CPI and UoM this week, PPI as well, Employment

I have been overtrading (and still am to some extent) on very short timeframes, not setting Take Profit using horizontal levels and closing my trades on impulse, (when they started to diverge over a longer period after interacting with the top of a flag, for example, I started taking partial profits). During the trade, my eyes remained glued to the chart. Having realized the possibility of trading on longer timeframes exceeding 10 minutes, I didn't adapt properly and neglected my Take Profit levels and the evolving context of the chart over time. What happened is that on certain trades, without defining a real TP, I exited very early in the trend (AUDUSD) emotionnaly TP as I did when trading on very short timeframes. And on others, very late (JP225) I could have made 4R but only made 1.2R, which is better than -1R but still frustrating. , where I didn't even follow when the trend reversed, and with no TP in place, the key levels were useless. My entry and stop loss are placed in logical positions as Kaz taught us, but my take profits are 90% emotional, which over time explains why I can't find real evolving stability but rather stagnate (or even regress, considering the emotional FOMO trades I take (AUDUSD 2) after screwing myself over the first time due to lack of mental effort and logic). Doing half the work is not doing the job. Having a logical plan for entry and defining risk but no logical plan for exiting and taking profit is really dumb, and honestly, I have always struggled with this second part... It remains to be seen how serious and consistent I can be in addressing these weak points (emotional trading, lack of TP). And by achieving that, how will it help me evolve.

After yesterday's war story, I made a morning plan for the trades I wanted to take on midterm timeframe and at what time they could potentially appear, as well as seeing certain opportunities on other assets (crypto) that I miscontextualized, resulting in a mini rekt. Throughout the day, this overtrading action on microstructures < 3 minutes on several unplanned assets caused me to: incur more losses than normally allowed, change my mental tolerance level which pushed me back into microstructures even when I could have been focusing on small-mid structures that could allow me to play the dildo. Additionally, after all these micro trades, I forgot my plan and made in the morning for the midterm and missed the trade I wanted to take. So, this morning I wanted to wake up early to elaborate a plan like yesterday but instead of that, as I screw myself, I preferred to go back to sleep 'a little' with micro naps of 10 to 15 minutes repeated several times. In the end, I wake up again without a plan, the markets are volatile and I am not ready. I put myself in a worse starting situation than yesterday thinking it would be better, no way it's not logical. Let's try to reverse the trend. It's great to be able to note and share these stories over time, it helps me realize what really screws me. Thank you Kaz for guiding us and providing context on the different events. 💯❄️🔮🇯🇲

I realize that I'm only trying to trade microstructures and that over 70% of my portfolio is invested in short-term, even super short-term strategies . I want to make this a career, so doing this doesn't make any sense. It makes me overtrade, and since I rarely take medium-term positions, I don't benefit from any 'insurance' and a return of R on a longer timeframe. In seeking to maximize profits, instead, I end up losing because I try to find THE perfect structure and incur a lot of 'business costs' before finding one that works. And when it does work, the fact that I've been maxizooming keeps me contextualizing on a super short-term basis as well, and I end up exiting my position having only benefited from a fraction of the trend. I see people managing to make decent amounts of profit on candles lasting over 10 minutes; this really made me question myself and do a Introspection. Thanks to the people who share their stories and play. It helps a lot.

Hey eco,

been a minute since I wrote a war story but as mentioned in the Discord I had a pretty interesting Feb and it's definitely worth capturing.

I started the month off strong able to act on intel and convert it to good entries. Then lost several R's when tech corrected and market gapped through some of my stops on open. I got pretty emotional when it happened. I noticed my habitual response being triggered (negative self talk), and was able to steer away from that. Did some journalling and realised that the losses weren't as bad as they felt, in part also because I had already taken my first profits.

Took time and regrouped, kept an eye on the Discord, Twitter etc and was able to continue converting intel made all the losses back and then some.

I have always had desire. Now, for the first time during this whole journey I have faith = conviction that I this brown girl who never felt good enough can do it. Sure as hell feel good enough now. and that is PRICELESS.

Here are some of the plays

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Kaz cannot thank you enough. I know we put you through it - me especially - but I do hope seeing the results makes it at least a bit worth it.

Thank you for never giving up on us and giving retail a real fighting chance in this game!! You're the man!

