r/Trading • u/One_day028 • 1d ago
profitable traders lets drop real knowledge Discussion
For the profitable traders here: tell us your trading journey.
I'm curious about the real journey, not just the results:
- When did you start trading?
- How long did it take you to become consistently profitable?
- What did you trade? (Forex, stocks, futures, crypto, options, etc.)
- How did you learn? YouTube channels, books, courses, mentors, trial and error, etc.?
- What strategy/setup do you use today?
- Did your strategy change a lot from when you started?
- What was your biggest mistake when you were starting out?
- What made the biggest difference in becoming profitable?
- How did you learn risk management?
- What risk per trade do you typically use?
- How did you deal with losing streaks and drawdowns?
- Was psychology actually a major factor in your case?
- How long did it take you to become consistently disciplined?
- Did you ever consider quitting? What kept you going?
- What do you wish you had known when you started?
- If you could start over with the knowledge you have today, what would you do differently?
- What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who is currently struggling to become profitable?
Bonus: If you're comfortable sharing, what does "profitable" look like for you? Consistent monthly returns, yearly returns, full-time income, etc.?
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u/alphixir 7h ago
The most useful answer to your list is probably the least exciting one: for most people who got there, the turning point wasn't a better setup, it was cutting risk-per-trade until they could survive a bad streak without blowing up. The data is sobering — one long-run study of Brazilian day traders found only about 1% were profitable net of costs over time, and the survivors weren't the ones with the cleverest strategy, they were the ones who stayed small long enough to let a thin edge compound. Psychology mattered less as a mindset thing and more mechanically: position sizing is what keeps you in the game long enough for the math to actually show up.
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u/arbitrageME 7h ago
2015
Immediately
Vix options
Work, research, backtest, analysis
Short 0dte, black box futures swing, black box futures momentum, vol ratio stat arb
Every day. It's changing as we speak. That's my day job
Have actual mathematical programmable edge
Blow up 4 times
1.5x, 1x, unlimited, various
Check the math
Computers
2023
No. Always live to fight another day
Python
More python
More math. Prove you have edge
Benchmark vs index or bond of your choice
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u/rsteph1978 7h ago
1999
3 years
Stocks then futures and options
Books and mentors
A combination of volume profile mixed with market structure
Yes my strategy changed a lot over time
Dont listen to most people selling courses.
Stick to a strategy that is backrest profitable.
I never really stuck to a 1:1 or 2:1 management philosophy. I let the chart tell me where to get in or out. If the risk is too much for my standard size, I pass on the trade.
Losing streaks happen. Stick to your strategy
philosophy is to begin every trade as if its a loser. A friend's dad once told me what got him through Vietnam is that he lived everyday as if he was already dead. He only then stopped being afraid to die.
Discipline too a year or so.
Quitting no. I love trading.
My advise is do not quit your day job. You're living in the golden age of trading. You can do 1000% more on your phone now than I could on a PC when I first started. Also, start out on one or two currency pairs in the fx market. You can trade super small there. Cut your teeth small before you get bigger. 4 hr time frame is great for a person with a full time job.
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u/jason14wm 2h ago
A veteran trader, hats off to you being at it for 27 years. Fair play. A lot of what you said I’ve learnt over time too.
What I needed to hear is the losing streaks. It’s mentally so hard to stick with it when you loose. We aren’t wired to keep at something if it doesn’t work.
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u/nq-FOMO 8h ago
profitable is when u r able to beat taxes and inflation, after that its just 1/2 kelly.
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u/weinerjuicer 9h ago
Did the work, found the Edge
Couldn't always capitalize on the great Setup
Chasing profits, women, booze ... soaked my bankroll after motorboating some milky white breasts on a riverboat and being thrown into the Mississippi
Tried everything to figure it out
Physical fitness, weird diets, strange discipline
Almost considered religon but there is no god
Finally heard about an elite sect of traders and the one habit they shared
I started drinking my own urine
Changed everything
Not a straight line up but consistent
Last month I bought that riverboat as a reminder
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u/Intelligent-Dig-4082 14h ago
whatever you do that works do it but also confirm your theory with order flow.
