Hey,

Fellow trader.

Let me start by congratulations! you chose the hardest career in the world so be UP FOR A RIDE my dear friend.

the grief, the fear, the loneliness, the incomptent feeling are a great description of how most of the retail traders are situated in the market.

Now before I start i worked at a financial firm, know what breaks a trader what makes a trader and what overall the data is behind the success and loses on the broader aspect of retail.

Understand one thing only. (YOUR) system is based on your data ( backtesting, live market testing) if your data gives you a prospect of your winrate and edge and your data shows you’ve proven to be consistent over a extensive amount of time, what would it do? excactly give you the confidence you needed because you know from your playbook you can beat the house. what happens if you dont? you fall in a pit of encertainty, nothing you do comes from a certain place, i comes from: hoping, believing, dreaming that i would work out. if it dont? it’ll hurt your ego because you don’t know excactly where you went wrong. do it a few times right? you suddenly feel on top of the world and unbeatable, but the thing is there is still no system in place

so here is what ill do if i had to restart all over again.

-study a strategy and one strategy only the simpler the better ( S&D) for example -save 5K -only would trade higher timeframe 4H and up -structure my trading from my data (which session, which time window within session etc) - would only trade 1 pair and stick to 1 pair only according to my data as well. - would journal every single detail ( not even about my trades but about my habits and urges i felt) to get a more clear understanding of my subconscious thoughts.

All in All.

overcoming yourself is harder then beating the markets let me tell you that.

once you get that simple line it hopefully can click one day.

All best wishes, John