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  • #21
  • Jul 7, 2025 12:51pm Jul 7, 2025 12:51pm
Technicality: Way To Navigate Our Position
There are two style of trader after a position is opened: Do Nothing and Navigate Price Movement.

The first style is commonly done by beginner. The strategy is usually will define a fix TP and SL by relying on percentage or pips number. Some will do trailing stop to enhance the profit. After a while, this style become habit, and most trader follow this style for the rest of their life. I was curious. I wanted to find alternative, experimenting way to optimize profit. This led me trying to navigate price movement.

Navigating means we monitor the price to find a better location to close position. I used many method and indicators, some were looked promising but fail to beat previous style. Some can generate better profit, but on some circumstances, all benefits were forced to be returned back. When I wasn't strong, I had given up as well, stick to only first style. Patient was the reason for a breakthrough, I finally understood how to navigate the price properly. The best tool is price action. The answer is Market Dynamic. Combine these together, market will show you where to open and close position properly. Trading becomes easy, with minimum risk and maximum profit. Market is never lie, our eyes do ...
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  • #22
  • Jul 8, 2025 12:14am Jul 8, 2025 12:14am
Thoughts: Formula To Be A Successful Trader
Envying others performance is a deadly mistake. There are traders who have been trading for years without becoming rich. There are traders who become rich just trade for few months. What are the reason?

I met a young person who bellow 30 years old. He posses millions of dollar in his account, riding luxury sport car. Proudly, he told us his method of trading in big picture. I didn't dare to ask more, i respect everyone secret and privacy. In this world, by showing wealth we can have position in our social life, more people will praise you eventually. Without money, we are nothing in this world. When we enjoy the spotlight, showing off isn't really wrong.

I'm on the other side, I love being alone. observing my surrounding. Standing in a corner, enjoying foods and beverages. Move to a balcony for fresh air, avoiding crowded. Since I took public transport here, I was literally invisible here. Only few of people knew me, then I came to say hi.

I have nothing to be proud of. The room was fulled with high skill professional trader. Some were so successful but some were just about average. I talked to most of them, maintain network or friendship. When we have been too logical, some color in our life will be faded.

Back to question why after being professional trader, the fate among us are still different? What have been done by those who are looked so successful? How to turn the table, stepping into the same level with them? Interesting but so pitiful to answer.

One of the intern asked me this question. Had been with us for 6 months, she still had doubt if she really could be survive in market after 1-3 years. She asked many others, none of them gave satisfy answers. I asked her, Does she think I can give her better answer? She smiled awkwardly telling, she wanted to know everyone stories.

It was a good night balcony's talk. After quite a long time, she asked me, with all of my perspectives, how to be a successful trader. I was sure she wasn't satisfy with my technical explanation.

Then, I explain her about the formulation of wealth. To be successful, there are few elements to consider: knowledge, discipline, mentality, instrument and luck. Lack of one of them, our story will be different. This is the reason everyone in here, has different achievement, even when we start early of later.

Hers eye stared at me, full of question.
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  • #23
  • Jul 8, 2025 2:04am Jul 8, 2025 2:04am
Thoughts: Wealth Formula

"I can't drink a lot my dear" after she offered me another drink. She laughed to apologize, offering juice before I continued my explanation.

Knowledge is the first element we need to catch wealth. Without knowledge, we have to tools to measure our improvement. As a trader, our knowledge is about instrument analysis. We have technical and fundamental analysis. Whatever analysis method, as long as we can used it to explain an instrument, will be beneficial. Good knowledge has to show consistency. As for me, I have been using Price Action (PA) for a long time. Everything for me have to be explained with PA. There are others trader with different philosophy, nothing is the best.

Once you have the knowledge, you have to pick the instrument. Many financial instrument available in the market. Learn the instrument and pick one you feel comfortable. Different instrument will have different characteristic, that's why different trader will have different performance.

Next is discipline with the knowledge. Be logical with the way to use the knowledge. As trader, I will execute a position according to my plan, event when market is attempting. If we can't explain the phenomena with our knowledge, we have to stay away.

Once discipline is getting stronger, you can see result and confidence. Our mentality will get better, from here we can start to use bigger capital. This is the start of your journey to get your wealth.

Wealth is definitely has something to do with luck. This makes the different to every trader in this room. We only need to do what we do, until the luck appear in front of us. This is the actually secret in wealth creation. We can't enjoy the luck when we are not ready to get it. We have to be patient, focus and discipline with our vehicle, until the luck come to visit.

As a trader, the only thing differentiate a failure and a successful one is their passion. When you have passion enough, manage the way to learn trading, be structured and logical with every steps. Note every improvement to the fullest. The journey will worthy because there are a lot of lucks to pick, when we are ready.

Our conversation was ended by a warm hug.
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  • #24
  • Jul 8, 2025 11:15am Jul 8, 2025 11:15am
Trades: AUDUSD - July 8th, 2025

Today market is not attractive. I have been scanning instrument to find best formation.
Market is dominated by small institution as no fundamental will be announced today. Even there was some announcement about tariff, market is still reacting in considerable normal range.

I finally picked AUDUSD to start my position.

Strategy: Price Action
Position Type: Reversal
Market Condition: Uptrend
Market Phase: Distribution
Risk Level: High Risk
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  • #25
  • Jul 8, 2025 11:24am Jul 8, 2025 11:24am
Trades: GBPUSD - July 8th, 2025

Strategy: Price Action
Position Type: Correction
Market Condition: Downtrend
Market Phase: Manipulation
Risk Level: Low Risk
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  • #26
  • Jul 8, 2025 11:39am Jul 8, 2025 11:39am
Trades: USDJPY - July 8th, 2025

I'm still waiting to short USDJPY, market is still moving up strongly.
I need a lot of patient until I can see a reversal movement.

