emotion, and perception.
So, the guru with the rented Lumbbo, you will get votes. The guy flashing cars or cash or chains on the yard, he will get votes.
The self-made millionaire at
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freaking 16 year old with no track record, he get votes too. Because in the short term, marketing beats substance.
Perception beats performance. The voting machine rewards whoever can sell the best story.
But in the long term, the market is a weighing machine. It
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measures actual value, real results, truth, [snorts] and eventually the votes stop coming. The guru runs out of new people to sell to.
The lifestyle marketer gets exposed. The hype dies down.
And what's left is the weight of
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what you actually build. I see this every day in the trading space.
Gurus selling signal groups, causes, and fun account secrets. They blow up fast.
They make 100k in three months riding the hype wave, but two years later they're
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gone because they have never built anything real. What they built was a marketing machine, not a product that people actually need.
And without a great product, you're stuck on the marketing tread build forever. You have to keep selling, keep posting content,
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keep convincing other people to buy your course because the moment you stop doing that, the money stops. And here's what I realized when I started the 1% club, which is my trading mentorship program.
I could launch it in one month and start making money immediately. Or I could
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spend one year building something so good that my customers do the marketing for me. A lot of people they choose the first option, the path of least resistance.
Launch first, make money now, deal with the consequences later. But I choose the second option.
I spent
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years obsessing over every tiny detail. Not just teaching random chart patterns, but also teaching the psychology, the discipline, the systems that actually make traders profitable.
Not just throwing together some PDF, but creating
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a structure that walks someone from zero to consistent. Not just talking about what I know, but documenting what I've lived.
because I knew if I built something exceptional, I would never have to sell it. My customers would sell it for me.
And that's exactly what
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happened. I didn't have to back people to join my mentorship program.
I didn't have to like spam DMs or like do some lifestyle marketing [ __ ] We just started posting our student results and suddenly people were like coming to us. And that's the difference between a voting machine and a weighing machine.
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The voting machine rewards who can shout the loudest. The weighing machine rewards who can deliver the most.
Gurus who sell lifestyle might win in the short term. They'll make their money.
They'll get the clout. They'll ride the wave.
But professionals who deliver real
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value, we win in the long term. And we're not playing the same game.
They are playing for attention. They're playing for status.
We are playing for legacy. So here's my advice.
If you're building anything, a cause, a business, a brand, or whatever, do not optimize
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for the quick win. Don't launch something mediocre just to start making money.
Spend one year building an exceptional product for your customers to market for a lifetime. Spend most of your time building a great product because without a great product, you're stuck selling forever.
But with one,
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your customers become your salespeople. Your results become your marketing.
Your reputation becomes your mode, your competitive advantage. The short term is loud.
The long term is quiet. The short term is about votes.
The long term is
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about weight. And if you're willing to delay gratification, to build in silence while others chase clout, you'll win a game most people don't even know exists.
So ask yourself this. Are you building something people will talk about for a month or something they will remember
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for a lifetime? One requires marketing, the other requires mastery.
Choose wisely. Everybody wants the Lamborghini, the penthouse, the the freedom, the I wake up whenever I want
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lifestyle and I sit on the beach lifestyle, whatever. But nobody wants the five years of eating [ __ ] that comes before it.
I learned this the hard way. When I started trading, I was obsessed with the end result.
You know, I'll see these guys on Instagram, freaking 23 year olds driving supercars, living in
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Dubai, and I think that's going to be me in six months. So, I dove in.
I studied every day, took trades every day, watched my account every day. And after six months, I was still broke.
After a year, still struggling. After two years,
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still inconsistent. And here's what nobody tells you about trading.
The first few years aren't about making money. They're about paying tuition.
And that tuition, it's painful. It's blowing accounts.
It's losing money you
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can't afford to lose. It's watching other people succeed while you're stuck in the mud.
It's eating [ __ ] And most people quit before the lesson clicks. I remember sitting in my room at 2 a.m.
after another losing streak. You know, I've been trading for like two years.
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Still wasn't like consistently profitable. And my friends were getting promotions, buying cars, moving up, buying the new apartment.
And I was sitting there like a dumbass staring at red candlesticks wondering if I was wasting my life away. You know, maybe I
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should have went to university. But something in me refused to quit because I realized that the only way I was going to fail was if I stopped.
And if I never stop, I would eventually figure it out. So I kept eating [ __ ] Year three
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started seeing the patterns not just in the charts, but in myself. I realized I wasn't losing because of bad setups.
I was losing because of bad discipline. Year four, I stopped chasing, stopped overtrading, stop forcing trades, stopped trying to get rich quick.
