ICT Youtube Community Messages
- Day One: Maximum Effort.
- Today should begin your new journey...
A journey of self-discovery & empowerment. This is done with a powerful tool. The secret to effective learning & measuring that progress - is a Journal.
If you do not have a journal, go buy one today. Sometime, during today... sit down and record today's date on the first line.
Then in a brief paragraph record why you want to learn how to trade. Keep it brief.
Then list 12 things you want to achieve in 2021 as it relates to the markets and or trading.
Do not waste this opportunity... it will be crucial on December 31.
- We are going to walk together, through 2021.
When you come out on the other side... you will be better than you are right now.
I promise. Just take my hand... I know my way around.
- July 2020 I explained on Twitter that Bitcoin would trade to 30k by 2021. I was off by a day - I stated I would delete all my social media if it didn't. I had already deleted my Twitter and Instagram.
Crypto isn't my thing... but I suspect more people see the nonsense about me as just that. Baseless and envy.
Seeing is believing and 2021 won't be any different.
30k Bitcoin... cheers.
- Day 2 -
Know where your insights come from and filter out misleading or fake education.
Limit your focus to that which is proven. Emotions are distracting... keep them out of the equation.
Keep your attention on the 12 things you set out to learn. I will multiple that list exponentially as the year pans out.
As you were...
- Day 3 -
Are you confident that you are learning things that are real or contrived? You know by seeing. Not seeing examples illustrated but by studying the characteristics of it. Then searching for it on your own... in private analysis.
Do not rely on the hand of others to feed you... you will starve, if you do.
Only the strong survive here.
Stay hungry.
- Day 4 -
Keep your charts organized and neat. Avoid extra distractions and only annotate what is salient to the present market conditions.
Keep your annotations positive and avoid negative remarks like "I am stupid for missing this..." or "why do I keep losing?"
Your subconscious records emotional stimuli that you associate to charts. In response, charts will create fear & anxiety.
This promotes analysis paralysis. When your annotations are positive it will be a constructive criticism that you will remember subconsciously and it won't be a hindrance to your development.
Day 5 - We do not play lottery with price charts. We focus on the low hanging fruit and in the proper context.
We do not force or gamble on a "what if" setup. It is a low resistance liquidity run or it isn't. There is no debate or confusion.
We hunt soon.
As you were...
Day 6 -
All eyes on US election theater. Expect shenanigans & flags. Nothing else matters today.
I am not here to make friends. I don't believe I will convince everyone because many are too lazy. They will not test what I say and teach here for free. It is easier to take the opinion of strangers on the internet than to do their own due diligence on the matter.
If I make money trading it is called fake. If I make money teaching, they call it my only means of income. They say my concepts are copies of retail garbage... but not one person can make the case for this. I will pay 100k to anyone who can... period. Make it 250k now.
If I am only living on Mentorship millions - pray tell, why am I turning off the million dollar money stream in 2022? You people are ridiculous that spout this kind of nonsense lol.
Screenshot this post. If I offer Mentorship in 2022, make videos, share it everywhere. It would be proof I can't feed myself without it... and I can't be trusted.
Fair enough?
Winter is coming...
Day 7 - Today is just one day of the rest of your journey. Yesterday's results do no limit you or define your destination.
Keep the focus on the process. Submit to the time required. It will come.
Meanwhile... Bitcoin 39k... remarkable.
Elon Musk passed Bezos 188 billion Net Worth.
Remember that TSLA buy in October 2019? It traveled a lot since then.
Bread and Butter pays the bills, mega trades pay for the lifestyle.
Gold is a manipulated market. I pick my times when trading that metal. It is an event specific market, in that, it requires some event. It is not so much a value market. It is many times, used to trap neophytes in moves that get hyped by advertisers and metal brokers.
I am neutral on it at the moment.
Do some research on Grain reports. Soybeans, as I stated since June of this year, is poised to continue to rally into 2021. Corn will be next. Why?
