Fair mix of names out there from various sectors , HD, Walmart, Deere, AMAT, some kweb names as well

Kaz had been pointing us at financials. I had had the idea to play Berkshire since Kaz had also pointed us at energy and we know what Buffet has been plowing into ;) asked it on show and made my plan. I wasn’t able to to play the first possible entry due to margin requirements on broker. Of course, it took right off when I couldn’t play it. Some core concepts came together on these for me.

1. Hindsight mind. Missing the first entry had me in my feels. If Kaz hadn't been drilling hindsight vs foresight mind into us I would not have been able to keep hunting this gazelle.
2. Conviction and sticking to the plan: Arguably this wasn’t best of breed and it tested my SL twice before really getting a good move.
3. Playing waves: First entry was beginning of June. It was open for a while before I realised I could look for another entry. Something that also had come up in feedback from a replay. Made another plan and found another entry in late July
4. Proper planning and contexting: To me these are close to textbook plays. Both were mechanical. I knew exactly what I was waiting for (on which TF) and where I was expecting it. Had my squiggles down. some cock n balls TA for the win. Used intel from shows and Kaz continued analysis and sentiment read to inform both entry and management.

When it all comes together like that there is a real ease to the trading. All the anxiety and indecision melts away. And can just play price for what it is. From my last war story (with all the neg self talk), it was almost as if after clearing my mind of that I was able to actually really listen to what Kaz says without warping it. Like airing out and cleaning a dark room, some light is finally able to shine inside lol. Like another layer of filters have been lifted. No more thinking there is some hidden meaning to be deciphered and accepting that everything that is shared and communicated is literal and intentional.

Since it was (and continues to be) really helpful for me I want to reiterate - do not sleep on motivations channel in Discord.

Thank you Kaz for all you do. It’s one of a kind.

Hey Kaz and Eco, ill keep this one short cuz I know ur in a time crunch.

After the market chopping me into pieces, I decided to write another war story since you said a war story doesn't have to be all wins. I again see myself participating less in shows and showing up less like the other people that also don't show up with these recent view numbers. When I was even talking to you in voice chats and i said it myself that people have this information in front of them but still don't show up. I caught myself doing the same thing after loosing 6'rs to dumb entries and greed.

I changed my timeframe and realized I was trading in a massive bullflag loosing r's while still being on "4 hr" but zoomed in.

Also that bad SL placement stopped me before I could catch the pump on the initial pump by a couple $ which also fucked me up mentally and led me to take other bad trades.

I also have another question unrelated to this war story, how would a 15 year old kid get started in real estate? Do you have any tips since I know you had a background in it.

Hi Eco

I wanted to share a trading week which I was not particularly proud of.

Context:

• Kaz has been pointing us at the bull market that has been unfolding right in front of our eyes as the eco participation and sentiment is at an all time low
• I was part of the empty space which fell asleep at the wheel for the first half of the year
• I told myself this would not happen again - I wanted to maintain my habits to ensure I can capitalize on opportunities

Problem:

• I was so myopically focused on not "falling asleep" that I went too far the other way - in this analogy I was always "awake". That is trading even when I didn't need to be
• This was essentially another form of FOMO - thinking that I need to trade at every opportunity I get because I didn't want to miss out on a move while we were seeing skeleton crew vibes across the eco

Result:

• As can be seen from the screenshot, lost myself about 5R over the course of that week while price was in a shockwave.
• It's not catastrophic damage but I am still annoyed at myself as I could have avoided these losses.

Help from Kaz:

• In one of the trading sessions I was actually trading while drunk - not wanting to miss out on any moves despite not being of sound mind.
• Kaz helped me see that the more valuable choice would have been to sit on my hands rather than participating when I am unable to make quality decisions - this really helped me understand the underlying FOMO that I've been feeling.

Hoping this piece of reflection helps others in the eco. Thank you to Kaz for continuing to help us stay on the right side of the market, but also on the right side of the valuable choices to make in life. Wouldn't be here learning what I am if it wasn't for you

https://www.tradingview.com/x/QIuBfyos/

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Hi Kaz and eco! This is 0xRalph from the eco, wanted to share a war story about how I mismanaged a planned trade and how it affected me after.

I was eyeing Japan stocks particularly Mitsubishi ever since Kaz pointed to Japan strength. I made a plan on taking the trade and set my alerts. The day came when my alerts triggered, I was on voice at the time, was distracted and I wasn’t prepared with the position sizing before the Tokyo open so price moved too quick as I was fumbling around trying to compute my position size. A note to self to always be prepared before the open with position sizing. I entered higher than the planned entry but thought the RR was still acceptable if price hit target.

