your real trading problem isn't the one you've been fixing...

As I'd like to say, doing to and you're mentally ill when it comes to trading, you are profitable. Right, literally I'm going to do a 1,000%. Do you look at it and you go, yeah, I mean no one's making 36,000% a year. No one is. Good morning, team. What's going on everybody? Good morning, good morning and welcome to the MentFX Private Mentorship. What's up, guys? This is webinar 255. And it's an absolute pleasure to see a number of familiar faces, you guys here today. What's going on everyone? Hope you're doing well. Let me get this stuff open real quick here. Yeah, looking good. Here we are. How's you guys' weeks going? How was your overall trading weeks? Trading in general. Learning, whatever it is that you're currently doing. See, where's this thing? There it is. Good. What's up, guys? What's up, Bees? Good FX Arma, Judge, Kimon. Max, Cassian, Pip, Dom. What's up, guys? Armands, Alex. Good to see you again, Alex. Alex, I know we spoke um quite a bit last week about your particular situation, which I think, you know, as we all know applies to a lot of people um in terms of system and current, let's say, wins and losses in comparison to what you're actually doing live. You know, how has how's your last week looked? Have you looked a little bit deeper into your own you know, into your own curve and seen that? And also, did anybody else that uh that was here or saw some of the prior webinars also go back over your own testing, especially if you're finding yourself a little bit confused or a little bit uncertain. Now, did you

guys go back over and see where did you might have been going wrong or where missing certain rules, right? — [snorts] — Um — [clears throat] — I had someone bring something up about this actually recently in this last week. So, I'm going to start by just talking a little bit about it today. But, it's a very important kind of minor thing to understand regardless of who you are and where you are, right? The way that I kind of think about this is that if you are profitable, right? If you're fully profitable, so you know, you can think to last week where we spoke a little bit about kind of the transition from learning from starting to see things work to being profitable and executing to actually allowing yourself to live through all of that, right? When I'm talking about profitable now, I'm talking about literally there there's a difference between being um there's difference between moving into pure profitability where you can just execute, make money, and everything makes sense. So, this is kind of phase this is your this is one of the areas within which you can be. And the other area within which a lot of people find

themselves, and this is after a lot of work, right? Is some form of confusion or uncertainty as we can call it, right? And a lot of the time, as I as I've kind of demonstrated, these things right here do not come from a lack of psychology or lack of proper reasoning, right? logic necessarily, right? Often times the confusion and certainty doesn't come because you are missing something or you have to go back over something and really understand it psychologically, you know, and fix your psychology cuz you know, a lot of the space around, you know, I would say about 80% of the space online is going to be teaching you some formula for this to fix, let's say, the issues that appear. And you think that those issues

