It Took Me 7 Years to Learn What I’ll Tell You in 72 Mins

I've been trading for nearly seven years and this year alone I've already crossed over $1 million in trading profits. Every single trade was documented live on my second channel, Bread Trades. I've also helped hundreds of students become six-figure funded traders. And in this video, I'm going to compress seven years of brutal trading truth and lessons into this one video. In trading, you must be optimistic in your system but Pessimistic in the trade outcome. That's the paradox that nobody talks about, which means that you need to be confident in your trade plan, but you need to

be flexible enough to adjust your trade bias and your trade ideal when the market tells you to do so. Now, I've been trading for seven years, and the truth is most of the money that I've made is in the last one year. The past six years, losses, mistakes, blown up accounts. But now looking back, I Realized that those years were the tuition that I had to pay to the market in order to build consistency. Now to be honest, my secret isn't in some magical indicator or like a holy grail strategy. It's in showing up every

single day, journaling, managing risk, following my system, reviewing the trades that I've taken. That's my secret and that's how I become so goddamn successful, so damn good at what I do. Remember, profits aren't given, they are rented. And the Rent is dual in the form of discipline every damn day. Every single amateur trader wants to turn $100 to $1 million. But that's exactly why they blow up their accounts. Like the fastest way to blow up is to try to win faster. People think they will gamble their way up. But the truth is if your habits

are broken, more money in your account just means that you will blow up faster and just means that you'll lose more money. So more money pretty much just amplify your Losses. And I used to have this mindset where you know what I will manage risk when I have 100k. I will manage risk when I have a million dollars in my account. No, you won't. Because the thing about habits is that they don't scale. They follow you along. Right? So if you don't build a good habits right now, you let the bad habits creep in. You

overlever, you change trades, you force trades. Eventually, when you have a larger account, you're just going to Keep doing the same thing which you did when you have a smaller account and just lose money faster and just lose more money. So, stop chasing the $100 to $1 million. Learn how to protect the $100 first because that's the only path that scales. When you know how to manage $100, you can eventually manage $10,000, eventually 100k, and eventually a million dollars. But you can't just lip from this small account to the large account without preparing your mind

Psychologically so that you can handle this large amount of money, right? Because it's very different to risk three figures per trade to four figures per trade to five figures per trade. And it takes some time to build up that tolerance. But like I said, if you're not consistently profitable on a small account, you will just be compounding your losses on a big account. Any dumb asses can take a profit. Professionals know how to take losses. For the longest Time, I will attach my identity, my self-worth to my P&L, which means that if I encounter a

losing trade or like a losing streak, I start to feel like I feel like I'm not good enough. I feel like my trading strategy doesn't work. I feel like my parents were right when they actually dumped on me to started doing this endeavor. And when that happens, you're always on this emotional roller coaster, right? Like losses just destroyed me. Over time, I Realized that losses are simply a cost of doing business. They are simply the price I have to pay to the market in order to get better at trading. And if I think back about

my military days, a soldier doesn't predict every attack. He respond and can respond fast and can do everything he can to minimize damage. It's the same thing in trading. If you think about it, the only constant in the market is losing. Winning impermanent, right? But losing is a constant. You can Never get rid of losses. So you must do everything you can to minimize your losses so you can maximize your profits. And that's exactly how I treat losses right now. They are not good, they are not bad, they are just are. And if you don't

learn from them, then it's truly your loss. Like it's a loss only if you don't learn from it. So this is why I always say become a master at losing because that's the only way you will ever win. When you start to get Comfortable with losing and you start to lose cheaper, faster, and better, that's how you win in the long run. For all my losing traders out there, understand that trading is not linear. It's exponential. So, if you quit after a losing streak, you don't last long enough to get a breakthrough moment to reach

the inflection point that allow you to get exponential growth in your equity curve. Now, I blew seven accounts, failed 500 challenges, and Lost over $10,000 of my life savings in my first six months of trading. And I thought I was done. But then I realized that my incompetence was a result of insufficient volume. You are not good enough because you haven't done enough. You're not consistent yet because you haven't put in the work. You haven't put in sufficient reps. So keep trading, keep journaling, keep collecting data, and keep refining your strategy. Over time, you will

just get better. And Understand that at the end of the day, consistency doesn't come from luck. It's not this lucky thing that can just manifest. It comes from persistence that just keep going even when the market is throwing at you and you're not seeing any results whatsoever. But if you just keep going and you get better 1% battle every single day, eventually you are going to get so skilled that it's unreasonable that you do not profit from the market. Like you are going to Be so good that they can't ignore you. So remember, the only