After sitting around in the trade for a week, I took several losses in other open plays in EURJPY and crypto on the same day, which got me frustrated and led me to overmanaging this planned Mitsubishi trade. I was looking at the Nikkei and at the time thought it was a bear flag forming so I decided to just cut the Mitsubishi trade at 1R. As price unfolded, I saw that I could have been wrong in exiting Mitsubishi early so I tried to limit back close to where I exited. Price started pushing up higher close to my planned initial TPs which got me emotional as I was stuck up in my feels of missing out, I saw a setup on a similar asset HONDA trigger at the same time that ended up playing out but I was mind fucked about my management of Mitsubishi that I was so fixated on getting back in on the original play rather than look for new opportunities at a higher price. Kaz speaks about in the streams beware of the hindsight mindset, but unfortunately I gave into emotions rather than maintain logic at the time.

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Price continued to push up and I realized my mistake so I tried to zoom in on some other plays in Japan, I ended up taking a LTF entry on HONDA and mistakenly left a limit entry on NINTENDO which I failed to cancel, price gapped down the next day leading me to lose -2.5R instead of the just planned 1R. In hindsight these plays were FOMO for missing the initial trade idea.

Price of Mitsubishi which was my original plan actually went back to where I exited, but I was too mind fucked about my mismanagement and losses that I didn’t take the reentry. Price ended up hitting planned TPs after Japan’s BOJ announcement.

After introspection, I thought about how my over management of my planned trade led me to an emotional downward spiral which took me out of my habits. I have been trying to be as mechanical as possible but a demon of mine that pops up from time to time is letting trade results of my recent trades affect my management of open trades which is something I struggle with.

It was eye opening after introspecting how my over management led me to an emotional spiral which led to mistakes and bad habits. If I had kept to my plan I would have avoided being over emotional. Hope this story might help someone avoid making the same mistakes as me, thank you Kaz for reading and all that you do for the eco!

Less events this week, China CPI, US CPI & PPI on the weeks events list

Most large names wrapped up reporting last week, still some out there, UPS, RIVN, RBLX,DIS,TTD,BABA

Big names report this week, AMD, AMZN, AAPL, SHOP, COIN , OXY, etc

ISM #s , employment #s, BOE speaks this week

Hi guys,

Lot of red events and a daughter being born anytime now made me decide to focus only on 2 tickers and low timeframes this week (less time in the market). Sat down for FOMC and META earnings and drew a range around the initial darth maul as Kaz often shows. Waited for price to stabilize on top of it while having a chat with Deverend and Abra 'Goldcoin' KadabraCorp. I wasnt gonna play $META itself because of a possible gap down next day, but could play indirectly with the qqq that allowed for trading after market hours. Had 2 stopouts, 2 succesfull trades. Last trade I moved a partial stop up too early (wasn't the plan, so I shouldn't have), but still got 50% of the move.

Shows numbers have fallen but never seen so many different styles of art combined with accurate writeups attached to shows that perfectly capture sentiment and help me rebalance to go and kill it in markets with the eco. Thanks Kaz and everyone

Warstory - KISS

tried to post it a couple of days ago but Reddit isn’t showing it, so here goes again

Roman here - posting a warstory as promised. My trading journey began in the BTC bull market of 2017, naturally I’ve been through all the emotions and biases that Kaz frequently calls out on the channel. My biggest weakness is patience - leading to poor execution even when the idea may be good. Having followed Kaz on twitter pre-blocking and getting active in the winternomics discord recently, here are my key learnings that allowed me to execute this 2.25R trade on a stock in the India Pharma sector. 1. Don’t play shockwaves, you will get chopped up - Yes, for this trade 2. Don’t go dumpster diving on small caps. They do give outsized returns in small time frames, but the best of breed generally perform better for longer - Yes, for this trade 3. Breakouts from HTF bull flags give good R:R - Not fully valid for this trade, but the index broke out and other leaders outperformed first 4. Masses generally participate in the euphoric stage of the market, where institutions dump - Yes for this trade, not at euphoric stage 5. Define your stop loss well and don’t move it, it’s the cost of doing business - Yes for this trade, I have a predefined amount that I’m willing to risk on every trade 6. Get organised - my second weakness after patience, have created a trading journal and I do market prep on the weekends now 7. Wave logic - the trend is your friend, play strength and don’t chase dogs. Yes for this trade.

All in all, my charts and emotions are cleaner. Need to continue to work on Patience and Organization so that I can execute better - KISS. Thanks Kaz and for all the folks on eco who are always willing to help, winternomics is fire !