are deep rooted from things like this, but a lot of the time, as we spoke about last week, which is one of our was one of our main focuses, a lot of the time issues just simply come from basically as I like to say, doing too much. Right, this is often times what most of um unprofitability or uncertainty or confusion or extreme fear, anxiety, whatever you want to call it comes from in trading. A lot of the time it's literally just because someone's doing too much. Think back to your original days of starting as a trader for those of you that have been here a while or think back to literally recently for yourself if you've just kind of started and you're still kind of going through uncharted territory. Right? If you think back to it a lot of the time the you know, you might have those good spouts of like everything's going really well, everything's making sense and eventually it all comes crashing down and nothing makes sense. Right? But a lot of the time it comes down to this. So really think about what doing too much actually means. Right? As a as an extreme beginner, doing too much is simple in terms of you've learned a concept and you can make this concept anything, you know, I learned how trend lines work. I learned how breaks and retest work. I've learned how to find random zones in random areas and trade off of them. I've learned to wait for prices to take out a high and then trade them. I've learned to look for a specific special time during the day at 9:30 a. m. or 8:30 a. m. or whatever other thing and I'm trading it. Right? So you can think back to when you were beginner where you just have a concept and these things are all examples of concepts, right? And with just a concept as I did as well when I first started trading and I was doing like binary options and basically I was just losing money. Right? What you do is you take that concept and you start to apply it. And the problem with applying a concept randomly is that no matter what market you look at, whether it's Euro USD that's chopping as we've seen recently for a long time or UJ that might have been good for a little bit and then went to chop or it's JNJ on a weekly where it was doing this for the longest time ever or it's Bitcoin where it's currently doing absolutely nothing because it's going back and forth or it's Nasdaq where Nasdaq is really clean. The problem is that if I take a concept now and I throw that concept inside of here, inside of here, and inside of here, the same thing is going to happen. I'm going to get lucky in some scenarios, maybe pass an account, maybe start making some money. I'm going to get unlucky in others, start losing some money, lose some money. Maybe I'll do some emotional [ __ ] and it'll actually lose a lot more money, but it doesn't really matter. Or I'll just keep doing the same thing consistently over and over again, and because I'm finding myself in choppier markets or choppier environments, all that happens is my curve ends up stabilizing at around break even, no matter what, or negative. Right? Because the reality is that the way that I want you to think about trading is that if you're applying rules, right? and you're just simply applying them inside of markets that environmentally or story-wise don't make much sense, all that's going to happen is you're going to have one or two or three good trades, and the rest are all going to go towards the depletion of your account. Right? Applying rules in poor areas usually leads to depletion of your account. That's what most of trading comes down to. And again, this falls right into this kind of area right here, which is the notion of doing too much. Even as a beginner, the initial thing that we do as traders, as beginners, is what concepts can I learn? How can I get them down as fast as possible? And how can I apply them to the market as quickly as I can? You know, it doesn't matter what it is. Whatever concept it is, I learned accumulation and bees, I learned about momentum cycles, blah blah. How can I find it right now? on the asset I'm looking at? How low of a time frame can I look at to make sure that the concept is there? And then can I execute because I really want to make some money from trading. Right? And it comes right back down to this because just like as a beginner would, you are basically doing too much. You are entering too many things at too many times across too many markets, and you have no idea what's actually considered good. This is your simple example of looking at something like Nasdaq recently because I used this example in my most recent video, webinar, um as well as with a lot of you guys, which is simply that if you do not have the capability to distinguish that this green area from here to here and here, which you can see are generally the same amount of space. So, if I go like um like this, right? These are generally the same amount of space. If I circle them both, they're generally same amount of space. If you don't have, let's say, the know-how or you haven't started doing the work that allows you to reduce the amount of things you're doing. So, if you're doing too much, but you're not doing the thing that leads you to doing less, then all that's going to happen is that when you trade these areas, you're going to feel like you're doing something wrong. You're permanently wrong. You're losing accounts. Nothing makes sense. Confusion is imminent and everything's breaking apart. And if you're then applying it during this time and you're just taking good trades, it's going to feel like the world is amazing. The world is your oyster. You're going to make a [ __ ] ton of money and you're doing amazing. And the problem is that as a beginner, if you get involved in the market and you start inside of a market condition like this, you think that the market is an easy thing to solve and you can make money for the rest of your life. And if you're a beginner and you start right here, which a lot of people do as well, and you start losing and losing, you start believing that trading is not capable. It's not possible. It requires you to fix your psychology. You need to start focusing more on psychology or you need to change systems altogether. So, regardless of where you

start, the main thing to realize is that you're going to have different negative show up depending on where you start, right? So, think back to COVID. Think back to when we had Bitcoin going on a crazy run. A lot of people started trading inside of this. What did we know about those conditions? During the conditions of COVID, a little bit after, especially on Bitcoin, you basically had, and you guys probably remember this, maybe some of you can talk to it, you had one of the craziest markets of all time, right? Everything that you looked at, literally it was like magic fairy dust got sprinkled on it. You guys know Peter Pan? When he sprinkles like the fairy dust on Wendy and she starts flying? It was basically that. You open a market, the fairy dust gets sprinkled, and the market [ __ ] shoots up over the next few months, right? You open another market, you open up Bitcoin, sprinkled fairy dust, the market shoots up. And the reality is, when that's happening, it's not hard to make money, guys, right? It's like one of the easiest things ever. Yes, okay, there's fairy dust on it. You're going to fly, no matter what, and money's going to be made. That's amazing. But the problem is all the other times that say, "Do you understand