way to guarantee failure is to quit. Which means that if you don't quit, you can't lose. Now here's a controversial belief. There isn't a worse month to trade. There are only traders who can't adapt. Some months are slow, some months are volatile, some months are quiet, some months are bullish, some months are bearish. But your system needs to be robust enough to handle every single Market condition. That's the only way you can play the long game in this game. Now, I used to overtrade a lot in quiet months out of boredom, out of the desire

to make money because I was actually like rushing to make as much money as fast as possible while putting in the least amount of effort possible. So as a result, I would try to trade every single day even though the market conditions were not ideal. Even though it was an obvious low property setup, But I would trade just because I wanted to make money. And nowadays I realize that that is the wrong mindset. It's like when you start focusing on the money, right? You start fixating on just trading as much as possible rather than the

quality of your execution, the quality of your setups. Ironically, you take worse trades, you lose more money, and you lose more of your time, energy, and attention, right? Because simply you're focusing on the wrong things. So Nowadays, instead of focusing on predicting the market, I focus on identifying the cycle of the market. And once I identify the cycle of the market, I adjust my trading strategy accordingly, right, to the market. So I'm trading the market for what it is rather than what I think it's going to do or what I think it should be. I'm

actually perceiving the objective reality of the market instead of my perception of what the market should be. Remember, trading isn't about timing the perfect month. It's about surviving every month. So, the goal of a trader is not to beat the market. It's to outlast yourself so you can eventually have an edge in the long run. Pain is inevitable in trading. You either suffer the pain of patience or the pain of blowing up. One weigh ounce and the other weigh tons. Now I used to rush at the trades just to feel busy, just to feel productive.

But then what I realized is Every single account that I blown, it came from impatience. It came when I recklessly rush into trades without following my trade plan. It came when I refused to let a good trade run to my TP. So understand that true patience isn't just sitting around. It's waiting for your A+ setup to appear and doing nothing in between. That's the hard part. Doing nothing and just waiting. And it comes when you just let the trade run to your TP without micromanaging a Stop-loss or take profit. And it also comes when you

just put your head down and work even though you're not seeing any results whatsoever, but you just continue working hoping that you can eventually get to the light at the end of the tunnel. That my friend is disciplined, patience. Now listen, the market doesn't give a if you call yourself a day trader or an investor or a crypto trader. It cares if you follow your rules. Now I personally have done All trade, right? I've tried day trading. I've tried swing trading. I've tried long-term investing. I've tried position trading. I've tried sculping. Whatever it is, I've

tried it all. And I realized that what matters isn't the labor that you impose on yourself, but rather it's aligning your style, your trading style with your personality and your lifestyle. It's about finding out what works for you, right? Not Tom, Dick, Harry, but what works for you, What fits into your obligations and your commitments, what fits into your personality, what aligns with your lifestyle. And the reason why a lot of traders fail is because they are copying someone else approach. When you copy someone else approach, number one, you lack conviction, right? Because you haven't

done the work. You haven't put in sufficient reps to prove to yourself that that strategy actually works. That approach actually works. Number two, you Are trying to fit your size into their cup, right? Like what I mean by that is that for example, let's say you wear S, right, for your shirt, but then their size is M, right? So if that's the case, you are wearing the wrong size, right? but you are trying to like fit your underweight body into that oversized shirt. So it doesn't make sense. And number three is you're more likely to

give up when you copy someone else edge because when someone else edge stop Working you give up on it and they start hopping to the next strategy and the next strategy and as a result you continuously stay on the beginner level, right? Because you're always resetting your competence levels whenever you choose another strategy, whenever you hop on to like a new thing. So it kind of slow your progress in a way, right? So, it's not really worth it to just copy someone else strategy or approach blindly. It's much worthwhile if you Just take the time

out to figure out what works for you. Remember, trading is not a multiplayer game. It's a single player game. So, the best strategy is not the one that is most profitable in the short term, but rather it's the one that you can execute with consistency in the long term. If I could only pick three instruments to trade for the rest of my life, I'll pick NASDAQ, NQ, gold, XUSD, and Bitcoin. They are highly liquid. They are incredibly volatile, And they fit into the price action strategy that I trade. And most importantly, they provide sufficient setups

without overwhelming me. Now, complexity kills simplicity skills. If you trade too many instruments, you're going to get distracted by too many things. And anything that does not move you closer towards your goal is simply a distraction. Right? So instead of focusing on what you must do, focus on what you must delete and eliminate. It's Like if the cold shower doesn't make you profitable, doesn't make you think better when you're on the charts, then it is a distraction. If the meditation doesn't help you master your mental game of trading, then it is a distraction. If adjusting

