Painting The Tape – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode of Painting the Tape, Leo, Nick, and Stowe are joined by special guest Kane for a deep dive into the wild world of prop trading. Kane shares his remarkable journey from falling for early forex scams to scoring seven-figure wins and suffering devastating losses in crypto and prop trading.

The crew discusses the emotional highs and lows of trading, the realities of funded accounts, and the discipline required to succeed in the markets. Along the way, they tackle the myths and truths of prop firms, the mental game of trading, and the importance of community and resilience.

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In this episode of Painting the Tape, Leo, Stowe, XY, and Nick dive deep into the art of execution in trading. The crew shares how their approaches to entering and exiting trades have evolved, debates the pros and cons of scaling in versus going full size right away, and challenges common trading platitudes like “never add to a loser.” They discuss risk management, adapting to volatility, and the mental game behind every decision.

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In our second half of our mental game episode, we discuss accepting risk, moving on from stop outs, going on TILT, how to deal with hot / cold streaks, and managing drawdown periods.

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In this episode we go over some of the Mental Game aspects of our trading, how we prepare for the day, and also get a little fired up with each other discussing the validity of trading coaches and mental trading books.

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This episode was recorded live on twitter spaces and was a roundtable discussion all about trend days. We discuss several of our personal strategies for recognizing and effectively trading trend days, as well as strategies for not letting trend days blow up your account.

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A detailed DOM review of a trade AJ took on 6/25/24.

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Today we discuss trade plans and levels and the difference between the two. We dig deep into each of our own trade planning processes and debate how much of a trade plan is actually needed as an intraday orderflow trader.

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Today we take a break from our technical series and have our longtime friend Elias on and discuss the trading journey, volatility events, managing risk, and funding prop firms.

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A detailed walkthrough of actual trades that we've taken, explaining the logic behind entry and exit. This is real trading, there will be both wins and losses, great execution as well as mistakes. Sponsored by: Lucid Trading / use code PTT for the best discount on Lucid Trading accounts https://lucidtrading.com/ref/paintingthetape/

In the second part of our trade management series, we discuss all things stop loss related: placing stops, moving stops, trailing stops, etc. We also discuss how we adapt to market environment changes and some of the tools we use to manage those transitions.

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