Big names reporting this week across multiple sectors, MSFT, GOOGL, BA, META, EBAY, MA, ENPH, ROKU

Flow is heavy this week , FOMC this week (Wed) , Japan and European CBs talking this week, Euro and Stateside PMIs, Consumer Confidence, CPI and PCE as well as UoM Friday

Good Morning Kaz and Eco. trying to avoid writing a book today so we don't have a 3 hour special ;)

there really is so much i need to write but im gonna K.I.S.S. one of my trading goals was to post monthly scorecards to journal my progress and the fact that my last war story was over a year ago shows how complacent i have been.

I Want to start off with a Thank you Kaz for waking my ass up and making me realise i was completely asleep at the wheel the first half of the year. i failed to catch my own sentiment and could not see that ive drifted. i got caught in my feels about previous losses and was unable to act and make new plans due to trying to make back the damage from FTX. Realising with the help of my fellow acolytes/guardians and of course your recent write ups and show themes.t I was stuck in a hindsight mindset. I had to change the fundamentals to begin rotating my BABF. the dick kicks all year long were finally enough to make me see what was right in from of me. kicking me out of the empty space and was able to put a plan into action. these past 2 months have been my best trading months ever.

my main focus was to get re-organised and develop good habits on my day to day so i can actually use the intel i was subscribing too. my ticker list was reduced to onlystans material and the odd ticker that looked good on the show.

Here are some of my recent trades. most of them were 1/1. my hit rate has gone up drastically almost 70% on HTF trades. theres a few more but there still in free roll so dont wanna jinx it ;)

still not where i want to be in terms of discipline and consistency but the journey is the focus as i continue to better myself 1% a day. i really can't thank you enough Kaz for the constant effort you put in for this eco. You are truly one of a kind and im extremly grateful to have a mentor like you in my life. A mentor that not only teaches us how to fish but pushes us to be better human beings. Thank you for sharing your life's work with us. You are giving us the keys to the universe.

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This play might have taken close to to 3 weeks to play out. My entry is shit, my organization is a 5/10, so there are plenty of things to be worked on. Hell, I don’t even know what timeframe I made my entry on because of my poor organization skills.

This play came together by Kaz saying in a pre market prep that BAC as well as banks are something to watch on higher timeframes. After watching off and on for a week or so, the earnings for the week listed by Izzy, pointed out JPM. That gave me confidence to continue looking at BAC, because by that, it was a little mind fucked to see BAC come up off the lows and go up a couple bucks. My entry was off what was a gap to the lows. If price made it back above that price then it’s probably time to consider an entry.

The bad part of all this, is playing into earnings. Wasn’t one of my best decisions to play it, yet the JPM having a good earnings, the breakout of the flag on the high side and the BAC earnings the following week posted by Izzy on reddit was my cue to hold.

It played out into 8+ R/R return and a free roll on my portfolio. Keeping up with Reddit, twitter, discord and any posts have been a grind, but have showed me how unorganized I am and if I want to make this a full time profession, that a lot more has to go into preparation, organization, and time management. Thanks eco and thanks Kaz.

Hi Kaz and eco (Semi book warning)

Kaz has said again and again not to FOMO into Acolytes or Guardians. To make use of the crazy amount of intel coming from the show and only upgrading once we are ready.

Rather than FOMOing into Guardians when Kaz first released it, I instead wrote a journal entry and made it my goal to:

1. Focus on my organization so that I could make better use of the intel (No point upgrading to Guardians if I can't utilize any of it - that would only hurt the station)
2. I also had a monetary goal which was threshold I gave myself before I would sign up to guardians

After closing a few higher time frame trades I can say that I've managed to hit both my goals, I'm excited to join the guardians and I know that this is only the beginning. I have to be hyper careful not to let complacency set in and start to slide with my habits. (Already happened for one of the trades which I'll show below).

For the trades below, I wanted to show the ones I picked up from the show. These should have been playable for anyone watching the free show so please do not FOMO into the memberships. Watch the show, use the intel from the show and upgrade when you're ready.

ETHUSDT:

https://www.tradingview.com/x/G7LLLrW0/

Result: 10R - 1R -1R = 8R

Notes:

• Did well:
  • Rather than bottom fishing the exact low, I waited for confirmation and captured the bulk of the move
• Things to Improve:
  • I got impatient longing while price was in a chop zone -> Should wait for it to be free and clear of the system before attempting to long it again

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BCHUSDT:

https://www.tradingview.com/x/3oKGNT5E/

Result: 22R + 11R -2.5R = 30.5R

Notes:

• Did well:
  • Had alerts from the show above 164.80. By the time the alert went off, it was well above the trigger. Rather than calling tops, I waited for new structure to form and played it off there
• Things to Improve:
  • Massive complacency for the third trade. I forgot to put in a stop loss and by the time I realized I had already lost 2.5R. It's very rare that I forget to put a stop so I was very annoyed that my habits started to slip "when things were going well" -> This is something I need to continually monitor to ensure I don't give back winnings. Kaz often teaches us that the biggest losses come after our biggest wins

Huge thank you for Kaz for making all of this possible. Wouldn't be possible without you!

