If I don’t know where I’m wrong — I don’t take the trade. Simple. Powerful. Uncomfortable. This rule alone: • Reduced overtrading • Improved discipline • Made losses easier to accept Because a loss with clarity is still a win long-term. Curious — do you define your invalidation before entering a trade?

Markets don’t go up or down in straight lines. They: • Expand • Correct • Consolidate • Then expand again Understanding where you are in that cycle matters far more than catching tops or bottoms. This is why Elliott Wave + structure works so well — it gives context, not just signals. Which phase do you think we’re in right now for indices? 👀

Date: 16th December 2025 Here’s the bigger picture on VOO using Elliott Wave: After the 2022 bear market bottom around 442, VOO entered a powerful Primary Wave 3 rally — the strongest phase of any Elliott cycle. This move carried all the way into the 630+ region, completing a full 5-wave sequence on weekly and daily timeframes.🚀 Inside Primary Wave 3, we saw a textbook progression: - (i) → 442 → 505 - (ii) → pullback into 470s - (iii) → the explosive move to 559.96 - (iv) → consolidation to 530–540 - (v) → final push into the 630s That final high completes Primary Wave 3. Now VOO is likely entering Primary Wave 4 — a normal multi-week/month pullback that resets the trend before the final Primary Wave 5 advance. Expected Wave 4 levels: - 589–590 (shallow) - 560–563 (ideal) - 538–540 (deeper) Wave 4 is not trend-ending — it’s the pause before the last leg of the cycle. Once complete, Wave 5 could push VOO toward: ➡ 680–700 (primary target)➡ 700–720 (extended target) The trend is intact — we’re simply transitioning into the consolidation phase before the next major move. I would utilise the different levels of Wave 4 as investment opportunities and look to average my investment in a staggered manner between 538 - 590 levels Charts below

🎯 The Most Overlooked Pattern in TradingMost traders spend 90% of their time trying to predict “the next big move”……but completely ignore the one pattern that reveals whether the market is even worth touching. ‼️ The “No-Trade Zone” Pattern. A messy, choppy, overlapping structure = the market telling you: “Sit out. Come back later.” Trading becomes easier when you stop trying to force setups during noise and only act when structure becomes clean. 🧠 Question for you: What’s your threshold for staying out of the market? Do you avoid certain patterns entirely? Drop your thoughts below 👇

Let’s do something fun today…Whether you're a trader or an investor, we all have that one lesson we wish we learned years earlier — something that would’ve saved us time, money, or sanity 😅 So let’s share them. It can be anything like: - “I wish I knew that doing less usually makes you more.” - “I wish I knew position sizing mattered more than entries.” - “I wish I stopped listening to hype videos.” - “I wish I trusted my plan instead of my emotions.” - “I wish I learned Elliott Waves sooner.” 👀 👉 Your turn: What’s ONE lesson you wish you knew when you started trading or investing?Share it below — someone in here definitely needs to hear it today. The goal of this thread is simple:We learn faster when we learn from each other.