JTrader

No matter your age, you’ll always wish you started younger but today is the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Friendly reminder:
You are closer than you think.

Options or futures?

My first trading year I thought I had a strategy problem.
I had abandoned 11 strategies.
The math on each one was positive.
I never gave any of them 100 trades.
I had a discipline problem dressed as a strategy problem dressed as a research problem.

Who wants change?
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Who wants to change?

You can't think your way out of a bad mental state with the same brain that got you in.
You only have two tools: stop trading, or shrink size.
Most traders try a third one: keep going.
That one isn't a tool.
That one is the disease.

Trading is the only job where the best decision of the year is often to log off.

Every rule you wrote was written by the best version of you.
Every rule you break is broken by the most scared one.
Trading is just deciding which one holds the mouse.

The faster you try to recover, the longer it takes.
The harder you push, the slower the printer runs.
The more you need it, the further it goes.

The market gives you one chance to be right.
And a hundred chances to ruin it.

Trading is the only profession where your worst enemy uses your own hands.

A bad trader with rules beats a good trader without them.

A 50% drawdown needs a 100% recovery.
A 70% drawdown needs a 233% recovery.
A 90% drawdown needs a 900% recovery.

Trading is a mirror that costs money to look into.
It shows you exactly how you handle uncertainty and how badly you need to be right.