Profitability
I want to ask all traders, whether experienced or beginners, how did you get to profitability? How did you manage the days when you spent hours watching charts and still kept losing, when nothing made sense, and what was the turning point in your trading career?
Maybe this question has already been asked here, but I would really like to read people’s individual stories again. I think there are many of us here who would appreciate reading personal experiences.
As a beginner, I am of course in a phase where even though I study a strategy perfectly every day, things still don’t make sense. I am slightly profitable, but I am absolutely not satisfied, and the “easy money” where everything follows the plan only happens maybe 2 trades out of 15. YouTube tutorials look beautiful,simple FVG setups, simple strategies where everything seems to work effortlessly: price hits the zone on the first retest, gets rejected, and then makes a big move up or down.
But then reality comes, real trading, and you realize that markets work completely differently 90% of the time. I know this is not sustainably profitable long-term, it’s more luck than skill.
More experienced traders, please advise us on how to improve market reading, how to take things to the next level. I would really like to learn from someone who is already experienced in this business and can share their story, maybe change many people’s perspective and open their eyes.
Thank you.