Topic
01- Before Trading There Was Me
02- 2020 — When I Found Trading
05- Trading Started Showing Me Who I Really Was
06- The Decision to Leave Comfort
07- The Basement — 1–2 AM Grind
08- My First Real Lessons — Price Action
10- Why I Needed Something Simpler
11- The Beginning of Power System
12- What Power System Is Built On
13- Why Power System Is Different
14- Why I Created Dfinance
16- A Message to You
But my real name is Daif.
And honestly, I was not always the person you are seeing today.
The person behind Dfinance, the person you may know as King D, didn't simply wake up one day with a plan, confidence, knowledge, and a clear vision of where life was going.
I also had days when I questioned myself, my future, my decisions, and even whether I was capable of becoming anything different from the average life I was surrounded by.
So before I tell you about trading, Power System, Dfinance, or anything I teach today, I want you to know the person behind all of it.
Because if you only see the final version of someone, you will never understand what it took to become that person.
And maybe the most interesting thing is this:
Just like you decided to click and read this page, there was a time when I made a decision that completely changed the direction of my life.
At that time, I didn't know where that decision would take me.
I only knew that I didn't want to remain the same.
I wasn't living some perfect life before trading.
I had my own struggles, my own limitations, my own unhealthy cycles, and my own battles with myself.
There were things around me that made me feel stuck. Financial pressure was one of the realities I had to deal with. I was a student, and even continuing education and managing expenses wasn't always easy.
I eventually reached the point where I was a 12th-grade student dealing with expenses and trying to understand what I was actually going to do with my life.
I wasn't the guy with a perfect plan.
I wasn't someone sitting in a beautiful office with expensive equipment, a degree behind my name, and a team around me.
I was simply a young person trying to find a way forward.
And honestly, I was broken in ways that people couldn't always see.
I was introverted.
I didn't enjoy constantly being around people or attending every gathering.
I spent a lot of time inside my own head.
And later, trading would make me realize something I didn't understand about myself before:
Sometimes the biggest thing you have to learn is not the market. It's yourself.
I started trading around 2020.
But I want to be honest about how I started.
I didn't understand trading.
I didn't understand institutional behavior, liquidity, market structure, risk management, or even many of the basic things that I talk about today.
Even creating a trading account and getting started felt difficult to me.
So what did I do?
I went to YouTube.
I watched videos.
I saw other people trading.
I copied what they were doing.
I watched a setup and tried to copy it.
Someone drew something on a chart, I tried drawing it too.
Someone entered a trade, I wanted to understand how they entered.
I was learning from the outside without understanding what was happening underneath.
And emotionally, I was completely different from the person I am today.
I was emotional.
I overthought.
I became attached to trades.
I became frustrated.
I wanted results.
And when the market didn't give me what I wanted, I didn't always know how to respond.
I was trying to trade the market without understanding the person sitting behind the screen.
Me.
You might ask:
If trading caused so many problems, why didn't I simply stop?
Because there were things about trading that attracted me deeply.
The first was freedom.
The idea that you could potentially trade from almost anywhere fascinated me.
You weren't necessarily tied to a fixed salary.
You weren't forced to sell a physical product to someone.
You didn't have to stand in front of people and convince them to buy something.
You could sit in front of a chart and make decisions based on what the market was doing.
And then there was another thing that attracted me even more.
The challenge.
Trading doesn't care who you are.
It doesn't care whether you are tall or short.
Good-looking or not.
Popular or unknown.
Whether you have a PhD or whether you have very little formal education.
The chart doesn't ask for your social status before it moves.
Anyone can participate.
And that idea was powerful to me.
Because somewhere inside me I had this thought:
If I can actually become good at this, it will prove to me that there is more potential inside me than I was using.
Not because I wanted to disrespect average people.
I don't.
There is nothing wrong with living an average life if that is what someone genuinely wants.
But I knew there was something inside me that wanted more.
I wanted to test my own limits.
And trading became that test.
My beginning wasn't a success story.
It was a cycle.
Small wins.
Then huge losses.
Hope.
Then disappointment.
Another attempt.
Another loss.
Another strategy.
Another idea.
Another YouTube video.
Another setup.
Another losing streak.
And eventually, I reached a point where I couldn't keep telling myself that I simply needed another strategy.
I had to ask a much harder question:
Maybe I don't actually understand what I'm doing.
That realization changed everything.
Because for a long time, when I lost, I thought the problem was the strategy.
Then I thought maybe I needed a better indicator.
Then another concept.
Then another technique.
But slowly I started realizing that the market wasn't necessarily my enemy.
My lack of understanding was.
One of the most unexpected things trading gave me wasn't money.
It was self-awareness.
