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People with high self-awareness become very picky. They can't stand fake people at all. The sweet tongued. The show-offs. The ones who perform a personality instead of having one. What they really want is real. Raw conversations. People who say what they mean and mean what they say. Not charm, character. Because once you’ve seen enough of these "masks", authenticity is the only thing that feels attractive.

Money can be lost and earned again. A business can fail and be rebuilt. A portfolio can fall and recover. But every year you trade away is gone permanently. Build wealth aggressively enough to protect the one asset you can never buy back: your time.

The market will print millions of candles after the one you're staring at. Thousands of breakouts. Thousands of pullbacks. Thousands of trends. Thousands of reversals. Trading opportunities are abundant. Your capital is limited. Trade accordingly.

Trading is a game of math played through psychology.

The market doesn't just test your strategy. It tests how long you can stay patient before lowering your standards. How much you can lose before abandoning your process. How much you can win before abandoning your humility. Your strategy gives you an edge. Your behavior determines whether you keep it.

@SJosephBurns All said

The market has a strange way of turning strengths into weaknesses. Confidence becomes overconfidence. Patience becomes stubbornness. Discipline becomes rigidity. Conviction becomes attachment. Aggression becomes recklessness. Caution becomes paralysis. The problem isn't having these traits. The problem is assuming they're always strengths. Markets change. Conditions change. Evidence changes. Your behavior has to know when to change with them. A trading strength used at the wrong time can become a trading weakness. The best traders don't just master their emotions. They master the timing of their own behavior.

Many traders think that choosing trades with a high probability of winning is probabilistic thinking, but that belief is wrong. For example, a strategy can have a positive expectancy with a win rate of just 40%, provided the relationship between the size of its profits and losses is favorable. A trader using that strategy follows the rules knowing that losing trades will outnumber winning trades. He is not taking trades with a high probability of winning each time. Yet he can trade with probabilistic thinking and make a profit over the full series of trades. That is because profitability is not determined by how often you win alone. It depends on the whole picture, including how much you make when you win and how much you lose when you lose. Losing more often than you win is not the same as losing money overall. What this trader trusts is not the expectation that "the next trade will surely win." He trusts a structure that produces a profit across both wins and losses, verified through his own testing over a large sample size. That is why he can follow the same rules while knowing the next trade may also lose. He does not make winning the next trade a condition for executing his rules. Probabilistic thinking is not about becoming more certain that you will win. It is a way of thinking that allows you to consistently repeat a system with an edge, even when you do not know whether any individual trade will win or lose. Do not confuse "winning with a high probability" with "making a profit through probabilities."

@SJosephBurns Trading is an art,sport,business,math,science

Before increasing position size, prove you can handle: -Losing streaks.
-Missed trades.
-Open profits shrinking.
-Boring markets.
-Unexpected gaps.
-Days without a trade. Capital isn't the only thing that must be ready for a larger size.

@SJosephBurns Taking a loss bruises the Ego

New traders obsess over getting the perfect entry. Experienced traders know the bigger money is made by: Getting the direction right.
Keeping the loss small.
Staying with the winner. The entry starts the trade. The exit determines the result.

@SJosephBurns When right it's always easy to cut profits short

Trading requires two completely different personalities: Before the setup → Skeptical
After confirmation → Decisive When wrong → Flexible
When right → Patient The difficulty isn't developing these traits. It's knowing when to switch between them.

@SJosephBurns It took me long to overcome fear of losing

Experienced traders become comfortable with three things beginners hate: Being wrong.
Missing trades.
Holding cash. Experience changes what feels like failure.

@SJosephBurns Strange profession

One of the strangest things about professional trading: Research can be work.
Backtesting can be work.
Waiting can be work.
Doing nothing can be work. The easiest activity is actually placing a trade. That’s what messes up so many new traders.

@SJosephBurns Takes years to get there

There’s no ‘lightbulb’ moment in trading where everything becomes easy With 10 years of experience, let me tell you what actually happens when you become profitable 1) You become a great loser. Your losses don’t impact your mood, your self esteem, or your daily life. You understand that they are simply a cost of doing business, similar to an entrepreneur paying rent, payroll, etc. 2) You become confident in your entries, as if you’ve seen the set ups play out 1,000 times… because you have. You get repetition to leads to confident execution day after day. You can’t buy that, it comes with time. 3) You bring a calm and collected energy with you into each trading day. The nervous, guessing, confused feeling goes away. You execute with precision. You’ve seen yourself make $100, $1,000, $10,000, in an hour, and you know what it takes to do it again. The only way this becomes your reality is staying a student of the game, refusing to quit, and letting go of the ego and bad habits that have been holding you back.