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I’m in love with this sentence:
“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you’re afraid to break.”
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A few weeks ago saw an Instagram reel, the creator said, very confidently, that doing a SIP every month won’t build wealth. The smart way, is to invest only when the Nifty PE ratio is below its historical average and stop when it’s above.
It sounds smart. Buy when it’s cheap, stop when it’s expensive.
I wanted to verify this with historical data with the help of claude code.
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I'm in love with this sentence:
“If you can overthink the worst why can't you overthink the best.”
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If you want untouchable focus, you need to create unforgiving consequences. Make the stakes so high that your brain has no other choice but to bend to your will.
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Best I read today
Mark Zuckerberg’s core philosophy
1. Failure doesn’t matter. What matters is when you win—how big you win.
2. In a world that's changing all the time, the biggest risk is not taking any.
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Trend Following 101: The goal isn't to catch every wiggle. It's about capturing the big, significant market moves. But what happens when the market goes nowhere (consolidation)? This is where many strategies break down. 📉📈 #TrendFollowing #TradingStrategy
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If you’re on social media, remember this:
The moment you stop speaking the way people want, behaving the way they expect, or writing what they want to hear, some people will start looking for faults in everything you do.
They’ll judge your words.
They’ll question your intentions.
They’ll find something negative even in the things you meant well.
And yes, sometimes it hurts. Especially when you’ve put your genuine self out there.
But don’t let random negativity make you doubt yourself.
The real ones are different.
They won’t blindly agree with you. They’ll correct you when you’re wrong, guide you when you’re lost, encourage you when you’re low, and tell you the truth because they genuinely care.
Learn to recognise the difference.
You don’t have to care about everyone’s opinion.
You only need to value the voices that come from a place of genuine care.
Don’t let the noise of strangers drown out the voices of the people who truly matter. ❤️
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There is an old African Proverb that I love:
“A cat that dreams of becoming a lion must lose its appetite for rats.”
To achieve greatness, you must let go of old habits that could hold back your progress.
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Every night in 2001 I used to wait for my family to fall asleep.
I was 28 years old, a qualified CA, and I was completely broke.
I had borrowed ₹14 lakhs from 3 banks at 19% interest to invest in stocks and the dot-com crash wiped out 90% of everything.
Newly married, one child, and an entire family depending on me.
The worst part was not the debt - "It was the eyes".
Some looked at me with pity, some with judgement like "he got greedy" and some just stopped looking at me altogether.
Every night after everyone slept I would sit on the sofa, close my eyes, and picture just one thing - "My wife being happy"
Not rich, not famous, just happy.
And I told myself there are only two roads from here
Either I win and make them proud or I live in regret forever.
Today I have properties in Dubai, a company in 34 countries, and a family that is proud of the man who almost gave up but did not.
If you are sitting alone right now wondering if it gets better
Close your eyes, see the version of you that wins, and then go to war for it.
Hard times do not break you
They build the version of you that nothing can break ❤️
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For those of you who are struggling, let me tell you a story about how drawdown control saved my life.
I used to think I had a winning problem, but I didn't... I had a losing problem that I refused to acknowledge.
For years, I believed trading was about finding the next big winner, stacking green days, and chasing the upside with relentless focus.
I thought if I could just find more setups, study more patterns, and stay glued to the screens longer, I'd finally crack the code and everything would click.
...but that wasn't my issue at all, because my real issue was that I had no idea how to protect what I'd already made.
I didn't respect risk
I didn't control my drawdowns
and because of that fundamental flaw, I kept blowing myself up over and over again while wondering why I couldn't sustain any momentum, no matter how many winners I had.
I've blown multiple accounts in the past, I'd be up a decent chunk in a matter of weeks, only to give most of it back in a handful of impulsive, oversized, emotionally driven trades.
I'd tell myself it was just part of the learning process, that every trader goes through this, that I'd figure it out eventually, but deep down I knew the truth.
I wasn't learning anything.
I was repeating the same destructive pattern where I'd win, get overconfident, size up too aggressively, stop respecting my stops, add to losers because I "knew" I was right, and then watch my account bleed back down to where I started or worse...
The most painful part wasn't even the money I lost, but rather the realization that I was my own worst enemy in this entire process.
The market wasn't beating me... I was beating myself, because I had the setups, I had the edge, I had the work ethic, but I didn't have the one thing that actually mattered:
the ability to control my downside.