And that's when everything changed. Not
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because the market changed, but because I changed. And here's the truth that most trading gurus will not tell you.
Mastery takes time. It's not going to be three months, not going to be six months, not going to be a year, it's going to be years, it's going to be decades.
You don't become consistently
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profitable overnight. You become consistently profitable after thousands of trades, hundreds of mistakes, and countless hours of reflection.
You have to eat [ __ ] for 5 years so you can eat cavia for a lifetime. And I'm not talking about just five years of trying.
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I'm talking about five years of obsession. Five years of showing up every single day, even when you don't feel like it.
Five years of reviewing your trades when everybody else is out partying. Five years of sitting in front of your screen while your friends think
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that you are wasting your time. That's the price.
And most people unwilling to pay it. They want the freedom right now.
They want the profits right now. They want the lifestyle right now.
So they chase stupid signal groups. They copy trade.
They jump from one strategy to
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another strategy. and they never built the skill set when the skill set is actually what allows them to get freedom.
And here's the thing, if you chase freedom before you master the skill, you will never have either. You will simply be a slave who's to whoever
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that is feeding you the next hot tip. But if you master the skill first, freedom isn't something that will chase.
It's something that you earn. So if you're in year one, year two, year three and you're still struggling, good.
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You are supposed to be struggling. You are supposed to be losing.
You're supposed to be frustrated. That's not failure.
That's you paying market division. And every trader who has made it has paid the exact same price, been in your exact position.
The
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difference is most people quit right before the payoff. They eat [ __ ] for three months, six months and then they give up.
They eat [ __ ] for a year, then they start blaming the market. They eat [ __ ] for two years, then they tell themselves, "H maybe this is not for me." But the ones who make it, they eat
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[ __ ] for five years so that they never have to eat [ __ ] again in their entire life. Master the skill set first, freedom comes later.
Stop trying to skip the hard part. Stop looking for shortcuts.
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Stop chasing the lifestyle before you've earned the skill set. Because the market doesn't care about your timeline.
It doesn't care that you want to be free in six months or become a millionaire in two months. It only cares if you're willing to pay the price.
And if you
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are, if you're willing to eat [ __ ] for five years while everybody else is out there chasing quick wins, you'll eat cavia for the rest of the life. So the choice is yours.
Five years of pain for a lifetime of freedom or a lifetime of
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pain because you weren't willing to suffer for five years. One is the price of the other.
Choose wisely. People ask me this all the time, Brad, how do you become a millionaire at 21 years old?
And they expect me to say, I found the perfect strategy or I work 16 hours a
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day. But the real answer is, I changed who I let into my head.
Everybody says that you're the average of the five people that you hang out with the most. Wrong.
In this day and age, because you're not hanging out with your friends for eight hours a day, you are
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scrolling. You're consuming content.
And the people that you're consuming, they're shaping you more than your actual friends ever could. So, here's the truth.
You're not the average of the five people you hang out with the most. You are the average of the five people
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you watch the most online. the five you compare yourself with and the five voices you constantly let into your mind every single day.
Those voices are programming your thoughts, your belief and your standards. When I was still struggling at 18 years old, I was
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watching all the wrong people. You know, every guru flexing their rented Lamborghinis, every trader selling causes with no real results.
And I was just comparing myself to these fake highlight ress. Oh, why am I not there yet?
Why am I still blowing account? What's wrong with me?
Why do I suck at
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trading? Well, I was simply letting the wrong voices in.
So, I did an audit. Every person that I followed, I asked myself this one question.
Is this person actually doing what they're teaching? Are they showing losses or just wins?
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Are they building something real or just selling a dream? If the answer was no, unfollow, mute, block.
I stopped watching people who only showed me wins. And I started following traders who posted their losses too.
People who were actually transparent about the grind.
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Entrepreneurs who showed you know the five years of eating [ __ ] and not just the caveat. The traders who really eat at [ __ ] for five years and then their life changed forever.
And that is when my entire mindset shifted. Within months I stopped comparing myself to others.
I
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stopped chasing. I stopped looking for shortcuts.
I just focus on getting 1% better every day. Same me, different choices, completely different trajectory.
And this is also why I post both my wins and losses because I know
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what it's like to only see the highlight rail and feel like you are failing, feel like you're an impostor. I know what it's like to compare yourself to fake gurus and feel like you're behind.
And this is why I show both sides because that's what I needed when I was just starting out. someone who's transparent,
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authentic, and actually real. So, your environment isn't just physical anymore.
