THE TC888 BODY OF WORK

Ideas into
decisions.

Ideas, trading concepts and real trade reviews. Explore how I think, how the MTF System works, and how it plays out in the market.

01 / THINKING

Prepare your thinking.

Original essays on uncertainty, preparation and the trader’s final decision.

Thinking / Original essay

Traders Are Built in Difficult Markets

Discipline and confidence are tested when conditions become difficult.

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Thinking / Original post

Stop Looking for Trades. Define Your Setups First.

Define your setups, markets, sessions and pass conditions before looking for the next trade.

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Thinking / Original essay

Technical Analysis is a Hoax?

Why preparation matters more than prediction.

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Thinking / Original essay

Trading Is War Gaming

Understand the participants. Prepare for uncertainty.

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Thinking / Original post

Who Pays For Your Trade?

Look beyond your own thesis. Who is taking the other side, and what happens if their idea fails?

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Thinking / Original essay

Pristine Beaches, the Death Loop and Boxing

Why changing your approach after every outcome can keep you stuck—and how a personal Playbook helps.

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Thinking / Original essay

The Certainty Trap

Structure, selectivity and discretion in a market that keeps adapting.

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Thinking / Original post

Are you actually trading a system?

Knowing the concepts is a start. Define the rules and decisions you can repeat.

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Thinking / Original post

Three losing trades. Is that bad?

Understand what your process can produce before reacting to the latest result.

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Thinking / Original post

Trading psychology is state management.

Awareness, preparation and protection help you put your process into practice.

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02 / MTF SYSTEM

Connect the concepts.

Start with the three plays. Then study how a complete playbook narrows the decision.

Cornerstone / The three plays

All My Trading Profits Come From 3 Setups

Understand continuation, parabolic expansion and reversal, and the conditions that distinguish them.

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Complete playbook / Gold Inside Day

Still Confused by Stacey Burke? Start With This Gold Trading System

A bounded example with explicit rules, passed setups and a losing trade. Study selectivity across the full backtest.

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MTF System / Original post

Price is always in a box.

Use a reference range to distinguish continuation, failure and remaining inside.

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MTF System / Original post

The 9–1–5 concept and the 8-hour range

Structure the trading day before deciding whether a setup is developing.

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MTF SYSTEM / EXECUTION SESSIONS

Review, prepare and discuss.

Join my weekly open Execution Session. We break down one recent NASDAQ or Gold trade, discuss the thesis for the upcoming session, and answer your questions about the process. Open to everyone.

Explore the recordings in the Market Execution Series on YouTube, or bring your questions to the weekly session.

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03 / TRADE REVIEWS

Follow the entire decision.

Context, thesis, confirmation, execution and review. Each example connects a concept to a real market situation.

Gold / Context + confirmation

How I Use DXY to Trade Gold

How do you test your thesis before committing to an entry?

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Gold / Continuation

Why Continuation Trades Win

Wait for direction, then confirm the opportunity to join it.

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DAX · NASDAQ / Reversal

How to Trade Reversals

What separates a reversal idea from permission to trade it?

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Silver / Session timing

How I Use Time Rotations to Time My Trades

When does a setup deserve your attention?

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Dow · NASDAQ · DAX / Continuation

How to Trade Continuations

What is visible before a continuation breaks?

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Gold · Dow · NASDAQ / Day Zero

Why Most Traders Miss the ZERO Setup

How do you recognise the opportunity before the entry?

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NASDAQ · Dow · GBP/USD / Confirmation

The Close in Breakout Signal Explained

What happens after the breakout?

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CHART CASES

One chart. One decision to study.

Selected examples from TC’s trade documentation. The charts show the context and execution views; the notes explain what changed and what the review found.