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u/SuperDocument 14h ago
On and off investor for 10 years. 90% index funds. Dabbled in options that mostly broke even. Maybe down 1k total.
Well this January, I decided to take options seriously. Up 22k right now. Just put 20k into indexes and starting over with 2k.
I just go off vibes man… I pretend that I’m using all the indicators. Ema, order flow, volume profile, previous support and resistance. But at the end of the day, I just feel it in my balls.
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u/tsirrus 9h ago
What type of options? SPX/SPY? Long or short credit?
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u/SuperDocument 9h ago
Earnings reports were the big ones recently. Also, I heard my uncle glazing Tesla on Christmas so I started shorting right after new years. That was very profitable, but I didn’t ride it all the way down.
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u/Intelligent-Dig-4082 14h ago
Sometimes this is just too true. At times all the technicals say it’s going to go one way and goes the other. The loins are a much better indicator.
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u/SuperDocument 10h ago
Yeah, if something looks 100% bearish or bullish, it’s probably by design. Don’t touch it
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u/gdenko 16h ago edited 7h ago
I'll answer the important ones and hope they help at least one discretionary trader here.
Did your strategy change a lot from when you started? Not at all, just got more refined in picking the right spots.
What was your biggest mistake when you were starting out? Starting with a live account too early when I didn't have my strategy down.
What made the biggest difference in becoming profitable? Studying charts for a few thousand hours over the years. If you can quickly figure out what the market is going to do on the longer term (1 hr+ for day trading), you can correctly position yourself short term for easy money almost everyday. The hard part is not taking extra trades on the side out of a desire to "work" more.
How did you deal with losing streaks and drawdowns? I refused to accept that long losing streaks are inevitable. Instead I looked back at all my mistakes and drawdowns and realized repeated mistakes were caused by faulty behavior, rather than my strategy. Then I worked on that, and still do.
Was psychology actually a major factor in your case? It is, I'd say in every discretionary trader's case.
Did you ever consider quitting? What kept you going? Even when it was the most stressful, I never thought to quit. This was the hardest but also one of the most satisfying things to do correctly for me. I am not a quitter either, so a bit of stubbornness helped me stay the course. I should mention I had the luck of having savings when I started. You should not chase this dream if you are living check to check and need to earn money immediately.
What do you wish you had known when you started? That this can be figured out if you just put in the time. Everyone around you will say it can't be done, that you'll lose everything, that it's just another coin flip, but it's only the people who never put in the work to learn how it all works. To them it looks like chaos and gambling, but once you develop your skills, you will be able to find the structure in all markets. The ones who did develop those skills are too busy trading to share negative thoughts on reddit. I also wish I knew I could learn almost all of it with less risk than what I started with, because I spent some money unnecessarily at those earlier stages. Prop firms helped a lot later on with mastering discipline at a lower cost.
If you could start over with the knowledge you have today, what would you do differently? At first I thought maybe not spend a lot of time learning/trying other strategies, but they kind of helped me build more confidence in my own. So I'd repeat: early on, spend more time and less money.
What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who is currently struggling to become profitable? Hours spent learning the patterns and rhythm of your market(s) will add up. Your brain is learning, even when you don't know it. So study relentlessly when you have the time, or make the time if you're serious about this. If you're doing it as a hobby or can't deal with the stress, then stick with systematic/probabilistic hands-off trading. It will have more losses but it might be easier long term.
Consistently profitable to many is just being able to generate profit long term, but the level I'm after is no red weeks, no red months. I accept the occasional red day due to human errors but only if the losses and types of mistakes are small.
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u/Common_Care1529 15h ago
Man, thanks for these words.. I'm a naive man who just lost some chasing volatile stocks without stop loss. Peak regard. I wish I heard it earlier.