It's digital. You might spend two hours with your friends on Sunday, but 6 hours a day on your phone.
So, who's really influencing you? Your friend or the
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content creator that you watch all day long? So, right now, ask yourself this.
Who are the five people that you watch the most online? Are they showing you the real game or just selling your dream?
Are they making you better or just making you feel worse? Because you become what you are consistently exposed
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to. So I'm a millionaire at 21 not because I'm smarter than you, but because I was very careful about who I let program my mind.
Curate your feed like your future depends on it because it actually does. I need to tell you something that's going to hurt.
But it's
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the truth that you need to hear. You're not as good as you think you are.
I know that's things, but the truth is you're not as good as you think you are because of the fact that you are not profitable yet. Like if you are already as good as
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you think you are, then you would already be consistently profitable. When I was 19 years old, I thought that I had everything figured out.
You know, I could read charts, I could analyze candlestick patterns, chart patterns, I understood risk management. I read a
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bunch of trading psychology textbook and in my head I thought I was ready. But my P&L told a different story.
It was inconsistent. It was up one week down the next.
So I was taking two steps forward but three steps back. And I kept making excuses like, "Oh, the market is
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just choppy right now. Oh, I'm close.
I just need to pick a few things in my trading strategy." But the real issue is I wasn't as good as I thought I was. And here's the brutal truth.
The market
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doesn't care about your potential. It doesn't care about how much you have started.
It doesn't care how close you think you are. It only cares about results.
[snorts] And if your results aren't consistent, then you're not there yet. And here's
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the other side of that coin. Every morning before I trade, I think to myself that the best trade is yet to come.
The best trade has yet to come because you're always just one trade
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away. One trade away from the breakthrough.
One trade away from the setup that changes everything. One trade away from the result that makes all the pain worth it.
When I was still struggling, this was the only thing that kept me going.
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You know, I'll have like a losing week and I'll think to myself, maybe I'm not cut out for this. And then I'll remind myself, the best trade has yet to come.
I'm one trade away. I'll miss a setup.
I'll beat myself up for it. And then I'll remind myself, the best trade has
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yet to come. I'm one trade away.
That phrase, one trade away, kept me in the game long enough to actually get good. So that is why I repeat it in every single video.
So, yes, you're probably not as good as you think you are, but
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that doesn't mean you can't be. It just means that you need to be brutally honest with yourself.
Stop overestimating your current skill. Stop making excuses for your inconsistent results and start putting in the damn
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work to actually become who you think you are. Because here's what I know.
The best trade you will ever take hasn't happened yet. The biggest win of your life is still waiting for you.
The breakthrough you are looking for right now is coming, but only if you stay in
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the game long enough to catch it. So be humble about where you are right now, but stay hungry for where you are going.
The best trade has yet to come. You're one trade away.
In my first three months of trading, I almost quit trading
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because of one losing week. It wasn't because I lost money.
It was because I thought losing money meant I was a loser. I was a failing.
And that's when I realized that I had tied my self-worth to my P&L. And it almost destroyed me.
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Here's what nobody tells you. If you don't disassociate your identity from your results, the market will eat you alive.
When you win, your ego inflates and you think that you are a freaking genius. You think you're the next Warren Buffett.
And when you lose, you spiral out of control. You think that you are
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worthless. Both wins and losses are traps or your perception of wins and losses are traps.
I remember my first $5,000 win. You know, I felt invincible.
I felt like Alexander the Great. Like I had everything figured it out.
I told all my friends, posted it on Instagram,
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started taking bigger risk, and then I lost 7K the next day. I [ __ ] you not.
And then I crashed. Not just my account, but my entire sense of myself.
I was sponging my pillow. I was balling my eyes out because to me, P&L meant who I
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was. It pretty much meant my identity.
And once again, here's the truth. A winning trade doesn't make you smart.
A losing trade doesn't make you stupid. Your P&L is just feedback.
It's not your identity. And if you treat it as your
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identity, you will never last long enough in this game in order to see consistent results. The best traders that I know, they don't celebrate wins like they just cured cancer.
They don't mourn losses like they have just buried someone dead. They just take the feedback.
They adjust and then they move
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on because they're not attached to any single trade outcome. So stop taking losses personally.
A loss doesn't mean you're a bad trader. It just means the market move against you.
And stop letting wins inflate your ego. A win
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doesn't mean you have mastered the game. It means you got one trade right.
Instead, just focus on becoming a skilled trader. One who executes the plan regardless of the trade outcome.
One who treats every trade as data, not destiny. One who isn't defined by the
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P&L. Everything changed when I stopped asking myself how much money did I make today and started asking myself did I follow my trading plan today?
