Honey, I Shrunk The Learning Curve | March 14, 2026

Summary:

  • Opening: ICT checks audio, says he’ll keep remarks short and join Trader Round UP afterward.
  • Challenge to critics: Calls out online trolls and challengers, invites anyone to trade live on Axi with real broker statements to prove results rather than trash-talk.
  • Trading philosophy: Advocates small, disciplined growth over gambling — start with one micro contract, target modest weekly/daily goals (e.g., $50/day, $250/week, $1,000/month), and compound as you grow.
  • Methodology: Emphasizes structured price analysis (market structure, grids, PD arrays, order blocks, fair value gaps) and knowing specific levels and times rather than random guessing.
  • Risk management: Warns against over-leveraging, chasing big payouts, and demo/gambling mindsets that condition bad behavior; promotes slow, incremental consistency (e.g., weekly percent gains).
  • Learning process: Teaching filters out lazy students — you must practice in your own account, learn through mistakes, and be patient; no shortcuts to experience.
  • Social media/toxicity: Criticizes online negativity and fake gurus who prioritize engagement over real trading skill; many detractors lack discipline and can’t replicate results.
  • Personal notes and anecdotes: Mentions specific students and incidents (leaderboard competitors, a livestream he advised, students who transformed), and stresses underlying personal work (self-confidence, removing toxic influences) is essential for success.
  • Closing: Encourages disciplined study and practice, reiterates openness to public, verifiable challenges, and signs off to join the Traders Roundup podcast.

Overall message: Trade methodically, start tiny, focus on structure and consistency, ignore performative online criticism, and do the hard work to become reliably profitable.

Quiz

1) What weekly profit target using a single micro contract did ICT suggest as a starting goal?
A. $50 per week
B. $250 per week
C. $1,000 per day
D. $5,000 per week

2) What strike-rate did ICT claim to have achieved that week?
A. 60% strike rate
B. 75% strike rate
C. 100% strike rate
D. 0% strike rate

3) Which of the following did ICT say about Larry Williams-style over-leveraging?
A. It’s safe to risk 1–2% per trade.
B. Williams used extreme leverage, risking ~30% of his account on single trades, which is madness.
C. Williams never had big drawdowns.
D. Over-leveraging is the only path to consistent profits.

Answer key

1) B
2) C
3) B

Evidence from the transcript
1) One-micro $250/week / $50/day suggestion (supports answer 2-B)
– Quote”One micro, we’re just trading with one micro contract. Try to make $250 a week, four weeks in a row… Use one micro to make $50 net each day. If you’re gonna trade every day…”
– He explicitly gives $250/week (or $50/day) as the starter target.

2) 100% strike rate claim (supports answer 3-C)
– Quote:”But if you look at what I did this week, using the smallest of leverage… here it is, the end of the week and we look back and it’s a hundred fucking percent strike rate.”
– He claims a 100% strike rate for that week.

3) Larry Williams over-leveraging (supports answer 4-B)
– Quote “Larry Williams was just going in there like a monster over leveraging to the hilt. Okay? And there’s no doubt about it, you can just look at his statements and look at his positions. That was crazy leverage. Risking 30% of his account on, you know, on single trades.”

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