Took me way too long to admit the problem was me, not my strategy
I started trading thinking the whole game was finding the right setup. Every time I lost, I figured the strategy was broken and went looking for a new one. Indicators, sessions, somebody's course, I cycled through all of it. Results didn't change.
What actually broke me wasn't a losing streak. It was noticing my worst trades came right after my best ones. I'd hit a clean win, feel untouchable, then size up on something that didn't fit any of my rules. The setup was never the problem. I was breaking my own plan in the exact moments I felt most confident.
For a while I genuinely didn't want to look at it. Going back through my trades honestly meant admitting most of my losses were just me being undisciplined, not the market being unfair. But when I finally started writing down what I was thinking and feeling on each trade, not the chart but the actual decision, the pattern was impossible to ignore. My win rate was fine. My average loss was killing me, and it was always emotional.
Still working on it, I'm not pretending I've got it solved. But I'm curious how common this is. What was the moment you stopped blaming your strategy and started looking at your own behavior, and what did you find when you actually looked back?