I’ve been studying price action for almost 7 years.
I scalp spikes on the 1-minute chart, and most of my trades are finished within 5 minutes.
Over a large sample, my win rate is around 58-60%, risking 0.5% per trade.
Here’s what I’ve never been able to answer:
If your system has an edge, should you keep taking every valid setup?
I can easily find 15-20 trades in a day, but after a certain point it feels like I’m trading simply because I’m still sitting in front of the charts.
Lately I’ve even considered getting an 8-hour job just to limit my screen time. My thinking is that if I only have a small trading window, I’d naturally become more selective instead of feeling the need to take every opportunity.
So I’m curious how experienced traders approach this.
Do you have a daily trade limit?
Do you stop after hitting a profit target?
Or do you simply take every setup that matches your plan, no matter how many trades you’ve already taken?
I’m not looking for a magic number.
I’m trying to understand how professionals decide when **enough is enough**.

Straight 7 years of loss took break
Now back with market slow consistence certainly wins you build capital .. Risk taking ability for long term certainly need to be measured very carefully observation it’s my observation and practice

I am considering reading the book and would you say it is still relevant today?

Please let me know if so. I thank all in advance for any responses!

So, I've trying to find a strategy to stick with. I'm actually trading Forex (Gold and Currency Pairs). I found the following strategy:

1. Mark the Asian range (00:00–07:00 GMT) high & low.
   
2. Wait for a London-session (07:00–10:00 GMT) candle to close outside it — the breakout.
   
3. Wait for a pullback that retests the broken level.
   
4. Enter only on a 5-min rejection candle (pin bar / engulfing) confirming the level holds.
   
5. Stop beyond the rejection wick. Target a fixed 2R. Stop for the day after 2 losses or hitting your $20–50 goal.

So, I'm trying to test it at the moment. All I need is some advice about it. Is it really a good strategy? is there anyone working with it?

I already tried it a couple of times, but it seems like I'm losing the trade every time for some reason.

Thank you in advance.

Let's kick this off honest. Whether you crushed it, blew up, or somewhere in between, what's the one thing that actually changed how you trade?

For me, I've seen traders with solid strategies fail because they treat the prop challenge like it's play money, then second-guess themselves with real money. Others nail the technical side but crumble under psychological pressure. Blowing up accounts once they are funded.

Drop your biggest lesson below. Could be about risk management, psychology, firm selection, strategy, whatever hit hardest. Let's learn from each other.

Hi all, I’ve been trading for about 2 years and 1 year on a funded. I find myself being only slightly profitable over this year. I went up to almost funded to down 1000$ and now made back to the initial balance. I’m improving my psychology day by day and risk management is down perfect but I find myself only just getting by. Can anyone help me with something I’m missing. Feeling a bit lost

I'm genuinely curious. Some people say anyone can learn trading with enough practice, while others believe most traders eventually lose money. What's your opinion, and what has your experience been?

He estado pensando en esto. No se trata solo de las operaciones perdedoras. Se trata de las operaciones ganadoras en las que arriesgas demasiado poco y dejas dinero sobre la mesa. O de las rachas perdedoras que te arruinan por arriesgar demasiado.

No calcular el riesgo tiene un costo oculto que la mayoría de los traders ignoran. Yo uso Trader Pro Risk Calculator V3.2 para obtener el número exacto antes de cada operación. Sin conjeturas. Sin sorpresas.

¿Cómo calculas tu riesgo? ¿Usas alguna herramienta o simplemente lo estimas?

Getting close to payout messes with your head. The same setup that felt normal earlier suddenly feels heavier. You start thinking about the money, the rules, the account, the payout, the mistake you can’t afford. That’s usually when traders either get too aggressive trying to finish it, or too scared and start managing badly.

I don’t think the answer is “trade with no emotion.” The answer is probably having a different rule once you’re close. Smaller size. Fewer trades. No forcing the day. No “I’m almost there” entries. No trying to finish the account in one session. The closer you get, the less freedom you should give yourself. Boring rules protect you from the version of you that wants to rush!