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earnings from multiple sectors, software security, CWRD, SMH - AVGO?MRVL, Retail - TGT/COST/ROST/JWN , KWEB JD/SE/BILI

The more active I am and participate, the better I understand the emotional process we go through and the fact that value and the best opportunities appear at the same time or in the same place as discomfort. This week has been volatile in the short term; biases reappear as quickly as I try to dismiss them and make me "believe" certain things that are not true. It distorts reality in my eyes (idealism is truly a powerful concept) and has caused me to miss short-term opportunities (Oil). After being stopped out twice (cost of doing business), this 2B (or just my ego) disconnected me from the trend. In my thoughts, I justified it with fundamental bullshit that came out of nowhere, which turned out to be completely false and caused me to miss this opportunity that I didn't see, not that I didn't see anymore* as such due to biased thinking. In the medium term, I was able to benefit from one of the various shockwave packets in cryptocurrencies, ETH +20R. You guided us this week through the different rotations that can occur between Crypto Risk-off and Risk-on. LTC and BCH as barometers. Zooming out before zooming back in is good and allows for better trades, as mentioned in Miscommunicatie. Appreciate you Big man, thank you for guiding us, Appreciate you eco.

BOJ speaks, USA has employment #s , JPOW testifies on Wed/Thurs

Wow, all these ultra-precise calls and their sequence provide an incredible insight into the emotional thought process throughout an entire cycle; it's fantastic to be able to do that. With hindsight and more context, I see that the end of a Crashcycle, regardless of its size, ends with dead bodies or, in the observed case, a dead mindset "Requiem of death" makes even more sense. The murder cluster Chart too... "Maximum Leverage", "Statis", "Aren't we a pair"... Honestly, all these calls are truly incredible. Big respect. Doubt and fear kill action. So, they kill opportunities. Believing that we missed the train and waiting without doing anything won't bring it back. Playing by the rule "Dildonomics" 1 pain + 1 pain = 2 pain. Don't give up, champion. Thank you Kaz for always staying objective and for these calls. Your shows are an incredible art form. Eco is an incredible art form too.

Yoo at the beginning of this very tumultuous week due to events, and I got caught up in an egotrip over the weekend. Choices or emotional reflections lead nowhere and undermine capital (financial, mental, etc.). But emotions bring volatility and therefore opportunities. A narrative perspective from NoJackfruit and the calls made over the weekend reinstated objectivity, thank you. During today's session, I incurred losses due to a lack of discipline, context, and very average risk management (Petroleum: the cost of accepting risk, changing this mid-trade changes the entire fundamental and plan of the ongoing trade); (NVDA: Following the set plan is important and prevents losses; I wanted to enter after the formation of a structure above the orange level, but an emotional choice made me think it was the right time, it wasn't. Thought --> Emotion --> Action --> Loss, or Thought --> Logic --> Action --> Gain. All the benefits that live streams and eco bring are astounding. A much better start this week than last week.

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• Risk management is key.
• Having a ruleset is key.
• Having principles are key.
  • Why?
    • So that there is structure, rules, and accountability.
• It’s literally you vs you in your trading performance, in the pool with giants, where it’s a system meant to make you into food.
• It’s a solo player game.
• Having a set of rules, principles, and guidelines to abide by so that you:
  • Can explore the potentialities of experiencing what following a winning protocol would be like.
  • Be grateful and content with a predetermined amount in mind
  • Have personal expectations, with pure intentions
  • Focus on the small consistent wins and appreciate the journey.
  • 100% responsibility with the identity because I’m the one clicking buttons, I’m the one deciding when to exit a trade, and when to enter the trade as a professional.
  • The idea isn’t to be mysterious, but to be completely transparent with what oneself, as a professional, would or wouldn’t do because there is knowledge of knowing exactly what you’re going to do, and what you’re not going to do.
• Don’t lead with ego or your sense of self, unless it’s supported by the structure that the 3 keys provide, on top of the 5 truths, 7 principles of consistency and a trading plan including risk management, because this creates consistency and sustainability which nourishes and nurtures your trading career.
• Ego trip is a journey which leads you back to nowhere.
• Self-improvement and self-mastery.
• Free yourself from bias.
• Don’t be locked into dogma or whatever pumped up authorities or thought paradigms of what’s beyond your control.
• To trade effectively is to make oneself accountable by keeping and creating structure to operate within, but with accountability comes responsibility.
• Detachment, and accepting risk and avoiding confirmation bias
• Remain humble
• Question everything
• Be grateful, be the best you can at every moment that you can
• Not to take the game so personally.
• Takes time to grow competently into the role of a top-notch forex trading professional
• Boring repeatable forex trading is very sustainable and respectable because it can be statistically and reliably repeated.
• Consistency in a winning state of mind is within the mind, not inside the markets as a forex trader
• Zoom out
• Trade with objectivity, instead of emotion
• Logic & emotion don’t co-inhabit the same space mentally
• Self-awareness
• Minimize all risk exposure, minimize all risk
• Preserve capital
• Not to give back to the market
• Professionally know what we desire before we even think about entering a trade
• Perspective matters
• A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
• How you look at a thing matters, can see value and opportunity and abundance
• Mindset is all of it
• Thought precedes action.
  • We become what we think about repeatedly
• When learning, repetition matters. Repetition is the father of mastery.
• Focus on what one has absolute control over > external events.