the candlestick colors on your charts doesn't make you profitable, then it is a distraction. Right? So whatever doesn't bring you closer towards your goal, that's something that you have to sacrifice so that you can actually get Closer towards your goal. Right? So instead of thinking about what else you can add to your strategy, to your trade plan, to your watch list, think about what you can eliminate, right? Does that instrument benefit you? No. Are you profitable trading that session? No. Then don't trade during that session. Then don't trade those currencies. So double down on what

works and cut what doesn't. Last month, I made $110,000 in only three trades. You heard that Right, three trades. But that number hike years of losing the blown accounts, the hours I spent collecting data. And I always like to have this saying, I ate for seven years so that I can eat cavia for a lifetime. I work 10 times harder when nobody's watching compared to when everyone is watching because I know that you are rewarded in public for the work done in private. It's like that saying, people want the results without paying the price. Everybody

wants the View but nobody wants the climb. It's like buying the new iPhone 17 and expecting to get it for free. It doesn't make sense. Like if you want to get the iPhone, there is a price. And if you're not willing to pay the price, incur the cost of the iPhone, then you don't deserve the reward. You don't deserve to enjoy the iPhone. It's the exact same thing with trading. Like everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go through hell. And ironically, it's going Through hell that will actually get you to heaven.

It's putting in so much reps that it's unbelievable. You do not have confidence and conviction in your strategy which means that it's impossible you do not win. It's impossible you do not get lucky because you have put in so much volume and volume negates luck. So understand that your P&L is simply a reflection of your discipline made visible in numbers. The market is simply a reflection of you. You're not as good as you think you are because if you are, you would already be profitable. If you are, you would already be managing $100,000. If you

are, you will already be making 10K per month consistently. But if you're not, then take some time to reflect. Why don't you deserve the money? Because in life, you don't get what you want. You get what you deserve. And the reason why you're in this situation right now is because you put Yourself there. No one else put yourself there. You put yourself there. It took me seven years to become a full-time trader. The first six, like what I mentioned earlier, were pain and suffering. The seventh year gave me total freedom. Now I can enter into

any shop and buy whatever I want, whether that's a new car or a new watch. And I can enter into any restaurant and just order whatever I want without caring about the price of each item on the Menu. That, my friend, is total freedom. That is true financial freedom. And that only comes on the seventh year. That only comes after I've been eating and devouring for the past six years. Most traders overestimate their competence and underestimate how long it takes to build conviction, trust your system, and master your mindset. I always say that you should

set big hairy audacious goals, right? Like set those big ass goals, 10x goals, right? Become A millionaire trader, retire your parents. Yes, those are the goals that you have to set. But understand that you cannot have a deadline to achieve those goals. It's like I want to become a millionaire in six months. unrealistic. I want to become a millionaire in 30 years. Okay, that sounds pretty reasonable, right? So, extend your time horizon. Do not set a deadline for yourself and just focus on getting better every single day. Because when You get better every single day,

you focus on becoming a skilled trader. Focus on executing your edge consistently. Focus on reviewing your trades so that you can really g so much data. Then eventually like the results will come like eventually the P&L will come. Eventually you are going to achieve your greatest goals of becoming a millionaire trader, retiring your parents, but it's not going to come today. It might not come tomorrow. It Might not come in the next 3 years. Are you okay with that? Because the person who's okay with that, the person who can just endure all the adversities, that's

the person who win because he just doesn't quit. He's just unstoppable. Right? So like I mentioned earlier, trading isn't linear. It's exponential. So you want to just stick through the losing years, right? So that eventually the breakthrough will come right so that eventually you get that one big trade That pays off like the remaining losing trades that you have taken. Now when I started trading I had a lot of people naysaying against me. My parents told me to just go to university just get a 9 to 5 job and just go down the safe path.

My friends told me it was too risky and I even had like a relative who told me that I could not succeed right right straight off my face. And I took all of those insults personally and I used the doubts as fuel and I realized that they Are right today. They might be right tomorrow. Right? Because I wasn't seeing results. I was trading so long but I just couldn't figure it out. Right? I was just every time I pull out my metat trader for it was just red and then I blow my account start over

again red again and start over again. And they were right. Like you're right that I'm not going to succeed. And all of these doubts could just like impair me and just paralyze me from doing But What I realized is that they are 99% right, but they're 100% wrong. Like they are right today, they're right tomorrow. They might be right next week, but eventually I will succeed. The best way to get back at them, right? The best way to prove them wrong is to become so good at that skill set that they can't ignore you. is

to become so profitable at trading that it make them regret them ever doubting you. Success is the only revenge. There is no other revenge. Success is the only revenge. Now, going to the gym will not make you profitable instantly, but it sure as hell will optimize your trading performance because your P&L is simply a reflection of your emotional state. And your body directly affects that emotional state. It fuels the emotional state which means that if you want to go onto the markets with a clear focus and calm mind, you need to first strengthen your body

