It’s an inherently chaotic environment, you structure what you will for your sanity. My point is you need to stop mouthing off about this being an esteemed profession before I slap you. Why would people wear their mouthes off narrating the market 5 minute bar fluctuations if intraday technical analysis led to a career (Aside from selling trading material and bucket shop stuff)?
Did you hear about avg UPS driver making 170k compensation, which seems insane, Ask not what your distribution company can do for you but what you can do for them.
If you want to keep embellishing day trading vis-a-vis professional careers take it outside and I will settle this with you physically.
Please acknowledge receipt of missage. Thank you in advance mam or sir.
I’m a multi prop firm funded and paid out scalper of T.Bonds and equities, livestreaming my trading and posting PnL every day on twitter and journaling for accountability.
I went through the hardships you’ve been through, and I learned without paying for any courses, I learned by watching the market itself, it’s the best teacher.
You must see people execute live; you won’t learn much with cherry picked past trades because market conditions always change.
I stream my trading live 24/5 almost every day the futures markets are open, so you can hop in watch and chat in real time.
don’t spend money on the mentorship. there are too many free materials. the key thing is your psychology. if you can master your mind, then you can improve your trading. Peak Trading Performance.pdf
Amateur traders often treat the market like a crystal ball, trying to guess exactly where the market will go next. When they guess wrong, it feels personal.
- The Professional Mindset: Professional traders accept that the market is a random distribution of wins and losses. Instead of predicting, they look for repeatable structural patterns (like support and resistance or volume profiles) and build a “If / Then” framework.
- Example: Instead of saying “The market is going up here,” a pro says, "If price holds above this level on heavy volume, then I will buy. If it breaks below, I am out immediately.
You just need a framework to trade rather than trade randomly. shift from predicating to reacting.
Asking for curiosity, how many trades are still in the business from everyone who commented on this post? - No critique no shaming, just wanna know who made it.
I am working on finding my niche. So far, my biggest roadblock is managing the emotions triggered by a winning streak.
I’ve been trading since 2020 specifically the NQ, and my only take is avoid at all cost the “gut feelings” even with momentum, everything is chaotic (specially an index that depends on the biggest tech in the US) I was unprofitable for the first 4 years, and when I finally understood that it isn’t about getting your hands dirty, but rather about a systematic approach, an automated approach that simply repeats no matter the conditions. (Avoided the Macro news of course, and earnings)
BTW my setup includes fancy stuff: NinjaTrader connecting all my prop accounts and my personal accounts and my collective 2 account (you can check my statistics there as a trader with above 90% successful trades (if you want to subscribe, be my guest! ) and finally the automation coming from the company Proteryx that handles automation and execution!
Best ! @Mihail_Mazepa
Thank you, Andre.
There’s a lot I’d like to ask, so I’ll try to narrow it down to one question:
Traders eventually discover what not to do, but far fewer successfully build a repeatable framework afterward.
Looking back, what do you think was the “bridge” between those two stages for you?
I think a lot of traders here would genuinely benefit from hearing that part of the journey.
some ideas:
Manage your Expectations rather than Emotions.
Emtion is an abstrct concept. you cant visual or quantify it. But you can manage the expectations: Profit and Loss. this numbers finally affect your emotions.
keep low expectation is a way. for example, if you have $1 million, you won’t fell too bad when you lost $10k in the account. then it won’t affect your emotion. so your emotion is highly releated to your trading size and risk management. So trading psychology is a Trap. just consider trading as a math game.
So forget about emotion. when Proper risk management in play, emotion issues will disappear.
Reference: How i traded MNQ futures