The more I traded, the more I started discovering things about my own personality.
I realized how emotional I could become.
How much I could overthink.
How quickly a loss could affect my mood.
How badly I sometimes wanted to be right.
How difficult it was to accept that the market could simply do something I didn't expect.
And I started asking myself questions that had nothing to do with candles.
Why do I think like this?
Why do I react like this?
Why does this loss affect me so much?
Why do I keep repeating the same mistake?
Why do I sometimes know the rule but still break it?
The more I studied trading psychology and human behavior, the more interesting it became to me.
I started learning not only about markets but also about human behavior, psychology, decision-making, emotions, and personality.
And slowly, I started understanding myself.
I realized that I was naturally introverted.
I realized that I actually liked working alone.
I realized that I didn't need to be surrounded by people all the time.
Some people might describe that independent side as a “sigma” personality.
For me, the label isn't the important part.
What mattered was that I started understanding that being different from other people wasn't necessarily a weakness.
My unwillingness to give up became one of my biggest strengths.
At one point, I made a decision.
If I wanted a different result, I couldn't continue living exactly the same way.
So for some time, I separated myself from a lot of comfort.
I reduced unnecessary socializing.
I stepped away from gatherings.
I spent less time doing things that were not helping me move forward.
And I focused on myself.
It wasn't always easy.
People may see discipline from the outside and think it looks powerful.
But when you are actually living it, sometimes it is lonely.
There were times when I was alone with my thoughts, my charts, my mistakes, and my questions.
But I had made the decision.
And I wanted to see where that decision could take me.
One of the memories I still remember clearly is my small workspace at home.
It wasn't some luxury office.
It was a small table in the basement of my home.
That's where I used to work.
Sometimes I would wake up around 1 or 2 AM.
The world around me would be quiet.
Everyone else was sleeping.
And I would sit there, relax, open my charts, study, think, review, and try to understand.
Sometimes one hour.
Sometimes two.
And honestly?
I loved that period.
Looking back now, that small table means more to me than an expensive office ever could.
Because that was one of the places where I was building myself.
Nobody was watching.
Nobody was clapping.
There was no audience.
There was no guarantee that all that work would produce anything.
It was just me, my charts, my thoughts, and the decision I had made.
I was going to figure this out.
After around a year of small wins and huge losses, I started going deeper into the basics.
I began learning timeframes and studying price action more seriously.
I learned about:
Support and resistance.
Trendlines.
Price movement.
Basic market structure.
Different ways of reading charts.
And I respect price action.
I still do.
Price action is a powerful concept.
But there was a problem.
I didn't understand the logic behind what I was drawing.
I knew how to draw a trendline.
But did I truly understand why that trendline mattered?
I knew what support and resistance looked like.
But did I understand exactly why one level was important and another level was useless?
Not really.
I was drawing lines because I had learned that traders draw lines.
I was marking levels because I had seen other traders mark levels.
I was trying to make the chart look understandable.
But the chart wasn't actually becoming understandable.
I was putting things on the chart without understanding the logic behind them.
And eventually I realized something very important:
I wasn't reading the market. I was drawing on the market.
That was a huge difference.
Today, I still believe price action works.
But I also believe that knowing a concept and understanding a concept are two completely different things.
You can know the name of support and resistance.
You can know what a trendline is.
You can know dozens of patterns.
But if you don't understand the logic behind price movement, you can still get lost on a real chart.
And I know this because I was that person.
Discovering SMC & ICT
I wasn't satisfied with what I knew.
So I kept searching.
I explored different trading methodologies and eventually went deep into concepts related to ICT, SMC, liquidity, market structure, and institutional trading.
And I learned a lot.
I have respect for the knowledge that exists in these areas.
But again, I found another problem.
There was simply so much information.
One concept connected to another.
Another concept required understanding something else.
Then another model.
Another terminology.
Another setup.
Another rule.
Another exception.
For someone who already has years of experience, that information can become useful.
But when you're a normal beginner sitting in front of a chart, it can become overwhelming.
You don't know what to learn first.
You don't know what matters most.
You don't know which information is foundational and which information is advanced.
And sometimes, instead of becoming clearer, you become more confused because you are carrying too many concepts inside your head at the same time.
I spent a lot of time learning.
I spent a lot of time collecting information.
I spent months studying charts and concepts.
And eventually, I started asking myself another question:
What if the market is not actually as complicated as we make it?
Why I Needed Something Simpler
At that stage, I stopped wanting to simply collect strategies.
I wanted to understand the market.
I started looking at charts differently.
Instead of asking:
“Which strategy should I use?”
I started asking:
“What is actually happening here?”
Why did price move from this area?
