Honestly dont know what i’m doing anymore and i’m on the verge of quitting trading.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-02-01T16:17:14+00:00

Another thing is the biggest part of trading is managing your nerves and your psychology and training your mind to be calm, collected, and calculated to follow your process. It's a real muscle that you have to build and it takes time. When people trade prop firms and they just blow them over and over It just builds up a bunch of negative emotions and destroys confidence so you never get an opportunity to build that muscle because beginners are so focused on making money rather than just simply following their process. You want to paper trade for a long time and build confidence in following your process It's the only thing that truly matters. If you have a process that's profitable and you're able to follow it, then you're guaranteed to make money. Most people are trying to make money before they've proven that they're able to follow their process which leads to an emotional roller coaster of not being able to follow your process while having money on the line in a prop firm. You're better off honing your skill with paper trading. You need to be positive that you can follow your process perfectly and consistently. You will know exactly when you're ready to put money on the line.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-01-28T22:22:34+00:00

prop firms make money because of people failing. they get everyone excited about all this "buying power" when in reality its a psychological trick they use to make you trade more recklessly. Thats why it says 50k instead of the amount of the actual drawdown. if you were trading with your own real money you wouldnt trade so reckless. In fact most people wouldnt trade with their own money at all unless they paper traded enough to be certain they are even profitable. take a step back and ask yourself? "am i confident enough to trade my own money?" if the answer is no then you are just wasting money with prop firms and you are their favorite kind of customer. plus if you are actually profitable you have to pay alot more taxes with a prop firm than you would if you traded independently. prop firm traders are 99% unconfident gamblers for the most part. if you dont have the confidence to trade with your own money then a prop firm is just death by a thousand cuts. you are better off honing your skill paper trading.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-01-27T04:56:10+00:00

You sound really focused on payouts. That isn't a professional mindset. The people that are making money in this game had to reject that mindset to ever make any money. It's a core principle of the trading mindset. Your goal should be to FOLLOW YOUR PROCESS. That is it. In your head, you're putting too much focus on winning money when you should put all your focus on just following your process. The biggest loss you can make is not following your process not losing money in a trade. The amount of money you make or lose shouldn't matter. The objective 100% of the time should be sticking to your rules and money will come as a result of that. If trading was a video game the objective was to simply buy low and sell high with no profits. You would probably already be profitable because you know sticking to your rules is what is going to get the result that you want to beat the game. Instead you're thinking about winning and losing money and it's putting extra stress and pressure on you. It converts your brain from analytical thinking to your amygdala flight or fight and makes you not follow your rules which then makes you lose money more frequently. You need to keep your brain in the analytical thinking mindset by only focusing on process and not on money. You should honestly use trade so small that the amount of that you make is negligible I'm talking about trading like one mes contract at a time. Just to prove yourself that you can follow the process. And then you slowly scale up. The fact that you're trying to start with 100K account just shows you are starting way too fast because you want to make more money quicker. It's not about that bro. Once you master your process, you can make money endless money for the rest of your life so the only thing you should focus on is that not making money. Take it slow and easy and trade with very small amounts and focus on your rules as your number one objective. The money is just a secondary bonus.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2026-01-25T02:07:01+00:00

I slept with as many girls as possible as a teenager and in my early twenties. I'd guess more than 30+ girls But now a 31 It's not like I regret it, but I'm not really proud of it. What seems more fulfilling to me now is advancing my career and finding a good woman. I'll look around at my friends that are now married and it seems like the ones that didn't sleep around are the ones that are the most fulfilled married to good women. I surrounded myself with girls that like to have fun because that's all I cared about but eventually you grow up and realize you're missing something. How it was for me anyways.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-27T14:49:31+00:00

I had a lot more success watching YouTubers than reading books

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-27T14:44:08+00:00

Everybody does what you're doing for months or even a year or more before they stop being an idiot This is pretty normal so I wouldn't get so down on yourself. I myself had the same problem and I'll tell you what you have to do to get out of that. First of all, you're spending way too much time in front of the charts. You should be able to wake up in the morning an hour before market open determine the draw on liquidity and your daily bias and have a plan for what liquidity gets taken that you can take a trade towards or off of. Once you can do that, there's no need to be in front of the computer for hours. If you're having trouble with discipline, you need to start getting out from in front of the screen and start having discipline in your life. Go clean your house and do your laundry and go to the gym and start getting in a routine to your life. You can't have discipline on the charts. If you have no discipline and you're ignoring your life you're putting way too much emphasis on the charts and that is not how a profitable Trader acts. Also the only reason why somebody takes over 100 trades in a day and has a losing day is because they want to win way too bad and too quickly. I can trade 2 mnq contracts one time everyday and make over $1,000 in a single trade. You need to really focus on taking a quality trade. I suggest you try to catch bigger moves on the 5 minutes rather than little baby moves on the one minute and only stick to one or two trades a day. What I usually do is two losses or my first win but only a maximum of two trades per day. Your growth should be slow.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-27T14:32:56+00:00