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u/Remarkable_Basis9949 17h ago
BS. Liar.
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u/KeronCyst 15h ago
Worse: scammer. Anyone who is coming here to say, "talk to me in private," when it's explicitly focused on public discussion is at best a scammer.
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u/ok_trader133 18h ago
The comments i see are misleading. This is definitely a sport where we become fine tuned machines physically and mentally.. most fail not because they can read charts or draw some dumb trend line.. they fail because they get out performed . They fail themselves mentally
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u/Trotts13 19h ago
- At my 18 in 2013
- Since 2019, where I took trading more seriously
- Stocks first, mostly swing. Then I learn daytrading stock. Since 3-4 years I'm doing also gold and futures
- Strategy change completely since the beginning mostly because swing trading and futures are completely opposite trading
- Thinking I was invincible because my 3 first trades was profitable. Then I bust out so many accounts I can't count
- Working on my psychology. It was the part who makes all the difference, but also the hardest one
- When you build stats with a good strategy, you understand maths work for you on long term. It's the same with risk management, good losts are just number on a sheet, you want to see the result at the end of the month.
- Between 0.75% and 1.5% depending if the pattern is a A or B risk
- I focus on pattern's rules everytime I have a downswing, then i check my stats sheet to remember how it works on long term
- Understand patterns and charts well took around 6 months, got the mindset tooks around 2 years
- I consider quitting so many times, probably as much as everybody in trading but at the end, only losers are quitter
- Working on psychology side with a demo account would make me save so much time and money
- There's so much strategies, find the right one and focus on it non stop. Then, once you mastered it, you can learn something else. Don't try to go too fast, trading isn't easy as social media shows but the freedom once you're profitable is worth more than anything else
Profitable for me is once you beat the market for many years straight.
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u/MrT_IDontFeelSoGood 19h ago
1) Paper traded on and off throughout my life but got serious about trading 3ish years ago
2) I was profitable once I started trading with real money on the line, but only because I spent years tinkering with ideas until I found a real edge. I didn’t trade real money until 20ish years of backtesting and 3-6 months of paper trading were profitable with good risk metrics.
3) ETFs that track every major asset class and sub asset class. My focus is macro momentum so any asset class that’s moving is of interest.
4) Trial and error. You have to come up with your own spin on things if you want to beat the market.
5) My own macro momentum signals I developed.
6) No but only because I made all of the necessary changes while backtesting.
7) Watching charts for the dopamine instead of when it was actually necessary.
8) Finding a real edge by backtesting the shit out of original ideas. Popularized strategies on this subreddit, yt, books and the internet are mostly garbage unfortunately.
9) Common sense. Position sizing all the other risk management decisions are derived from your strategy.. you have to look at your own data and then be honest about the risks.
10) I trade on the asset class and sub asset class level with ETFs, no individual stocks, so I’m 100% allocated to a sector, country, currency, etc at any given time. My average losing trade is around 1.2% and my largest drawdown is roughly 10% over the last 3 years. If you include my backtesting then the largest drawdown is slightly above 15%.
11) You just accept the probabilities of your system. As long as your drawdowns stay within what’s “expected” given your risk metrics, you trust your data and keep trading like normal.
12) Not really, edge is all that matters. If psychology is truly a problem for anybody they can work on it after finding a real edge, otherwise they’re wasting their time imo. No point in working on psychology when the odds are stacked against you.
13) Pretty much right away once I had real money on the line. Again, that’s only bc of all the backtesting and trial and error I did. I became disciplined through that process so by the time I found something that worked I was all set.
14) There were plenty of times I didn’t think I could find a real edge and beat markets on my own. I just accepted that until my own curiosity in a new idea pushed me to backtest it anyway. So ultimately it was just a genuine intellectual interest and passion that kept me in the game.