Why did it react here?
Why did it continue there?
Where could significant participation be happening?
What causes a move to become strong?
What happens before a major movement?
What happens after it?
And most importantly:
What is the logic behind the candle I'm looking at?
I started collecting observations.
Comparing movements.
Studying different timeframes.
Testing ideas.
Reviewing my mistakes.
Going back to charts.
Studying again.
And again.
And again.
I wasn't looking for a magic indicator.
I was looking for a way to make the market make sense.
After a long period of studying, experimenting, collecting data, Backtesting more then 4 thousands houres and trying to simplify everything I had learned, I started building something of my own.
I called it Power System
What Power System Is Built On
Power System wasn't created because I thought the world needed another complicated trading strategy.
It came from a much more personal reason.
I wanted to build the system I wish I had when I was starting.
Something that could take the complexity I had experienced and organize it into something much easier to understand.
The foundation started becoming clear around three major questions:
Instead of looking at candles as random shapes, I wanted to understand the forces behind major market movement.
I wanted to understand where significant participation can develop and why certain areas matter more than others.
Understanding the movement isn't enough.
You also need to understand when your idea is valid, when it isn't, and when you should get out.
These three questions became part of the foundation of what I now call Power System.
I don't want to tell you that Power System is some magical system that eliminates losses.
That would be dishonest.
Trading has risk.
Losses are part of trading.
No serious system can change that reality.
What I wanted to change was something else:
The way a trader understands the chart.
I wanted to move away from simply memorizing patterns.
I wanted to understand the logic behind them.
I wanted a trader to look at a candle and ask:
“Why did this happen?”
Not simply:
“What pattern is this?”
I wanted someone to look at support and resistance and understand why an area may matter—not simply draw a horizontal line because someone told them to.
I wanted someone to look at price movement and understand the story developing behind it.
That became the direction of Power System.
Dfinance wasn't born from a perfect trading career.
It came from years of being confused.
From losing.
From trying things that didn't work for me.
From learning concepts that were valuable but difficult for me to organize.
From spending nights studying.
From sitting alone in a basement at 1 or 2 AM.
From asking questions.
From making mistakes.
From going back to the chart.
From learning about myself.
And eventually, from trying to simplify everything I had learned into something another person could understand.
That's why when I teach today, I don't want to simply give someone a setup and say:
“Take this trade.”
I want them to understand why.
Because I know what it feels like to follow something without understanding it.
I did that myself.
And I know how dangerous that can become.
If you came here expecting to meet someone who never lost, that's not me.
If you came here expecting someone who had everything figured out from the beginning, that's not me either.
I'm Daif.
I started with very little understanding.
I watched YouTube videos and copied other people.
I made emotional decisions.
I lost.
I had losing streaks.
I became confused.
I learned price action.
I drew lines that I didn't truly understand.
I went deeper into other methodologies.
I became overwhelmed with information.
I studied.
I isolated myself from comfort for a period.
I spent nights and early mornings studying in a small basement workspace.
I learned about markets.
But more importantly, I learned about myself.
And after years of learning, testing, failing, studying, and thinking, I started building the framework that became Power System.
That's the person behind the name.
That's the person behind Dfinance.
And that's the journey behind the mentor you are meeting today.
And maybe that's the most important part.
I don't consider myself someone who has reached the final destination.
I'm still learning.
Still studying.
Still testing.
Still improving.
Because the market doesn't stop teaching you.
Every chart can show you something.
Every mistake can expose something about you.
Every loss can teach you something if you're willing to face it honestly.
And that's the mentality I want to carry into Dfinance.
Not:
“I know everything.”
But:
“I know what it feels like not to know.”
And because I've been there, I understand why a beginner gets confused.
I understand why too much information can become a problem.
I understand why someone can know ten strategies and still not know how to read a chart.
I understand why psychology matters.
I understand why discipline matters.
And I understand why learning the logic behind the market is more valuable than simply memorizing what someone else does.
You didn't have to read this page.
You could have closed it.
But you decided to continue.
And that's exactly why I started this story with a decision.
Because my journey didn't change because I suddenly became lucky.
It started changing when I made a decision.
A decision to take myself seriously.
A decision to leave some comfort behind.
A decision to study when nobody was watching.
A decision to keep going after losses.
A decision to stop copying and start understanding.
And eventually, a decision to build something that could help someone else avoid some of the confusion I went through.
So if you're here because you want to learn trading, I don't want you to simply learn how to enter a trade.
I want you to learn how to understand what you're looking at.
Because that's what I was searching for all those years.
And that's what I ultimately started building.
I'm Daif.
Some people call me King D.
And this is the story behind the mentor.
Welcome to Dfinance.