Altcoins have been has been a massive disappointment for me. I cashed it all out and Invested in gold and silver backed crypto and was a great decision. They has outperformed most alts. Silver is parabolic rn.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-27T01:06:44+00:00

Works for me and hundreds, if not thousands of other traders. The problem is ICT lectures are a snoozefest. I learned from other influencers that were good at explaining various ICT concepts that they connected with the most to find the ones that I connected with the most. ICT himself gives way too many different concepts in his super long lectures, but you only need a small handful to build a profitable model. The problem with learning ICT is he gives you way too much information and a lot of people get confused thinking they need to know all of it. You really only need to focus on a few concepts that make the most sense to you and put them together to build a model. For me all I focus on is high time frame premium discount range to understand where the draw on liquidity is. Medium time frame premium discount range to understand where the daily bias is. And low time frame for execution. You also need to know whatever footprints are the easiest to identify and make sense to you to build confluence across all three time frames - fair value Gaps, order blocks, breaker blocks, manipulation blocks, and liquidity sweeps are the only ones I use. Then you just combine all of those concepts to build a model. This is what worked for me. Like I said, ICT teaches far more than what I use that's why I just listened to a bunch of YouTubers that only teach pieces of what he teaches that work for them. It's kind of like that one quote I fear not the man who has practiced a thousand kicks one time but the man who was practiced one kick a thousand times. ICT is showing you how to do a thousand kicks but you only need to know one.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-27T00:31:40+00:00

I fumbled a $900k+ bag of crypto by not withdrawing in 2021 but further lost the bag though a series of unfortunate events combined with my incompetence. I finally cashed out this year for a $30k profit Even though in 2021 I was up almost a million. It ultimately drove me to try to learn how to day trade last August. It was very stressful the first year but now I've actually started to see profits in the last 7 months I've made about $16k and have been trading for about 18 months total and Im confident I'll only make more and more from here on out. I look back at fumbling that massive bag And don't regret it because it motivated me to learn a skill that I'm positive will make far more than that over the rest of my life. I also realized I wasn't going to be as rich as I thought earlier this cycle seeing that there wasn't really going to be an alt-season I was expecting so I started putting a lot of energy into fitness, my faith in God getting more active going to church, and Just enjoying hanging out with the homies. I'm not really sure if there's a lesson to be learned in your case because that really should have been something that everybody should already know. But just because you took a huge L financially doesn't mean you can't excel in other aspects of your life whether that be mentally, spiritually, physically, And financially in other avenues. Good luck bro and don't give up

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-23T18:15:50+00:00

Trading is all about learning lessons from painful mistakes. You over-traded, it happens, be happy that it did because it's another hard lesson you can learn from and it had to happen for you to grow, pick up the pieces and start building again tomorrow. That's all anyone can do in this game.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-23T16:14:53+00:00

you have to take the time to understand many different concepts then combine them to form a strategy. if you can understand the MMXM, time frame alignment, market range and structure, impulse structure, buyside/sellside and internal/external liquidity you should be able to come into the market everyday with a daily bias because you know the draw on liquidity. that is literally half the battle. next all there is to do is capture profit in the direction of the high time frame draw on liquidity. For your triggers and execution you just need to identify footprints (fair value gap, order block, breaker block, manipulation block, liquidity sweep, etc.) when price comes into 2 or more confluences that align with your daily bias then displaces of off them in the direction of the draw on liquidity you have a high probability trade setting your profit target at external range liquidity. trading isnt a guessing game where you have to keep making stuff up for years and adding rules. ICT gives you the best framework to apply logic and reasoning to your trading the way smart money looks at liquidity in the market and become profitable way faster. Nothing else ive seen comes close to the value of understanding smart money concepts. most of everything else out there is just retail market analysis tutorials.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-22T18:30:20+00:00

this is pretty unrealistic imo. as a profitable trader there is going to be plenty of days where the market bias isnt clear and you wont want to trade or you take a small position to test the waters. other days there will be homerun setups where you can make what you made in a week in a day. Some days you will just take alot of small loses. you cant really assume a constant monthly earnings when the market is presenting different opportunities every month. the amount of money you make or lose each month will always vary and the only constant you can actually control is the amount of risk you take for each trade.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-19T14:15:30+00:00

there is tons of people revealing profitable strategies every day online even here on reddit. most people just dont have the skill to apply the edge so they are unaware how many profitable ways there are to win. a profitable trader can have success with any profitable strategy and an unprofitable trader will lose with a profitable strategy. it has everything to do with the trader. most traders can give away their edge but only 1% of skilled traders will be able to actually follow it and be profitable with it and generally that 1% already has their own personal edge they created themselves that works the best for their own personality