and just put your body through countless of Challenges, obstacles, adversities so that it can endure, so they can bring that endurance onto the market. Now, back when I was inconsistent with training, right? Like sometimes I would go to the gym. Sometimes I would skip the gym because I don't feel like it and I was eating junk food. And then when I do go to the gym, I would just carry like the lightest weights. Just do like the bare minimum, right? Not even get my heart rate up. I'm just just whatever. And I realized that that

period of time, I was also inconsistent in trading. Like because of my inconsistency in training, I was inconsistent in trading. And that is when I realized that the gym isn't just making me stronger physically, but it's making me stronger mentally. It keeps me disciplined. It gives me mental clarity and it builds the resilience to just sit through losing streaks and draw downs after draw down. So to me, going to the gym is not about building the Bicep or getting six-pack abs. Rather, it's about building the identity of someone who shows up regardless of how he

feels. Nowadays, every single day I go into the cold shower and am I scared as I'm always like kind of like I I don't really want to do it, but I just turn on the cold shower and I just do it anyways. Because by doing that, you are training your body to just go when you say you want to go. And it's the same thing with the markets. When I go to the Markets, if I want to enter for this trade without hesitation, reservation, or fear, I want to just do it without like, oh, maybe

it's not going to work out. You know what? Maybe I lost the past one trade. Maybe I should just stay out of this one. No, just go. And that's what training every single day and just pushing your body outside of your comfort zone every single day does to your body and your mind. Remember, a strong body fuels a strong mind. And a Strong mind is the only edge that lasts in the markets. It's not a strategy. It's not your risk management. I mean, it is. It's all of these things together, but most importantly is a

strong mind. Prop firms are like giving you a Ferrari with a fuel cap of 50 kilometers. Most traders blow it up before they even hit the highway, right? Before even they take it out the parking lots. Now bear in mind that I failed five properform challenges before I even Pass one. And when I eventually passed that one proper challenge, I lost the funding in one month. And it's not because I didn't know how to trade. I knew how to analyze the charts. I was quite proficient at price action analysis. But it's because I couldn't control

my risk and manage my emotions. The truth is, you simply just can't shortcut the process. Like, it took me a few months to master technicals, but it took me a few years to master myself. You can't rush the process. Like, you have to give it time. No matter how good you get at analyzing the charts, the market will always humble you. If you haven't maintained a proper emotional equilibrium, remember, if you can't manage your own money, then you won't be able to manage theirs. You won't be able to manage 100k in funding if you can't

even grow your small $1,000 account consistently. It's simply a illusion. And this is why props have like a 95% Success rate because 95% of traders fail, right? It's a very profitable business model, right? So before you even think about getting funded, make sure you have a consistent profitable track record because if you don't, you're just going to lose your prop firm fee, right? It's not worth it. So quite simply put, prop firms will not make you disciplined. They expose if you already are or are not. Everyone says the market is harder today. I say it's

never been Easier. Now more than ever, you got access to technology, data platforms, and education everywhere. 10 years ago, you couldn't get a world-class trading course on YouTube for free. And I literally have like a 10hour free course on my YouTube. How insane is that? 50 years ago, you have to literally dow your broker to place a buy or sell position. And 30 years ago, you have to literally print out the charts in order for you to review and journal and learn From your mistakes. Now, you got like technology to help you to do that.

You even got softwares that automate journaling. But what you don't realize is that this abundance of information is also a double-edged sword. Information is everywhere, but distractions are also everywhere. You pull up Instagram. You saw that fake guru if it's Lamborghini. Oh, I want to learn that strategy. You pull up YouTube. You pull up Twitter. You saw this professional trader just Tweeted that this memecoin is going to explode in the next 10 years. Oh, you know what? I'm going to buy that memecoin. Right? You go to YouTube, you see ICT videos are trending. Oh, I'm

I'm going to study ICT concepts. Distractions are everywhere now. And that's the problem. The problem isn't access to information. The problem is discipline to just stay on your path and ignoring everything else. But the person who can just stay laser focused on one Thing, that's the person who can go very far in this game. And if you feel like you're getting information overload from all these abundance of information, all these different strategies, all these different trading styles, all these different trading mentors, my friend, you're not suffering from information overload. You're suffering from inaction underload. You

are not doing sufficient volume to gather sufficient data to prove that your strategy actually works. That is why you hesitate before you enter for the trade. That is why you don't feel confidence in your edge. It's not more information. You don't need more causes. You don't need more lessons. You need more structure, more order, and more reps. Success in trading isn't built on the traits that you see. It's built on the routines that you don't see. It's not about what you do when everybody's watching. It's about what you do when no one is watching. So,