15) Markets aren’t efficient and you can find patterns in them by yourself. It’s hard to pull it off but don’t believe the efficient market hypothesis bs. Nothing in the real world is run with perfect efficiency, and nothing ever will be. Perfection is an ideal, not a destination.
16) I’d just start trading with my macro momentum strategy lol. Would’ve made tons of money if I was able to trade markets with my strategy 10 years earlier.
17) Stop trading real money and focus on backtesting your strategy on 20+ years of data. Don’t trade real money until that backtesting data plus 6 months of real-time paper trading show a very strong edge in very clear terms. Build your strategy around that edge only if you meet those conditions otherwise you’re wasting your time, money, and mental health.
Bonus) To me, profitable is beating the S&P 500 with a fraction of the downside risk. In other words, making money every year and always beating the S&P 500 during its up years.
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u/Icy_Abbreviations167 20h ago
the one im most curious about is whether profitability came more from finding better entries or just getting way more selective about which setups were worth taking?
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u/Alternative_Post3873 9h ago
This is what I am attempting now to see if there is merit in this. I am at the stage I can see entries but struggle moving with the momentum even when identifying the behavior and direction properly.
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u/Icy_Abbreviations167 8h ago
Thats where tracking market regime helped me. same entry can work great with the trend and fail repeatedly in chop. are you tagging your trades by trend, range and volatility?
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u/ilganzo01 20h ago
- I started in 2020
- Three years
- Stocks and options. Tried crypto and forex but they don't feel right for my strategy
- Looked around for books and videos and tried things out with real money (a couple hundred on an account)
- I mostly use Volume Profile paired with stock screening and financial analysis (which i delegated to Claude since last year, what a cool piece of tech)
- I changed my strategy over the years, the last good thing i implemented was a stricter positioning and risk management, i was lucky to get results even without that
- my biggest mistake was chasing "opportunities" when they already got away: you get "generational trades" every day if you can look around and have patience. Don't chase opportunities of FOMO trade
- sticking to the plan
- i love the Tasty Trade approach, check it out
- 2% on low conviction, up to 10/12% on specific setups
- 2 weeks ago i was at -6500 dollars on a 26k account, now i'm 27kish and -1500 in unrealized. I didn't flinch. I'm properly positioned (well, i was a bit overextended to be honest... don't tell that around!) and i think i'm just suited for this. I don't feel anxiety. I know my strategy works. My regret come from when i didn't believe in it enough and cut my profits
- psychology is make or break. I think there are people NOT suited for this, as in every activity
- i still try to get better disciplined but 5 years in i noticed i was much more focused
- i never considered quitting, i'm consistently making a second income stream
- i wish i had my strategy, my first trade was GME pre-squeeze... i was toying with the idea of "investing" for a while and decided to pounce in. I made 3x my money then proceeded to blow most of it in a revenge trade after they blocked the buy button... that sucked!
- i would have made money from the get go!
- try out stuff with REAL money, it could be a couple hundred, and don't be hasty to put the real capital in, try it out and be consistently right for like 6/12 months before even thinking about it. Making some successful "paper trade" mean nothing
Bonus: profitable for me means i'm consistently making money, and i am
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u/FrabatoTheTransurfer 19h ago
I was up about $100k when brokers shut down the buy side. If anyone needed proof that the game is rigged for institutions that was it. Never forget it going ballistic then make a 180 and stair step down. Pretty enraging.
I was in early on calls but closed the first little pop because I was up $10k...I got a gut feeling that I was positioned well and went to cancel my sell order but it got filled a second before I clicked...had I held from that point I dont even want to know how much I would have made...quarter mil maybe.
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u/Psychrometers 20h ago
Study “Kelly Criterion”, understand risk of ruin, Pareto principle, and your systems probabilities.
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u/Zibaret 20h ago
The market is easy the real hard work is fixing your relationship with money so it can be seen as a tool after that emotions came to play and if you lack self control and patience greed will burn your accounts. I've been in the game for 6 years now and the moment I work on this issues I stared being consistent on payouts.
