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Magic City, Atlanta’s famous strip club, is throwing a “From the Polls to the Poles” election night watch party:
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TY JEROME EXPLODES FOR 40 AGAIN.
Despite the Grizzlies' first loss of the season, @tyjerome_ drops his second 40-piece of the season (and of his career) in an OT thriller against the Pelicans.
40 PTS | 5 REB | 5 AST | 5 3PM
This is nasty trade safe 💯
Prop firms changed their rules 324 times in October.
That’s more than 10 a day.
Some are small. Some are easy to miss. A few change how you get paid.
Every single one of them is logged, with before and after 👇
capitalcritic.com/updates
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3 YEARS AGO, I EXPOSED THE FOREX FIRMS FOR SCAMMING $310 MILLION
After a grueling 2-week investigation, I found these perp prop firms, @MyFundedPerps & @VestExchange, running the same scam.
Deploying the exact same attack on their traders 👇
1️⃣ THE RIGGING OF THE GAME
‣ Execution Delays: Artificially lagging your execution speeds to ruin your entries.
‣ Induced Slippage: Forcing negative slippage so you buy higher and sell lower.
‣ Software Manipulation: Real time platform parameter manipulation to target successful accounts
‣ Pure B-Book Loop: Fading their own users. You go long; they take the short.
‣ Spread Widening: Artificially ballooning the spread to guarantee losses on setups.
‣ Hidden Commission Hikes: Aggressively changing commission rates per lot without warning to eat your margins.
‣ Misalighed price quotes: The platform shows BTC at $79,100, but it's actually at $79,190, and you enter at unfavorable price.
2️⃣ HOW I EXPOSED FOREX 3 YEARS AGO
In late 2023 I exposed FX on my YouTube Channel Verified Trader Funding (VTF). It sparked an existential FX crisis.
I pulled back the curtain. Letting the cat out of the bag: breaking down active court filings unknown to the public. It proves they were scamming. It turned out all Forex prop firms were using fake B-Book demo networks instead of real market liquidity, along with using every shady trick in the book to bleed traders dry. Just like these perps' platforms
The exposure triggered a domino effect. Capital fled unregulated offshore Forex CFDs for transparent, regulated on-exchange futures.
But the scammers didn't disappear—they just moved to crypto.
For example, prop firm founder and CEO @MattLeech has a long track record of FX scamming.
He closed two Forex prop firms years ago, walking away with trader profits. After I exposed the industry, he pivoted from My Funded FX to @MyFundedFutures and now @MyFundedPerps, using what I believe to be the same methods to replicate his original scam.
But the reason these perps have gotten popular despite their poor reviews on @Trustpilot and ranting on @X is a marketing ploy, so it's imperative to expose how predatory prop firms gained popularity.
2️⃣ THE SMOKE & MIRRORS MARKETING 🎭
The "Infinity Account" Stone: Gifting influencers unlimited, non-payout marketing accounts. @lanto_trades was just exposed for blowing up 800 accounts while faking payouts.
The Influencer Deal: Offering creators 40% commissions, 10 free real evaluations, and burner accounts just to pump their platform.
Bought Rankings: Paying review sites like @PropFirmMatch $50k to $100k for "partnerships" to falsify rankings and hide the truth.
Paid Live Streamers: Handing real traders $3k to $20k plus free accounts to stream their platform and trick their audience into trusting it.
4️⃣ THE BAIT-AND-SWITCH
The predatory model was popularized by @TradingLucid, which took the market by storm through influencers and bought rankings.
With a 75% influencer adoption rate, the lie of Lucid proliferated until a 99% coverage rate. Paying all YouTube traders and getting them on the payroll
It falls on ranking sites, traders, and affiliates, but those who got paid to lie to their following for profit are most at fault. (ILLEGAL A.F. "FYI")
They effectively weaponized misinformation, paying review sites and influencers to validate a system built on:
‣ Strict payout caps
‣ Profits held hostage during "live" migration
‣ Never-ending daily loss limits
CLOSING
I ruined their playbooks once, and I will do it again. But I can't protect retail alone. The scammers rely on your silence to fund their luxury lifestyles with your blown accounts. If you trade, or know someone who does, hit retweet. Force this onto every timeline. Let's make them unmarketable. 👇
ALT Three years ago (in late 2023), the retail Forex proprietary trading industry faced an existential crisis when regulatory crackdowns and deep-dive industry trackers, such as Verified Trader Funding (VTF), exposed that most major forex prop firms were running completely simulated demo networks rather than providing real market liquidity. The exposure pulled back the curtain on how these firms actually operated behind the scenes, triggering a domino effect that altered retail trading. 1. The Core Exposure: The Simulated Loop (B-Book) Before the 2023 collapse, firms marketed themselves as investment entities looking to fund talent with actual corporate capital. The VTF exposures and subsequent court filings unmasked a different reality: YouTube . FxScouts +1
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“I would not trade Cooper Flagg for Luka… Cooper Flagg, I believe right now is a top 10 player.”👀
- Tim MacMahon
(h/t @TheNBABase )
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Down on the day after a valid loss, and suddenly the next setup looks better than it is.
Your size rules feel conservative. Your planned stop feels too tight. That isn't conviction. It's a fight response.
You need to make it back and prove something.
Your nervous system has three main threat responses.
Flight shows up as hesitation. You close the platform.
Freeze shows up as passivity. You follow alerts blindly.
Overcompensation is fight. Attack the threat by going bigger and harder.
The problem is that the threat is a number on a screen, and aggression makes it worse.
The sequence is predictable.
A loss, or a drawdown that's been building.
A state shift.
Urgency: I need to fix this now.
An older pattern underneath, usually about failure or not trusting your judgment.
Urgency overrides your values.
Then the behavior. Revenge trade, size violation, stop removed, forced entry.
Markets reward patience under threat, while your nervous system pushes for action. Left alone, the nervous system wins.
You pay twice for every one of these.
First in money.
Then in identity. You prove to yourself, again, that you fold under pressure. That cumulative damage is the tilt tax.
What makes it slippery is that it feels productive, like taking control.
Teddy Roosevelt said do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Some structure that helps:
After any loss, a mandatory pause before the next trade. Five minutes minimum, fifteen is better. Loss occurs, timer starts, no exceptions.
When urgency builds, get physical. Stand up. Walk to another room. Cold water on your face. Sixty seconds of slow breathing.
Write identity commitments, like "I honor my stops" and "I trade my plan."
When the urge arrives, name it: this is my nervous system in fight mode. Then watch it peak and pass, like weather.
Most traders have two or three trigger scenarios behind most of their overcompensation. Find yours.
Solid month considering I had 2 days of oversized drawdown I had to fight my way back from 🧱by🧱 @DarwinexZero
