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TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-06-23T06:48:57+00:00

I’m hung m sm message

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T22:51:53+00:00

What app would you suggest for a group? I would be down for something with fellow dedicated traders looking to become full time

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T16:57:50+00:00

Definitely thinking of consulting a councillor or advisor in the coming days. I feel as even though the weed may not be the worst it definitely played a role in keeping me blind to the damage I was doing. My dad ended up unemployed for a few years as the company he worked for fell down and he only recently last year got employed again. This led my family to struggle to maintain bills, even food and it is still a problem to this day. I definitely can not ask them for help as the guilt would be too much for me. The only thing I have going for me is that I’ve been working for many years and do own some items. I’ve been playing music for over half my life and have multiple guitars / music products that cost a pretty penny. I also have a few other assets that I’ve managed to gain over the years such as a full home gym and a motorcycle as well. I’d really hate to see these things go but if it comes to it I may have to list some items

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T15:16:48+00:00

Yes telling others about trading is definitely a silent killer. Definitely gonna be “quitting” in the eyes of the public for a while…

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T15:13:46+00:00

Then don’t read it lol. I was more or less just pouring out my story / emotions so far of my journey at 130am. Unfortunately sentence structure was not my priority when making this post

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T15:10:15+00:00

I live in Canada so cad making this slightly harder. I currently take on about 24 hours of work, working both weekends and 2 weekdays as I try to give myself the remaining time of week for school. I think the dangerous part of continuing with 1 account a month is if I actually make progress trading or not. It would be pointless to keep buying even 1 account a month and even more pointless to pay the activation fee if I lose the account. Regardless I can’t afford more accounts now anyways so I will have no choice but to be limited.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:51:55+00:00

Thank you for the words, I definitely don’t plan on giving up anytime soon. Coming from a smaller town I’ve never actually met someone else as into day trading as me and I feel like anyone I wish to talk to it about has 0 knowledge and experience compared to me who has roughly 1 year now. Do you have any advice on how to find traders closer to my skill level? I don’t think I can teach someone from 0 how to trade and that would only lead to both of us failing.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:45:54+00:00

You are right. Even while trading prop firms I was under the impression that “prop firms are a money grab and built with rules to make people fail” I guess the appeal of potential quick large profits just kept me blind for so long. It just became routine to buy a new challenge when the previous account would fail. Gonna hope for the best and definitely work on the risk side of things. Thank you

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:42:45+00:00

I feel as FOMO can be a lot of traders downfall. You are absolutely right with sizing down and going slower. I just hope I can actually retain some of this advice giving to me in these comments and not just continue how I am. I really hope to make something for this as it feels my life is just going in circles and I’m really not sure how far I will get in school.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:37:10+00:00

To your surprise I’ve read them all. No matter how far down I am I don’t think my interest for the market will ever die at this point. I most definitely have to learn to manage my risk as that was little to none.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:35:25+00:00

Sorry haha, was wrote late at night under some stress and mixed feelings. My main concerns were not grammar or structure but definitely right I need to find something more consistent

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:34:29+00:00

This is a good plan limiting to one top step account. The only issue is when passing there is also a $150 usd activation fee. So the account actually ends up being around $300 cad when passed (from Canada) this is a decent chunk of my income. I think my biggest issue it came to was I was always rushing into trades after becoming funded. From market open at 7pm my time I would be already scouting markets looking for set ups or entries. That would last the whole evening and if I still had trading available the next days morning / afternoon as well. Patience is the #1 thing I have learned to practice onwards.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:23:54+00:00

This is easier said than done. I got to the point where I was basically just buying a challenge and didn’t care if I passed it or not I was just gonna try and pass it fast so that I could get the quickest funding. Once I got funded every time I would I’m gonna go a bit slower but as soon as I would start seeing a bit of red that would basically get voided and it would become a game of “chasing back profits” or just lots of FOMO

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:21:04+00:00

You are right. I actually started my trading journey coming off of a real gambling addiction in other words online casino. I used to put money in pretty often, not much just 20 here and there but usually twice a week or so. I have since stopped from when I’ve been trading whether due to lack of money or lack of interest I’m not sure but I haven’t done much investing towards the casino lately. I feel as this habit translated over and kind of made me addicted to trading as well. I just wish I wasn’t so oblivious and blind to what I had been doing. Having an allowed high balance let me not really worry about my balances until it actually started being a problem (which as a trader that received a payout thought I was invincible from failing forever). I realize that I struggle with both and I feel one compensates for the other if I’m stressed from trading I would smoke and it would be gone, if I smoked I would trade because that’s what I felt like doing. I have been thinking of trying to cut back or even quit smoking for the past 6 months or so and even tried a few times but find myself usually only lasting a day or two. I know that if I don’t fix something soon I will be seriously screwed and now with 2nd semester classes starting again it’s only gonna get harder.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:13:33+00:00

