The 7 Trading Laws

I've been using FluxCharts to track liquidity sweeps and order flow for eight months now, and I wish I had found them sooner. It's the only tool that shows me exactly what I'm about to break down in today's laws - the real institutional activity that makes or breaks every trade.

A couple years ago, I lost everything.

Not once. Not twice. Three different times.

Not because I was lazy.

I was obsessed. Studying charts, chasing setups, risking 10% on trades I thought were, 

“can’t miss.”

They missed.

Over and over.

I wasn’t losing because I lacked effort.

I was losing because I broke the rules that keep traders in the game.

Until a mentor laid it out for me, seven simple laws.

Not strategy. Not indicators. Laws.

Follow them, and you survive long enough to win.

Ignore them, and the market buries you.

It's not complicated

But it's not completely "done for you".

Let’s break them down.

Law 1: Your stop loss matters more than your target

If one trade can wipe you out, no amount of wins will save you.

Good traders protect capital first. Everything else is secondary.

Law 2: No bias? No trade.

If you don’t have a clear read, sit out.

Most blown accounts come from boredom, not bad setups.

Law 3: Don’t tell your friends you trade

They’ll distract you, doubt you, or expect results.

When things get hard, and they will, you don’t need extra noise.

Law 4: Higher timeframes rule

Smart money watches the daily chart. So should you.

Don’t trade blind. Always zoom out.

Law 5: Wait for the sweep, or get swept

Before every big move, there’s a stop hunt. That’s where smart money enters.

If you’re not waiting for it, you’re the exit liquidity.

Law 6: Use the 15-minute to check your bias

Zooming out on the 15-minute gives a solid read on daily direction.

Simple. Effective. Reliable.

Law 7: Your first payout makes it real

Trading will break you before it pays you.

But the first real withdrawal? That’s the moment it all clicks.

Most traders lose for one of these reasons:

They break these rules.

They overtrade.

They chase setups.

They ignore sweeps.

They talk too much.

They gamble on noise.

Then they wonder why nothing works.

Bottom line, 

Trading rewards discipline. Not talent. Not grind. Not creativity.

Discipline.

So print these laws and learn them. 

Keep them next to your screen. And before every trade, ask:

Am I breaking any of these?

If the answer’s yes, don’t take the trade.

You’ll thank yourself later.

Follow the laws, and the profits will follow you.

And if you think your hopeless when it comes to discipline,

You're not.

I know, because I've seen it 

In real time, in here

Talk soon,

Atif

P.S. Hard truth from someone who learned this the expensive way:

Every trader who goes broke thinks they're the exception to these rules. 

They think their strategy is so good they can risk more, trade without bias, ignore timeframes, or skip the sweep.

They're all wrong. And they're all broke.

Don't be them.

Check out FluxCharts here if you want to see the liquidity sweeps and order flow that make Law #5 so powerful.