Hi Traders, I have been trading for about 4 years. If you guys are starting out or have been trading for some years now and are still struggling with consistency I feel you. Trading itself is not that hard, but overcoming yourself, your demons, your desires and traumas is the hardest part. Imagine trading for 3 years + and barely making any money. Not being profitable but still moving forward because you're so heavily invested in it that it's literally the only thing you know best. I have invested and lost big amounts of money in trading throughout the years and I just couldn't quit before I succeeded. I wanted to quit so many times but I just couldn't, there was something in me that kept me going and making me believe that there will be a turning point. I remember at my early stages I was blaming the markets or thinking that this game was impossible because I was making money but then loosing it all back not understanding why. For more than 3 years I have been struggling to become profitable because of myself and not my skill. The FOMO or that little voice that tells you to enter a trade when you're not supposed to. Making a plan and deciding that NY session is the only session that you will be trading, but then finding yourself once again in front of the charts during Asia and waking up at 3 am for London, all of this because you want to make money that bad. The problem of chasing trades and not respecting your rules is the reason you're not profitable. All the actions you do before and after your trading sessions which are not aligned with your truest self is the reason you are not profitable. The constant hunger for money and more money in the markets is the reason you are not profitable. Listen guys I have been through all of it and trust me it's not worth it. Because if I have learned from the beginning that trading is a mirror reflection of yourself and your habits, and the way you are able to control your desires, I would have quickly understood that by respecting my plan and creating a plan in the first place is the most important to become successful. Without no plan you have no direction, without no direction you don't know where you are going and without no rules/checklist you don't know what you are looking for. If I would tell you that you could be insanely profitable just by following the simple break and retest strategy you would think I am crazy. But what is funny is that the biggest traders in this space rely daily on this simple strategy. As a beginner we often think that we need this complex strategy or system to become profitable but it's wrong. As I mentioned at the beginning, the skill of trading is not that complex, once you take a couple of months to study correctly price action, major and minor structures, determining the trend, understand where are your key levels and reversals & lastly understanding candles (Bull - Bear Engulf & Pin bars) you are pretty much all set. The problem that we all have is the internal control, this can come in many forms and is mostly directly correlated with your childhood and the past traumas you went through. Not being able to tap in yourself and having a hard time understanding and following your intuition in the market is all part of that. You can study for years and never become profitable unless you heal yourself. Remember guys when you're trading you are trading against real people and real emotions, the candles are just a reflection of the overall bias and sentiment of the majority of the market. The big banks, hedge funds and market makers don't want you to make money, the sooner you grasp this idea and understand that if the move is way to predictable the chances of you succeeding are slim...There is a reason why 90% of retail traders never make it, it's not because of the skill set itself but because of their mindset. Please understand that most of the information out there is manipulated by smart money in order for you to loose. All the basic information with trend lines and all the different kind of tools and indicators you have available on Trading view is just a distraction for you to continue to loose and never become successful. You barely need anything on your charts to trade and become successful, but you definitely need the right mindset and a plan for your everyday trading in order to become profitable.I don't want to write too much because I want to keep it pretty simple and straightforward, however I just wanted to share with you guys a message that can help you out in this journey. Remember at the end it will be all worth it. Most of the people around you if not all will never understand you or what you are doing, because to be real trading in the end is still one of the hardest thing to do on a daily basis if you are not in tune with yourself and most of the people out there aren't able to take some time for themselves to do that kind of internal work. We live in a World where there are so many distractions that keep you for turning within that it's pretty much impossible for the Majority. But choose to not be the majority, choose to be different, choose to be yourself and focus on healing your issues before moving forward because trust me even the strongest and baddest alpha male cannot become successful at anything before healing his traumas. I also would like to invite you guys if you want and wish to build a community within trading to follow my free tele which I started only a couple weeks ago. The reason I started this was because as you may know trading is a very lonely game and it's important to keep on interacting and being able to be part of a community to feel well inside. I basically post trade ideas and information about trading I feel that is useful and helpful and I would also like for you guys to contribute and together we can build a strong community around the right information and opportunities in the market. I mostly trade Forex, Commodities and a bit of BTC. If you interested follow our community and I am looking forward in seeing you there. All the BEST!!! - Tele MTrvdes
TL;DR: The author shares a personal journey of 4+ years struggling with trading, emphasizing that the biggest obstacle isn't technical skill but self-discipline and mindset. They stress that emotional control, healing past traumas, and sticking to a simple trading plan are key to becoming profitable. Overtrading, chasing money, and ignoring rules are common pitfalls. Complex strategies and flashy indicators are distractions; success comes from mastering basics and knowing yourself. Lastly, they invite readers to join a free Telegram trading community for support and shared growth.
Montreal. I Knew you Weren't American. No Way would an American type all those words. I Ain't reading All that. Americans are more direct and to the point. Hurry.
If you build a system and test it thoroughly—both backward and forward—across enough trades to cover all the variance and drawdowns, and it still shows a statistically solid edge and win rate, then none of those options really apply to a professional trader.
WTF are you talking about alpha male? The term alpha male is completely relative to the situation. The alpha male around chess players is the strongest chess player not the strongest physically... So I don't understand the analogy to trading .. Secondly I'd be curious to hear what you think is structure LOL.
TL;DR: "I'm a one time deadbeat poster, 4 years experience. Please leave your trading cathedral and join my backyard trading church with another handful of deadbeat traders so we can discuss charts. Later I'll organise a fundraising so we build a brick shithouse."
And don't forget about "loosing" money. To be fair, you can become rich trading without ever passing 4th grade grammar.
TL;DR: The hardest thing in trading is trading in unkind/messy/undecisive market when we thought it was a kind/organised/decisive market. To make trading difficult, a decisive market can morph into an undecisive market anytime/anywhere.
But the market and particularly the MSM, Financial media, The Corp CEOs when presenting updates and ER reports, the PRs, the "ultra Hype", the paid pumpers, the youtube trading influencers, the online bots..even AI itself..Its all designed perfectly to "take you out of your self discipline", emotional control, blaming passed traumatic thinking loops...Its all designed as one giant used car lot filled with cheap commercials, glitter, cheap suits, lies and all the fake bells and whistles..its all gotten so bad today that its been reduced to gambling and "chasing Losses"..using large levels of casino loans (Margin). Trump himself is a master of taking traders out of their discipline and instilling fear and doubt..causing position shake out so that his close associates can grab great companies at ultra cheap prices..at the expense of retail .. Trump "is the ultimate used car salesman, cheap suit and hair piece included" You have to cancel out all the media..all the news..all the online forums..while you trade..the room needs to void of all that fake shit. Just trade the market, the price action..the charts..today..market makers have been giving away their position often...use that to your advantage