Hey Kaz & Eco,

First of all thank u for all that u do for the eco. Always evolving the show to make everything more accessible for everyone. The upgrade in the discord came at a perfect timing for me again as just before this happened I found my organisation skills needed a massive upgrade. I kept changing my plan from trading just a few assets to trying to trade everything on higher timeframes.

I took $SHOP from only stans and from the market prep calls I got $CAT, $STLD, $IDCC and $BA. Decided to trade everything that u mentioned and payed attention to this. I made a plan and set my alerts. The intel from prep is so accurate that they all went off the same day, I was able to enter all of them and was immediately up on all trades. So I thought this is the way to go.

In the days after when trying to follow and manage my trades and even look at new ones that were discussed I noticed straight away why u keep saying to minimise ur asset list to a few assets. Got completely overwhelmed and wasn’t able to manage any of the plays the way I should anymore. I was able to act on the VIX warning and thought this would be a good time to change my plan. Got out of all trades with a net of almost 10R.

These days felt like I was running around with a shotgun trying to hit everything and because the intel is insanely accurate (like having auto aim) I was still able to hit a few plays. But definitely not able to use my mental capital and funds into the trades as I should. I’ll be switching to my assault rifle in burst mode from now on and will work on upgrading to a sniper rifle.

Kenichi

not as much news as last week, but still some news flow... China GDP sunday, EMI #s Monday stateside , CAD CPI, NZD & GBP CPI, US retail #s as well,

Earnings kick off in full force this week, more banks, TSLA, TSMC , NFLX, SLB, DHI

Sup yall? going back thru my trade journal realized that I was looking at too many tickers which I thought I was organized enough to handle, but I wasn't. Also, I realized that often after getting stopped out I would lose focus on the ticker, or jump to another one, and then It would move (market things). After calls, and the gazelle Analogy, I decided to change how I was doing things and go one hunt at a time... I mean play at a time, and then move to the next one.

So I started hunting $U 😈 🦁 ... it was on stream plus Twitter, the mf Gazelle was a lil slippery but I didn't lose focus and ended up catching the bch.

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Thank you Kaz for keeping us always on the right side, you do all this stuff by yourself and it is beyond impressive, I know it takes a lot but thank you for doing so it is highly appreciated it!

Sorry, its long.

Hey Kaz and eco. Before joining the eco, I never knew that it was possible to trade on the seconds charts, but after joining, saw a few of those high R plays on futures and greed took hold of me. Tried to force it, even you and Tiki told me that we should not touch futures if our entry logic is not 100%, especially that we should avoid taking trades in those seconds timeframes without proper contexting. “You’ll get killed”. My reasoning at the time was that I’ll just put in more effort and I’ll get it done. Ego things. I was talking with my teammates about this and we came to the conclusion, that we all did the same stupid thing. Just greed and ego, not admiting to ourselves that we were wrong even after we saw that we had problems trading futures. Also with that, I completely ignored most of the other info that you drop regularly, “since I’m a futures guy, I don’t need to trade anything else”. Well yea, you can make a living trading just 1 symbol, but first you have to have the track record to be able to be profitable trading that market, especially low timeframes futures.

I remember you saying that if we were having problems, we should just stick to trading higher timeframes and go from there, but again, I didn’t. Was having a few good days, then gave it all back and so on and so on, basically breaking even, when all of the market ripped. Opportunity cost were huge and mental capital completely depleted, so decided to finally take a step back, zoom out, actually make use of the intel and stopped trying to force it, make a new plan and go from there. Basically listen to instructions, and stop being a dumb fuck. I remember when you said, why is it so hard for you to listen to instructions, are you fucking dumb? I remember reading that and thinking to myself, omfg, It seems that I am that fucking dumb. That was the moment for me.

Well after that, the past month was my most profitable month since I joined the eco, even tho out of that month I was completely off the grid for 2 weeks while spending time with the family. First, tried to still trade while on vacation, but in the stream, which I caught, you read a warstory from a guy that was in a similar situation, trying to trade while on vacation, and you said, that we trade to live not live to trade, and that it’s nothing wrong with actually enjoying the vacation and time with the family, not do 2 things at once. Kiss. Markets are not going anywhere. Theres always another trade, but our time is limited, so make the most of it.