My day starts with around 6:30 a.m. I'll go to meditate and then I would journal my trades that I've taken yesterday. I will review my trade plan. I will prepare my charts when the London session opens. Now, most people think that millionaire traders are glued to the charts all day, 24/7 hours per day. But that's not the truth. The truth is I spend more time off the charts than on the charts. I spend more time reviewing my trades, journaling, preparing my mind For trading, preparing my charts so I can spot the opportunities, identifying the point

of interest, spotting liquidity, then actually trading alone. And the reason why I spend so less time on the charts is because I've done all of this preparation and I know exactly what is the price point that I want to enter at. When I go onto the charts, I simply just wait for price to get to that price point. See my entry model and I just execute and that takes 1 hour, 2 Hour, 3 hour, right? Sometimes even 5 minutes to 30 minutes. Like you can see it's so fast for me to actually make the money.

But what you fail to see is the preparation in order for me to make that money so fast, right? It's like all of this work that I put in behind the scenes, right? So I always say for every hour that you spend on technical analysis, spend two times the amount of times on internal analysis, right? What are the mistakes that you keep on Committing over and over again? What do you do wrong? Right? What can you learn from this trade? How can you improve? How can you get better so that you don't commit this same

mistake again in the future? All of this stuff, you should be taking the time out to just reflect and just think about them. Because when you spend the time of the charts thinking about this stuff, ironically, these are the stuff that will provide you with the most amount of information about your Trading so that you can refine your trading strategy, refine your edge that will actually allow you to get outsized returns. So yeah, my friend, just just go touch some grass, right? Spend some time off the charts so that you can eventually be more profitable

when you go back on the charts. Moving a stop loss to break even too early is like pulling a flower out of the soil and checking if it's growing. It's just bloody stupid. I used to move my stop Loss to break even every single time I was in profit. And then over time, I realized that price always stopped me out, get me out at break even, and then move in the profit. Nowadays, I only move my stop loss to break even when the market structure justifies it. When I see like a protected low or high

that has been formed, right, that swing low or high that have swept liquidity and led to a break of structure, when the market structure justifies it, that is The only time I'll move my stop loss. If not, if there is no clear structural low, protected low or high being formed, I will not move my stop loss. That's the mechanical rule I stick to no matter what. And if think about it fundamentally, why do you actually move your stop loss to break even? It's so that you can avoid pain. It's so that you can avoid the

pain of losing the trade, losing your hard-earned money, so that you can actually protect your ego. Now that I've operationalized it, you realize that all you need to do is to just follow the process because your goal as a trader is not to protect your ego, is not to be wrong, but it's to make money. It's to make a ton of money. So, if moving your stop loss to break even doesn't allow you to make more money, then you shouldn't be moving your stop loss to break even. Word of advice, whenever you're about to move

your stop loss to break even, ask Yourself, are you moving it because you are scared or are you actually moving it because your rules tell you to do so? If the answer is the letter, then you move it. If it's not, if it's based on your emotion, your fear, your afraidness, then don't move it. Now, a lot of people imagine my life to be Lamborghinis and sitting on a beach in Bali sipping margaritas, but it's not. is incredibly boring on purpose because I know it's the boring mundane repetitive task that I do for an extended

period of time which allows me to be one of the greatest traders alive or I aspire to be. So basically I wake up around 6:30 a.m. make my bed, wash up, and I'll go and meditate for like 5 minutes to 15 minutes depending on what I have for the day. After that I'll do like a few hours of deep work all the way until 12:00 p.m. which is lunchtime. Right? So until lunchtime, I do not eat anything. I practice intermittent fasting, which Allows me to stay shredded and also allows me to have great mental clarity

and great focus when I actually have my first deepwork block. After my first deepwork block, what happens is that from 12:00 p.m. to around 2 p.m., this is where I will start preparing my charts, right? Scanning for trading opportunities because once 3 p.m. hits, right, which is usually the time that I come back from the gym, right? I usually go to the gym around 2 p.m. 2 p.m. to 3 P.m. that's gym, right? That is where I hit heavy push pull legs, right? Shoulders, bicep, triceps, chest, back, whatever. And then once I have the intense

training, 3 p.m. that is the time that I actually start trading, which means that from 1 p.m. to around 3 p.m. I want to be preparing my charts, right? I want to be analyzing the charts. I want to be marking my point of interest, identifying my trade idea, the trend direction, spotting what's the Available liquidity, so that 2 p.m. when I go to the gym, I can just like not care about the charts, and then when I come back to from the gym, I can just straight away scan for the trading opportunity to see whether