why this kind of area led to you making money? " So, really, the question then comes down to something like this, where if you come to me and you're like, "Anton, I've been trading for a month now. I've been doing exceptionally well. I don't know why, but during the last month, I've done really, really well, but over the last 3 months, for some reason, my curve is still break even, and I'm actually down. " Well, now we have a way to look at that, right? Now, I know excuse here, I'll go to this. Right. Now, we have a way to look at that. Let me delete all this. Here we are. Now, we have a way to look at that, because if I look at the last 30 days, I can tell you that I understand why you might have made a good amount of money. And if I look at the last 90 days, right? I would be able to say something on the lines of, "Well, if you traded here, then you're going to be down overall, or break even overall, because this made you money and this lost you a [ __ ] ton of money. But if you just traded here and then trade here, then you've probably done a lot of waiting, right? So, think back to this. You're no longer doing too much. You've actually realized that you have to do very little, especially during times like this, and then you make an unbelievable amount of money in areas like this. Right? So, a lot of trading really comes down to confusion and uncertainty coming from doing too much. That's why over the last few weeks, a big focus has been on showing you guys, even through a lot of the people that have been here for a while, showing you guys that a lot of confusion and uncertainty is not coming from like these random things that we attribute our problems to, psychology, you know, um I'm doing something wrong, I have FOMO, blah blah. It's really attributable to doing too much. And that comes from, in some cases, a lack of seeing what the rules are. Right? So, the way I think about this is that if you're profitable, by all means, go and trade the multiple systems or the multiple kind of um entries that you're willing to take. This is completely fine because, yes, you know that it makes you money. As long as you wait for the good opportunities, you're going to make money over time. But if you're inside, even partially, this confusion or uncertainty stage, which a lot of you are going to be in, right? I want you to realize that like most of us are meant to be here. The reality is that your focus should be on doing even less. And by doing less, I don't mean try to work less. I mean, you have to do so much work that you have to determine so specifically what an entry actually looks like for you or what a context looks like for you, that by the time you're looking for entries, you're almost doing nothing. Right? So, this is it's a really weird thing to experience because as traders, we want to believe that we're going to get on, we're going to take trades, the trades are going to lead to compounding right now, and we're going to make money over time like quickly enough that we can start to pay for the rest of our lives, our family, retire, easy compounding, and we've made money. Even though that is not what trading looks like or what trading works like, right? It's it's a it's a complete goal and it's an end goal and it it's guaranteed that it can happen for you, no [ __ ] Um because, you know, if you follow the steps that you're going to be able to compound your money, it's the as we all know, it's the seventh wonder of the world, right? It's compounding. But for it to become a wonder, you have to actually have

something that's worth compounding. Right? So, a lot of the time when I see someone that is in the state of confusion or uncertainty, the first thing I think is are your rules actually consistent across the trades you're taking? So, what I did is I most recently made a video on my YouTube. I'm sure you guys saw this one, right? Um it was actually very recent, so I do suggest that after this at least you go back and you check it out, okay? You check this out. It's this one right here. Um where 90% of traders are. And in this video I actually looked and dealt with one of our very own members, right? Because he I think he's newer, but he sent something Yeah, he sent his curve. Um it was my man right here. Let me see if I can find him. Yeah, here it is. So this is his curve. And you guys can see like his curve isn't looking the Well, what was this inside of? Equity curves. Yeah, I remember this. So I went and I did a video because I saw him kind of post some stuff here about his thing. Um and he basically it was from my man Offense here right here. A lot of sheets, but I mainly just looked at this one. And he basically said, "Hey, I've been testing for a few months. Um I can't find a way out of this losing streak. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Look at my things. What do you think? " Right? So again, when I read this, the first thing I think is that this is someone that believes Oh, Offense here actually Wait, this is so cool. I can see that you're in here. That's awesome. I hope you enjoyed the video. But when I see this, right? The first thing I think is that his brain is telling him that he's doing something wrong psychologically. He needs to, you know, say he's doing something wrong like in his mind or whatever. He has to be better every day. But the reality is when I open this up, right? And I went through even a few of his trades, we defined a few rules for the winners that we looked at. And then when you looked at a like even five or six trades throughout this entire video, um from what I remember, right? I just opened up some of his trades. Uh where was it? So this was me. Yeah, so after looking at a few of his trades, it was absurd how different even just the context was across some of his winners to his losses, right? So like I remember looking at this. This was one of his losses right here. This ended up being a loss. This is his context time frame, right? And then one of his greatest winners on his chart on his thing was from this context. Anyone that's seen the video, I'm sure you've already understood this, but does anyone see any differences between this context time frame right here and here? Just from a standpoint of looking between the two images visually right then and there. What's up Evgeny, good to see you, man. I'm glad you're here. Right, and what do you notice in terms of difference? Because again, this is not a psychological issue, right? I hope everyone understands this. Like one of my main goals over the last 3 weeks, 4 weeks right now has been to highlight that a lot of the time your mistakes are not psychological. I need you guys to understand this because you know, the reality is if you think that there's something actually wrong with your brain and you're mentally ill when it comes to trading, then really the only way to fix that isn't to watch videos online about psychology, it's to go to a mental ward, right? Get your pills if you need to and learn to stop being crazy in the head. It's like that's not the problem with most traders. You guys have to realize that, right? It's not like some mental blockage stopping you from being the best self, blah blah. A lot of