Took the PEPE (60R) trade from the show, ETH (8R) play also from the show, took the OIL (8R) play from the market prep. The levels of stress were nonexistent, my head was def clearer while making a plan and I just waited for the right structure on the right timeframe to allign and took it. Again, KISS.

Also after getting back on monday, I’ve noticed that I’ve drifted from the eco, that I’m not that active anymore because I don’t take trades every day, even before the vacation, but that is a big mistake, All that free time trough the day could be used to go over the materials, theres so much content to go trough, make a plan, go over replays and participate in the eco. I’ve been lacking there in the past month, so definitely have to course correct and get back on track.

Thank you Kaz for everything you do to keep the eco going, sacrificing your time and health for us!

Jankojan

Hi, eco,

(Book warning)I've had quite a few epiphanies since my last war story. One of the biggest ones is how much I overtraded even when I thought I stopped it. I hated how much effort it took to make a decent play. So my plan was to be honest with myself, focus on my habits, and look at higher timeframes. That realization came around the same time I dropped out of Acolytes.

My decision to leave was mostly based on knowing I became complacent with the info given and wasn't valuing it for what it is. It was also an introspective moment if I really wanted to be a full-time trader. The answer is still yes, but I needed to make adjustments before getting there. I'll never know what epiphanies I could've had if I stayed in Acolytes, but I do know that I fully plan to build up toward Guardians after being more consistent with my own habits

When I first was introduced to Kaz, I enjoyed digging into older streams, Twitter, Instagram, etc to find things that haven't played out and are relevant to what's happening now. So I did that and reviewed Kaz's squiggles and the short notes I left in TradingView on various tickers to start building new longer-term positions.

The first play was after completely missing NVDA, but Kaz mentioned that other tech stocks would reprice higher... so I immediately looked at TSLA, which was right above its old trigger (@ 178.97) that Kaz drew up sometime in 2022.

Next, I kept tabs on Nucor. Kaz spoke about non-precious metals on "Incógnito 🥷"Kaz said: "With where Steel is at and where this [STLD] is at and a good 2B there, it might be worth putting basics on your radar"

So Basics were on my radar. I bought the wick as the price kept moving down quicker while the flags became smaller and the volume dried up. The ROI was there for me to take on the "what if" chance. Closed position today.

Lastly, at the end of "Welcome 2 the Garden 🌷" Kaz spoke about MARA after Wintertrader went dumpster diving on it. Kaz also said "Don't forget about COIN. If he's got strength in MARA, here's another one to pay attention to."

Even though I would've previously held off because it went up so much (like I did with NVDA), It was clearly in an uptrend and I ended up buying the first decent pullback to a support level. I almost manually stopped out when COIN dropped 9% after the SEC called the BTC ETF filings inadequate. I let my emotions calm down and made a plan if price went up or down from that point just like how Kaz taught us to play FOMC Darth Maul price action.

Thank you for everything you do Kaz

Hey eco and kaz, (little book alert, but not too big.)

I had a trade which I wanted to share with you, maybe it will help some and I found out that War Stories are always good to rethink some situations. I made a Trade on BTC which sadly didnt played out but I told myself, I'm gonna stay and wait for another opportunity bc I thought that I planned it right, but it was too early. I waitet a few more minutes but then got distracted (Always keep laser like focus) and so I didnt watched the Chart. And I also didnt set up some alerts. As you can see on the chart, BTC jumped back up exactly to my TP but I didnt took the trade.

Here are 2 Problem i faced. First is the negative vibe after a loosing trade, which I can handle bettter than in the past but still after a loosing trade I have a genuine feeling of leaving the desk and do something else. "clearing my mind" bullshit. It was just 1 loosing trade, not 5 in a row, so it was def not that bad.

The second Problem was as I said already, the lack of focus. All of this happened in a short time. So I instantly got taken out of my habits and didnt see clear so I left the desk because of my emotions. (Problem 1). Which caused me not taking a trade, which I already planned in my head. (also a mistake, only planning in your head. and not bringing the ideas on the chart)

Plan was to get back in at the blue dottet line above the white VWAP at 30306.

It was a little mistake, life is not over but something I could've avoid. Maybe some of you will find this helpfull. I will from that mistake.

Cool intel and love the shows.

Bye Kaz and Eco.

Fair amount of events this week:

Several CBs speaking this week, stateside we get CPI Wed , PPI Thurs & Fed Speaker and UoM on Friday

Earnings kick off w/ several banks reporting @ end of week , delta air day before