My identity became about the process, not the profit. And ironically, that's when I started making real money.
The market
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will test you. It will give you huge wins to see if you're cocky.
It will give you brutal losses to see if you break. But if your self-worth isn't tied to either your loss or your win, you become unbreakable.
Most people quit right before they make it. I see it every day.
Someone trade for 6 months,
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hit a losing streak, throw the tower in, and give up. not knowing that they were one month away from the breakthrough because they don't understand that trading is not linear, it's exponential.
When I was in my second year of trading,
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I went through hell. I lost money for three months [snorts] straight consecutively.
You know, it was just like a bloodshed. Every strategy that I tried failed.
Every trade that I took went against me. I was ready to quit.
I thought that maybe this is not for me.
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But then I remembered something. The only way to guarantee failure is to quit.
Which means that if I never quit, I could never truly lose. And the thing about growth is that it doesn't happen in a straight line.
You don't get 1% battle every day and start seeing steady
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results. You struggle, you plateau, you feel like you're getting worse and then suddenly everything clicks just like the Chinese bamboo tree.
That is exponential growth. You put in 100 hours, no results.
200 hours, no results. 500
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hours and still no freaking results. And then at hour 501, everything changes.
The cumulative effort finally starts compounding, which seems so insignificant in the short term, but
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adds up in the long term. And that is how you go from struggling to consistent in what feels like overnight.
So if you quit after that losing streak, you are essentially forfeiting your chips right before the inflection point, right before the exponential curve kicks in,
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right before all that pain turns into profit. And in gambling terms, you are literally walking away from the table one hand before you would have won.
If trading is a marathon, the one who enjoys running will always go further than the one chasing applause at the
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finish line. Most traders, they are grinding because they want the result.
They want the money, the freedom, the status, the flex. But the ones who actually make it, they love the process.
I didn't became profitable because I wanted more money than everybody else. I
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became profitable because I fell in love with the game. I love journaling [snorts] trades.
I love reviewing trades. I love finding patterns.
I love the challenge of mastering my mind. and the money was simply a byproduct.
So if
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you're only in this for the destination, you're going to quit when it gets hard. But if you learn to love the journey, you learn to enjoy the process of getting there.
You will keep running long after everybody else stops. And
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that's when you win. No, that's why you win.
When you can treat work like play, like I said, trading is exponential. The breakthrough is coming.
The inflection point is so near, but only if you stay
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in this game. So don't quit after a losing streak.
Don't quit no matter what. Just keep going, especially when it feels impossible because you're closer than you think you are.
It took me months to master technical analysis,
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you know, like support and resistance levels, candlestick patterns, indicators, supply demand zones, order blocks, all of those stuff. And I thought that that's all I needed.
But it took me years to finally see the market for what it is, not what I think it is.
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And that's the difference between being smart and being profitable. Most traders, they don't trade the market.
They trade their opinion of the market. They think, "Oh, maybe this should bounce here at my support level that I drawn.
Oh,
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Nvidia looks oversold right now. It has to reverse." Oh, no way gold can go up any higher.
Bro, the market doesn't care about what you think. I used to do this all the time.
I will see a stock at alltime highs and I'll think this is too
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expensive. I'm shorting it.
And then it will go another 50%. And I'll see a stock crash and think, hm, this is cheap.
Buy the dip, right? So, I'm buying.
And then it will drop another 30%. I was trading my will, my opinions, my
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perception, not reality. And the turning point came when I stopped asking myself what do I think should happen and started asking what is the market actually doing right now.
The market once again just to remind you the market doesn't care about
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fair value. It doesn't care about logic.
It doesn't care about what should happen. The market just is.
And your job isn't to impose your will on it. Your job is to read what is telling you.
Listen to what is trying to tell you and align with it. Trade with the objective
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reality, not your will. Stop fighting the trend because you think it's too high or it's too cheap.
Stop catching knife, falling knife just because you think it's cheap enough. The only way to remove the subjective lens is to learn how the market actually works.
Not how
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you want it to work, not how it should work, but how it actually works, which is what I call market mechanics. It took me years to understand this, but once I did, that is where everything really changes.
You know, like I stopped
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losing on stubborn trades. I stopped fighting move that it just simply wasn't there.
I just follow the market and I just let it play pay me. So if you're struggling, ask yourself this.
Am I trading what I see
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or what I think? Am I following the market or am I fighting the market?
Because the market always wins that fight. Charlie Monger has this concept of inversion where he mentioned that instead of doing what will make you
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successful, just don't do the things that will not make you successful. And you know what's not going to make you a better trader?
