JTrader

Name one year the market ran out of opportunities.
You can't.
So why do you have FOMO?

Finish the sentence:
"I'd already be profitable if I just stopped ______."

You believe the goal is to stop losing.
It isn't.
Losing is a fixed cost of the business.

You believe a green day means you traded well.
It doesn't.
You can break every rule and get paid.
You can follow every rule and lose.

There is a version of you that shows up during a losing streak.
He sizes up.
He moves the stop.
He calls it conviction.
Your entire career is a fight to keep that guy away from the keyboard.

The goal isn’t to win every trade.
The goal is to execute the same edge long enough for probability to do its job.

Trading becomes simple when you finally accept:
You are allowed to miss the move.

Your biggest edge might be the trades you never take.

Trading to escape something and trading to build something look identical from the outside.
Your position size knows which one it is.

You cut winners because you do not trust them.
You hold losers because you do not want to be wrong.

Just felt a crazy earthquake.
Damn that was scary.

If you could go back to your first day of trading, knowing everything you know now…
What would you tell yourself?

Trading is 90% waiting and 10% executing.
Most people make the mistakes in the waiting.
FEAR and FOMO take over and you enter trades out of your zone.
Remember a trader is a SNIPER, we need to wait for the perfect conditions just to make ONE shot.
Dont let emotions control your trigger.

A losing trade executed according to your plan is better than a winning trade that breaks all your rules.
Never forget.

Trading is brutal.
Trading will crush your ego.
Trading will force you to face your weaknesses everyday.
Trading is not designed for the weak.

Trading is a game where the daily scoreboard lies.
Do everything right, still lose.
Do everything wrong, still win.
The only way to survive a game that lies to you is to stop playing for the score.

There are winners and there are quitters.
Choose your side.
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The moment you stop trying to make money is usually the moment you start.
Need repels it.
Calm attracts it.