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People I have traded with since 2020 have now went MIA the last few months. People lost their life savings It is not crypto trading anymore. It is now gambling If you’re new to trading, odds are against your favor. You have a better chance in a casino or sports betting

If you trade, risk management is the first skill you need to master. Without it, one bad trade will wipe out ten winning ones, and you'll end up blaming the market for a blown account. Remember: Good setups make you money, but strict stop-losses and proper position sizing are what actually keep you in the game. Good luck and happy trading!

13 Weeks of Consistent Payouts, 3 Weeks of Losses The 5 Mistakes That Cost Me My Funded Accounts A week ago, I purchased five 50K Lucid Flex accounts. I traded them properly and managed to pass all five evaluations within just two days. One account breached during the funded stage, but I still had four funded accounts left. However, I've been going through a pretty tough losing streak for the past three weeks. Otherwise, for the previous 13 consecutive weeks, I had successfully requested payouts every single week. The problem is that current market conditions have been terrible. My setups aren't performing the way they used to, and my trading system isn't delivering the same results. As soon as I started trading those four funded accounts, all four breached on the same day. On November 5, I stacked five new accounts again. Four of them breached during the funded phase, but I managed to secure a payout on one account. Interestingly, I'm still clearing evaluations very consistently. My current evaluation passing rate is around 80%, which is pretty good. Most traders get stuck at the evaluation stage, but in my case, I'm able to clear evaluations. My biggest problem right now is converting funded accounts into consistent payouts. After analyzing my recent trading activity, I identified five major mistakes that I need to fix: 1. Trading funded accounts immediately after passing evaluations I used to start trading funded accounts almost immediately after passing them. But given the current market conditions, this isn't the right approach. Gold isn't offering enough high-quality setups consistently, so I need to be more patient. 2. Copy Trading Earlier, after getting funded, I would take my time and trade each account individually. That approach worked well for me. But after watching other traders, I also started copy trading. As a result, whenever I made a mistake, all my accounts were exposed to the same risk and ended up breaching together. 3. Over-Risking Contract size should always depend on market conditions. We cannot trade the same number of contracts regardless of volatility or setup quality. Risk management needs to adapt to the market. 4. Risking the Entire Drawdown My approach was to secure both my buffer and payout in a single trade. To achieve that, I was putting almost my entire drawdown at risk. Given the current market conditions, this is a terrible approach because high-quality setups have become much less frequent. I need to focus on protecting my drawdown rather than trying to achieve everything in one trade. 5. Trading Under Pressure As soon as my payouts stopped coming, I started doubting myself and questioning why I wasn't getting payouts anymore. That pressure started affecting my decisions. Sometimes, I was taking trades without even having a proper setup. When you've been on a 13-week winning streak and suddenly find yourself in a prolonged losing streak, self-doubt and pressure are inevitable. But that's exactly when discipline matters the most. These are the five major mistakes I've identified, and I'm actively working on fixing them. I know my ability to pass evaluations is still there. Now I need to improve my funded-stage execution, risk management, and patience. Hopefully, I'll soon get back to consistently making **$10,000 in weekly payouts Back to the process.

The Art of Making Money Is Trading. The Art of Keeping It Is Mastery. Jesse Livermore made and lost fortunes multiple times. Stan Druckenmiller lost approximately $600 million in three to four weeks shorting internet stocks in 1999. Ironically, all 12 companies he shorted eventually went bankrupt. His thesis was ultimately right, but his timing was wrong. Kristjan Kullamägi reportedly built his account to $105 million before giving back nearly $60 million over the following eight months. Dan Zanger turned $10,775 into $42 million in 23 months, but also reported suffering a 75% drawdown during the subsequent bear market. Paul Tudor Jones once lost 60–70% of the equity in the accounts he managed on a single cotton trade. He was so demoralised that he nearly quit trading. These were extraordinary traders. Yet, none was immune to devastating losses. While revisiting Tom Hougaard's Best Loser Wins, two stories particularly stayed with me. The first was about Adam, an exceptionally talented trader with extraordinary patience and discipline. His account had grown to nearly £750,000. Then came one heavily leveraged short position, held over a weekend. An unexpected market rally triggered a margin liquidation, reducing his account to approximately £400,000. But the initial loss wasn't what ultimately destroyed him. Unable to accept what had happened, he began second-guessing his system and doubling up on trades. His decisions deteriorated. Eventually, he lost his trading account, his house and his marriage. Hougaard later encountered him living on the streets in Manchester, penniless and suicidal. The second story was about a trader who had been trading full-time for 15 years. He never accumulated extraordinary wealth. He earned roughly what someone in a well-paid corporate management job might earn. But he paid his bills, supported his family, took them on holidays, bought a nice car and, most importantly, was home when his children returned from school. Eventually, he decided that trading's long hours and isolation were no longer worth it. He moved into a brokerage career. And that got me thinking. We spend so much time celebrating massive returns, extraordinary account growth and legendary trading careers. We admire the Market Wizards. We aspire to become one of them. But we rarely discuss the other side of the equation: What does it take to keep what we make? The market doesn't care how brilliant you are, how much money you've made or how many successful trades you've had. One oversized position, one emotional decision or one refusal to accept a loss can undo years of hard work. There is nothing wrong with aspiring to make millions. But if the pursuit of more costs you your wealth, peace of mind, health and family, what exactly have you won? Perhaps the ultimate trading achievement isn't becoming a Market Wizard. Perhaps it's building sustainable wealth, maintaining your freedom, preserving your capital and being present for the people who matter. Making money is an achievement. Keeping it is a skill. Knowing when enough is enough is wisdom. Survival is underrated. And without survival, there is no compounding.

