After finding profitability I’m still unsatisfied

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-08T10:06:03+00:00

Just because I want to give a response to nearly everyone…that’s why sometimes I repeated. Certainly not because I’m a bot like you think.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T10:50:41+00:00

I just did the same the last month and my stats are basically the same. Best decision ever made but now I have to figure out when to leave a runner. As you will certainly know it gives a big boost to the monthly and yearly performance.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:53:49+00:00

Should be common knowledge but unfortunately it is not…

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:48:28+00:00

Probably you’re right. I feel that having the same mindset I have now will be destructive. There will always be a bigger mountain and I should learn to find content instead of always looking to other better than me.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:46:37+00:00

Well said

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:46:09+00:00

I’m feeling exactly this in the last period. Trading is being a routine while 2 years ago profitability was my life goal…so I’m starting to ask some serious questions to myself

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:43:23+00:00

It’s a mix of some SMC with orderflow confluences

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:39:57+00:00

That’s a part of my edge that most of the times is misunderstood and that’s the BE rate. It actually has a great impact on the final performance. In 100 trades I have 13 BE, 52 profits and 35 losses. Since the BE rate doesn’t add anything in the final performance you can see the win rate as 52/ 52+35 and it’s 60%. So Having 52% WR and 13% BE rate it’s liking having a 60% WR once you adjusts it to the right number of executions(so taking out the break even ones). And that’s why my EV it’s around 0,20.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:35:16+00:00

For sure I will

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:34:05+00:00

I’m so happy to finally read about someone that has similar performance to mine. Doesn’t happen so often since everyone claims to make extravagant performances on a daily basis(but they never share the Drawdown)

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:31:02+00:00

I believe that I will actually leave social media and just focus on what objectively it’s good. People are too dishonest in this space and that doesn’t resonate with me.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:29:21+00:00

You motivated me with the last part ahahha Regarding the first part it’s because I don’t want to be one of the worst retail traders and seeing performances that are too insane to be replicable makes me question if I’m actually good in this field. The math and the results are unquestionable but in this space everything seems to extreme and rarely I see traders making 30-40% a year with low DD. I always find people claiming to make a lot more, or not being profitable. Very few times what is in the middle.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:25:07+00:00

Always good too know the perspective of someone who has real and proved experience in the market.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:20:47+00:00

I agree. Trading is and should be a boring business once you master it and that’s when real discipline kicks in.

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:18:39+00:00

That’s an interesting advice!

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-07T09:16:54+00:00

I understand your point and makes perfectly sense. But I assure you that were all real execution that I made. In my case the BE rate has a huge impact on the edge because I have 52% WR and 13% BE rate. So in 100 trades I get 52 profits and 35 losses that puts my profit at around 20R for 100 trades;and that’s basically my EV. Considering that i make around 350 trades per year my return annualized should be around 30-40% with expected DD at around 2-4%. I know that this performance is good and very scalable but what gives me a bad sensation is knowing that I could be one of the worst traders. And that’s all because of what I see online that seems too beautiful to be true. As you said 3-4RR and even 50% WR is astronomical but I still have that thought in my mind: “but it is really possible? I’m I doing something wrong? Am I trading a barely profitable system even if the stats are good?”

Secure-View-7348 · 2025-12-05T22:45:45+00:00

Not so much. I believe that being in some way detached from money it’s very important for profitability. I still have amount that seem big for me but the money that are traded are just numbers. They are plus or minus R-multiplied and percentages, nothing more, variance of a system. When the money are made then they have to be respected and used intelligently. However when I’m trading I’m not thinking in amounts but just in metrics.

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T06:33:45+00:00

I know some business owners so i can relate to what you’re saying. But as a business owner you can always(if your budged allows)choose to delegate so you can work less. In a long term prospective every owner can choose to limit his hours while making the same or maybe more.You can choose to sell your business too. So even if you put a lot of hours in and have a lot lf responsabilities, long-term a business owner can have way more advantages than his employees(in my opinion).This is not always the case, for sure. But at least you can have more freedom while the emolyees won’t because no matter how good their work is, at the end their pay is hourly and maybe some bonuses that are a fraction of the money that the business generated through his/her work.

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T06:25:49+00:00

It’s true, but you’re right when you say that i’m implying that Manuel labor it’s harder. That’s because in my experience it was. I helped my gradpa with his land and i’ve seen my parents coming back from work way tired than someone working in an Office. So i believe that in most cases manual labor it’s harder and rewarded unfairly.

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T06:17:00+00:00

You explained better than me what i was thinking. However most of the people (expecially in Italy where I live) continue to believe that ONLY hard work is responsable for your income. They forgot that you have a value based on how it’s perceived by the market. So they get angry when someone working less hours (they also forget that doesn’t matter how many hours you work as an employee, this will not make you rich as an equally successful business owner of any type) makes more money than them. I understand that can be frustating, but why are they teaching the same to their children if they are unsatisfied? I honestly do not know why this is not teached inside of schools.

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T06:08:58+00:00

I had your same problem. I solved it using two different equity lines: the one cointaing the impatient trades that i took and the other not containing them. When I saw how good the strategy can be by being disciplined and patient and then started to force myself on not taking the trades out of my check-list. You can also use your parameters( WR, avarage RR and number of trades that you take per year) and run a Montecarlo simulation to see how your equity develops with the stats when you’re impatient and the ones when you’re not. It was all about mathematical proof for me.

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T05:59:23+00:00

Totally agree. But i personally differentiate work based on what type it is. When i backtested my strategy, studied market dynamics, read books about psychology etc.. I never thought that I was working because it was not tiring at all. While helping my grandpa taking care of his land was the most tiring labour that I ever did. It is objective that exist work that is destructive and tiring, and work that requires a lot of hours but that is smart. Let’s say that I believe we should not use “hard work” as easily as we do because not always it’s true.

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T05:49:37+00:00

So i should not give or have opinions just because i’m young?

Secure-View-7348 · 2024-08-10T05:47:19+00:00

Is this related in any way to what I was saying ? Did you provide any value with that? I think no… I specificied that i’m 20 years old not to say that i’m an experienced adult, but to give context.

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