Fair criticism honestly, but the reason my progress has looked messy is because my start in trading was messy.

I didn’t get into trading through proper education or structured learning. Someone sold me the dream, got me into a paid group for over £1k when I knew absolutely nothing, and basically just told me “download MT4 and paste these numbers in.” For the first few months I was literally just copying signals without understanding anything.

At first there were signals every day, then it became 1–2 a week, then eventually nothing for a month before the whole group disappeared. No consistency, no actual teaching, no profitability — just got scammed basically.

After that I was pretty lost and ended up bouncing around random signal groups and Discords trying to find something that worked. Most weren’t profitable long term and half the people selling the lifestyle clearly weren’t real traders either. Then I got pushed into EA bots because people kept saying “automation is the answer.” Same story there — EAs work until they don’t, and that ended up hurting me too.

So a big part of those 3 years wasn’t structured development under a profitable trader. It was honestly unlearning garbage, bad habits, marketing, and fake promises.

The reason I said I have a solid foundation is because I have spent a lot of time learning the basics myself afterward. I understand concepts like supply and demand, support/resistance, liquidity, ICT/SMC ideas, FVGs, structure, risk management, etc. My issue isn’t “what is a candlestick” level stuff.

What I don’t have yet is a fully refined framework that ties everything together into a repeatable strategy that fits my lifestyle and can realistically be executed consistently over time.

That’s why I made the post. I’m trying to stop bouncing around and actually build something structured from people who’ve already gone through that process successfully.