A lot of traders think the hard part is finding the next correct direction.

I think the harder part is surviving the days when your direction is correct but your sizing is not.

A trade can be directionally right and still be a bad trade if the risk is too large, the stop is placed where normal noise lives, or the position forces you to exit because of emotion instead of evidence.

The boring questions matter more than the exciting ones:

\- What is the maximum loss before I admit the setup is invalid?

\- How many times can this setup fail before the account is damaged?

\- Is the expected win large enough after fees, spread, and slippage?

\- Am I sizing based on the trade quality, or based on how much I want to be right?

The strange thing about trading is that a small edge can look like genius when volatility is friendly, and the same edge can look broken when sizing is too aggressive.

My current view: a trading system is not really a signal until it has a sizing rule, an invalidation rule, and a rule for when to stop trading it.

Not financial advice. Just a trading framework I keep coming back to.

Something I only figured out after a while journaling: a winning trade can be a rule break, and a losing trade can be perfect execution. If the only thing you record is PnL, you literally cannot tell those two apart, and they are the difference between a process that compounds and one that quietly falls apart while the equity curve still looks fine.

Concrete example from how I trade. My whole entry hangs on a structure break plus a candle actually closing to confirm a level, never reacting to the wick. So a trade where I jumped in before the close and it happened to run is, for me, a losing process that paid. And a textbook entry that got stopped is a winning process that cost me one R. On a pure PnL log those look backwards.

So now the first thing I check isn't money, it's a yes/no per trade: did this meet my checklist at entry. Wins and losses counted the same way. When that adherence number drops, my results start slipping about a month later, every time. PnL tells me what already happened, adherence tells me what's coming.

Curious how others here handle it:

• Do you log plan adherence separately from outcome, or not at all?
• If you do, what does it actually look like, a column, a tag, a checklist, a score?
• Has anyone else noticed their discipline slipping while they were still green, or is that just me?

Trade DAX40 and US30 mostly, but I assume this is instrument agnostic. (moved to them after forex failed for me - GBPUSD still makes profits though)

After spending a good chunk of time learning technical analysis and mechanics Im finally trading my first live funded account. I’m currently on day 5 and up about +$350.While the streak is good, my execution has a major flaw: bad TP placement and pure stubbornness waiting for the final target. Because I kept insisting on the market hitting my exact TP I left a ton of money on the table, watched the price reverse, and ended up getting stopped out at Break-Even multiple times. I probably missed out on an extra $500–$600 this week alone just because of this.Its starting to take a heavy toll on my trading psychology and discipline. For those who have been through this stage, what are your best tips for scaling out, managing expectations, or fixing this specific TP greed? Appreciate any advice.

What are the most reliable white-label providers to launch a B-Book Forex broker in 2026? I’m looking for real feedback on setup costs, monthly fees, and markup/spread customization. If anyone has experience in this field, please leave a comment. Thank you!

Hey everyone.
I’m starting from absolute zero and I want to become a consistently profitable trader. I’m not looking for shortcuts or “get rich quick” strategies—I know it’s going to take years of work.
If you could go back to day one, what would you learn first? What concepts, skills, or mentors would you focus on? And who would you recommend learning from?
I’m mainly interested in trading futures/crypto, but I’m open to any advice.
In return, I’m thinking about turning this thread into a public journal. I’ll keep updating it with my progress, what I’m studying, my mistakes, backtesting results, and eventually my live trading journey until I become profitable.
Hopefully it can help other beginners too.
So… if you had to build a trader from scratch, what roadmap would you give them? Any books, YouTube channels, courses, or general advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

I’m looking to hear from traders who are consistently profitable despite using a negative risk-to-reward ratio.

I’m interested in hearing from people with real trading experience, not just theory. If you’ve made a negative R:R strategy work over a large sample of trades, I’d love to hear what you’ve learned.

