🦶 7 Steps To Join The Top 1 Percent Of Traders

Trading looks simple from the outside, but the people who actually reach the top get there because they follow a structure, stay disciplined and outlast the crowd. Here’s a clear, practical roadmap that works.

✔️ Shift your mindset
Your mindset is the base of everything. Aim for steady progress instead of trying to nail perfect entries. Focus on long term growth rather than quick wins. Take risks that make sense mathematically, not emotionally. And stick to 1 trading system so you can actually master it, switching systems all the time destroys consistency. The top 1 percent think like builders, not gamblers.

✔️ Sharpen your technical skills
Indicators like RSI or MACD won’t make you a top tier trader. Real skill comes from reading the core elements of the market: where liquidity sits, how orders stack, how volume behaves and how price reacts to those levels. Study raw price action until you understand why the market moves, not just when it moves. That knowledge becomes your edge.

✔️ Survive first
Your only real job early on is survival. Most traders blow their accounts because they want to get rich fast. Losses are normal, but big losses happen only when you take reckless risks. Treat every loss like a small business cost. If you protect your capital, you stay in the game long enough for your skills to compound.

✔️ Build real trading skills
It usually takes 1–3 years to build the core skills that make a trader profitable.
● Discipline: follow your rules even when emotions push back
● Confidence: comes from backtesting and seeing your system work
● Consistency: show up every day and treat it like a job
● Patience: wait for your setup, not the market’s noise
These are the skills that generate results. Not shortcuts.

✔️ Work in cycles
Using 30, 60 and 90 day cycles means breaking your growth into structured blocks.
● 30 days: focus on execution and staying disciplined
● 60 days: evaluate your win rate, risk management and rule-following
● 90 days: review everything, refine your system and set new goals
This creates a clear feedback loop. You improve in chunks instead of drifting. It’s how pros keep growing without burning out.

✔️ Stay in the game
Losses, mistakes, frustration - all of it is guaranteed. The difference between failed traders and elite traders is simply this: the elite don’t quit. They treat mistakes as information. They adjust, refine and return. Persistence is the trait that filters the top 1 percent from everyone else.

✔️ Put it all together
You need all pieces working as one:
● A strong mindset
● A real edge
● Solid risk management
● Skill built through routine
● Structure through cycles
● Persistence through setbacks
Put these together and you become the kind of trader who separates from the crowd over time.

Success here is not accidental. It’s built step by step and every one of these steps moves you closer to the top 1 percent.

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Most people think waiting is “doing nothing”.

But in trading, waiting is a decision.
A powerful one.

When you don’t see your setup: Waiting is winning.

When your system isn’t aligned: Waiting is winning.

When your mind is unstable: Waiting is winning.

The market only pays traders who are willing to do nothing until the right moment arrives.

Waiting is not weakness.

Waiting is a position.

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🔥 Buffett Just Bet On the Company That Can Break Nvidia’s Dominance

Berkshire revealed a 5.1B position in Alphabet, and the timing couldn’t be louder.

Days before the filing, Google introduced Ironwood, a chip that replicates Nvidia-level performance at roughly one fifth of the cost.

A week later they dropped Gemini 3, trained entirely without Nvidia hardware.

❓ Why this changes everything

● Training a frontier model on Nvidia costs 3–4B
● Google can do it for 600–750M using Ironwood TPUs
● Every other lab pays about 400 percent more for the same compute
● Google owns its hardware stack while everyone else rents it

Anthropic has already committed to 1M TPUs, and others are lining up. When a competitor can train at twenty percent of your cost, price wars aren’t a risk, they’re a certainty.

📣 What Buffett is signaling

He didn’t buy Alphabet because he missed it in 2004. He bought it because it’s now the only major AI player that can’t be cornered by chip suppliers.
Search, Android, YouTube, plus the cheapest high end compute layer in the world. Alphabet controls the platforms and the infrastructure.

➡️ What comes next

If Google Cloud accelerates, Nvidia loses pricing power.
If TPUs stay 75–80 percent cheaper, the ecosystem moves.
If Gemini keeps compounding, the model race tilts fast.

The AI economy is about to reprice around a single idea:
Whoever owns the chips owns the future.

Google owns the chips.
Buffett owns Google.
And the market is still staring at Nvidia.

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📈 A Simple Flowchart That Fixes Most Trading Mistakes

Most traders lose not because their strategy is terrible but because they take trades that never should have been taken. Wrong setups, wrong timing, broken rules. This flowchart is basically a filter that strips out almost every emotional or low quality trade before it reaches the button.

1️⃣ Start with the plan

The first question is simple: is this setup actually part of your system.
If the answer is no, the trade ends right there. No overthinking, no improvising, no hope mode.

2️⃣ Confirm the conditions

If the setup fits your plan, check whether the market is showing exactly what you wanted to see.
Volume spikes, trapped traders, liquidations.
If one of these pieces is missing, you walk away.

3️⃣ Check the timing

Even a perfect setup can fail if the timing is wrong.
The right session, the right news environment, the right day.
A good idea executed at the wrong moment becomes a bad trade.

