Celund retweeted
#Wyckoff, reimagined. ✨
We’ve tested and integrated Wyckoff structure into Quantar’s full Market Intelligence suite , alongside Order Blocks, liquidity, market structure & much much more….
Not another scanner. Not another journal.
This is Market intelligence.
Launch 🔜 🚨
Celund retweeted
$QNT
When it comes to investing, the following framework always applies:
For so long - nothing, then everything - all at once.
I don't think there is anyone who managed to play the crypto markets, from a HTF perspective, as good as us back in Q4 of last year.
The fact that we pre-planned the exact distributive price behavior on BTC and shorted BTC from 114.8K all the way back down to 59K allowed us to be in the position to not only profit from the major corrections in the market, but also start pre-planning ahead from an investing opportunity perspective while the rest of the market was in panic mode.
It is important to understand that there are different levels in importancy when it comes to trading setups.
Nailing a major macro top followed by accumulating at the exact macro lows is a two-trade-playbook that can progress you way more than nailing two scalps back to back. Especially when you apply dynamic risk taking in combination with the different importancy levels of setups.
Back on the 27th of Dec 2025, I took the time to make a 30 minute video about $QNT and the high probability spot buying opportunity I was eyeing inside of the #TCT Trading community. Afterwards we scaled in within a structured process and waited patiently.
Now within one week we are up 147%, and that is 147% on a lot of size.
Celund retweeted
Something that took me way too long to internalize is: You can't find an edge, you can only create your own. No profitable trader i know copied their strategy 1-for-1 off someone else. Ya gotta do your own work/testing rather than assume the traders you look up to have everything figured out OR that they're even sharing the whole strategy.
^ That will be super obvious to some, but the majority skip that step, including me.
So i went back to the fundamental big picture. I wanted to know... Of all the trading methodologies that exist, what do they fundamentally believe about the market?
It's useful to know this so that you can know what lens you're looking through and where it stands in the overall context of market philosophies, for a few reasons: It allows you to better A) build your own custom "frankenstein" edge, B) decipher other market participants, and C) avoid getting locked in a single dogmatic lens.
So with all that in mind, i asked chatgpt to group all the existing trade methodologies into what their primary PHILOSOPHY of the market is (rather than group by the mechanical TA part). I dug the result, so i thought i'd share it here in case it's useful to others...
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1. Engineered Liquidity / Algorithmic Price Delivery
- Methodologies: ICT, modern SMC, liquidity concepts, liquidity-sweep trading.
- Core belief: Price goes where the liquidity is.
2. Large-Operator / Smart-Money Supply–Demand
- Methodologies: Wyckoff, Volume Spread Analysis, VPA, Supply & Demand, older SMC variants.
- Core belief: Big money leaves footprints, and those footprints reveal future supply/demand.
3. Auction / Value Discovery
- Methodologies: Auction Market Theory, Market Profile/TPO, Volume Profile, value-area trading, some VWAP frameworks.
- Core belief: Price is an advertisement; the market moves to discover where trade can occur.
4. Market Microstructure / Order-Flow Causality
- Methodologies: Order Flow, footprint trading, DOM/order-book trading, tape reading.
- Core belief: Price moves because orders consume or withdraw available liquidity.
5. Crowd Psychology / Repeating Human Behaviour
- Methodologies: Elliott Wave, classical chart-pattern analysis, some classical technical analysis.
- Core belief: Human crowds behave repeatedly, therefore price patterns repeat.
6. Trend Persistence / Momentum
- Methodologies: Trend following, momentum trading, RSI trading, Dow Theory, Turtle-style systems.
- Core belief: Motion tends to persist.
7. Equilibrium / Mean Reversion
- Methodologies: Mean-reversion trading, technical statistical mean reversion, Bollinger/VWAP deviation systems.
- Core belief: Dislocations tend to correct.