price has entered into my point of interest, whether my entry model has formed. Once my criteria has been met, I found a trade setup which meets every single one of the criteria within my trade plan, checks off every single box there, then I will enter without reservation, without hesitation, without guesswork, without emotion whatsoever. But if there's no opportunity, which is more often than not, right, since I focus on quality execution rather than quantity of the trades that I take, um, I just stay off the market. Like honestly, I just stay off the market. And then

that will take place from 3:00 p.m. to around 5:00 p.m. During this period of time, usually I just fill it with meetings, Right? Because I've got a lot of meetings across my different companies, 1% club, edge flow, because it's like towards the end of the day, right? My energy has kind of go down, right? So it's like I much be better off just spending that time going on meetings, right? Instead of doing deep work. So bombarded with meetings from around 3:00 p.m. all the way until like 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. And then I have dinner

and then I eat clean and I drink sufficient water And then I sit on my recliner which is overlooking like the entire city view with the sea view of Singapore and I just read a book or listen to like a podcast and I just wind down and I'll just go to sleep around 10 p.m. to around 11 p.m. and I'll wake up without an alarm clock and do it all over again. Right? And to be honest, it's boring. It's mundane. But I love every single minute of it. Like to be honest, I feel so fulfilled.

I feel this huge sense of Accomplishment at the end of each day because I've done my best for that day and I've left nothing on the table. And that's to me a perfect day, right? So you can see the excitement isn't like for my day-to-day life. It's in the compounding results over years. It's like this boring routines, these boring days allow me to live an exciting life. Like when I go and travel and I hang out with my friends, my team, we do some crazy Like we can literally go on To the restaurant and just

order as much wagu stick as possible on the table and then we can go and paintball. We can go and have a lot of fun together, right? Do cool together for like a week, right? But that is the reward for like the boring day today, right? like the exciting parts of my life, the most memorable experiences comes after I've put in the work and I've deserved it. I've earned the right to enjoy myself. And that is why when I do enjoy myself During these periods of vacations or company trips, I can just enjoy myself without

any obligation, without any like hesitation whatsoever. I could just fully be in the present moment with my team, with my friends, with my family without caring about work because I've already done sufficient work to justify the reward. So remember, it's all about doing like the boring that nobody likes to do for an extended period of time that will make you successful. It's The reviewing, the journaling, the taking the trades, the data collection, the front testing, the forward testing, the just continuously refine and improve your trade plan, the mental work, the meditation, all this boring so

that you can do the cushion. A lot of people always ask me, how long did it take for me to become consistently profitable? And I always answer them, consistency doesn't take months, it takes years of reps and discipline. Like I said Earlier, it's doing the same old boring every single day without fail for the next three to five years. Are you willing to pay the price? If not, then you don't deserve the reward. For me, it took me three years to become consistently profitable. In the first three years, I was blowing accounts. I was losing

money. I was actually making quite a lot of money like here and there, right? Getting outsiz returns, making 10K, making 5K, making 3K here And there. But it wasn't consistent. It wasn't month after month. It wasn't quarter over quarter. It wasn't year over year, right? So, as a result, I would just be stuck in this boom and bust cycle. Well, grow my account, I lose the money. I'll grow the account again, lose the money, and I'll blow the account, go back to level one, go back to baseline, go back to zero, and I'll try to

grow the account, blow the account again. So, it was like a lot of Inconsistency. And now I looking back I realized that the only thing that changed was that I stopped trying to be a hero and I started trying to be consistent. What I mean by that is that I stopped trying to flip the account from $100 to 100k but I started focusing on mastering the skill set. Focus on becoming more proficient on the charts focus on mastering my emotions. developing self-control, developing the equinmity that is Required to detach from the outcome. That's the only

change. I stopped trying to do all the fancy which could potentially make me rich in one day and I just started focusing on the which tastes a little bit worse that will make me profitable in the long run and that is just doing the work because at the end of the day the work just needs doing and anything else that is not the work right might bring you short-term profits might bring you Short-term results might make you feel happy in the short term right might give you like this spike in dopamine levels but It will

always crash. It will always come down like a house of cards because once again, you haven't built the mindset that is needed to manage your emotions in real time when your hard earned money is on the line. You haven't built the risk management parameters that is required to minimize your loss and maximize your profits. You haven't Developed a unique edge that works for you that you can trust when you encounter losing streaks and you haven't done the selfwork necessary to overcome your demons that will prevent you from self-sabotaging yourself, giving your profits back to the

market over and over again. So stop trying to be a hero. Start doing the work that is necessary, not your best, right? But is necessary that is required to become profitable, right? So, like I said, don't just do Your best. The market doesn't give a about your best. Do what's required because when you do what's required, the market will reward you for it. So, stop asking me how long it would take for you to become profitable because it will take as long as you keep avoiding the hard work. Your choice. If I had to start