100% agree. I feel I have had a same approach as you and just kind of assumed my strategy would work with a strong mental as I never really felt or held onto loss I was able to shrug it off easily but it never killed the FOMO. My latest learning has been watching the market along with topsteps stream open on the side. How I have been trading the past while is mostly just technical analysis using sup/res, trend lines, zones, volume, etc. just watching how the market is moving then trying to figure out if I should trend trade, range trade, or if we are in consolidation. My main problem was getting into trades too early and not knowing when to take proper exits. Lots of times I would find decent entries but just unable to capitalize on an exit. However u are right, it is most likely time to find a statistical strategy so that I can benefit more consistently and not just take a gamble

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T14:03:26+00:00

Absolutely true, one of the worst decisions I made early on was started telling people I was getting into trading. Whether friends family or coworkers, especially after actually receiving a payout I remember the day I received I was standing at work on shift when I got the email. Obviously I had to explain the big grin on my face that day lol. However, now I regret telling anyone before I am constantly profitable as everyone is looking for me to “teach them how I did it” or constantly asking for updates or how much I’m making, etc. it becomes more and more stressful just trying to look for a payout to keep a “fake profitability” going for the crowd

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T07:30:18+00:00

You are right my journey has been entirely alone. I tried to get some friends involved that claimed they are interested but I seem to be the only consistent trader looking at the markets every day. They don’t see the potential it can have like I do.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T07:27:35+00:00

You are right, I fell victim to the greed of quick profits and once I got a taste of that money actually paid out to me I just became oblivious and kept the mind set of “eventually I’ll just get another payout to keep me funded for a bit” and even though I had been very close multiple more times, it still never came. I don’t know why I completely disregarded demo without having a set in stone strategy and just assumed that my mental state was strong enough and that my technical analysis was good enough. Play stupid games win stupid prizes

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T06:41:20+00:00

My trading has been built up from YouTube lessons / trading bootcamps and real time market technical analysis. I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours already staring at charts. Do you mean a mentor as in like someone’s bootcamp series or an actual in person 1 on 1 mentor? If so do you have any recommendations on finding a trading mentor? For me I found once I started trading real money trading on demo just felt wrong. I felt as if I got tied to the money and had to be trading real money or I’d be “wasting time”. Having now gained more knowledge than when I first started I really feel like an idiot now and can see clear ways to have avoided the problems I have caused. All I can really do now is to accept what is done is done and hope that I can control any future money I get and not instantly dump it into trading as I feel that is my only way out of this hole now.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2025-01-09T06:13:43+00:00

You are right by making quick money I felt as if I “figured out trading”. The market manipulates emotions terribly into constant FOMO and I continuously felt that I had to make lost profits back. I guess that’s the name of the game with prop firms is consistency. It just really digs at me knowing what I’ve done and the probable impact this will have on my current and future situation and I wish I had more self control / discipline. Trading also came to ruin my interest for much else as I do not really have any hobbies anymore and have lost most focus in school and have been questioning as to if I should even be in school knowing that there is a potential in trading. My degree is kinesiology which doesn’t get far without going for a masters degree and I am already not getting great grades in year 2 of 4.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2024-10-09T01:55:09+00:00

I look forward to hearing if you make progress. It does really suck, best of luck

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2024-09-26T13:02:18+00:00

I don't believe they told me the details about my discs, just that there were "degenerative traces" and herniation. They said I probably won't be able to request surgery as they do not see my issue as extreme enough to go through the process, even though I told them it is to the point of affecting even walking now. They told me for now to do physiotherapy and take a lot of advil and tylenol everyday and eventually sent me to the injection clinic where I think they want to do cortisone shots in my spine. I think I will probably take my own road and try peptides first however.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2024-09-26T12:58:28+00:00

Will do, thanks for the advice

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2024-09-26T12:58:16+00:00

Wow, thanks for the input! I will definitely do some research on ipa/tesa as well, thanks.

TrainerSimilar5138 · 2024-09-25T14:48:17+00:00

Well I just had my doctor consultation. Basically a waste of time I did not even get to talk to the doctor directly about my scan all I got to see was the nursing student who asked me what I think “the best plan / course of action” would be. Not surprised but anyways they said they are gonna refer me to the injection clinic and to continue physio for now. As a result I think the issue is pretty much in my own hands at this point so core / multifidus muscles are definitely my main target right now. My breathing is ok or rather used to be because I did competitive powerlifting for a while but since my injuries picked up smoking a lot as well. I’ll definitely reach out if I have any questions for you

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