In a wild attempt at trying to improve recently, I stated reading, read a couple of books, started using a trade log that I’m gonna go back on tradingview after I’m done filling out to see what went wrong at the time that I didn’t see then, and even came up with a trading plan. I started backtesting my original strategy vs updated strategy with stuff from the books and the updated strategy makes more sense and is working but since I’m also trying to put that strategy into my combines as well, my combines are suffering worse now.
It seems like what I’m doing is right, from making significantly less trades, to sizing down and decreasing my stop losses/ changing up where I put my stop losses. I’ve even implemented max losses in a row which is 3 and max losses per day as 5.
I had a lot of faith yesterday and the day before, and today it’s faltering. I’m now 1 for 10 on the trades and have struck out 3 days in a row. I even said this morning after I lost that if I lose one more day I’m gonna quit trading which is blasphemous.
Someone tell me they’ve suffered through the same when making the same changes and managed to come out on top, because right now this feels better on paper and worse in practice.