Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Student of Manas Arora and Oliver Kell. Share my Learning with videos, charts and words........... No buy and sell.. My journal
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You're Not Behind In Life Because of Today's Market - You're Just Competing With Yourself.
If you're trying to transition into trading from a demanding career, here is a hard truth: you are going to feel behind in life, especially in this market situation. You look at friends and family on normal, predictable paths compounding steady promotions, titles, and linear progress, while you sit in front of screens fighting your own psychology and enduring drawdowns. Naturally, it feels like they are sprinting while you're stuck.
That comparison, however, is a complete trap. You aren't competing with them, and you never were; trading isn't a race against your peers. Behind the charts, numbers, and technical frameworks lies a deeply personal psychological trial where your real job isn't predicting candles — it's aligning your mindset, emotional triggers, and thought processes with the market's inherent nature of absolute uncertainty. When you constantly look sideways at what everyone else is doing, you get out of your own lane, start chasing setups that aren't yours, force trades, and ultimately lose touch with your process.
Breaking this loop requires intentional redirection. You must slow down and ground yourself in your own execution, knowing that when you stop rushing to keep up, your mental clutter clears and actual chart opportunities become visible. Release the pressure to explain your timeline or seek external validation from family or strangers, because true proficiency in markets takes the time it takes.
Finally, don't suffer in isolation; find a community or mentors who understand the raw realities of the craft makes all the difference on a journey that is undeniably difficult, but doesn't have to be lonely.
Trust your own timing.
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5/15/30min ORBs, 6/20s, 15/30min pivots + VWAP reclaims off major daily/weekly pivots... that’s basically my entire entry playbook.
Backtest each, figure out which ones actually fit your personality & beat them to death. You don’t need 10+ entry models. Keep it stupid simple.
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🚨 #JSWINFRA — Order Win
LOI for ICD in Karnataka to be operational in one year.
#OrderWin #StockMarket
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You can understand the difficulty of the market we are in when we celebrate one day of strong moves in stocks... and when we change our long or short stance faster than our socks.
Preserve your mental and money capital, everyone
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She screwed liquidity in the market by introducing ASM/ESM stage 1 and 2
This guy is helping operators manipulate F&O through senseless CASino
Both are equally bad and brainless
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Your progression has a pathway of first recognizing what a strong stock looks like, to eventually understanding when both the stock and the environment are aligned for asymmetrical reward to be actionable.
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The "PEAD" or "earnings surprise" investors who are selling stocks based QoQ declines or price action post earnings, will be learning some expensive lessons. So many examples in the last one month.
Buying an earnings surprise and selling one are completely different playbooks.
This difference only increases during a choppy market environment like this one.
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The primary reasons for this are:
1. Most stocks with good results have rallied into the result over the last 3 months and hence need some breathing space to make the next leap.
2. Overall markets after a stupendous rally in last 3 months and has entered a chop/consolidation zone. The environment always impacts the result reaction.
3. Many retail investors misunderstand or half understand what an earnings surprise is and jump on anything that has high topline or bottom line growth without understanding the context. They are being killed.
All of this is very normal. In most cases one will see that if the results are genuinely good and overall markets stay stable - before next quarterly results such stocks will do what they need to do.
Most importantly, this is not a hit and run market. One needs to play according to the pitch.
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Sometimes, it takes 10 years to reach that 1 year that will change your life.
This game in the market requires grit.
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#PLASTIBLEN rallied 7.12% yesterday ahead of earnings.
The company then reported strong results after market, followed by a 5.73% gap up today.
Coincidence?
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The best long traders don’t trade bearish and choppy markets. They go for a vacation.
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The one deep dive that keeps paying dividends every earnings season.
𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙
𝙈𝙮 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝘿𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙊𝙣 𝙋𝙀𝘼𝘿/𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙞𝙫𝙤𝙩 2018 𝙏𝙤 2024
𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵 (𝘗𝘌𝘈𝘋) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘢𝘺 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 1968 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 1989.
PEAD is a well-documented stock market anomaly where a company’s stock price continues to drift in the direction of an earnings surprise for days, weeks, or even months following its earnings announcement.
It's a well-documented anomaly in global markets but rarely studied deeply in India.
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Proficient trading with longevity doesn't require changing your behavior. It may only require redirecting it.
1. Replace the urge to execute with the urge to cut losses (early).
2. Replace the reluctance to cut losses with the reluctance to execute.
The behavior stays the same, but the direction change. And it may produces the biggest improvement to your long term trading performance.
In this market period, trading can be particularly difficult as it requires exercising restraint instead of constantly taking action.
I always carry a small notebook to jot down insightful quotes or ideas from books or tweets that can benefit my trading and thought processes. This notebook has become a sort of diary and reference material to track when specific influences occurred during the market's timeline.
One quote that I came across and would like to share is: "It is natural for humans to want to play every hand. The desire to always be in the game is one of the speculator's greatest enemies in managing his money." This quote is especially relevant given the current market headwinds and challenges.
Let us truly contemplate and internalize the following quote: "Often, money that is just sitting can later be moved into the right situation at the right time."
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Qullamaggie on Hard Periods in Swing Trading
“But yeah, these periods happen a couple of times per year, so it’s just part of the game. You just have to man up and stay patient — that’s the only way. Because I know that the good times are gonna be back. I know that there’s gonna be a period of a few weeks or a few months where I’m gonna make at least a million dollars. I don’t know if it’s gonna be this year, but it’s definitely going to be somewhere next year, and I just have to wait for that time.”