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People who cured / are curing their own cancer on X:
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"Liquidity" sweeps & how to think about the term liquidity the right way
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> first let's define liquidity - a simple way to think about it - how much you can trade + how fast and how little it moves price.
a sweep is referred to as a candle pattern where price trades past a prior high or low and then closes back inside. the assumption is that stops are triggered beyond that level and the other side filled against that.
if you're looking at shit from half a year ago you best believe those positions aren't just sitting there for months.
stops get triggered or moved, positions close so not much is just waiting there sitting to be "swept" or is left behind.
old levels can still matter which is why some of this shit works.
price doesn't give a flying f but people do because of price history and candle stick charts.
i.e. there's psychology established around highs and lows that stand out on a chart or also depending on how price traded around them.
so when price gets close to previous areas that's where the new positioning come from. everyone sees the same crap, so new stops, new breakout positions.
candles shows price traded (the advertisement)
you can confirm some of the other stuff with open interest, liquidation, trapped positioning, aggression piling in or (lack thereof) etc.
on more recent price action, especially if price is hanging out around certain areas for longer periods of time or chopping, there's a recency bias i.e. positioning is starting to build up at the range extremes, price will continue to revert until there's new information which is the excuse for one side going "yeah f this" = reflexivity/decisive break in that direction.
the mechanics of a sweep:
> liquidation - stops getting triggered in the same area which unravels price (think trail of gasoline lit on fire), which is why price moves fast.
> exhaustion - positioning stopped out, inventory cleaned up.
> forced stops cause temporary mispricing and leaves behind a vacuum in the books = mechanical reversion (easy to take the other side and push price in the other direction since thin).
this is also magnified by new positioning that piled in aggressively (breakout/breakdown) on the quick move (bottom shorts/top longs) and stops are now in the immediate vicinity in the other direction.
> on the back of this reversion, if there is no follow through on aggression in the same direction price will typically probe back to clean up the "large wick" left behind on this temporary reversion.
* some of the definitions and terminology in the visual was paraphrased using the reference - Albert Kyle, “Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading,” Econometrica, 1985
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the healthiest thing you can do this winter is buy high wattage incandescent / halogen bulbs for your indoor work setup.
transforms your winter energy and mood for <$20
Light affects insulin sensitivity in several ways.
The use of SAD blue light, the type usually used for winter depression, causes insulin resistance, mostly by increasing insulin, rather than glucose.
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However, red light helps to lower blood glucose, and near-infrared is associated with reductions in HOMA-IR (insulin resistance).
"A 15 min exposure to 670 nm light reduced the degree of blood glucose elevation following glucose intake by 27.7%, integrated over 2 h after the glucose challenge."
Sunlight contains lots of blue and red and is associated with better insulin sensitivity. Incandescent lighting is a much better option for metabolic health because it has more of the beneficial red and near-infrared light than LEDs.
“Increased bright sunlight exposure was associated with lower fasting insulin, lower homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance, lower homeostatic model assessment for β-cell function, and lower triglyceride levels.”
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The only setups you need when price forms a range
Reversal setups and continuation setups all determined were price sits in the trend and what ranges forms after the trend
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Speaking of career advice
Here are 124 actionable tips on consistency, skills, discipline, the grind, the journey, the team, the mission, motivation, learning, and expertise.
PDF freely available: justinmath.com/files/advice-…
The best career advice for young people is to just focus relentlessly on 3 things as early as possible:
1. Get skilled. Technical skills, writing skills, people-orchestration skills, everything.
2. Get involved contributing to a mission you're aligned with. It doesn't have to be pure bliss and your contribution doesn't have to match your top strengths exactly. But at the end of the day you have to feel some pride in what you did or what you learned. If you can find something like that while becoming skilled in a number of different ways then you'll find ways to increasingly wrap your skill profile around it (and you'll find/develop strengths in your skill profile that you never expected).
3. Pick up momentum. If you do (1) and (2) right then you've got direction and potential and all that's left is to sprint forwards and achieve it. The more momentum you pick up, the better you get, the more real value you produce, the more opportunities you create, the more you get noticed, the more value you capture into your own life, the more effort you want to put in... you create a virtuous cycle with so much momentum behind it that it becomes an unstoppable virtuous cyclone.
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i've had days where i've gone on proper revenge spirals, between 5-7 full losses back to back within 15 minutes
those days really hurt, doing anywhere between 5 and 10% damage to the account
it can take a while to claw that back and it makes life miserable overall because you feel like you've gone backwards
those days are recoverable days, it just sucks having to do it
but when i've had back to back days like that, 3 in a row all on the one minute chart and doing upwards of 25% damage to my account within just a few days, that really hurts
especially doing that after having years of experience in the markets, it makes you question everything. i've had a few weeks like that over the years and every time it's happened, it's the lowest i've been with my trading
it's from that pain that showed me the problem in my way to success: emotional revenge spirals
it meant that i just HAD to find a way both technically and spiritually to not have those days again because consistent behaviour like that only sends the account one way
the technical rule became 2 full stop outs a day. spiritually is a much longer conversation
it cuts those days right down and eventually you find your account growing and growing without taking one giant leap backwards every now and then
sometimes it may seem like winning is hard but really, that takes care of itself. all you're doing with trading is to find a sign that the 50/50 coin flip of price going up or down from your entry is going to land in your favour. over enough trades you'll win
the key is bringing the losers down and you who is reading this, i have bad news for you
you've got some issue like the one I've mentioned above and it's up to you to identify that about yourself and ensure there's a rule in your trading from preventing you from getting in your own way
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