all over again, the first thing I would do to reach seven figures is not to chase seven figures, but to chase seven habits. When I started trading, I Always obsess over money, over the outcome. Because if I make money, it means that I'm actually good at this. And if I'm actually good at this, I can finally prove to the people that adopted me that I was right in my decision to pursue this full-time. But money doesn't comes from shouting affirmations in a mirror. It comes from building the confidence to trust your edge. It comes from

developing the skill set of a professional trader. So you want to Build these seven habits. Journaling, reviewing your trades, managing risk, controlling your emotions, executing rules, which is following your trade plan, focusing on one to two instruments, and just showing up every single day. If you can just stack these seven habits for seven years, there is no chance you will not become a millionaire trader and achieve seven figures. So that's my seven-year rule, right? It's like just do these seven Habits for the next seven years and ignore everything else, you will achieve seven figures. And

the ironic thing is when you have done these seven habits for the next seven years, you have became the person who is worthy of the seven figures because now you are trading like a professional trader. You are thinking like one. You act like one and you feel like one. And when you change your emotional state, you change your Outcome. When you change your personality, you change your personal reality. Right? So it all comes from changing your state of mind, changing your identity, changing your habits so they can get the actions that will get you the

results. That's all it is. There's no such thing as the best trader in the world. And here's why. Because trading is not a finite game with winners and losers. It's an infinite game. A finite game is basically like Football. In football, there are fixed rules, fixed players, and a clear end point. There's two teams, there's 90 minutes, there's one winner. That's a finite game, which means someone has to lose in order for someone to win. But trading is infinite. The rules are constantly evolving. The players are always changing and there is no finish line whatsoever.

Which means that you can't just win trading. Like just because you make a million dollars in Trading doesn't mean you win the markets because the only way to win an infinite game is to stay in the game is to just keep trading. Now staying in the game means protecting your capital, managing your downside, and avoiding the blowups that will take you out of the game. Because once you run out of chips and you're out of the game, you can't come back. You have to have chips in order to play the game. You can't play the

game if you don't have capital. And the thing Is even the legendary traders lose. Ray Dalio lose money. Carl Iconic lose money. Paul Tudtor Jones, George Soros, they all lose trades from time to time because the market humbles everyone. No matter your skill level, no matter your experience level, it will humble you. So the question isn't who's the best today, who's the best tomorrow. It's who can stay disciplined enough to still be here tomorrow. The market doesn't have a podium. It only have survivors. Chris Camilo turned $20,000 to $42 million using this strategy called social

arbitrage trading, which means that he's trading based on Tik Tok comments. But here's what most people don't tell you. Stories like this are incredibly rare for a reason. This is called survivorship bias because for every Chris Camillo, there are thousands of traders who blow up using the exact same strategy. So if you chase their story, you'll probably end up broke. But if you Chase your process, you will end up free. So once again, it's not about looking around, looking left and right to see what Tom is doing, what Harry is doing, what Dick is herring,

but rather just finding out what works for you, finding out the unique edge, and then just continue building up on that edge. It's social arbitrage trading for Chris Com. It's market mechanics for Brett Gold. It's ICT concepts of ICT, right? It's like you just want to find that That one strategy that works for you and just go oid on that and just burn like the profitable boats and just not turn back, right? Just like ditch everything else and just go all in on that one thing because eventually when you find that one thing that works

for you, it's all about how you can squeeze that one thing as much as possible. Like I view everything as input and output equation. Input is the things that you need to put in. Output is the things that you will Get out because of what you have put in. Right? So if you think about it in this way, input equal output. So if you find a thing that works for you, right? Your input just do as much as you can on that thing, right? Just spam that button as much as possible so you can get

as much output as possible, which is the money that you will make from the thing that you are doing, right? So input versus output. If you want to get make more profits, you have to put in more input. You have to focus your energy on the right things that will actually get you the consistent profits which is usually a consistent set of actions because consistent actions leads to consistent profits. There is no other way to get consistent profits. You can't expect to get consistent profits if you're constantly hesitating, frustrated, resenting the market, blaming the market

and your actions is always inconsistent. Right? 1 plus 1 equal two. Right? that Is not 1 plus 1 equal three. Input equal output. So don't copy someone else outcome. Don't copy someone else edge. Copy the discipline that created it and find your own edge. Flipping small accounts is like gambling in a casino. You might win in the short term. You might win tonight, right? You might hit a blackjack. You might win the roulette wheel, whatever. But you will go broke in the long term. And here's why. Now, believe me, I used to be like a