8. Positioning / Forced-Flow Causality
- Methodologies: COT analysis, open-interest analysis, funding analysis, liquidation trading, dealer-gamma analysis, options-flow analysis.
- Core belief: Who is positioned where—and who will be forced to buy or sell—can determine the next move.
9. Behavioural Bias / Irrationality
- Methodologies: Contrarian technical trading, sentiment extremes, overbought/oversold analysis, momentum/reversal strategies.
- Core belief: Humans are predictably irrational, and that irrationality leaves recurring patterns in market data.
10. Cyclical / Periodic Market Structure
- Methodologies: Hurst cycles, cycle analysis, technical seasonality, Gann time cycles.
- Core belief: Market behaviour repeats through time.
11. Geometric / Natural-Order Market Structure
- Methodologies: Gann geometry, Fibonacci trading, harmonic patterns, parts of Elliott Wave.
- Core belief: There is mathematical structure embedded in price movement.
12. Volatility / Technical Regime Analysis
- Methodologies: ATR-based analysis, Bollinger Bands, Keltner Channels, volatility compression/expansion, realized-volatility regimes.
- Core belief: Volatility itself has structure, and transitions between contraction and expansion create opportunity.
Celund retweeted
Since 20 September 2020 @Moneytaur_ published 30165 posts.
Based on my personal archive that contains a little bit over 24% of them, you'll find:
🔷 >300 tickers charted, analyzed, talked or mentioned in a meaningful/actionable way
🔷 ~40 books mentioned, showed and/or recommended
🔷 >1200 posts pertaining to strategy (I don't consider all charts as strategy related)
🔷 >250 motivation related posts
🔷 >140 mindset related posts
🔷 >100 psychology related posts
🔷 >150 business related posts
🔷 ~100 risk management posts
🔷 ~100 money management related
🔷 ~100 mentoring related
🔷 >200 learning related
🔷 ~900 posts in which I've found some wisdom
🔷 823 💎💎💎 (charts, strategy, learning, psychology, markets manipulation, books recommendation, business, growth, mindset, motivation etc.)
NGL that's A LOT for a one guy, whose content is primarily accessible free of charge.
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A realization i had about trading theory that i put in my journal recently, thought i'd share in case it helps anyone...
The whole game of trading is about positioning yourself. That's it. It doesn't have to be fancy. It's not about accurately predicting the market. It's not about attaining some genius level identity. It's not about cracking the davinci code. It's about having enough restraint and control to selectively position yourself in ways where the risk is low and the probability is high, over and over.
That's it.
EVERYTHING in trading is a subcategory of that main purpose/intent.
There's a lot of different strategies/ways we can go about slicing that overarching intent, but that's the crux of it.
It's the thing most new/aspiring traders don't realize about trading (myself included), and i think it's because big wins get so glorified on social media. But the truth is it's simply about gaming the math. It's not glamorous. You set yourself up so the math is on your side over the long run. Your entire trading strategy should be filtered through that lens, and not enough ppl say that. Prob cos they have a holy grail to sell
Celund retweeted
In the wild ride of Bitcoin, timing the peak is everything.
Picture this: if you peg the macro top a tad too high and the market crashes just below your mark, you hold on too long, sell nothing, and watch your gains evaporate in a matter of weeks.
I encourage you to remember the sentiment on X during peaks. It'll probably help you find red flags, warning signs. If you don't remember well, you can always check the charts, find where tops formed, and advance search the most followed mainstream media accounts, Saylor, and the usual larp-whales content during those times. You can find a lot of answers.
Now flip it: if you call the top for a lower level and it hits a smidge above, you can sell before the crash, lock in profits, and avoid most of the carnage.
Example with my macro extreme premium top call for Bitcoin at $115,000 and with a clear opportunity to short and sell more at the HTF 3rd drive on Bitcoin. I'd rather be that bit early than late. On spot, i want to sell before crashes, not during crashes or bottoms. Most people are afraid to sell too early, so they choose to follow the noise in this space, where it's everyone's opinion Vs a handful of traders [who also hold but not perpetually] opinions, even if those traders are right most of the time and many powerful charts are at extreme premium levels.
