For years, the trading community has echoed a single, unchallenged mantra: “Trading is HARD and takes YEARS to master.” It’s the comforting blanket wrapped around failure, the universal excuse for a blown account, the sacred scripture recited in every forum and comment section. But what if that statement is not just misleading, but actively harmful?… Read More »
“I’m Taking a Break to Work on My Mental” A Real Student Case Study From My Trading Mentorship As a trading mentor, one sentence I hear repeatedly from struggling traders is: “I’m taking a break from trading to work on my mental.” Recently, a student came to me with this exact mindset. He had suffered… Read More »
The 60-Year Cycle: Why History Rhymes in 2025 – A Deep Dive into the 1965-2025 Parallels Introduction: The Rhythm of History If you’ve been following market cycles and historical patterns, you may have noticed something fascinating about our current moment in time. The mid-2020s bear striking resemblances to the mid-1960s – not in exact detail,… Read More »
The “Deer in Headlights” Moment Every futures trader knows the feeling. It is a visceral sensation that starts in the pit of your stomach and spreads to your fingertips, freezing them over your mouse. You entered a short position in MCX Gold. The technicals looked perfect. But then, a geopolitical headline broke, or a central… Read More »
In the world of financial markets, there is a statistic that is whispered in every trading room and forum: 90% of traders fail. They blow up their accounts, quit in frustration, or slowly bleed capital until they can no longer participate. Of the remaining 10%, only a fraction truly achieves what we call “financial freedom.”… Read More »
If you have been trading for any significant amount of time, you know the feeling. It starts with a loss. Perhaps it was a “good” loss—a valid setup that just didn’t work out. But then, something shifts. A feeling of injustice creeps in. You feel the market “owes” you that money back. You see a… Read More »
The Risk Percentage Experiment That Will Change How You Think About Position Sizing Forever Introduction: Why This Experiment Matters More Than You Think In the world of trading, position sizing is often treated as an afterthought. Most traders obsess over entry signals, technical indicators, and market analysis, while completely overlooking one of the most critical… Read More »
A Historical Divergence: Diplomatic Strength vs. Market Weakness President Vladimir Putin’s India visit is scheduled for December 4–5, 2025, for the 23rd India–Russia Annual Summit in New Delhi. This is his first trip to India since the Ukraine war began, with trade, energy, and defence cooperation high on the agenda. While the diplomatic relationship between… Read More »
We’ve all seen it: the star trader who made a fortune in 2020-2021 suddenly finds their account bleeding out in the volatile chop and decline of a bear market. This is not a technical failure; it is overwhelmingly a psychological failure, rooted in cognitive biases, emotional regulation challenges, and the flawed way the brain learns… Read More »
In the world of financial markets, the obsession is almost always with the external. New traders spend thousands of hours hunting for the perfect indicator, the Holy Grail algorithm, the secret Fibonacci ratio, or the hidden pattern in the order flow. They tweak their parameters, backtest their strategies to infinity, and optimize their entries and… Read More »