Strategy: Price Action
Position Type: Reversal
Market Condition: Sideways
Market Phase: Accumulation
Risk Level: Moderate Risk
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  • #27
  • Edited 11:32pm Jul 9, 2025 11:07pm | Edited 11:32pm
Thoughts: Mistakes in The Past

A worthy trader usually has a lot of traumas. The benefit of trauma makes us stronger. We can think wiser, as bad experiences will be kept longer in mind. Trauma can help us guarding our life.

However, trauma can also be our obstacles in the future. It relies on us how we address our mind. Even now, I still have past traumas hunting me, let me live with depression and anxiety. There is time I have to lie down just to wait my anxiety passes, I have no body talk, feeling so abandoned. I never know how long I have to suffer from these painful moments. Just like now ... I feel like my life about to end.

As an introvert, I love to be alone. But, during my painful moment, loneliness attract negative thoughts in my mind. All bad memories comes up one by one, betrayed, scammed, tricked and many others hurting my thoughts helplessly. I almost loss my faith on humanity. But, I still want to believe, there are still many good people outside.

My trading journey were also started by looking for freedom. I established many companies, anyhow, I was betrayed by my partner. I always tried to learn from my mistakes, but there ware always a new way to be tricked. The only way I haven't tried is by bringing the case into the court. But, should I do it? They were my good buddies, past girl friends and my relatives. Becoming a trader, I want to have freedom without others' interfere.

Learning how to trade, just like walking on a minefield. Stepping into wrong area will hurt myself, even will end my life. Knowing this nature, I always try to avoid mistakes as many as I can. Every mistake I made, has to be a new foundation for my next journey. I can't fail anymore, because I didn't want to return back to my previous condition.

Three years ago, I started a business with my sister and brother in law to run an online business. Since they had no experience with technology, I was asked to join them. I sincerely helped them. We discussed everything in detail about how to start. I helped them as marketer and online advertiser, day and night, and in less then a month the business was started to show good result. My mistake was I taught them, as I thought they are my elder sister, no harm. They started making excuses and tricks and problems came. I was then accused to steal something from them, starting to throw mistakes to me. Finally I found out, they had opened the same company of their-own. They copied everything so market will be theirs. I didn't want to fight anymore, I was quit from the company, with heartache when they are still mocking me until now.

Life is cruel. When a trader is scammed by broker, it's also another story of how this world is unfair. I was ever scammed by two brokers. One of them was a fully regulated one. The lesson I took, never trust everyone. But, I should not hurt anyone neither, as I know how terrible will it be for someone future. I will also try to help others who really need help, as how I really wanted during my desperate moment. I never enjoy any help from others, the bruises and scars in my life are the evidences.
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  • #28
  • Edited 11:52pm Jul 10, 2025 11:39pm | Edited 11:52pm
Technicality: Path To Be Professional Trader

Some say, becoming a trader is hard. We have to be talented becoming one. For me, nothing is talented. You need only to know how to start and improve it.

Once you have learned the basic principle, you only need to build your discipline. You need to create schedule to be with the market everyday. It's dedication and thing you have to sacrifice. Trader is all about discipline. Fundamental is the hardest part to train. It can be learn last, but charting is the must. With or without indicator, can be used as starter.

My everyday routines are

- Open Economic Calendar
- Looking for International Politic and News.
- Analyzing 7 Major, 7 Cross Pair. Look for Index such as US500, DE40, DXY. Analyzing Commodity Pair, XAU, XAG, XTI. Finally Cryptocurrency, such as BTC, ETH and some others, 32 instruments in total.
- Summarized all information for today activities
- Picking best instruments before making trading plan for today.

I will also analyze my local stock market, as I'm also a stock market trader.

Those will usually take my time about 1-3 hours. When we can do it every single day, it will be guaranteed, we can understand market very well. Trading strategy will be merely a perspective.
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  • #29
  • Jul 17, 2025 7:41am Jul 17, 2025 7:41am
Technicality: Scalping Market

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  • #30
  • Jul 18, 2025 12:14pm Jul 18, 2025 12:14pm
Thought: Bitcoin Story

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  • #31
  • Jul 18, 2025 9:25pm Jul 18, 2025 9:25pm
Thoughts: Crypto's Talk - Bitcoin Initial Value

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  • #32
  • Jul 21, 2025 4:42am Jul 21, 2025 4:42am
Thoughts: Bitcoin's Value Creation

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  • #33
  • Jul 22, 2025 11:11pm Jul 22, 2025 11:11pm
Thoughts: Bitcoin Price Maker
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  • #34
  • Jul 23, 2025 6:39am Jul 23, 2025 6:39am
Trades: EURUSD - July 23rd, 2025
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  • #35
  • Jul 23, 2025 6:52am Jul 23, 2025 6:52am
Trades: AUDUSD - July 23rd, 2025
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  • #36
  • Jul 23, 2025 6:59am Jul 23, 2025 6:59am
Trades: GBPUSD - July 23rd, 2025
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  • #37
  • Jul 23, 2025 7:05am Jul 23, 2025 7:05am
Trades: USDJPY - July 23rd, 2025
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  • #38
  • Jul 23, 2025 7:20am Jul 23, 2025 7:20am
Trades: XAUUSD - July 23rd, 2025
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  • #39
  • Jul 23, 2025 7:29am Jul 23, 2025 7:29am
Trades: XTIUSD - July 23rd, 2023

Have to wait until tomorrow for confirmation.
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  • #40
  • Jul 23, 2025 7:34am Jul 23, 2025 7:34am
Trades: XAGUSD - July 23rd, 2025
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