Gratitude · Not a Solo Effort
Community & Thanks
None of this trading journey happened alone. This page names the people, communities, and platforms that made the difference — coaches, a copy-trading community that turned into an unexpected gift, and the tools this whole build runs on.
Three coaching programs, each bringing something different — see pattern_tracker.md's "Trading Style" note for how these actually blend day to day
Inevitrade (IT)
Smart Money Concepts & Institutional Order Flow
Smart-money concepts across both crypto and traditional futures — a purpose-built indicator suite, extensive backtesting, and strategy bots
ZeroToHero (ZTH)
High-probability Setups & Consistent Execution
A six-setup, top-down framework — 1-hour bias, 5-minute trigger — built on the discipline behind "securing base hits"
SmartTradingBlueprint (STB)
Profundity & Sophisticated Market Insight
The ICT/SMC vocabulary underneath everything else here, plus four stand-alone setups — FCR, Opening Range Break, Silver Bullet, Turtle Soup
The people behind the programs, the community, and the tools — direct links, not just program pills
Most cards link to Instagram , a few to LinkedIn , and one voice on WhatsApp who doesn't have a public profile to link but remains a part of my success!
PropFirmMatchTV's live-stream energy, MarketButcher's after-hours breakdowns, Levi's crypto perspective, and Smooth Trader TV's overnight sessions — different formats, the same fun-over-fear spirit
Dave & Ralph
After-hours content and perspective
breakdowns that make the grind feel lighter
XRP/XLM/HBAR-focused crypto content — the voice that introduced me to BTCC
youtube.com/@LeviCrypto ↗ Jump to the Perpetual Crypto Futures Recipe ↓Late-night Nasdaq futures live trading — the overnight session, Batman-coded
youtube.com/@SmoothTraderTV ↗TMade Alex partnered with Trader Yush to build TheGexLab - not a footnote under PFM above — its own thank-you, for a different kind of tool entirely
TMade × TheGexLab
Real-time dealer positioning (put/call walls, zero gamma, and the regime read that says whether the market's pinned or primed to run) laid directly onto the chart.
Partner access: thegexlab.com/tmade code: TMADE for off
Cross-platform, prop-firm compliant, risk-aware, multi-broker support handling per-follower quantity multipliers — replacing the manual multi-device mirroring method
TradeCopia
The upgrade from executing through multiple instances of TradingView's native single-account-view switcher. Not just an easier, faster version of conducting clean business by hand: an enterprise-grade fix for a growing need — taking human error and lag out of manual mirroring, and moving off Tradovate's own "airplane cockpit" UI, which lacks the drawing tools, object tree, indicators, custom pine scripts, webhooks, and technical analysis intact across every TradingView session
- Hedge prevention — caps a follower's order at its existing size, never flips it into reverse
- Position reconciler — corrects any follower fill that drifts from the leader, entry or exit
- Auto-flatten the instant the leader goes flat — no stale bracket orders left behind
Running on TradeCopia's Pro+Lite tier, not its local low-latency tier — the local-environment instability covered in the backstory above rules that one out, even though it's a feature a lot of people genuinely rely on
Known edge gaps: live P&L doesn't always register outside the instant a position opens or closes and even though the pause/reconnect sounds fire in the background — every trade so far has still executed exactly as configured regardless. Pro+ might smooth that over; just not an affordable upgrade yet, and the local tier still isn't a fit for laptops that fall to sleep mid-session or local internet and power outages or computer crashes under heavy loads.
Tradesyncer Another option
Sub-100ms sync speed, cloud-based, hedge prevention, position sync run through its named
— Follower Protection —
feature control similar to how TradeCopia solves reconciliation and auto-flattening. No VPS or local software required.
Not personally run yet — worth knowing about, while TradeCopia is the one actually battle-tested in production right now
Thanks to the platforms that make this whole build possible — deeper how-to context for these lives on resources.html
TradingView
Charting, level marking, and screenshot capture for every review in this repo
tradingview.com ↗TradeZella
Where the trade-journaling habit started — the origin story kept intact on gallery.html
tradezella.com ↗DeepCharts
Order-flow data and lower-latency charting. Currently testing the 14-day browser-based DeepGamma trial starting Oct 4 — full backstory:
deepcharts.com ↗TradingView, TradeZella, and DeepCharts above aren't just for futures — as of Sep 2026, several crypto exchanges connect live to TradingView too, so the same charting/journaling home-base now spans TradFi and crypto. Xato (see the Pre-Flight Checklist) is the U.S.-friendly fit here — Hyperliquid's own order books, no perp-access restriction the way some CEXs carry
BTCC
Main perp venue — SOL/USDT perpetuals, now tradable directly from TradingView (synced live exchange data, instant execution, works on mobile). Account shows as "Perpetual Account USDT" with an accurate live balance. Spot isn't connected yet, only perpetuals
btcc.com ↗Crypto.com
Also newly connected to TradingView — spot trading synced (perpetuals not yet). Holds a spot balance with no perp balance yet, the inverse of the BTCC account, while testing how the two complement each other. Shows as "Master Account USD" — currently $0 while funds get positioned
crypto.com ↗Coinbase
Newest TradingView connection — live balance visible, previously only available for derivatives here, now spot access too. Still testing spot trading through it before relying on it day to day
coinbase.com ↗Bybit
To come — on the list to test next as another major CEX option
Phemex
Considered, not yet in rotation — liquidity is noticeably thinner than the exchanges above, so this stays a "maybe later" rather than an active venue for now
CEX.io
Spot trading available and already KYC'd — perpetuals aren't permitted in this jurisdiction on this exchange specifically, so this one stays spot-only
Binance
Binance.US account held (spot only) — a completely separate entity from global Binance, which is one of the largest perp markets in the world but geoblocks the US entirely. No perps exist on Binance.US at all, not a restriction, just not offered
Kraken Pro
Not currently held — a fully CFTC-compliant reference venue via its Kraken Derivatives US / Bitnomial infrastructure, worth evaluating alongside Coinbase Advanced as a compliant path
Kalshi
Not currently held — started as a prediction-market platform, now the first venue with landmark CFTC approval for regulated crypto perpetual contracts in the US
Robinhood Derivatives
The equities/options Robinhood account is active elsewhere — the crypto-derivatives side specifically isn't yet, since it's currently CME futures and prediction markets, not true perpetuals
MEXC
Not used — explicitly names the US in its own prohibited-jurisdictions list, enforced with facial recognition and mandatory KYC
Blofin
Not used — bans all US users outright in its own Terms of Use, every state and territory
dYdX
Not used — a DeFi perp DEX, front-end geoblocked for US IPs. The underlying contracts are technically reachable via direct RPC connection, at the cost of losing every exchange-side safety net
Hyperliquid
Not used — same DeFi-DEX shape as dYdX, notable as the venue Robinhood Wallet's own perps tab routes through (and blocks for US users)
GMX
Not used — a multi-asset-collateral DeFi perp DEX, same US front-end geoblock as dYdX and Hyperliquid
In addition to these centralized exchanges (CEX) — stay tuned for DEX (decentralized exchange) info as that side of the picture fills in. Full regulatory research behind every "US regulatory status" link above: us-crypto-derivatives-regulatory-landscape.md ↗
Not currently affiliated with anyone. Everything above is genuine thanks, not a paid partnership — this section stays honest and empty until (if ever) that changes