Live, Trapped, and Tilted:
The Trading Lesson Hidden in a
10-Year-Old Video

Why a single moment of tilt can destroy months of progress — and how to avoid it.

So, I remember this video doing the rounds about 10 years ago…
Maybe the first person to stream himself live trading?
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He gets caught long and wrong on the Russell,
trapped like a deer in headlights as it melts lower on him. 😬
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What’s valuable is the raw emotion… You see tilt happening in real time.

TILTED TRADER

Frozen.
Unable to hit the button.
Just sitting, hoping and swearing.

And I’m not sharing this to mock him, far from it.
He filmed and uploaded it himself… so clearly wanted others to learn from it.

But it’s a stark reminder:

  • We are the biggest risk to our accounts.
  • Not the market.
  • Not slippage.
  • Not a rogue tweet.
  • Us.
  • Our mindset. Our decisions. Our reactions.

So here’s the takeaway:

Always stay in control.
Because in this game… risk happens fast.

I genuinely hope that was his low point…and that now, he’s killing it.

(Warning: liberal use of F-bombs.)