China is buying everything they can. Soybeans is used in many processed foods and are used as livestock feed. If Soybeans are low on supply - feed will switch to corn... then that grain will go into low supply.
Wheat will be a grain that sees higher prices in 2021. Food will be the fear and concern in 2021. Russia has made it known they will consider export tariffs on wheat.
Think food futures... that is the next "Bitcoin" mega trade.
As you were...
Go to Tradingview and enter ZCH2021 to see how Corn Futures responded on this call. December 19, 2020. That is a 3k per contract move. "Smart Money" is not limited to "one" market.
You don't like to scalp intraday? Day trading feels too fast for you? Short Term requires too much day to day analysis? Swing Trading might be your style. It is all relative... I have an approach in all disciplines... just match your personality to the method that best suits you.
Never let me, or any educator, force you into an analysis approach that does not fit your style and personality.
When you find what fits you... your emotions and trade psychology will not hinder your progress.
As you were...
Day 8 - New beginnings are both exciting and frightening. On one hand, you want to get started on the right foot and see results quickly; and at the same time, you don't want to make mistakes. I want to remind you to invite the mistakes early on. These are your opportunities to learn.
The pain and discomfort you are trying to avoid is the smoothing out of rough edges in your skillset. Do not try to avoid this... it is crucial to submit to it. There is no ego involved. There is no reason for you to fear doing something wrong. This is the natural result of feeling rushed to trade with live funds, when you are not ready.
Anyone that says you will learn how to trade consistently, profitably and free from the chains of fear and greed in any time less than 2 years, is lying to you and doing you a disservice... avoid them. Honestly.
If you disagree, come see me in less than 2 years with your millions.
18 days to go before the final ICT group begins their journey into the depths of my experience, concepts and cerebral cotton candy. I am excited for you... use this time to obtain a few notebooks. Get a good spreadsheet application like Excel. You will want to log lessons and details from them, so you can find them for your reference, as you go through the Mentorship core content.
I will outline how to do this when you begin, don't worry about it right now. Submit to the processes I give you and stick to them, and you will get here. Those of you that went through Core content, you will do well to follow my lead this time around. You missed a lot, in your haste.
Tomorrow closes the door for enrollment interest. I realize some are not going to meet this deadline for various reasons. To those who are in this circumstance, I understand and apologize. Please understand, like you and your life requirements, I have mine too. This Mentorship requires nearly all my conscious time and is very taxing. If you knew how much goes into managing it, you'd understand.
It is not personal, it is not cruelty or selfishness... I am in need of returning to my preMentorship life and pace. My hope is this does not turn you off to learning what you can here. I will do my best to share lectures on this channel when my time permits it in 2021, but I can not commit to anything with so much expected of me already.
When my commitments are serviced, I will return to a more frequent Youtube pace. If you respect me, you will grant me that. I believe I earned that much.
Besides, you have yet to master what is here for free... get busy.
Day 9 - The first full trading week of 2021 is in the books. It is important to note, every year, the initial weeks of January are slow. I do not mean that opportunities can not be found, but rather, big institutionally sponsored swings are not typically expected.
With the exception of Bitcoin, where all the attention and excitement has been... the markets appear to be delivering on their typical seasonal tendencies.
Retail traders are frothing at the mouth to get in new trades. Smart Money uses this month annually to study what sentiment and any macro influences are in play. If that is the norm, do likewise and wait.
Wait for what? New market structure insights after an initial displacement in price. It is important to hold end of year biases loosely, into the month of January. This permits flexibility in new year analysis.
Why is this important? Patience & sound logic.
I lost a lot of real money, in my early days, forcing a view into a new year. I was too busy looking for evidence I was right, instead of, reading what the market was actually telling me. Often, in those early years of my development; it was telling me that I was wrong, but I was hell bent on being "right"... so much so, I couldn't see it.
Be willing to be wrong... it is less painful and allows your analysis to be more fluid and by default... makes you better for having done so.
As you were...