What a week. What an experience with @NinjaTrader! From speaking on stage to being surrounded by so many like-minded individuals who share the same passion for trading, this was truly an experience to remember. Grateful for the opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, share my journey and learn from some incredible people in this industry. It’s moments like these that remind me why I fell in love with trading in the first place. A huge thank you to @AnthonyCrudele and the entire @NinjaTrader team for putting together such an incredible event and allowing me to be a part of it. Until next time! 🥂

One of the most damaging habits a trader can develop is judging the quality of a trade entirely by whether it made money. Because a profitable trade isn't automatically a good trade. And a losing trade isn't automatically a bad one. You can enter a position with absolutely no plan, ignore your invalidation level, average into a losing trade, and somehow walk away profitable because the market eventually reverses. That doesn't mean you traded well. It means the outcome happened to work in your favor. Now consider the opposite. You identify a setup that meets your criteria. You wait for your entry, define where the idea is invalidated, size the position appropriately, and follow your plan. The trade stops out. Was that necessarily a bad trade? No. The market doesn't owe you a profitable outcome just because your analysis was reasonable. And this is where traders can accidentally reinforce the wrong behaviors. If you repeatedly reward yourself for breaking your rules simply because you made money, you're teaching yourself that the rules are optional. Eventually, that same behavior can lead to a loss that wipes out the gains from several previous trades. On the other hand, if every losing trade makes you question your entire strategy, you may never give a legitimate trading process enough time or enough observations to evaluate it properly. This doesn't mean every loss is acceptable or that every rule deserves to be followed forever. A strategy still needs evidence that it has an edge. But individual outcomes are noisy. That's why I think it's important to evaluate two separate things: 1. Was the decision reasonable based on the information available at the time? 2. Was the outcome profitable? Those are not the same question. A trade can be executed correctly and lose. A trade can be executed poorly and win. Learning to separate those two things is a big part of becoming a more consistent decision-maker.

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Open interest Update (Check original tweet for contract info) $CRWV 2,324/2,538 ✅ $DRAM 27,019/27,868 ✅ $FLUT 1,885/1,885 ✅ $JNJ 10,985/11,814 ✅ $PURR 9,613/9,676 ✅ The check mark indicates that the whale held more than half of their position.

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10/22 Notable Flow $CRWV 56 P 11/20/2026 $1.7M 6.81avg $DRAM 60 C 04/16/2027 $9.4M 3.40avg 31% OTM $FLUT 80 P 03/19/2027 $1.8M 10.01avg $JNJ 260 P 10/30/2026 $1.5M 1.28avg $PURR 10 C 03/19/2027 $1.5M 1.58avg 15% OTM

If people worried half as much as they do for others about themselves, the self improvement would be thru the roof Who cares what someone else is doing if it isn’t paying your bills and putting food on the table

Someone's buying $DRAM 60 C 04/16/2027 for $9.2M