the time it's the inability or let's say let's just call it this. It's the mental blockage that comes with the fact that you don't want to do less. A part of you wants to do more because you know that doing more means that you add more data to your curve right now, which means if you do more, you have the chance of growing your equity curve even faster. How many have kind of felt this way? And I assume it's most people because even I felt this way before. Um but this is one of the biggest things that get in the way, which is I've chosen to trade, I want to trade, and I'm serious about trading, but I need trades. And I need my equity curve to grow because my equity curve doesn't grow, right? That means that I'm not trading. So I need to make that happen and quickly, which means what? I need as many trades as possible. And for some people that's I'm just going to slap on any rules and just start trading a market like this or a market like this, even though they look nothing similar. Right? For some people, it's I'm going to go to a 1-minute entry or a 30-second entry and get as many trades as I can because they're going to compound even faster. Right? So, almost all our actions a lot of the time go into let me add to my equity curve quicker and quicker. Let me add opportunity after opportunity because that means that I'm growing the equity curve. That means I'm growing my database. But, what happens? You nest yourself — [snorts] — like a little bird. You nest yourself in a tree inside of the bucket of confusion and uncertainty. Why? Because all you've done is you started doing too much. Right? You started to look at multiple rules, multiple contexts, multiple markets at multiple times looking for the trades because you want to add to your trading collection rather than doing the thing that's profitable.

One thing that I've spoken about with a lot of traders, and this is really interesting because it's it's an eye-opener for many people. Right? I can't um I can't even begin to explain how many calls I've had along the lines of this, you know? Here we go. I've been learning to trade, you know, on and off between courses, whatever you want to call it. Courses for over 5 years now. Right? Like I've had I can't even tell you guys how many calls like this I've had. Probably over 100 plus, maybe even like 2 to 300 plus. Right? So, hey, Anton. I've been learning to trade on off between courses for over 5 years now. Um I've joined I've joined, gone through I've gone through material, and I thought I was ready, but something just doesn't keep working with my curve. Right? Look. And then a lot of the time it'll be a curve. Right? And it might be a curve along the lines of what we saw here. It might be a different kind of curve. Right? Um it might be a curve that just has like a natural slope that's almost declining permanently. It might be a curve like this for my mana fancy, right? And a lot of the time it always starts with the same things, right? And then it, you know, for Manton, it's always let's compare your trades, right? So

