Get a hobby outside trading‼️
Not everything in your life should revolve around charts, entries, losses, and payouts.
Some of the best trading decisions I’ve made came when I stepped away from the market and did something completely unrelated.
Go to the gym. Play a sport. Read a book. Travel. Build something.
A trader with no life outside trading eventually starts forcing trades just to feel occupied.
The market will still be there tomorrow. Your mental health deserves the same level of attention as your account balance.
Well, I’ve decided I’ll be channeling my inner Mozart over the next few weeks and learning a few musical instruments. Adding to the list of things I do outside the chart.
Let’s see if the talent extends beyond the charts. 🎼 🥂
Once you get funded after all the struggles through challenge phase, CALM DOWN
Trading a funded account is beyond knowing your entries and exits.
Two major things you must do:
- First, strip off all the responsibilities you want to use your payout to solve from your mind, constantly remind yourself "the problems/ responsibilities will be solved with or without the funded account anyways". Life will definitely go on whether you have the funded account or not.
A constant reminder will condition your mind to be patient and trade better.
- Secondly, remove set target for your payout from your mind, don't condition your mind to a particular figure that you must get to before you can request for payout, many have lost their funded accounts from huge profits back to drawdown because they want to make all their profits in one payout.
Take what you see and start again, once you withdraw into your account you'll appreciate the money more. As you are looking for $10K, if you see $1K grab it, if you're looking for $1K, if you see $100 take it out, don't postpone your payout because it's not "enough" you may cryyy at the end.