Father, trading coach, futures trader, and guitar player @topsteptrader
Joined August 2019
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John Hoagland retweeted
12 Apr 2025
Hey @TopstepHoag:
Wanted to say thanks for helping keep us traders level headed.
You keep reiterating that we must not try to play “god” while in these markets.
I had my best week in my personal account to date, but every session you remind us to remain grounded.
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John Hoagland retweeted
24 Mar 2023
Beware of the overconfidence that can come from early success, including progress mentally/emotionally. You need large samples to prove success or progress. Extrapolating early success/progress into the future is a distraction from the focus you need to make it actually happen.
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John Hoagland retweeted
9 Mar 2023
If you're thinking negatively/pessimistically about what you can't do, you're overconfident.
That's right, overconfident.
You THINK you know what you can't do, but you can't know that yet. Only after you've given full effort can't you determine you capacity, not before.
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John Hoagland retweeted
8 Mar 2023
If you've been standing on a diving board too long, unable to jump in, sometimes the right answer is for someone to push you in.
Risk aversion can create such paralysis that it becomes a very hard cycle to break. You may need to exaggerate the correction before dialing it back.
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John Hoagland retweeted
6 Mar 2023
Intuition can only be developed through years of experience. Knowledge and raw intelligence aren't enough.
If you've been trading or playing poker for <1 year, don't trust your intuitive sense of what's right, your emotions are manipulating you.
Quick 🧵
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John Hoagland retweeted
16 Feb 2023
Emotion = information
Instead of suppressing your emotion what happens if you asked:
What msg is it trying to send me?
What would I do differently if I had a deeper understanding of this feeling?
#tradingpsychology
#ES_F $SPX $SPY $QQQ #NQ_F $ES_F #QQQ
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John Hoagland retweeted
6 Feb 2023
What I see w top performing clients.
We each have natural strengths/weaknesses, although we need to address weaknesses, ultimately at the highest levels of performance, it comes down to leveraging strengths.
Coaching is about being the best version of you
#tradingpsychology
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John Hoagland retweeted
6 Feb 2023
A great example is one of my coaching clients who happens to be one of the top energy traders in the world, and had his best year ever in '22, he plans on continuing with regular coaching.
6 Feb 2023
Instead of obsessing about P&L, what would happen if you approached trading as a vehicle for self-growth?
That's what I see with many of the top traders I work with.
#tradingpsychology
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John Hoagland retweeted
1 Nov 2022
👇🏼absolutely
1 Nov 2022
Great traders are addicts.
They're addicted to:
- Setting alerts
- Placing stop losses
- Exercising patience
- Sticking to their edge
- Journaling their trades
- Developing a trade plan
- Defining their price targets
- Practicing risk management
- Knowing when they're wrong
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John Hoagland retweeted
24 Oct 2022
Every strategy works sometimes, but no strategy works all the time. #thereisnoholygrail #thereisnotradingsecret
Successful traders I know have learned to recognize the conditions that are best for a given strategy.
#tradingpsychology
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John Hoagland retweeted
26 Sep 2022
When I put on a trade, all I expect is that something will happen
- Mark Douglas
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26 Sep 2022
Dad wisdom: "Tough times don't last, tough people do!"
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