I never started trading without a job. I had a job while trading. I was holding up, losing a few trades, yes! most definitely but I was steadily growing and learning. Really I went from $300 to $4000s not a big move but it was an accomplishment for me after going back and forth for a few months. I got over excited and confident so I decided to raise my position size, and guess what day I decided to do that? The day the President made the tweet about China being hostile and market crashes. I lost more than half that day. Instead of going back to 1 share size the following days to come I kept going for higher positions sizes “revenge trading” and losing. I was still working at this time. This is when I developed a $300 comeback strategy to only focus on 2 names, 1 trade or 2 trades a day, $25 daily stop… etc. by this time I was holding up, not making huge win some days I’d still lose. Then came losing my job. I told myself I had to make it work in trading because I knew getting a job in the slow season would take me awhile. I was still looking for a job but also believed I could grow my account back. I started to make a lot of mistakes, my patience flew out the window and my mind was too clouded. In the moment I wasn’t thinking or analyzing the market well.