<b>Gutsy</b>, your journal here is a positive effort towards self-discovery. From what you share with us, you are a struggling trader with self-imposed deadlines to create success. Or else.
Every person reading your thread either has or should have great sympathy ~ empathy for your plight. That goes without saying.
But... the market is emotionless and absolutely does not care. All of the travails you listed as befalling you in the past few years are totally irrelevant to the markets. That won't earn you one dime of profits nor give one moment's break, plain & simple.
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From what you describe in your journal, you have absolutely nothing positive in your favor specific to successful trading. A list of what you've shared:
#1: Poor mental outlook
#2: Poor physical health
#3: Sleep deprivation
#4: Numerous distractions outside of trading
#5: Low capitalization
#6: No viable trading method for success
#7: Self-imposed performance deadlines
#8: Poor self-discipline, trading and outside of trading
The list could be added to, but that's enough. In all honesty, what can you add to this ledger on a positive expectancy side?
You began this thread talking about how the professional trader let you sit in on some of his operation. At this point in time, can you aptly follow the approach he traded? Or are you basically clueless to what he did?
Unless that trader mentored you in precise, detailed and extended fashion, your time spent with him was nothing more than entertainment. Unless you can replicate his methods for consistent success, what did you learn?
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Bottom line? We all would love to see you succeed. That goes without saying. Likewise, you have made absolutely no case for a glimmer of hope as a successful trader on the current path you tread.
Holding a "performance gun" to your head on every trade you take loaded with bullets listed above will never allow you to succeed as a trader. Clinging to a false hope will only delay the inevitable failure.
If you wish to succeed, you must stop everything you are doing now and change paths 180 degrees. This is no revelation: you are the first person to admit that in public yourself.
I truly hope & pray you immediately stop your road to inevitable ruin, and rebuild your overall approach to life from scratch. Unless and until you do that dificult task, the end of this story has been written long ago.
Very Best Wishes In Life,
Austin
Every person reading your thread either has or should have great sympathy ~ empathy for your plight. That goes without saying.
But... the market is emotionless and absolutely does not care. All of the travails you listed as befalling you in the past few years are totally irrelevant to the markets. That won't earn you one dime of profits nor give one moment's break, plain & simple.
*
From what you describe in your journal, you have absolutely nothing positive in your favor specific to successful trading. A list of what you've shared:
#1: Poor mental outlook
#2: Poor physical health
#3: Sleep deprivation
#4: Numerous distractions outside of trading
#5: Low capitalization
#6: No viable trading method for success
#7: Self-imposed performance deadlines
#8: Poor self-discipline, trading and outside of trading
The list could be added to, but that's enough. In all honesty, what can you add to this ledger on a positive expectancy side?
You began this thread talking about how the professional trader let you sit in on some of his operation. At this point in time, can you aptly follow the approach he traded? Or are you basically clueless to what he did?
Unless that trader mentored you in precise, detailed and extended fashion, your time spent with him was nothing more than entertainment. Unless you can replicate his methods for consistent success, what did you learn?
**
Bottom line? We all would love to see you succeed. That goes without saying. Likewise, you have made absolutely no case for a glimmer of hope as a successful trader on the current path you tread.
Holding a "performance gun" to your head on every trade you take loaded with bullets listed above will never allow you to succeed as a trader. Clinging to a false hope will only delay the inevitable failure.
If you wish to succeed, you must stop everything you are doing now and change paths 180 degrees. This is no revelation: you are the first person to admit that in public yourself.
I truly hope & pray you immediately stop your road to inevitable ruin, and rebuild your overall approach to life from scratch. Unless and until you do that dificult task, the end of this story has been written long ago.
Very Best Wishes In Life,
Austin