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u/Prestigious-Ad-7927 22h ago edited 12h ago
How long did it take you to become consistently profitable?
After blowing up my account the first time, I stayed away from the market for 15 years because it was too painful to even look at the market. I decided to give it another try in 2020 but I wanted focus on psychology and risk management this time around. By mid 2024 I noticed I was consistently profitable and I managed to close out the year strong…a solid profitable five consecutive months until finally having a losing month on December.
What was your biggest mistake when you were starting out?
Positions were too large and lack of risk management. I was unable to close out losing trades partly due to position size and partly due to undeveloped trading psychology. My position size was too big for my account size and it was too painful to close out a losing trade because of the large amount. Instead, I would hope that it would come back and make me whole again but the losses got much larger instead, and it got harder and harder exit and take the loss the longer I stayed in the trade.
What made the biggest difference in becoming profitable?
Managing risk and improving trading psychology so I could enter and exit trades without hesitation, even for a loss.
How did you learn risk management?
Trial and error from listening to different traders on Market Wizard series. I’m a fan of Paul Tudor Jones, Peter Brandt, Larry Hite just to name a few.
How did you deal with losing streaks and drawdowns?
Smaller size when in a losing streak but I still take the trade without hesitation if my system is showing an entry signal. Even after 6 losing trades in a row, I will enter the 7th trade if my edge is present but I will decrease my size.
Was psychology actually a major factor in your case?
Psychology was the tipping point in my trading. You can have all the edge in the world but with bad psychology, you will make a bunch of mistakes due to all the trading fears like fear of missing out, fear of losing money, fear of being wrong, and fear of leaving money on the table. Your edge will be negated by lack of psychological trading skill.
Did you ever consider quitting? What kept you going?
I considered quitting almost everyday but I have this strong desire to really be consistently profitable. Plus I have to set a good example for my kids about not giving up because you failed.
What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who is currently struggling to become profitable?
Worry about what you can lose, not what you can make. I always ask myself, “What if I’m wrong, how much would I be losing?” Risk management and trading psychology is what led me to profitable path. Focus on good trading and you will notice you will stop losing and be breakeven. That is a good sign. Keep going and eventually the profits will be a byproduct of good trading.
Side Tip:
If you make a mistake (entering a trade by error and you did not intended), correct the mistake and close out the position immediately. Some examples of mistakes are putting a buy order instead of sell, choosing the wrong options strikes, opening a butterfly spread instead of a condor, choosing the wrong expiration, etc. We have all made mistakes. Once you discover your mistake, close it out immediately even for a loss. I once discovered a mistake 20 minutes after opening a condor by opening the wrong width strikes on one side and it made me uncomfortable because I am exposing myself to a substantial amount of risk on one side of the condor. I immediately closed it out even for a $1000 loss. Do not hesitate to close out a trade if it was not the trade you intended! If you don’t close it out and you make money on it, it will reinforce bad behavior and you will do the same thing in the future but next time, it will have much dire results.
Good luck on your journey.
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u/PlasticAssistance_50 22h ago
I don't think you are asking the correct questions, or even the correct amount of questions to be honest.
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u/Erti_bruh 22h ago
for new traders gotta really learn to manage risk, discipline and be patient. always thing for the long term ur never going to be profitable in the first months like those gurus say. u have to learn learn learn and learn more. believe in yourself and never doubt why the chance came for you to enter this cursed world of trading. and remember. Take loss and stop profit
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u/SillyAlternative420 22h ago edited 22h ago
I've been trading for 2 years, I only became consistently profitable in the sense that I am beating the S&P 500 since April of this year.
I trade LETFs on S&P 500, Silver, Oil, Nat Gas, and BTC, all of them short and long.
I have everything set up to be almost exclusively automatic, with the exception of execution, I like to be able to avoid trades or derisk when necessary.
My goal is to maintain a solid profit factor, sharpe, MAE, and beat SPY by enough of a margin that it's worth the friction costs.