Without that crucial skill, none of the rest of it mattered, no matter how hard I worked or how much I studied. It wasn't until last year that I truly understood the power of limiting drawdown, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this might be the most important lesson I've learned in my entire trading journey.
For the longest time, I approached trading like I was trying to hit home runs because I wanted the big wins, the explosive days, the validation that I could do this. And what I didn't realize was that my obsession with the upside was killing me because I wasn't protecting the downside, I wasn't managing risk, and I wasn't treating my capital like it was the most valuable asset I had.
I remember one specific period earlier in my journey where I had a 5 month stretch that felt like I'd finally figured it out, and I was up over 150% on my account with every trade working.
I felt invincible, so I started sizing bigger because I thought I was "in the zone," and I stopped using hard stops because I convinced myself that my conviction was strong enough to override the need for risk management.
Then, over the course of three days, I gave back more than half of those gains, going from feeling like a genius to feeling like a complete failure. The worst part was that I knew exactly what I was doing wrong while I was doing it, but I just couldn't stop myself because my ego had taken over.
That's what happens when you don't have drawdown control... you know the right thing to do, but your ego, your emotions, and your need to be right override your discipline completely.
You tell yourself that this time is different, that you're not going to let a small loss turn into a big one, but then you add to the position because you "know" it's going to work, or you move your stop because you don't want to take the loss.
You convince yourself that conviction is more important than control, but it's not conviction at all... it's ego, and ego doesn't survive in this game.
What changed everything for me was realizing that drawdown control is the actual superpower in trading, not finding the best setups, not having the highest win rate, and not making the most money in a single trade.
It's about surviving, because if you can survive, you can recover, and if you can recover, you can become consistent. None of that is possible if you keep blowing yourself up every time you hit a rough patch, which is why managing losses became my primary focus.
Every trader faces losses (that's a given) but the difference between the traders who make it and the traders who don't isn't who avoids losses, but rather who manages them effectively.
It's who can take a 2% loss and move on instead of turning it into a 10% loss because they're trying to prove they were right, and it's who can recognize when they're off and size down instead of doubling down out of stubbornness.
When I finally started treating drawdowns as information instead of a personal attack on my abilities, that's when everything shifted in a meaningful way.
I started asking myself different questions during drawdowns:
...instead of "How do I make this back as fast as possible?"
I asked "What am I doing wrong?
What can I control right now?
Where am I deviating from my process?"
More often than not, the answer was that I was sizing too big, forcing trades that weren't there, or holding onto losers too long because I didn't want to admit I was wrong.
I also started to recognize my own emotional states and how they affected my trading decisions in real time.
When I felt off, when I was frustrated, when I was trying to "get it back," I sized down or sometimes stepped away completely, because I knew from painful experience that trying to trade your way out of a hole in one move is how you turn a manageable drawdown into a catastrophic one.
I simplified, went back to the basics, focused on protecting the downside, and let the upside take care of itself.
Now, when I'm in a drawdown, my goal isn't to make it back immediately but rather to stabilize and slow down, to stop the bleeding before it becomes something worse. This is the part of the game that no one talks about, because social media makes it seem like everyone's printing money 24/7 with screenshots of big wins and percentage gains.
What you don't see are the sleepless nights, the accounts bleeding lower, the self-doubt, and the questioning of whether you're even cut out for this, all of which I've experienced multiple times.
Those periods don't define you.
How you respond to them does, and the only way to respond well is to have a process for managing drawdowns before they happen.
You can't "wing it" or rely on motivation or willpower in the moment, because you have to have rules, you have to have structure, and you have to know before you ever place a trade what you're going to do when things go wrong.
Things will go wrong (that's guaranteed) so the question is whether you're going to let a small loss stay small or whether you're going to let it spiral into something that sets you back months.
I've done well the past few months, but when I look back, I can't help but think about how much pain I could've avoided if I had learned this lesson earlier. If I had focused on the downside from day one, I would've saved myself tens of thousands of dollars and, just as importantly, years of mental and emotional frustration from the cycle of running it up and giving it back.
Now, my first question before any trade isn't "How much can I make?" but rather "How much am I willing to lose and still be okay?"
That's the shift that separates consistent traders from the ones who keep blowing up, because if you focus on the downside, the upside takes care of itself.
