You will never see me blame price for being "shitty"; I will blame myself for entering during "Shitty" price action.
The chart is always right; if you're wrong you made a mistake.
Win% rate, RR, risk per trade, trade frequency, trade duration, frequency and size of partials.
Play with these parameters twitching your own model around in order to obtain the best outcome from your imputs.
Comfort zone will take you NO WHERE
If you like, keep comforting yourself about “God’s time” while you’re are still playing it safe.
Hand will soon touch you. Don’t worry .
You're right about the market (and still losing money)
I see this all the time.Someone nails the setup. They call the reversal before it happens. They predict the breakout with scary accuracy. Their analysis is clean, their charts are perfect, their thesis is solid.
Then they enter the trade and everything falls apart. They move their stop because "the analysis is still valid." They add to a loser because "it has to turn around." They take profit too early because they're scared of giving it back. They freeze when it's time to cut, and panic when it's time to hold. The analysis was right. The trade was wrong. Here's what most people don't get:
reading the market and trading the market are two completely different skills.
One is intellectual. The other is emotional. You can study price action for years and still have no idea how to manage yourself when real money is on the line. You can predict moves with high accuracy and still blow your account because you can't execute your own plan.
The best analysts often make terrible traders because they're too attached to being right. They can't accept that the market doesn't care about their thesis. They can't handle the gap between what should happen and what is happening.
Trading isn't about being smart. It's about being disciplined when your emotions are screaming at you to do the opposite. If your analysis is good but your results aren't, the problem isn't your charts. It's your execution. And execution is just decision-making under pressure, over and over again, when it's uncomfortable. That's the part nobody wants to hear. It's easier to blame the market, the strategy, the setup. It's harder to admit you can't follow your own rules when money is moving. But once you see the difference between analysis and execution, you stop confusing the two. And that's when things start to click.
Most successful traders are those who have developed their own unique trading styles, based on their personal understanding of the market.
Copying others will only keep you average.