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The Five Minute Chart That Prints Three Times a Week in New York
Every morning at 9:30am EST roughly four million retail traders open a futures chart.
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Most of them lose money that day.
Not because the market tricked them. Not because the algos hunted their stops. Not because they picked the wrong contract or the wrong broker or the wrong session.
Because they sat down with no idea which direction they were supposed to be trading.
They just started looking for trades.
You have done this. Everyone has done this. You open the five minute chart, you see a big green candle, something in your chest fires, and before the next candle closes you are in a position you cannot fully explain to anyone who asks why.
Twenty minutes later you are flat, slightly poorer, and telling yourself the next one will be different.
It will not be different. Not until the process changes.
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