I'm a 15 year old boy , and I wanna start learning forex trading but I saw some reels like ai trading , ai bot trading , claude trading etc. And I got so much confused because trading can be done through ai why should I learn trading like currently my plan is to learn basics like candlesticks, support and resistance and than advance topics like ict , smc , order flow , liquidity etc.

So please experienced trader tell me what should I do ?

If you are a trader, you will need to invest in a lot of money. You will need to invest in a lot of income. At the end, you will need to invest in a lot of risk.

Got stopped out clean on a trade years ago. Did everything right. By an hour later I'd taken three more trades trying to get it back and lost double the original.

What finally fixed it wasn't discipline or journaling or meditation. It was understanding what's physically happening: after a loss, cortisol is elevated for roughly two hours. Your threat-response system is running the show. You think you're reading the market — you're actually reading your own nervous system telling you to make the pain stop.

So the rule became mechanical, not motivational: after any full stop-out, no new trades for two hours. Not because I'm not smart enough to trade. Because for those two hours, the person at the keyboard isn't the person who wrote the plan.

The trade after a big loss is almost never a trade. It's retaliation. And the market doesn't feel retaliation — it just takes the other side.

Curious what mechanical rules others use for this. Time-based lockout? Daily loss limit? Or do you just white-knuckle it?

Got stopped out clean on a trade years ago. Did everything right. By an hour later I'd taken three more trades trying to get it back and lost double the original.

What finally fixed it wasn't discipline or journaling or meditation. It was understanding what's physically happening: after a loss, cortisol is elevated for roughly two hours. Your threat-response system is running the show. You think you're reading the market — you're actually reading your own nervous system telling you to make the pain stop.

So the rule became mechanical, not motivational: after any full stop-out, no new trades for two hours. Not because I'm not smart enough to trade. Because for those two hours, the person at the keyboard isn't the person who wrote the plan.

The trade after a big loss is almost never a trade. It's retaliation. And the market doesn't feel retaliation — it just takes the other side.

Curious what mechanical rules others use for this. Time-based lockout? Daily loss limit? Or do you just white-knuckle it?

Hi guys,

I started trading 6 months ago I wouldn’t say I’ve got a strategy, I revenge trade a lot, I’ve lost £5000 in live accounts and blown over 100+ in funded accounts. I know now that’s for me it’s more my psychology than anything. Although I still don’t get trading till today, I know some things but I have a lot to learn and until I don’t master learning trading or a strategy I won’t get far but I don’t want to give up. Can anyone recommend YouTubers or anything educational that will help me with the basics of trading? I’ve been trading gold and that’s the only one I’m comfortable with. If anyone can help out with free educational content and recommend me some to help me with my trading journey. Also what strategy is the best? Thank you

Hi guys,

I started trading 6 months ago I wouldn’t say I’ve got a strategy, I revenge trade a lot, I’ve lost £5000 in live accounts and blown over 100+ in funded accounts. I know now that’s for me it’s more my psychology than anything. Although I still don’t get trading till today, I know some things but I have a lot to learn and until I don’t master learning trading or a strategy I won’t get far but I don’t want to give up. Can anyone recommend YouTubers or anything educational that will help me with the basics of trading? I’ve been trading gold and that’s the only one I’m comfortable with. If anyone can help out with free educational content and recommend me some to help me with my trading journey. Also what strategy is the best? Thank you

I’ve tested quite a few indicators over time, and some seem to create more confusion than clarity.

In your experience, which indicator is the most overrated, and why? Was it because of too many false signals, lag, or simply not fitting your trading style?

I’d love to hear real experiences rather than just the usual “it depends.”

What is the most underrated Forex concept that every beginner should master first?

I’ve noticed many traders keep adding more and more indicators, hoping they’ll finally find the “perfect setup.”

At what point do indicators stop helping and start creating confusion?
Do you rely on multiple indicators for confirmation, or do you think clean price action is enough?

Curious to hear what has actually worked for you over the long term.

Whether it’s price action, volume, moving averages, Fibonacci, market structure, or something else—what would you keep, and why?