Biggest trading misconception:
- You need to hit 1:2R or 1:3R every trade to be profitable.
- Some “influencers” even flexing 1:8R trades.
In these market conditions especially, you’ll get wrecked.
Let me explain:
Most new traders are immediately hypnotized by shiny object syndrome.
Trading gurus create this.
Fancy cars, expensive watches, big houses. Ultimate lifestyle everyone wants.
These people follow up with posting videos and pictures of huge RR trades.
Bottom and top ticking the market.
Showing profits of risking $1000 and making $10,000 in a day.
In reality that is the opposite of what will create profitability, especially for new traders.
Everyone has a trading strategy “edge”, but not everybody has good mental discipline.
Mentally a trade that is 1:1R or even less is easier to handle, this creates a win rate 50% or more. Easily reaching 70-80% for some.
Prop firms are designed to make you tilt, blow the accounts, and retry. The worse your win rate is, the more room to tilt.
A 1:5R trader will win that trade 1 in 5 times. By the 3rd of 4th consecutive loss, the likelihood of an eval or even funded being completely blown by the denial of a red day is very high.
Focus on 1:1R or even less.
People don’t realize all that it takes to be profitable is a tiny edge, showing where a probable draw is located, and then winning 51% of the time.
Let the system do the work, and take your profits. If a strategy is viable, it will naturally win over 50% of the time with 1:1R. It’s just basic math.
Stop shooting for the stars, and hit the base hits.
Especially in the prop space, you won’t see a payout if you can’t even get on base.
Stop tilting from the low win rate trades with a high RR.
Extract and repeat.