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Ex-Equity Crypto Trader Reveals His Systematic Trading Mindset To Conquer the Market w/ pedma 00:00 Pedma intro: Viewing trading as a business rather than predicting market cycles 01:32 Rejecting the 4-year cycle theory to focus on structural risk premia 02:24 Starting in 2017 trading US equities penny stocks pumping 50% to 80% 03:34 Surviving tail risk blowups, trading halts, and expensive borrow fees 04:40 The adverse selection trap of short borrow locates at 7:00 AM 05:25 Transitioning to large caps in 2020 and moving into crypto in 2021 06:00 Running a hybrid systematic model across 9 exchanges and 13 wallets 06:54 Defining systematic trading versus discretionary decision fatigue 09:50 Understanding why you get paid and the core mechanics of risk premia 11:15 Why classic momentum and trend models persist across decades 12:21 Harvesting short term alpha on Hyperliquid weekend oil contracts 14:12 Finding structural arbitrage across decentralized and centralized venues 16:00 Pricing inefficiencies in illiquid crypto contracts 17:42 The hidden reality of quant trading: infrastructure and bookkeeping demands 19:18 The coding bug that sorted trades alphabetically instead of by signal strength 21:12 The capital scaling bottleneck and the reality of a 30% to 50% CAGR 22:05 Why bucket shop exchanges ban profitable accounts that exploit mispricings 23:27 Starting a newsletter in 2022 to expose logical gaps through writing 25:35 Networking with high-signal quant traders 28:03 Replacing social media chart slop with Robert Carver's systematic books 29:11 Navigating the Dunning-Kruger curve and 4 consecutive winning years 32:01 Final advice for beginners: understand your counterparty and keep models simple 33:51 Outro

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21-Year-Old Trader Explains How Hand-Drawing Candlestick Patterns in 3 Notebooks Built His Edge (Autoflow Cheat, The Solvency Trap, $29k Bottom Shorts) w/ shinigamiXBT 00:00 ShinigamiXBT Intro - trading crypto and major pairs during his early career transition 01:14 Why a bad exam and family unemployment forced him to go online to build income streams 03:00 Working unpaid programming internships at 15 to help support his parents 04:45 Hand drawing candlesticks in 3 notebooks to master technical patterns 06:00 Learning Wyckoff accumulation and triangle patterns during the 2020 lockdowns 07:09 Blowing his older brother's $120 in a week and facing intense guilt 08:15 Shorting the 29K bottom and facing toxic abuse from liquidated group members 09:52 Studying 10-year-old articles and Google guides to build an edge without mentors 10:30 Finding consistency through pattern recognition and documenting execution mistakes publicly 12:44 Diagnosing trader bottlenecks on social media to build organic reach and Discord groups 14:44 Using mentors to spot repeating mistakes that your own protective mind hides 16:00 Why trading ego destroys profitability and pushes beginners into counter-trend setups 17:40 Why market trends outlast retail accounts when trying to guess reversal peaks 18:44 How financial background triggers tight stops and anxiety over minor entry drawdowns 19:39 Using funding companies to eliminate survival pressure and trade with objective risk rules 22:00 Reading diagonal price movements over time by tracking structural breaks and high lows 24:30 Identifying ranges and trending phases to determine execution style and parameters 24:51 Using Autoflow to spot off-side trapped liquidations and enter high-probability positions 28:00 Why beginners need mentors to save years of tuition and skip unprofitable mistakes 29:11 Larp teacher charging $1,000 to copy YouTube videos right before sessions 31:00 Scrolling years back on Twitter profiles to check for real-time entries and confluences to filter scams 32:53 Cringe old handles, anime, and manga roots and how they shaped his brand footprint

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How Losing $68k in 1 Night Helped To Find Trading Edge w/ PILTR 00:00 PILTR intro: 4yrs of trading, German Bitcoin podcasts as first touchpoint & early Bitcoin automated savings 01:48 Leveraged trading and why beginners underestimate risk 02:55 Increasing leverage from 2x to 12x without stop losses 03:37 Getting greedy after winning trades and DCA failure 04:25 Blowing $68K in 1 night and keeping only $2K 05:02 Repeating the liquidation cycle 3 times before changing behaviors 05:25 Backtesting like a freak and paper trading to find an edge 05:44 Defining profitable trading as the constant execution of positive expectancy 06:06 Discovering a 65% win rate setup in backtesting logs 07:09 What he would tell his 6 year younger beginner self 07:56 Why there is no holy grail in trading technicals 08:50 Building a holistic confluence system using economic and liquidity data 09:15 Starting analysis with macro data and liquidity positioning 11:00 Risking what you are comfortable losing in absolute dollar size 11:26 Placing stop losses where positive expectancy thesis ends 11:42 Aiming for 1.5R to 2R rewards on high probability setups 12:48 Rejecting algorithms and AI to maintain discretionary mechanical setups 13:35 Why trading psychology represents 90% of execution 14:30 The misconception of chasing a home run 16:25 The social media trap of letting YouTube opinions influence your own trades 18:02 Differentiating legit traders from fake lifestyle gurus 18:50 Traders PILTR recommends on Twitter (Jordi, @joel_sabugal) 21:36 Using prop accounts to trade complex low-volume markets 22:57 Respecting drawdown rules on prop firms to protect entry fees 23:19 Prop firm salary payouts versus live account purchasing power 23:56 Why the long-term goal of every trader should be having a live account 24:50 Final Advice

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