Watching your favorite trading guru tweet about the next memecoin. Telling your friends about your new trading hobby.
Scrolling on social media looking at a bunch of
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trading memes or lifestyle highlight reels. Shopping for the perfect monitor setup.
None of this [ __ ] is going to make you better. I wasted years doing all this [ __ ] You know, I'll watch bunch of YouTube videos for hours and I'll just tell myself, "Oh, I'm just
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learning." when in reality I'm freaking mental masturbating. And then I'll browse the best monitor on Amazon.
You know, I'll tell myself that I need the right trading tools to trade. And then I will go on and tell my friends about how I was going to become a millionaire trader, but I barely place any trade.
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And here's the hard truth. You're not getting better at trading by consuming content.
You're not getting better by talking about it. You're not getting better by setting up the perfect workplace.
The only way to get better at trading is to
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start trading and start trading life. Trading is a skill and skills aren't built by learning.
They are built by doing. You can watch thousands of hours of basketball tutorials, but until you
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step on the court and you start shooting, you're not a basketball player. You can read every book on swimming, but until you jump in the water, you're not a swimmer.
Trading is the same. I didn't became profitable from watching videos and reading books
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or listening to podcasts. I became profitable from taking trade, making mistakes, and learning from them.
I didn't master technical analysis from causes. I mastered it from staring at the freaking charts for thousands of
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hours with my hard-earned money on the line. The education happened in the arena, not in the classroom.
So, stop pretending. Stop mental masturbating.
Stop preparing to trade. Stop waiting until you figure everything out.
Stop
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optimizing your setup instead of placing trade. Just start.
Take the trade. Make the mistake.
Feel the pain. review what went wrong and then do it again.
That's the only way. That's the holy grail.
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Because here's the reality. A year from now, you can either be the someone who learned a lot about trading or you can be a trader.
And the only difference is that the person who set out to become a trader, he actually lived in the arena
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while the other person stayed in the comfortable classroom. So the question becomes which guy will you be?
I used to call myself an aspiring trader. Sounds harmless, right?
But that one word kept me broke for two years. Because you
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become the labor you put on yourself. Here's what I mean.
When I caught myself aspiring, I was just telling my subconscious that I'm not a real trader yet. I'm just trying.
And my actions follow. I traded just like someone who's just trying.
You know, I was half in,
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half out. I didn't fully commit.
I made excuses. I played small.
I blamed the markets because that's what aspiring traders do, right? And then one day, I decided to change the label.
I stopped saying that I'm trying to become a
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better trader. And I started to say that I am a trader.
I am a professional trader. Not because I was consistently profitable yet, but because I decided that that's who I was.
And once again when I changed the label, when I changed
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my identity, everything shifted. When I called myself a professional trader, I started acting like one.
I joined up every trade. I follow my plan religiously.
I showed up every single day because that's what professional traders do. Like those are the values and habits of a professional trader.
You
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must understand that your subconscious doesn't know the difference between reality and the story that you tell it. So if you call yourself an unprofitable trader, you're going to stay that way.
If you call yourself someone who can't trade volatile markets, you're going to
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stay that way. If you call yourself, oh, you're not good with risk management, you're going to prove yourself to be right.
Your words become your reality. Which is why the strongest, the most powerful words in the English dictionary is I am.
Whatever comes after I am
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determines your identity and that determines your reality. So, choose your labors carefully.
Stop saying, "I'm just learning." Stop saying, "I'm not there yet." Stop saying, "I'm an unprofitable trader." Stop saying, "I'm I'm trying to be consistent." Stop saying, "I am a
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professional trader. I am someone who's willing to embrace the work." Even if you're not profitable yet, even if you're still learning, because you build the identity first, the results will follow.
You don't become a trader by making money. You make money by becoming
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a trader. Identity first, results second.
So right now, just ask yourself this. What labels are you putting on yourself?
Are they empowering you or are they limiting you? Because if you change your words in your mental dictionary,
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you can change your life. Well, that was powerful.
So here's what I want you to take away from this episode. You can have the perfect strategy, the best risk management, all the technical knowledge in the world, but if your identity is still aspiring trader or unprofitable
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trader or trying to be consistent, you will never get there because you don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your identity.
The market doesn't care about your potential. It only cares about who you are right now.
And who you are right now
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is shown through your actions. So once again, ask yourself, are you acting like the traitor you want to become or are you still acting like the person you're trying to leave behind?
Because that's within your control and that's your work. Okay, cool.
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remember, your journey is the edge. The setbacks are part of the story.
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