The older I get in this game, the less interested I am in catching every move.
I don’t need the beginning of the move.
I don’t need the exact top.
I don’t need the exact bottom.
Give me the part of the move that fits my model.
If I miss it?
Fine.
I’d rather miss a trade than force one just because I watched price move without me.
FOMO becomes much weaker when you genuinely understand that another opportunity will come.
One thing I’ve become much better at:
Walking away from a setup that technically qualifies but doesn’t feel clean enough.
Early in my trading journey, if everything on my checklist lined up, I felt obligated to take the trade.
Now?
I understand that a checklist isn’t a command to enter.
It’s a filter.
If something about the context doesn’t make sense, I can simply leave it.
There will be another setup.
Capital preservation gives you that luxury.
A bullish structure is bullish until an external structure breaks to the opposite direction.
A bearish structure is bearish until an external structure breaks to the opposite direction.
A non-bullish or non-bearish structure is not tradable until an external structure break to one side.
The more you fail to understand this, the more money you lose trading.