Trading is different.
After 3-4 years, you can make $10K in an hour.
But that $10K is a result of 4 years of losses, failures, and emotional pain.
Don't give up! Keep going.
20 trading rules:
1. Don't take partial profits.
2. Don't trade on your phone.
3. Don't risk less than 0.5% per trade.
4. Don't risk more than 4% per trade.
5. Trade a strategy that is 100% mechanical.
6. Don't give a shit about individual outcomes.
7. Trade in sample sizes of 20 trades.
8. Keep your strategy stupidly simple.
9. Scale prop firms instead of trading personal accounts.
10. Collect data from your strategy.
11. Don't focus on results; focus on flawless execution.
12. Don't take more than 2 trades per day.
13. Don't trade CPI, NFP, FOMC, Unemployment Rate, or PMI.
14. Stick to a strategy for at least 100 trades before changing it.
15. Write down your strategy's rules on a piece of paper.
16. Don't trade during bank holidays.
17. Don't trade on Mondays.
18. Only take A+++ setups.
19. If you're not sure about a trade, don't take it.
20. Decrease your risk after 5 consecutive losing trades.