What’s one trading rule you ignored that you eventually realized exists for a reason?
Could be risk management, patience, position sizing, or something else. What hit you the hardest?
Could be risk management, patience, position sizing, or something else. What hit you the hardest?
Curious whether consistency came more from technical improvements or mental improvements.
After a certain amount of backtesting? A set number of trades? Or is strategy hopping part of the learning process?
Could be about psychology, prop firms, indicators, mentors, risk management, anything trading related.
Everyone has one lesson they had to learn the hard way. What was yours?
Interested to see which one people think matters more long term.
Not talking about profitability only. Just the point where charts stopped looking random and you started understanding market behavior.
Could’ve been a loss, revenge trade, blowing an account, or even finally becoming profitable. Curious what changed your mindset.