Hey gamers!
You know what I love about teaching you guys how to trade mechanically? It’s so simple that it almost sounds crazy when I say it out loud.
Enter the zone, buy the zone, sell the zone.
That’s it. That’s literally it, you know? And I’m gonna say that a lot during this because that’s the whole point of what we do here. It’s mechanical.
It’s straightforward. And we love being straightforward, don’t we?
Look, I get questions all the time – “Voz, how many contracts should I put? What percent of my account? How much money should I risk?”
Well, let me give you the statistics, and let the statistics give you that answer.
As of right now, when price enters our zones, you have a 90% chance that it’s going to hit the end of the zone. Let me repeat that because this is important – there’s a 90% chance that when we enter the zone, we will complete the zone.
You know what that means? It means you have a 10% chance that it won’t work out. One out of ten times, it’s not gonna work.
So here’s my question for you – is that worth blowing up your entire account? Are you gonna put all of your money on the line knowing that maybe one out of ten times it’s not gonna work?
No, you’re not. Hopefully. Unless there’s some crazy peeps out there.
Your Only Job (And It’s Actually Simple)
Your only job here – and I mean your ONLY job – is to decide how much money you think is fair for that 90% probability.
That’s it. You have one job here. You understand those statistics, and you offer the money you think is fair for that.
Once you decide, once you lock in what you think is fair, you let the game plan do its thing. Your job is done.
Now the responsibility is on the game plan. It’s a game of numbers, and 90% of the time, it will please you while 10% of the time it won’t.
Enter the zone, buy the zone, sell the zone. That’s really the mechanics of our whole system.
You know what I tell my gamers all the time?
After you decide how much money you want to put on the game plan, it’s not a you problem anymore. You had one job.
It is now the game plan’s problem to work and let it use statistics in its favor.
That’s really it. I could honestly just stop right here because that is truly it. But I know you guys got other stuff going on, so let me share some other tips that help with the mechanical mindset.
When trades aren’t working out in your favor – and let’s say it’s in a row – set a number of times that you think is reasonable for losses. It could be three times in a row, five times in a row, whatever you think is reasonable.
If you have a row of those losses consecutively, walk away. Bye. Walk away for the day.
You know why? Because that next trade could have been detrimental to your trading career. Do not look at future trades as a way to make it back up to yourself, because that’s where desperation really comes into play.
And desperate trades are horrible trades. You don’t want to do that.
Here’s something fun that I learned years ago – if you have other trades going on, ask someone who has no idea about trading what they see on your charts.
You’d be surprised what they could show you. I like to ask my mom because we’re so used to seeing something a certain way that there can be other stuff going on that we can’t see.
For example, I showed my mom a chart once and asked, “Mom, don’t worry about what you’re looking at. You don’t need to know anything. I’m just curious – if you look at this picture, what do you see?”
While I was looking at buying opportunities and support levels, she looked at it and said, “This looks like something that went up really nice and steady and then all of a sudden had a fast and scary drop.”
Which sounds really simple, but see, I was already looking at where the buying opportunities were. When if you really just look at it, yeah, this does look really bad.
It’s just a different perspective. And it’s also really fun to interact with your friends and family. You can ask your goldfish, I don’t care. Whatever it is, it helps you not be so hyper-focused and in your bubble where you can’t see anything.
A lot of traders – and this applies to everything in life – are obsessed with the wrong thing. They’re obsessed with making money. They’re obsessed with “this was a win, woo, my account’s growing.”
That’s weak.
You want to be obsessed with the process of making money. That is where your edge is. And to become truly mechanical and to treat trading like a business – understanding that process and seeing the mechanics in it will make you not just a great trader, you’ll be an absolute winner, not just in trading, but in life.
Mind Over Money
Don’t freak out if you miss a trade. There’s going to be one tomorrow and the next day and the day after the next day.
FOMO? No. If you miss like a big one, who cares? Don’t force trades just because of FOMO. Making small profits every day is much better than losing money trying to chase one big profit.
You know what I like to do? I take walks. I know this sounds like “Voz, what?” But being glued to your charts, being glued to anything in life that you feel stuck in – you don’t want to be in that vortex.
You get a lot of clarity when you are in nature, walking outside. It really helps you when you get back to trading – you have this endorphin that will help you look at everything with a better and more welcoming perspective.
While our system is so mechanical, we also have a great community. And I don’t like throwing the word community around lightly. Community is very important, and we have a wonderful community.
We have traders asking questions – questions that maybe someone else was too afraid to ask. It’s cool to see everyone say “I’m locked in. What was your fill? What was your win?”
We laugh together. We cry together. Whatever anyone went through with the game plan is what someone else is feeling too. So you really aren’t alone here.
If a game plan wins, we’re all feeling great. If a game plan loses, we know what we expected and we’re all feeling that exact same thing. The probability is really on all of our sides here – in the trade, in the community. It is the ever-living energy of this whole game plan.
So here’s what you need to do to trade mechanically like we do:
Set up your probability-based position sizing – Risk only what makes sense for 90% success rate
Follow the zone signals systematically – Enter when price hits the zone, exit at targets
Walk away after consecutive losses – Set your limit (3-5 losses) and stick to it
Focus on process over profits – Be obsessed with mechanical execution, not account growth
You know what? The way I have Game Plan set up involves hours and hours of backtesting, finding zones, using different models. While it looks so simple, it’s really not. That’s what I’m doing for the big part of the morning – sometimes I can’t even get it ready before 9:30.
I’m doing a lot behind the scenes to make it very simple for you. Like I said, there’s a lot of models going on, but the point is probability. It’s probability, probability, probability.
And this mechanical trading will help you stop feeling anything else about it. You know that your only job is to decide how much you want to put on the game plan.
That’s it. Enter the zone, buy the zone, sell the zone. Let the game plan do its thing.
So let the games begin, gamers.
Olivia
P.S. So Hannah’s been going crazy about this volatility setup she calls a ‘Vol Bomb’ – and when Hannah gets excited about vol, I listen. She’s breaking it down tonight with Andrew at 7 PM ET. Obviously I’ll be there because, you know, I love a good vol play when the setup’s clean. Sign up here if you want to see what’s got her so animated.