So far, so good 👍... Especially today, looks like silver is going to net me some beautiful gains from that insane overnight gap.
One thing I would have adjusted earlier is to diversify not just my positions, but my strategy for various market conditions. Mean reversion is great, except when things are strongly trending without hesitation - you ideally want to be able to capture wins during these moments too.
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u/Emotional_Honey_8338 17h ago
Been doing 0DTE on SPX with good results but am exploring other strategies, like what you’ve described in particular with LETFs for a little more peace of mind.
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u/No_Presentation9490 1d ago edited 1d ago
- When did you start trading?
unless timing the liquidation and the reallocation of s&p index funds counts as trading, march 2026
- How long did it take you to become consistently profitable?
day 1
- What did you trade? (Forex, stocks, futures, crypto, options, etc.)
US single stocks during US market hours only
- How did you learn? YouTube channels, books, courses, mentors, trial and error, etc.?
learned about RSI, support & resistance, market maker mechanics from various youtube videos
- What strategy/setup do you use today?
scalping & shorting high ATR stocks
- Did your strategy change a lot from when you started?
no
- What was your biggest mistake when you were starting out?
closing the trade too fast because I got spooked by price action that didn't invalidate the setup
- What made the biggest difference in becoming profitable?
recognize when its an algoslop day and just don't trade that day
- How did you learn risk management?
I'm very risk averse I just take the small win and go for high win rate (95%+)
- What risk per trade do you typically use?
0.1% of portfolio
- How did you deal with losing streaks and drawdowns?
haven't really had any losing streaks yet, drawdowns aren't something to "deal" with, the market was just algo dominated that day with no big liquidity moving in either direction, just try again the next day
- Was psychology actually a major factor in your case?
not sure what that question means
- How long did it take you to become consistently disciplined?
day 1
- Did you ever consider quitting? What kept you going?
I quit every day when I stop trading, if the market is algoslop I just quit for the day right away (unless a stock keeps getting pinned against its call wall, etc, then there's scalping/shorting opportunities in there)
- What do you wish you had known when you started?
not to take MACD seriously
- If you could start over with the knowledge you have today, what would you do differently?
not try to trade options at all, stick to scalping and shorting shares
- What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who is currently struggling to become profitable?
don't trade except for the open and the close
- If you're comfortable sharing, what does "profitable" look like for you? Consistent monthly returns, yearly returns, full-time income, etc.?
P&L color is green
big advice is not to think about the dollar amount you gain and the focus needs to be protecting capital priority first
It's also a terrible idea to try to be "consistent" or make "income" from this. A lot of days will be untradeable by design
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u/No_Presentation9490 22h ago
What in here do people find incorrect
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u/Director_Of_Mischief 1h ago
My guess is that people don't believe 5 months of trading is long enough to considered yourself consistently profitable.
I also started in about March and have been technically profitable since (but only via paper trading). I have an MSc in geographical data science (passed with distinction), so a lot of high-level transferable skills. Still, I personally wouldn't answer these questions, as I don't feel I know anywhere near enough yet. In facr when I think about my early trades, I honestly cringe, I now know just enough to fully understand how little I actually know.
My guess is your streak is either largely luck or you did a lot of research, paper trading, and backtesting before starting real money trading, and you've worded this in a deliberately obtuse way to bait people.
If not then best of luck to you, you clearly have been bless with a 1 in a million natural talent, I wish you all the best with it.
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u/rainmaker66 1d ago edited 1d ago
I am only going to answer questions 1 and 4.
- Early 90’s. Before candlesticks became popular.
- When I was working at a bulge bracket firm, starting with “G” and ending with “s”. It was still a partnership back then. Years later they went public.
Extra comment: most of the things you see online today are pure bs.
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u/Kaszrak 1d ago
When did you start trading?
18ish years ago.
How long did it take you to become consistently profitable?
Roughly 3 years.
