Trading is tough. It can either make you a better person. Break you completely. There's usually no in between.
Nobody talks about the nights when you're lying on your bed wondering if all the hard work and time you put into trading is worth it. Nobody talks about seeing friends succeed while you're still struggling with the mistakes.
You will lose money. That will hurt. You will also lose confidence in yourself. You'll doubt yourself more times than you can count. There will be moments when your trading account is down, your motivation is gone, and the only thing left is the decision to either continue or walk away.
The market doesn't care about your work, your goals or what you've sacrificed. It will keep humbling you until you learn to survive.
Most people quit when things get tough. They don't quit because they're not smart enough; they quit because the pain of keeping going is more than the pain of quitting.
If you stick with trading long enough learn from your mistakes and don't let losses define you something changes. You stop focusing on making money. Start working on becoming a better person.
In the end trading isn't really about reading charts. It's, about who you need to become to succeed in trading.
Trading will. Break you or make you. The question is: when trading tries to break you will you still be there tomorrow?
every trader hits that phase: where youโve learned enough, but youโre still not consistent
thatโs the identity gap
your knowledge is ahead of your behavior
you overcome this by fixing yourself, not your system