let's compare what you're actually doing. And two, uh because I have had to do this for a lot of people, like honestly, I don't even start at the let's compare your trades. I start at a different point and I say, "If you went to a weekly or monthly chart. " And this actually goes for a lot of you guys. Weekly or monthly chart. And you waited for a one-sided, oops, for a one-sided market. Then you waited for a stage one. clear accumulation MB, so clean demand validation out. So, like an accumulation MB in the form of like, you know, one of the one of a bit like a big candle, like this one right here, right? And you bought — the underlying market and held, would you make money? And this actually goes to a lot of people here right now, right? Like right now, if you took everything you know about the material, so let's say you've gone through the course, um you've understood the course, you've decided at this point that, okay, I'm not going to go to these 1-minute, 30-second time frames, 5-second time frames. I'm not going to do a bunch of stuff on the hourly, whatever it is. I'm going to simply start here. Do you think, even right now at your current level, so this goes to a lot of you guys right now. Do you think at your current level that you could have a profitable system with this? That's the main place that we want to start that I want to start with everyone here, because this is important. Um cuz it showcases a huge downfall in the space, while also almost giving you like the green light that says, "Oh, what the fuck? " So, Alicia actually says no. That's interesting. That's actually interesting. Um — [snorts] — Alfie says yes. That's interesting. I'll wait for a few more to come in. But again, this is all I'm starting at is I'm saying if you go to a weekly or monthly chart, you waited for a one-sided market, waited for a first stage one, waited for a clean accumulation MB like a candle, and you bought the market and held. Uh and then we can have you know like you can have actual rules around like holding um you know until a distribution MB um to to close or something, right? Um something like that. Would you make money? Basically. Sorry, I didn't have like another like we can have the rules for closing as well cuz that's part of the portal. But like I said, you've gone through the portal, and if I asked you this and you started to do this, do you think you could make money? Big Lee says yes, Pippo says yes, Olson says yes, Kamon says yes. Um So yeah, I'm I So Alicia, here I'm going to have to slightly disagree with you, but I actually think the answer is yes, right? And there's a reason for that. Right? Because all of a sudden, if you're on an extremely higher time frame, you're waiting for a very specific thing, and then you simply execute, you're going to make money for the most part. You're just going to make money, but it's going to take a lot of time, right? That's the only difference. There's a reason that most people won't do or follow a system like this because it takes too much time for them. In their mind it's like, "Oh, it's not worth it cuz I'm not going to make money instantly. " Right? Because again, remember, we're going back to the starting point, which is a lot of the time people don't make money because they are doing too much. The version of doing very little would be something like this, right? To the point that literally like if I opened up the screener right now and I I don't know how to in the best way that we can Actually, maybe we can just do it this way, it's fine. Let's open up the chart. Let this load for a sec. — [snorts] — Okay, and let's go to a like a monthly chart. And all I'm going to do is well, I mean, a lot of these are going to be delivering, right? But all I want to do is I want to find a market that's on one side and then accumulate it, right? So, no. I mean, maybe this one recently, right? You've had So, like look at AMD. This would be like a decent example because this has been recent and I've actually been watching it. But let's go to a monthly chart, right? You have a market that's already delivering or has been delivering, right? You have like this kind of proof of delivery. Let's go back here because I think this is where it's kind of fine to look at, right? You have a market that's been delivering on one side of the market very clearly, very clearly in accumulation. For this to become a distribution, price would have to pause, go through a stage one, let this 50 maybe even go sideways, and then distribute out, right? So, right now all we can assume is that reaccumulation is happening. And if reaccumulation happens through a stage one, this will be a one-sided market, large stage one. If we get a big candle, we can be buyers, right? That's it. That's all I'm waiting for. So, if I wait for that on a monthly, and this is all your system is, which is wait for big moves, make sure they're clear, and then wait for stage ones to then start delivering stage twos, and you wait it, and you wait it cuz you have nothing to do until price makes your accumulation MB, right? None of this would be an accumulation MB because we'd need what? We need to move out of this area, right? None of this would still count. We would still be waiting for a stage one to be built. And now, all of a sudden like a stage one Oops. a stage one gets built. Let's see if this candle closes bullish. Right, there is no question that this is now an accumulation MB and a demand validation and a continuation and a reaccumulation and demand validation out of the supply with a one-sided market. There's no question that at this point from a label perspective, right? That you don't have a accumulation MB or a reaccumulation MB. So, based on the rules that I just discussed in the simplest forms, you become a buyer, you throw your stop, you make a big stop and you simply wait until distribution, right? And you wait till the stream let's just go like this, right? Nothing, nothing, nothing. That's still not distribution, right? This is breaking down but it's not distribution. Nothing, nothing, nothing. You're still holding. That's it. That you're still in this. And what are you waiting for? You're waiting for price to start going sideways, palm down, start going sideways, let the 50 catch up and if it distributes, you can sell your position. Otherwise, you can hold and manage your position for as long as this wants to maintain. The reality is if all of you went and started trade like even with like um even like currently with meant funding that has like the 100 stocks. If you literally went and traded a monthly system like this, I think your odds of profitability or being profitable jump by like a billion percent. Right? Because it becomes very clear what you're waiting for. You have to wait a long time for it. And then because of how you're dealing with risk in terms of stop sizing and just letting things deliver, you're over time going to overall make money. Right? Does everyone understand this? So, a system like this is almost always going to function and work out for you. And then of course if you don't get this one then at this point right there, you could even consider a re-entry or you could even waited longer to re-enter, right? For an for another accumulation. Um so, Alicia, do you see how even like even if your system was as simple as uh where is it? Where did I write out those rules? Yeah. If you went to a weekly or monthly and you waited for a one-sided market, then you waited for stage one. You waited for a clean accumulation MB. You entered it with a large stop. You didn't have to try to refine anything. Perfect little entry, perfect stop loss, you know, crazy [ __ ] And you bought the market and you held until a distribution MB or until like one to three and then you sell a 50% whatever it is, right? The answer is yes. And a lot of you would actually be already profitable doing that. But, what's the problem? It takes longer than what it and makes you less money than what you probably want in your head. Well, it comes back to this right here, which is that a lot of the time we are doing too much because we want more money in the moment. We want to add to our data sheets. collection. We want to make sure that we're making money so we can, you know, quit our jobs. We can do this full-time. Blah, blah, blah. When in reality, a lot of us are already profitable in some regard. Right? A lot of you could take any money that you have saved right now. So, saved capital, right? Given that you've actually done Again, no financial advice. But, given that you've done the practice and you've even come to practice a system like this, if this system has proven anything to you, then you can go and put your money to work. You don't have to worry about necessarily huge drawdowns because you at least have risk. You have a way to prevent um full losses in the event of breakdowns and distributions, and you can allow things to deliver.

