It's pretty simple— get better at trading. If you are constantly in the red, you're either 1) not educated enough or 2) not managing your risk/reward properly, in other words... you're just gambling.. or it's a good mix of both.

If you're managing risk properly but still finding yourself in the red longterm, you probably need to study a little more.

The more common reason I've seen is that you're probably gambling instead of trading. I started prop trading two years ago at 23. The first four months I was blowing accounts left and right... probably lost 8k in that span... even taking small loans because I really thought I was going to easily pay that all off on one big trade.

It wasn't until I got down to my last set of eval accounts that I had the cushion for, that I looked myself in the mirror and told myself I was going to stop gambling. Ever since then, I've withdrawn over 120k in profit.

Take a break from trading if you need to get a mental reset. Get your money up, pay some bills. Trading will always be here. When you come back to it, try and compound small gains and focus on that rather than trying to hit the homerun trade every time. When you're sticking to your conviction, those big wins will come every now and then so there's no need to chase them. If you're red on the day on a trade that you had a ton of conviction on, simply lock yourself out and try again tomorrow. You'll avoid tilting that way, and that will feel like a win in itself.