A coin flip passed a prop firm evaluation. Not once. 30% of the time. I simulated 100,000 futures evaluations on a 50K account. No strategy and no edge. Every day was a coin flip: heads you win, tails you lose. The results: → $250 a day: 15% passed → $750 a day: 25% passed → $1,500 a day: 30% passed So if you passed your last challenge, congratulations. A coin could have done it too. Now the part nobody posts: At $1,500 risk, only 8% EVER got paid. Passing isn't the hard part. Getting paid again and again is. That takes an edge, and an edge takes rules.

If you’re NEW to trading, here’s where to start: - Setup a TradingView account - Spend time watching tutorials on how to navigate it and utilize it - Setup the 13, 20, 48, and 200 EMAs - Setup the Pre-Market High/Low, and Previous Day High/Low levels Start paper trading :)

Technical analysis is not the most difficult trading skill to learn; most traders are tripped up by risk management and psychology, not entries and exits.

4 Things That Slowed Down My Progress in Trading 📉 Looking back at my trading journey, these are some of the things I struggled with and, honestly, still work on today. 1. Revenge Trading: I was always trying to recover whatever I lost immediately. Instead of accepting a loss and moving on, I'd look for another trade just to make the money back. Messed me up a lottt. 2. Jumping Between Strategies: I was constantly looking for a better strategy whenever I experienced losses. I kept switching instead of taking time to understand one system properly. Had to do a bunch of back test so as to be confidence with one strategy. 3. Overtrading: I felt like I had to be in the market every day. Sometimes I'd take trades even when my setup wasn't there. Sometimes out of boredom. 4. Poor Risk Management: I was always eager to grow my account quickly, so I'd sometimes risk more than I should have. I'm still learning and working on some of these habits, but recognising them has helped me become a more disciplined trader. #trading #forex #crypto

I have taken over 3,000 trades in the last 8 years while trading full-time as my bread and butter. I’ve learnt only the 7 most important lessons that I believe every aspiring trader should know. Here is each one of them: 1. Be comfortable with missing profits, but do not be comfortable with losing your capital. During my loss-making days, I used to trade without a pre-defined stop loss. Now I make sure to risk only 1-2% of my capital in a trade, no matter how good the opportunity is. 2. Trading on your setup is way better than taking trades on the basis of news, events, or tips. Earlier, I used to take buy trades whenever the RBI reduced interest rates. I used to trade a lot on news. Now I only trade on the basis of my setup, completely ignoring news or events. Even if there’s major bad news, if my setup tells me to sell, I happily sell. 3. Having a real and good strategy is far better than copying random strategies from the internet. In my beginning days, I used to try a new strategy every week, which I used to find on social media. None of them worked. Now I’ve been trading only on 1 setup named Magic Levels, which I created by myself. Practicing one setup for thousands of trades is better than changing setups every other week. 4. Maintaining a trading journal and then analysing it once every 3 months will improve you more than anything else. Earlier, I used to execute trades and then just say to myself what my mistakes were and what to fix. Now I write every single trade down on a sheet of paper, then analyse its performance to make improvements in my trading style. 5. Overtrading or revenge trading has the capability to wipe out your capital before you blink an eye. Earlier, I used to try to recover my losses on the same day, which led to overtrading and revenge trading. Now I only take one trade a day, no matter whether it’s a profit or loss. The market will stay there forever, so I don’t think I need to recover on the same day. 6. Keep improving every single day because what might have worked in 2010 will not work in 2026. Earlier, I used to trade on age-old setups like indicators and chart patterns, due to which I made losses. Now I trade on modern quant-based setups like Magic Levels, which get adjusted according to new market conditions automatically.

The funniest part of trading is passing a prop firm challenge and suddenly becoming afraid to open a trade on the funded account 😂

Knowing when to size up and size down is probably one of the most underrated skills in trading.

Be careful of people who normalize blowing prop firm accounts, whether they're evaluations or funded accounts. Losing an account should never be normalized as part of a trading strategy. Risk management doesn't stop mattering just because the capital isn't yours

Trading progress often feels like going in circles. You learn a strategy. You take trades. You make mistakes. You face losses. You question yourself. You try again. And sometimes, you wonder: "Am I even making progress?" But here's something most traders don't understand. Progress in trading is rarely linear. You will face the same challenges repeatedly: • Fear of losing. • Greed after winning. • Impatience. • Overtrading. • Breaking your rules. But every time you face these challenges, you have an opportunity to handle them better. The first time, you ignore your stop loss. The next time, you recognise the mistake. The third time, you control your emotions. Eventually, respecting your stop loss becomes part of your character. That's progress. You may be facing the same challenges, but you should not be the same trader. Don't just focus on growing your trading account. Focus on growing yourself as a trader. That's the foundation of Mindful Trading.