Right? Um Let me see if I can find another example. Like Here we go. I own Qs a great example right now. Look at this. If I was someone that had money saved, and I'm just waiting simply to put my money to work, but I'm not trading, let's say, this insane lower time frame system where I have to be on a 30-second because I need to add things to my equity curve so I can make as much money as possible right now. Well, this is what I'm doing. We have a one-sided market that began delivering accumulation. It's starting to break down. This is likely a distribution to become a reaccumulation if we're on the monthly. So, what do I need to happen? If price can now find itself going sideways for a bit to build this kind of stage one, and then it can make a clear candle out. Excuse me, I had a little sneeze. Then, there's no reason I can't be a buyer, protect the low, and hold this until distribution. Right, that's it. Now, the problem, though, is what? For this setup to happen, how long do I have to actually wait? If you guys can look at it and just decide, right? What do you guys see? If I waited for the stage one to kind of properly play out, if I waited for proper accumulation to happen out of a stage one, and I really need the stage one to keep playing out because there is no real stage one here yet. How long will that take? Just this amount of space is 514 days. So, about 2 to 3 years, right? 2 to 3 years. Like if you think about that, 1 to 3, 1 to 2, 2 to 3 years for this to become a valid setup within which I can just plant my money for this given risk and let it potentially deliver for the next few years. Right? Well, it comes down to the same problem. People don't want to do that because it takes too long. When in reality, it's coming back down to this. They could make money, but they want to do more. And a lot of the time when you do too much or when you do more, you end up creating these um areas of confusion and uncertainty. Right? Does everyone understand that? So, a lot of the time, especially like based on wherever you guys are right now, if you have felt like you're at this confusion and uncertainty stage, I'm not asking you to go and like build out a system that's going to take you like 3 years to get a trade, right? That's not what I'm sitting here and trying to get you guys to do. do is realize um and I see actually we have a few people that have either joined back or are new here. Um what I'm trying to get you to realize is that you are profitable, right? Literally, you have a profitable system available to you. You have a way to make money right now, technically. Not right now like oh, I put in $1,000 and make 10K. No, not at all. But, you have a way to make money. And simply, the question is at what hybrid point can you get to where you're not fully uncertain in everything that you're doing and can start executing, right? Because again, when you do less, confusion and uncertainty get destroyed. They get eroded. Right? Because you only have one thing to do. This is this example of if you're profitable, do whatever. If you're confused or uncertain, you have to reduce the things that you're doing. Otherwise, like we saw here, you have someone that's in their forward test, they're in their live trading, and as they're completely confused. They're, you know, "I don't know what I'm doing wrong. " This is my man fancy, right? He said, "I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can you please help me find it? Like, what am I actually doing wrong? " And there's a lot of you that have equity curves that look similar, but are even bigger in terms of losses or some wins here and there. And the reality is if you go in and just take a look at it, a lot of the time it's just you have been doing too much. You've been trading too many different sets of rules that, you know, there's no context that looks the same as another. Like, this is one context he traded. Here's another. Right, this in itself, you should be able to see it, is unbelievable difference. And the beautiful thing is that you already have the tools that help you decide what that difference is, right? What are the rules that lead to the differences here? Well, one is how are prices interacting with the averages? How do the averages look here? How do they the stage ones and twos interact with the averages? What do they look like between the both? How does the stage two look before the stage one? Look at this stage two. one. one that he's willing to trade. This is the stage one he's now trading. Does anyone see a difference between this being a stage one that he's willing to trade and this stage one he was willing to trade? Does anyone see the difference between this and this just with the tools that are accessible and available to you? Because we already have the tools that give us the map, right? As I spoke about last week or 2 weeks ago, the map of what's actually happening on the market. There's a huge difference, right? The difference is absurd. Right, if you showed me this market right now, I would say it has nothing to do with what we saw here. Right? Nothing. And if you ask me what market does have something to do with it, well, you know, I could go down the list. I could say something like this. Here you go. Something like this looks more like what we saw here, right? And this could be a tradeable market, and guess what? It's a market that begins to deliver. Right? Something like None of these, actually. Something like this looks like a market that's more tradeable compared to what we saw here, right? Not this, but this, right? Because we're looking for similarity. We're not just looking for like um the fact that a that a concept is present. The second you start looking for a concept to be present or

