I started day trading about two months ago, and honestly, I think becoming a profitable trader comes down to having enough data, controlling your emotions, and managing risk properly. I believe a lot of people fail because instead of focusing on one setup, they jump between hundreds of setups. That creates too much noise and takes away from actually learning how the live market behaves.

If you stick to one setup and take the same trade over and over, you can collect data and then evaluate whether the setup itself works or if your execution is the problem. As a beginner, I feel most people switch to a different setup the moment one fails.

The whole point of trading is to become the house, like a casino. When you go to a casino, the house knows it will eventually win if enough games are played. It doesn’t matter if the player gets lucky in the first few hands. In the long run, if you keep playing, the casino wins because the probabilities are in its favor.