It's the brutal asymmetry of prediction. Undershoot and you're golden, but overshoot and you're wrecked. This is why being a clueless moonboy will always get you wrecked. Of course, ego is the silent assassin in this game. No one wants to admit they're wrecked because of their ego.
Razor-thin line between success and regret in this game.
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A young student once asked a wise monk, "Master, how do I stop taking everything so personally?"
The monk smiled and said...
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Wow what a powerful post. Thanks for the authenticity.
Also, nice to see a familiar MT student username that was around when i first entered.
The further i go in this journey, the more i understand what people mean when they say "trading is the hardest journey you'll ever take". I used to think they were talking about it from an IQ perspective. No they don't mean it will be technically difficult, it's not like a super hard maths exam/test or something like that. The hard part they refer to is that you have to address your automatic behaviours and automatic thoughts that you don't even know exist. They're there but they're hidden. It blocks you from the shadows. But you don't know what you don't know. So you either keep bashing your head against the wall and not know why you can't get it going, or you do some deep self-reflective analysis with an open & humble mind to figure it out.
THAT's the hard part. You don't have to be a genius. You have to be self-aware and willing to discover hidden habits that you're not proud of.
THEN you have to be able to overcome them, not just be aware of it. That's the hard part.
This journey nearly broke me.
And I don’t mean “oh it was hard lol”. I mean it forced me to look at myself in ways I’d avoided my entire life.
At the start, I thought I had it handled.
Edge? Check.
Confidence? Check.
Vision of freedom? Crystal f*cking clear.
That illusion didn’t last long, because when the pressure came, the truth came with it:
- My psychology was a mess.
- My rules were flexible when they shouldn’t have been.
- My convictions weren’t even mine half the time.
Being truly honest? I wasn’t trading, I was performing.
I’ve got a family. Responsibility. Real stakes.
So in a way, you could say I did this backwards.
I messed up early.
Then I kept messing up.
Loss after loss after loss.
But instead of quitting…
I stayed long enough to see what was actually wrong with me.
That’s the part very few talk about.
I didn’t just lose money.
I lost illusions.
I lost identities I thought were “me”.
Being completely transparent? There were days I was deep in red after being millimetres from passing challenges, moments where I’d blown it and genuinely didn’t want to exist anymore.
Not metaphorically.
Not dramatically.
I’m talking about that quiet, heavy thought:
“I don’t want to be here.”
If your mental game isn’t locked down, this path will eat you alive.
No edge, no system nor mentor will save you.
So I stopped trying to control myself.
I stepped away.
I dissected every single mistake I’d recorded.
Not to beat myself up, but to understand the pattern underneath the behaviour.
And what I realised changed everything:
You don’t kill old habits.
You outgrow them.
You don’t “fix” psychology.
You build a new identity that doesn’t need the old coping mechanisms.
I got quieter.
I stopped explaining.
I stopped looking sideways.
Silence became my edge.
I came back.
Still imperfect.
Still human.
But the mistakes got smaller.
Less frequent, less emotional.
That’s how you know something real is changing.
I’m nowhere near where I want to be, but this is a turning point.
My family is that bit safer.
My decisions are cleaner.
And I’m no longer a one-trick pony clinging to hope.
For the first time, I’m proud, not because I “won”…
but because I didn’t abandon myself.
I owe a huge part of this to @Moneytaur_ .
Yes, I did the work, but without his willingness to share real knowledge, to stay present, to teach without ego, I don’t know if I’d have made it through the darkest parts.
I’ll probably never meet him.
I’ll probably never be in his circle.
And that’s fine, because what he gave me didn’t just change my trading.
It changed the trajectory of my life.
This isn’t motivation, nor is it advice.
It’s proof that staying long enough to face yourself
is the hardest trade you’ll ever take.