an indicator to be present, that's the moment everything falls apart because you're no longer thinking in terms of a story or how money is coming in interacting with the market you're looking at. You're more so thinking about did a random rule get met, right? So, for instance, let me play a game with you guys. The rules here is that price moved higher and then it started to pause around the five. That's it. Okay? Did it do it here? Did price move higher and start to pause around the five? Technically, yes, right? But it the two markets are extremely different. And this is what it means when you hear people say two traders with the same rules can get completely different results or one can be very profitable, one could not be, right? Because if you say that even this area right here, price went higher and paused. If you say that this area here is the same as this area here, you've already lost the plot. You've already created an environment where you're willing to trade almost anything, so of course it's going to get in your way, right? I'm not seeing very well, Anton. Can you zoom? I mean, I you should be able to see it pretty easily. You can check it out after and zoom in up for yourself, but I'm just looking at here and um and here. — [snorts] — Sorry, I can't um Yeah, sure. Here and here. I mean, you can you should be able to see within seconds that these are different markets. Like you can see even from the move that it make that it's making and how it's making the move. That these are by like by almost every metric different, right? And my man Offense E, right? If you just simply create simpler rules that reduce the things you're doing. If you do less than doing what you're doing right now, which is doing too much, guess what happens? The current confusion and certainty you feel becomes to become eroded, right? It becomes disappear. Do you see that? Maxdom says, "Thinking about that's why sometimes one or three CS it's enough. Just stick with the really clear moves. " Yeah. Maki said uh not Maki, sorry. Maxdom said, "Months? " Yeah, it would take months for that kind of system, right? The one that we went over. Alicia says, "Yes, true. I expected to have more rules around that, but since it's a higher time frame, it makes sense that in the long run you are profitable. " Yeah, literally, right? Like if I was straight Let's say I had a bunch of money right now, I had no system for trading, I wanted to become a trader, and I'm you know, I'm literally in this pure confusion mode. The crazy part is, and the reason I'm bringing this up is because again, when I've had conversations with people that have been And again, this is hundreds of people that have been in this area right here. I've been learning to trade on and off between courses over 5 years. I've joined, gone through material. My I thought I was ready. Now something is wrong. The curve is [ __ ] up, right? Often times, if the first thing I ask is, "Have you tried doing something so stupidly simple and seen what the results that are? " What do you think the answer I get when I ask this? I mean, you should all know, but maybe you know. I don't know. Let's see if you know. Um So, it's a no, but what do you think they follow up with? I'll start writing it. Right? It always comes down to this. Almost always. No, it doesn't make me enough money. It's like, okay. So, you're forgetting that we're playing this game as a long-term game. You're forgetting that this is a skill set that on like that like other skill sets takes years to do. The only difference is that the years that you're doing here are different than the years that you do when you study something for a long time before you can actually make money doing it. Right? So, no, it doesn't make me enough money. And then, what do you think the first thing I ask when this is asked? — [sighs] — Would you rather the system that makes you money or the system that is currently going in a straight line down? Right? Because I think a lot of traders forget that compounding only happens when a system starts to prove that it can make you money. Right? Of course, no [ __ ] That's how compounding is going to work. The only time you're going to be able to compound your wealth or your capital or your money or your risk is when you have a system that is proven to work. If you're already doing too much, trying to trade an unbelievable amount of areas and assets just randomly, your system is already a straight line down for the most part because you're all over the place. Right? Literally, So, then the question simply becomes, would you rather the system that can make you some money on some level or would you rather the system that goes straight down? And a lot of the time this just ends up a lot of time this ends up being the click for a lot of them. They go, "Oh, okay. Well, I know a system that I can be profitable with. So, technically, I guess I could start executing and making it work for me. " It's like, "Yeah, exactly. Right? And then, number two is when you go into um let's compare your trades. Right? So, that's when you go into that because a lot of the time the this is like the biggest one. Right? We saw it happen to our man even right here before I even looked at any of his other uh things, right? He sent a bunch of his spreadsheets, testing. All I had to do was look at his forward test and I instantly could tell where his where he was going wrong, right? I could instantly find, you know, what happened for his wins, what was actually good in the wins, and then every loss did not compare even close to the winners. The losses were just random. They were just taken. Why were they taken? Because he's in a forward test and he wants things to start happening now, right? That's really all it comes down to. Um yeah.

I think in plates and spoons. Nice. Think in R not in money. Yeah, exactly. And that's one of the main reasons that like from the very beginning I've taught you guys to not think in money. I taught you to think in R, right? Does a system that you're trading, looking at end up making you positive R over a certain amount of time? If it does, start putting money into it. Right? Like that's it. That's all it comes down to. And it's such a weird concept because it's like, well, no. If I don't have a system that makes me that takes my $1,000 that I have right now and makes it into 10,000 by the end of the year, I don't want that system. And even worse, all most people are not even You guys think most traders are in the if I can take 1K to 10K in a year, I'm happy? Do you think most people are in that or the if I can take 1K to 15K in 30 days, I'll potentially be happy? Do you guys think we're in A or B for most traders? Like I think this is what usually shines a light on almost everything. Yeah, I I've seen it time and time again. Most people are inside of B. Almost always. Um a lot of the time A is not worth it. So Bigly, I know you might have moved to A, right? Because think about it, right? $1,000 to $10,000 is what kind of return, guys? Does anybody know? Yeah, it's like 1,000%. It's not 10,000. I think it's a 1,000%. How many traders do you know that actually are doing a 1,000% a year consistently proven, it works, I can do this. Like