If you protect your capital, you give yourself the opportunity to be there for the moves that matter, and if you control your drawdowns, you can recover faster, learn faster, and build the confidence that comes from knowing you're not going to destroy everything you've worked for in a moment of weakness.
I have to give credit where it's due: @CFlanders7 and @AsymTrading are two traders I've learned an incredible amount from when it comes to drawdown control and risk management.
If I had found them earlier in my journey, I probably could've saved myself from a lot of mistakes and a few gray hairs, because the wisdom they share about protecting the downside and treating trading like a business instead of a casino is the blueprint for longevity in this game.
The flashy trades come and go, and the big wins are exciting but temporary, while what keeps you in the game long enough to become great is mastering your emotions, protecting your capital, and controlling your drawdowns.
If you're an inconsistent trader, if you keep running it up and giving it back, if you feel stuck in a cycle and don't know how to break it, the answer you're looking for is risk management.
It's not sexy and it's not exciting, but it works if you commit to it fully... so focus on small losses, focus on protecting your downside, focus on surviving the bad stretches without blowing yourself up, and the upside will take care of itself.
Winners are temporary, but survivors endure, and I plan to endure. - @AsymTrading
Drawdown control and recovery is the real trading superpower—yet it’s the one that almost no one talks about. Social media is flooded with highlight reels: screenshots of big winners, huge percentage gains, and perfectly timed trades. But what you almost never see are the posts about the dark side of trading — the inevitable drawdowns, the losing streaks, the moments when confidence wavers and account equity bleeds lower day after day.
That silence is telling. It’s because most traders don’t actually manage or recover from drawdowns — they succumb to them. Instead of methodically reducing risk, scaling back size, and stabilizing emotionally, they spiral. One loss leads to revenge trading. A few small mistakes snowball into a “death by a thousand cuts.” Or worse, a single oversized position wipes out weeks or months of progress.
One of my most popular post to this day is one of where I talk about how I struggled and lost money for 15 years before finally becoming profitable consistently. The reason this resonated so strongly with people is because that’s the reality that most traders face. What was it that pushed me over the line and finally into success? Draw down control and recovery. This takes what most traders lack which is emotional control.
The truth is, every trader goes through drawdowns. The difference between professionals and amateurs isn’t who avoids them — it’s who survives them. The pros treat a drawdown like a fire drill. They slow down, cut position size, simplify setups, and go into capital preservation mode. Their number one priority becomes staying in the game. Because recovery requires capital — financial and psychological.
Controlling a drawdown isn’t glamorous. It means saying no to setups you’d normally take. It means accepting smaller wins. It means rebuilding your mental edge one disciplined trade at a time. But if you can manage that, if you can recover from a drawdown without compounding mistakes, you build something far more valuable than any single winning trade: resilience.
That’s the real edge. Winners are temporary. Survivors endure.
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To learn trading, your mindset should be such that even if someone tells you, “This stock will hit a 20% circuit,” and you know that the person is actually right and the stock is likely to hit 20%, you still shouldn’t take the trade based on other people’s advice.
You cannot build your life by depending on other people’s advice. One day, you might get into serious trouble, and you could get stuck so badly that you may not even be able to get out.
That’s why it’s better to learn trading yourself. Give it everything you have. Work day and night, put in the effort, and keep learning until you reach a point where you genuinely feel from within:
“Yes, now I deserve good results.”
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Some New tools you shd try if you are into trading
a) bananapatterns.com/ - good for pattern finding
b) nexusjournal.co.in/ For Journaling
c) chartsmaze.com/ Amazing charting tool to save tons of time ( old one)
d) investorstack.in/ - Scanner , reports etc.
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Make Tons of Money - Tell No One
Eat Healthy - Tell No One
Learn A New Skill - Tell No One.
Workout Regularly - Tell No One.
Build Something - Tell No One.
The Life Hack is to avoid the fake dopamine of announcing your progress
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Social media is pure information overdose.
You’ll learn a lot. You’ll collect hundreds of ideas. But when it’s time to execute — most people still fail.
Every day someone posts a “20-30x stock.”
Yet the actual long-term CAGR of great investors sits at 15-20%.
That’s the gap between noise and reality.
Moral of the story:
Cut the noise. Find a few high-quality ideas. Hold them for a very long time.
Whether you’re trading or investing — constant opinions and endless ideas are quietly killing your time, energy, and edge.