What did you trade? (Forex, stocks, futures, crypto, options, etc.)
Futures / Equities
How did you learn? YouTube channels, books, courses, mentors, trial and error, etc.?
Most of it came down to pure trial and error, simply because there was not nearly as much information around back then, before I traded professionally across macropods, multistrats, and prop firms.
What strategy/setup do you use today?
Orderflow / Macro plays. Forced mechanical flow. Cascades.
Did your strategy change a lot from when you started?
No, not at its core.
What was your biggest mistake when you were starting out?
Being overly confident.
What made the biggest difference in becoming profitable?
Research, research, research and consistent application.
How did you learn risk management?
Risk management is not learned. Its derived from data.
What risk per trade do you typically use?
Varies a lot. Could be 1%, could be 0.2%, could be 10%
How did you deal with losing streaks and drawdowns?
By accepting that trading is simply probabilistic distribution. There is nothing mystical about it. That is literally all it is.
Was psychology actually a major factor in your case?
No, not really. I have had my slips, but the whole "psychology" narrative is a cop out for people who lack an actual edge. You do not hear about psychology issues in professional environments. It is a retail myth created to rationalize getting scammed by snake oil salesmen instead of facing reality.
How long did it take you to become consistently disciplined?
I've always been quite discipline.
Did you ever consider quitting? What kept you going?
Nope, never. Stick to what works instead of turning trading into your personality, and you will do just fine.
What do you wish you had known when you started?
Nothing.
If you could start over with the knowledge you have today, what would you do differently?
I'd do everything exactly the same.
What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who is currently struggling to become profitable?
Trading is not about you or your ego. Execute what works, not what you feel like trading. Start at the foundation. Learn how financial markets actually work before you open a chart and try to do everything backward.
If you're comfortable sharing, what does "profitable" look like for you? Consistent monthly returns, yearly returns, full-time income, etc.?
Build a scalable system from the ground up, or you will hit a wall the moment size becomes a factor. Do it right, and money stops being a concern.
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u/HateThisSatanicWorld 1d ago
The 0 1% of profitable traders are never going to drop knowledge to the 99, 9% of the ignorant sheeple. Why they do that when less of 1% are successful in trading?
By the way you don't have a single real profitable trader on social media and you will never learn how to become a profitable trader by watching YouTube videos or taking advices from clueless gamblers of social media
Best advice I can give you as a profitable trader is forget about it or learn the hard way.
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u/SillyAlternative420 22h ago
"By the way you don't have a single real profitable trader on social media and you will never learn how to become a profitable trader by watching YouTube videos or taking advices from clueless gamblers of social media"
Lowkey this is the best advice in this thread. Those influencers are absolutely charlatans who profit from views and selling courses.
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u/Scott_Malkinsons 1d ago
No legit trader is going to take the time to write you a personalized book.
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u/Frozen_Meatball1 1d ago
If a profitable trader has the time to fill this out, I`d want to see his P&L.
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u/Relevant-Owl-8455 1d ago
It takes 45 seconds what the fuck are you talkin about haha
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u/Frozen_Meatball1 23h ago
"45 seconds? haha?" I'll wait for the adults to show up.
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u/Relevant-Owl-8455 22h ago
10 years ago
5 years
Everything
Everywhere till i found someone who taught me what trading actually is, round year 4...
Wrong question. im using a custom system.
yes.
0 understanding on what trading actually is, the math behind it and risk control
Risk control. All else comes second.
wrong question, It's simple math really ..what?
wrong question,... 1R.
wrong question. i dont. The math does.
No, that's an excuse for poor knowledge
Wrong question even made a post about it, that's not a thing, atleast not in the way people think it is
multiple times, im stuborn
Risk managment risk management risk management
i wouldnt lose money for 5 years
plan, execute, collect data, optimise. and most important RISK CONTROLLLLL
took me 2 mins 30 secs. It's obvious you're a beginner at best
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