what the [ __ ] Right, think about that for a second. Right, most people are literally online selling you a version of Let me Here Here's the crazy part. Can you imagine if on YouTube instead of Can you imagine on YouTube if instead of the current titles that you normally see, which is, you know, the natural like How to start making money in trading, right? Or How to make 500 a month How I made 38k trading today, or you know, whatever the [ __ ] the dumb next title is. Can you imagine if a title was this? I honestly think even the people that are like fully indoctrinated by the crazy space that we're in, I think they would look at the title like this and go, "Yeah, that's a [ __ ] lie. I'm not even going to click on that video. " And yet this is less money than these. Like, does that make sense to a lot of you? — [laughter and clears throat] — If somebody saw this title, even the person that fully believes like trading is my way out of everything. I can make it out in a year. I can do this even in a month. If they saw this, they're like, "No, no, that's a scammer. There's no way that's even possible. " And yet this number is smaller than a lot of these because people that are learning from these are starting with their $500 accounts, right? Or $1,000 accounts. They're like, "I can make this [ __ ] work. " Right? So, what the [ __ ] going on? Right? So, it's crazy because if you saw this as a title, you know what? Like I'll even ask you guys. Try to go back to your old days. If you saw this as a title, do you even click on this video? Like actually. it? Or do you look at it and you go, yeah, no one's making 36,000% a year. No one is. Like I'm sorry, but it's just not happening, right? Like that's where my mind would go, right? You're telling like I know that 300% of my money is crazy. You're telling me 36,000% a year? Yeah, okay. I'm not even clicking that. Ready? And then go back to the old days. — [sighs] — Do you click on that one? — Back in the day, guys. Back in the day. Before you learned that trading is an actual skill set that requires you to do work, right? Before then. Yeah, I probably even I'd probably click on this, right? If I'm looking up my binary options like I was back in the day like a complete idiot trying to make it work and I saw someone say something like this, like how to make 80K but like I'm going to probably click it. And yet, this number, especially for where most people start in terms of capital and size, you know, even if you're starting with a 10K account, what is that? What is that increase? 800%, right? — How to make 800% in your first year as a trader? Um — [snorts] — I don't know about clicking that one, right? SO, THE SECOND YOU GET into the actual like math, you start thinking about trading as like as a return, you start realizing that it it's crazy the [ __ ] that is out there for you and how people are teaching you to think, right? And yet we'll still click on this [ __ ] you know. How I bought a McLaren. — How I as a day trader got a McLaren, right? Or whatever the [ __ ] the next video or whatever [ __ ] out there is, right? Like this is where most people exist. It's kind of insane. Right? And then, you know, you look at this and you're like, nope. Nope, of course this 36,000 a year thing can't happen. Like of course not, that's crazy. And yet I want to make a McLaren in my first month, right? So, the crazy part is that, you know, even if you came to a trader and you said, "Listen, you can turn your 1K into 10K in a year. " People aren't really interested in that. Where are most traders? Most traders are at I want to turn my 1K into 10K by at least 60 days. You know what? I will be humble. I will give myself 60 days to take this 1K and get a return on it better than most hedge funds that have spent years, decades even in some cases, getting their systems down to make 12% a year. I'm going to do 1,000% in 60 days. And I think that's me being humble. I'm going to get funded 60% 6,000% be humble 60 days. Fair?

Fair? Fair good stuff. Let's get into the video, right? It's like what the [ __ ] is even happening? What game are we even playing? And funny enough, that game in a sense continues to be played up until you're at a you're not not just for the beginners, but this continue this game in a of cases. profitable and then executing profitable. This game doesn't just get played at the beginner stage. It gets played at the intermediary, at the advanced, and in some cases even at the profitable stage, right? The only difference is that the level to which it's played. At the beginner stage, you play the game of like, "I'm going to make a 1,000% humbly in 60 days. Here I go. " As an intermediate, you're like, "I can do a good amount of percent, you know? Like I can do it in a year. " At an advanced, you're like, "Yeah, it's going to take time, but I can scale. " At a profitable, you're like, "Well, if I'm just if I'm doing more stuff, if I'm doing all these profitable things, I can make a lot of money. " And then at the executing profitable, you're like, "Okay, I understand that making 200% in a year is already [ __ ] insane. And I know that some of these numbers are more possible due to the fact that I might be trading more less liquid assets on like a lot of these huge names that are using billions and trillions of dollars to make their percent, right? But you start realizing that the possibilities come down into a funnel and then you go, "Okay, this is what's actually possible for me. " But this all comes down to what we spoke about here, which is that no matter what stage you are at, a part of us is always going to be doing too much because we want to make more in that moment. And the second we're doing that, we start to introduce confusion and certainty in what we do, right? This goes without saying. This is how it's always worked. Yeah. What even is this? Okay, nice. Good. Also, by the way, guys, if you have any questions, feel free to drop them. I'll go over some. My main goal today was to talk a little bit about that and um Yeah, and this, which is that most don't realize it, but most of