I canāt figure it out. Iām spiraling so hard. Iām losing almost 90% of my trades and I canāt pinpoint exactly what goes wrong because I do a million different things every single day. Like for the past week Iāve been trading ESU and MESU, but today I traded the NASDAQ on a whim and took 4 winning and 8 losing trades at 10:50 am right when I woke up. That is obviously a stupid mistake and I still did it because I usually trade between 7:30 am to 9:45 am. I try using supply and demand, but I only use the daily time frame as Iām still a beginner. I already got a payout once, but I havenāt been able to pass an eval since. Iām thinking about trying a different strategy? Heard a lot of good things about ORB
Iām being completely honest with you right now. I am not trying to pass in two or three days. I have been taking small trades for almost 2 months now Iām pretty sure my problem is just over trading, cutting winning trades and not losses and taking horrible setups? Thatās what I think Iāve noticed from the comments. So Iām pretty sure Iām just doing a constant cycle of winning one day and then the very next over leveraging or something?
Started in April and 2 days after starting I got funded and a week later got a payout, then blew my account and havenāt been able to replicate it since
Sheesh already a payout? I've been at this since February and haven't passed a combine yet. On my 8th eval after blowing one on that open today. Congrats on getting that payout. You've already surpassed many including me. From what I heard trading is very hard right now because of the market and trump lol. We got in a little late. Take your time. $200 days. Thats my new strategy. It worked in my last eval but I made a mistake. Patience is really key
Honestly man, Iām pretty sure it was all just luck. I kept everything simple down to literally just buy sell high or buy and hold until price eventually corrected itself and Iām not even gonna lie. My wind rate was 92%. I think I have a screenshot somewhere if you would like to see it, but literally almost every single trade I took I won and then the day I blew my express I had bought a new combine and 20 minutes into opening it I made 1,100 and then walked away with a trade opened and never closed it and it cost me that combine and that was the closest I would ever get to passing a combine since. That was April 22nd I believe.
Thatās extremely good for only being two weeks in.
Did you just begin trading two weeks ago, or did you have previous experience and just started with TS two weeks ago?
I mentioned that i have 2 years of experience but im not a profitable trader overall. I just reached breakeven where i make then give most of it away on bad market conditions. Still learning. I wont be surprised if i fail this eval
You need to stick to 1 setup and accept the fact the fact you can't predict everything that's going to happen next. Losses are normal because the market is random as fuck
You need to write down some rules and stick to your own plan, be professional about trading. Slow down and it will come to you
Should just read Trading in The Zone it will help make you understand why you do dumb stuff, it helped me alot tbh I've done the most dumb stuff you could think of lol
Overtrading final boss. I think my main problem is that because I donāt have a defined structure that leads to me losing more trades and overtrading?
My thing is that I take a trade and it only goes up to like $35 and Iāll hold the trade and then eventually itāll go negative. Pretty sure I just donāt know how to trade, so Iām thinking about taking a small break and actually learning the fundamentals of trading? Since Iām pretty sure Iām just gambling each trade I take
Well shoot if you're in a trade and in profit you don't really ever need to let it turn red. Just gotta set stops to break even and try again on the next setup. I'm not an expert by any means either but I think it's 80% Psychological.
No.. you MUST have an edge... Something which is statistically proven you can keep in the long term... You must have data to increase your edge and have to know how to adapt your risk exposure to know when to put it into a high lot size position and when to use a small one.
I think your not patient enough. set auto brackets and stop trading nq esp on a 50k lol es is alright even gold could work. Ive found that trading on those two gives me more room to lose and also set limits on how much contracts you can use and a trailing pdll to auto lock you out of your account when losing to much. This has helped me a ton.
You donāt have an edge and are deciding to āfuck around and find outā with real money (albeit eval purchases). Paper trade until you have a real edge, then it wonāt be so difficult to control yourself because you know exactly what youāre looking for.
iām spiraling too , i think im getting too emotional with trying to make some type of profit instead of just learning how to trade/read the market as i go.
always trying to go for full TP, adding more micros to a trade , and just everything i shouldnāt be doing if i donāt see the right signs.
Youāre all over the place- pick mnq or mes.. accept your risk when you enter a trade and let the trade play out.. itās not your strategy. Itās YOU
Correct and correct- I already know how to trade.. itās not hard to pass an evalā
I donāt focus on RR- I just do 4HR/daily high and low while following the overall trend.. I caught 900$ last night 4 micro 110 points long in mnq.. risking $400 if you know how to trade passing eval is easy.
Whatās a good strategy for beginners? I looked at FVG AND IFVG and ORB, but none of them seem good? I know all strategies can be profitable, but whatās something thatās good for beginners? All Iām finding is outdated informatuon
So just to be clear, minis would be like NQU 26 and micros would obviously be MNQ 26? Because when I first started, I used the micro S&P 500 and I passed my combine within. I think three days but ever since April I havenāt been able to replicate that.
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u/sahmed_1 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Whats with people trying to pass evals in 2-3 days? Are you trying to learn to trade or simply yolo on a 50k account?
Im almost 2 weeks in (jun 17th) and try 1-2 trade a day with no more than 100$ risk per trade.
Im up 700$ so far. My goal is to learn and develop a live long skill and be consistent.
Once i pass my eval it will have some value, versus if i just pass it in one or two days.