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23-Year-Old Prop Trader on Why Process Beats Chasing Trades

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Breakdown

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Trading career and process development

  • Started trading 6 years ago
  • Mentored by top traders
  • Focus on studying during free time
  • Published radar reports as side business
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Playbook and opportunity review

  • Focus on playbooking for long-term ideas
  • Archive of charts for comparables
  • Grade opportunities for bet sizing
  • IPO playbook for opening print trades
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Seasonality and market environment

  • Seasonality is a huge portion
  • Market environment shapes trader output
  • Seasonality weakness in September
  • Correlations at all-time low
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Market analysis and positioning

  • Market at all-time high profitability
  • Congested tape with low correlations
  • Sell into strength, buy into weakness
  • Positioning is clocked
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Market behavior and sentiment relief

  • Leopold bottom as sentiment relief
  • Pain in the market leads to relief
  • Good news treated differently at different levels
  • Need an excuse to move the market

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