4️⃣ Review your rules

Before pressing buy or sell, confirm the basics.
Your daily stop is still available, the risk per trade fits your limits, and all your protocols are intact.
If any rule is broken, the setup becomes invalid.

5️⃣ Execute with confidence

Only after all filters are passed do you take the trade.
No hesitation, no second guessing, because the decision was made by your process, not by your emotions.

It is about removing randomness from your trading so you stop forcing trades, stop revenge trading, and stop gambling.
You take only the trades your system was built for, nothing else.

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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.

Be patient.

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📣 MARKET PSYCHOLOGY

On October 15, as gold was hitting a blow-off top, people in Australia were lining up for hours to buy it.

Today, after an 11% correction over the past couple of weeks, those lines have vanished, even though gold has already bounced 5% off the lows.

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How to become a discipline trader

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❓Why Most Traders Quit Their Plan When It Matters Most

Every trader starts with the same promise. This month will be different. This time you’ll follow your rules, respect your stops and journal every day. And for a few days it actually works. You’re focused. You’re disciplined. You’re that trader.

Then the first real test hits. A losing streak. A setup that fails three times in a row. A day where sticking to your plan means watching others make money while you sit out.
This is the moment where most traders break.

The plan was easy when it was just theory. Living it when it’s uncomfortable is a different game.

Most traders don’t fail because they lack knowledge. They fail because they quit the first time doing the right thing feels wrong. Moving stops because it hurts to take the loss. Overtrading because sitting out feels like missing out. Abandoning a strategy because trusting it through a rough patch feels harder than chasing something new.

The trader you want to become is not built in the easy days. It’s built in the days where everything in you wants to quit and you don’t. That’s the real work. Not writing the plan but sticking to it when it gets hard.

Anyone can follow rules when the market rewards them. The traders who make it are the ones who follow their rules when the market doesn’t.

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You literally have the infinite money glitch at your fingertips.

But you keep self-sabotaging, burning accounts, and blowing opportunities just because you can’t wait 10 extra minutes.

Read that again.

It’s not the market.

It’s not the setup.

It’s not the prop firm.

It’s your inability to delay gratification.

You lose because you refuse to wait for your setup.

Fix your patience, and the money glitch becomes real.

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This.

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Develop a system, stick to the system

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This is exactly why patience matters.

Trader A worked harder.
Trader B worked smarter.

When you wait for the clean setups and manage your R:R properly, you can lose small, win big, and let the math do the heavy lifting.

Quality > quantity every time.

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Execution = 1%
Patience = 99%

Trading in a nutshell.

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🗓 Key Events This Week

Short but packed week. Almost all key data drops before the Thanksgiving break, so Tuesday and Wednesday will define the tone for USD, yields, and risk assets.

🔊 Tuesday

● September PPI inflation — early look at pipeline inflation. If producer costs rise, markets may price in stickier consumer inflation ahead.

● September retail sales — clean read on consumer strength. Strong sales support higher yields and a firmer USD, while weak numbers point to slowing demand.

● November CB consumer confidence — tracks household expectations. Rising confidence supports spending momentum, falling confidence signals pressure.

● October pending home sales — forward indicator for housing. A pickup implies resilience despite high mortgage rates, weakness suggests cooling demand.

🔊 Wednesday

● US Q3 2025 GDP — broad signal of economic momentum. A strong print reinforces higher for longer expectations, while a miss boosts dovish bets.

● September durable goods orders — key gauge of business investment. Strong orders point to stable corporate demand, weakness hints at slowing capex.

● September PCE inflation — the Fed’s preferred inflation measure. Sticky PCE will keep rate cuts off the table, softer PCE supports easing in yields.

● September new home sales — reflects real housing demand. Rising sales show buyers absorbing high rates, falling sales confirm sector fatigue.

🔊 Thursday

● Thanksgiving break — US markets closed. Liquidity drops sharply across global markets.

🔊 Friday

● US markets close early at 1 PM ET — thin volume can exaggerate intraday moves.

● Black Friday — major consumption day, early signals on holiday spending.


Almost all market direction this week comes from a 48 hour macro cluster. Inflation, GDP, and spending data will set expectations heading into December. After Wednesday, low liquidity means choppier price action and less reliable signals.

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📈 Institutions Are Going Risk On

Institutional positioning shows a sharp shift out of cash and into risk assets. The latest readings are some of the most aggressive in more than a decade.

🔊 Cash allocation dropped to 3.7%, the lowest in 15 years
🔊 Cash has stayed below 4% for 5 straight months
🔊 Levels at 3.7% or lower have appeared only 20 times since 2002
🔊 Institutions are 34% net overweight global equities, the highest since Feb 2025
🔊 Positioning in commodities is the most overweight since Sep 2022

Positioning says it plainly. Big money is extremely bullish on risk assets.

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JUST IN: $AMZN plans to invest up to $50B starting in 2026 to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies, building new data centers that will boost AWS capacity by 1.3 GW to support secure defense, intelligence, and research workloads.

The initiative, which aligns with the U.S. AI Action Plan, is aimed at fast-tracking federal agencies’ access to Amazon’s advanced AI services and custom chips, highlighting the company’s deepening push into public-sector AI.

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