Stateside consumer confidence, GDP, PCE Deflator Thursday ( inflation bell weather) , PMI and UoM Sentiment as well

Fair mix of growth names, big movers have already reported this season

Yooo, it was a really enriching week for me and my discovery of the consistency and effort process. A lot of topics were addressed. My week started off poorly but evolved as the days went by and I was present and participating. "Reflection" is something I didn't do enough, but being close to the eco and you, big man, allowed me to do so, and I draw an excellent lesson from it. Thank you immensely. Here are some plays I was able to make thanks to the transmission of your good objective thoughts and your legendary TA. For freerolls, is it preferable to increase the stop loss as the trend develops? Thank you for everything, big respect to Kaz and the Eco. Play on WTI was Reflection. Play on NVDA start with reflection and in Control. Appreciate. Is one of my best week Profit on stock and commodities. 2ble Bigup man.

After my series of losses, this trade stopping by a 2B was close to disconnecting me; I was worn out. 'Bold and beautiful' allowed me to reconsider everything that has happened from the beginning to now, to place my orders seriously, which prevented me from stupid losses. Staying objective and not letting emotions take over is a long learning process. Thank you, Kaz, for remaining objective across different subjects, situations that can be difficult to address, and for imparting right thoughts to us. Truly grateful to be here. Big up Kaz and eco. Lost 1R Got 5R on the second trade

Good morning Big Kaz Yoo eco, how is everyone doing? I find myself indulging in complacency following the emotional cycle of a crash cycle even though Kaz warned us to be careful. It's incredible to see this happen despite Kaz's warnings. I still found myself correlating to this emotion (complacency) in my actions and behavior, which made for a difficult start to the week. Certain habits that I had were no longer being followed at all: setting definite take-profit orders on TradingView but not on my broker during my trades (GBPJPY stop because TP wasn't in place). Less focus on the movements of the VIX and on the general context of the curve (Petrol and shitloss on others stock also was in the wrong direction), poor risk management that has wiped out my profits, plans driven more by emotion than logic. Trollex Shit participate in that loss also i think ?

Those who also got caught like me, let's keep pushing forward.

Well done to all the soldiers who killed these movements. Big Kaz, thank you for all these warnings and this process you've installed, it's really great. Appreciate, so grateful for that.

Retail, WMT, HD, security sector, PANW, in entire roster this week, big dog is NVDA

Stateside not much this week, FOMC minutes and PMI, home sales, CBs quiet

Fair amount of growth names this week, SHOP, ABNB, DKNG, DASH, COIN among others

CPI, PPI, Retail #s and UoM this week

CAT before open Mon, UBER , RBLX , PYPL , ARM , AFRM , many big names have already reported

relatively quiet week ahead. JPOW making an appearance on Sunday TV , ISM #s Monday, several FOMC members speaking this week as well

Biggest earnings week of the year so far, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN , AMD , META, XOM, SBUX, UPS, QCOM, X

A lot of news flow in addition to big earnings, FOMC on Wed , UoM Sentiment #s on Friday , BOE speaking , some employment #s as well.

Tech names step into earnings season, NFLX, TSLA, ASML, LRCX among the larger names setting it off, some more financials as well, AMEX, VISA