Thank you for your interest in my 'Snippets from the Diary of a Trader'. Six million pageviews. Amazing. Who would have thought. After repeatedly losing freight and suitcases, I created this blog in 2012, while in Tanzania, initially as a personal online backup for notes on what I picked up and developed from posts in Yahoo! Groups.
I first became aware of the stock markets' potentials in the 1990s, when I made some considerable gains, driven by a combination of hearsay and pure luck. It was nice, but I had better things in mind. I grew up in a tiny village and until my father's generation, all of my ancestors were traditional farmers. I had just finished my studies in Europe and was eager to start working as a young geologist in far-away, far-more interesting places. That's what I did for the next 25 years, working across all continents. I came to know more languages, the world of big mining and exploration, and all that this entails; very different worlds, peoples, cultures, and systems, war and peace. I witnessed the rise of the Americas, Asia, Russia, and Africa, and Europe's decline. My globe is littered with memories and good people I met. Being on missions, often facing poor or no internet and working in time zones far from London and New York, I didn’t seriously start trading until I returned to Mexico in late 2018.
I've always been fascinated by other states of mind and consciousness, lore, the great mystics, historical patterns, the geometry of time, seers, prophets, the art of forecasting, uncertainty, and speculation. That said, I quickly realized that most of my earlier musings and ventures into Gann, Bayer, and various financial astrology concepts weren’t particularly helpful for my practical goal of making real money in the markets. While building a home for my family, I started with automated trading systems. The drawdowns and returns made me sick. This came to an end the moment I lost all of my hardware, software, files, and backups. During COVID I shifted my focus back to patterns, market structure, price action, timing, and short-term trading setups and techniques.
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Studying the works of Toby Crabel, Larry Williams, Richie Naso, Steve Mauro, ICT, Stacey Burke, Jevaunie Daye, D'onte Goodridge, Frank Ochoa, and Jeff Hirsch has been most helpful to my progress. They blew away all the retail-trader instruction crap I had previously gathered. Forever grateful. Snippets of some of their teachings are featured on this page: no indicators; reading naked bar-charts; knowing average, small, and large ranges; understanding logic and precision in patterns; accumulation, manipulation and distribution phases; ICT-lingo, concepts, setups, etc.. Short-term patterns in financial markets are governed by timed market maker algorithms. They repeat over and over again. There are only three things price can do: break out from a range and trend, break out from a range and reverse, or range between previous highs and lows. Hence there are three main patterns: range, breakout-and-trend, and reversal patterns. Pump and Dump. At first I didn't really notice nor understand these patterns, order blocks, imbalances and liquidity levels, until it became impossible not to see them. They are everywhere, and precise to the pips. Once I understood it, trading became a waiting game. No more FOMO. Pivot points are magic. Ultimately, everything is timed and measured — by the market makers.
Pageview statistics over the years not only reflect my personal journey and viewer's attention, but also ongoing censorship and removal of articles by Google, particularly those related to the European Commission’s Replacement Migration Program, the US-orchestrated COVID-19 Plandemic, the universally detrimental impacts of Zionism, the US-Israeli genocide in Palestine, and subsequent shadow-banning campaigns. The way it is.
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