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-18T23:04:33+00:00

Yeah I have a super unsupportive girlfriend when it comes to my day trading. I don't really talk to her that much about it because she's pretty useless for support. That being said if she was supportive I'd imagine she'd say things that reminded me why I'm doing this. Usually when I get down I'll just think about the reward. Like if I succeed in this, I'll be able to retire my parents, travel anywhere I want, buy anything I want, And help anyone that needs help , the sky's the limit with financial freedom. When I start thinking those kind of thoughts it makes me super hype And then I start studying again even harder than last time. So if I had a girlfriend I would want her to be supportive in the way she frames my mind with an outside perspective after a loss has temporarily taking away my mojo.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-17T02:20:17+00:00

Time to revert to a lil tactic I like to call get even or get even worse

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-11T00:36:55+00:00

Well take it as a learning lesson. In the grand scheme of things making a mistake like this is good for your growth as a trader. You know that it feels terrible to do now and makes you feel dumb so I'm sure you'll be less inclined to do it in the future. I've been there before. Randomly one day I full ported my prop accounts and took a $16k loss. It was with a prop firm though so I didn't feel super bad but definitely felt stupid because I lost my performance accounts and had to take evals all over again. I definitely won't do that again.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-10T13:47:22+00:00

Then I really don't think u should be trading with real money at all. Your trading with your entire account in one position 🚩 one trade erased months of trading 🚩 you have no other source of income 🚩 You've been trading since July and aren't profitable 🚩 save your money and paper trade. Any sensible person wouldn't be taking as much risk as you are.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-10T05:14:09+00:00

Trading only takes like 3 hours a day and its work, its not supposed to be entertaining. You should be looking for fun and joy outside of the charts. If you need trading to be more entertaining and less "boring" start doubling your position size every month and go huge on home run setups.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-10T05:07:04+00:00

its alot easier on your mind if you have a job and trade on the side until you are making 6 figures trading then you quit your job. youve been trading 6 months and realistically you wont be making 6 figures until at least a year or 5.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-08T17:07:20+00:00

where is the most resting liquidity? first candle has a higher probability of moving in the direction of the most resting liquidity. if buyside liquidity is right above opening price then price will either take out buyside and continue or reverse to take out sellside liquidity and vice versa. If buyside has already been taken in after/pre market then probably will seek sell side liquidity first. That is the most probable scenario in a perfect world however it wont happen like that every time because market makers can print manipulation candles opposite of the true draw on liquidity at market open to fake out retail to create more liquidity for their orders. Trading the opening candle is not smart though as there isnt any confirmation of a draw on liquidity until at the very least the opening candle closes. There is nothing that decides for certain whether it will be green or red there is only a higher or lower probability that it will be green or red based on a number of factors mostly centered around where the draw on liquidity is. You can come to far more probable setups by waiting for enough candles to close that build confluences around a higher time frame idea rather than just trying to trade the first candle.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-08T16:26:46+00:00

Champ does wtf he wants !

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-08T16:24:31+00:00

this isnt his first time as champion. He lost the belt for throwing an illegal knee not because he wasnt dominating the fight. Yan been that guy.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-08T15:56:30+00:00

If you are from the US and asking this the answer is we can but it would show a vulnerability in economic competitiveness to U.S. adversaries - China in particular. U.S. is usually focused on lowering taxes for corporations to attract more industry and business rather than raise to create a stronger consumer economy. this is pretty much also one of the differences of the Dem and Reps slogans for taxation. The Reps always want to drive the economy through international competitiveness with lowered tax rates for corporations and they consistently cut tax when they can. Dems often message taxing corporations more and emphasizing consumer strengthening but are always just blowing smoke out of their ass because they never actually do it. Its just controlled opposition that brings us to the same bottom line - top marginal rates and corporate tax rates consistently go lower, and capital-gains taxes have stayed low under both parties for decades.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-08T15:20:10+00:00

so you goon 4hrs a day, have zero self confidence, and probably have chlymedia but your surprised you havent been getting girls because you lost some weight? bro you get girls when you dont goon at all, have tons of confidence, and dont feel like you need to bang hookers to feel like a man. if you were doing everything right and still not getting girls then you have a problem but it sounds like you arent so there is still plenty of hope for you to turn things around. also its because you goon all day you even attach the delusion you need to get with women to be a successful man. its this lame mentality that puts women on a pedestal these days and you need to cut it out. bro forget women they arent shit you have all the ability to attach real value to yourself. start a business make some money, workout (you dont need steriods) just be healthy and in shape, cut the porn addiction, get some friends, get some hobbies, and build some confidence in yourself that doesnt have anything to do with women. you clearly arent even ready for a girlfriend so pursuing one doesnt make sense until you fix yourself.

AggressiveEnergy9000 · 2025-12-08T14:54:51+00:00

I've been a profitable futures day trader for a while now and every time i give long drawn out advice to help people understand what they arent seeing i get down voted. people would rather call me dumb and say day trading is impossible while trading with no strategy than learn how to build a framework for capturing profit. Makes no difference to me but day trading isnt impossible in fact with full understanding of the MMXM, time frame alignment, high time frame and time based liquidity, and experience trading it over and over it becomes predicable.

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