big fan Of flipping small accounts. I tried it myself in my first year. My best record was turning $500 into $10,000 in three days. Do you know how invincible I felt when I do that? Knowing that I've just turned $500 into 10K, $500 which I earned from waiting tables into $10,000, right? Like that's the first time I got a taste of what real big money actually look like and tastes like. Now bear in mind that I was working as a minimum wage back then, right? I was earning $7 Per hour. So to realize that I

just turned $500 into $10,000 in three days, that's the craziest I've ever felt in my life. But then the next day, I blew it all. I blew it all and I just cried and I just punched my pillow. I even think about using a baseball bat to smash my monitor. But I know that if I did smash the monitor, I would not have any money to get a new monitor. So I did not do that. I did not let the emotion get control of me. That day when I lost Everything is the day where I

realized that I needed to change what I was doing because this was just not sustainable. Like yes, I could turn $500 to 10K and get this outsiz returns and outside gains in like a short amount of time, but it's not sustainable. And at the end of the day, it's not about making money. It's about whether you can keep the money that you have made. So, if you can turn $1,000 to 100K, but you can't keep it in your bank account, you can't Withdraw it, you can't touch it physically, then what the hell is the point,

right? You pretty much just fuel your ego with nothing to show for. So, that was the day where I realized that I needed to start learning about trading psychology. I needed to start managing my risk. I needed to develop a strategy that is mechanical, that is rulebased, that has fixed risk parameters, that is boring, but actually works in the long run. Since then, I've never thought About like trying to flip small accounts to large accounts anymore. Like, I've just been focused on just scaling my account the right way, right? Just getting 5% to 10% per

month by following my mechanical trading system and just letting that 5% to 10% per month compound over time, right? Because that's what's sustainable. That's what keeps me in the game. That's what allows me to be consistently profitable month after month. So, if you think about it In the stock market context, we have the dividend stocks, right? Right? The dividend stocks are like Coca-Cola, Apple, uh Charles Swap, dividend ETF, right? So like bonds, right? It's like boring investments that will not get outsized returns and go up 100% 500% overnight like Tesla or like Bitcoin, right? It's

just those safe stocks. But what they do very well is that they provide you with dividends. Dividends that will actually pay for your Vacations, right? It's like this. Boring stocks pay you. Boring dividends to live an exciting life. So that is why I mean boring works. Boring pays. Boring pays for your freedom. So find a strategy that seems incredibly boring. That's probably the strategy that you want to be using. And I always have this concept that if your strategy can't survive 100 trades, you will not survive one year. If you can't explain your strategy in

three sentences, you don't have a Strategy to begin with. You have an abomination. Like for me personally, the three sentence would be I analyze the charts on the higher time frame to determine my trend direction. I define my point of interest on the medium time frame. I look for my entry models upon the mitigation of the point of interest on my lower time frame. That's it. Three sentences mechanical strategy rub brace criteria positive expectancy model. That that's how I win just by doing the Boring stuff for like a very long time. and just like sticking

to it without looking for the next shiny strategy and just getting attracted to novelty. Now, everyone wants to know what's the fastest way to become profitable in trading. But the fastest way is the slowest way. It's like that saying, slow is smooth and smooth is fast. The fastest way to become consistently profitable is to build a mechanical system. Back test 100 times. Take 100 Trades on a demo account and ideally on a live account. Journal every single trade. Review every single trade. Find out what works and what doesn't work. Do more of what works, less

of what doesn't. And then just keep doing this cycle over and over again until you get competent. Once you get competent, you focus on consistency, not profits. That's the fastest way. That's literally the fastest way. That is the shortcut to success in trading. And it took me so Long to realize that because like I spent years, I wasted years chasing trading signals, finding the holy grail strategy, searching for the trading guru that will make me profitable. But now thinking back, I was like, why didn't I just spend those years focusing on the stuff that actually

works, the stuff that will guarantee me becoming successful, right? Which is those stuff that I just mentioned, those steps right there. Because like once I build my own Mechanical rules and I just stick to them and just not deviate them no matter, no matter I lose, and just focus on executing my edge to the best of my ability. That is where profits started coming fast. That is where I start seeing exponential results. So like stop trying to spend all your time and energy finding the fastest way to become profitable when the fastest way to become

profitable is to just start, right? Like everybody's searching for The perfect condition. Everybody's waiting for all the stars to align to just start trading. When the perfect condition is to just start, the fastest way is just start and just figure it out based on trial and error. and then just once you figure it out and just do more of that and just eliminate whatever that doesn't work. That's the fastest way. Now, my best advice for beginner traders is to simply do more reps. Volatility is a symptom of insufficient volume. That Is why I mentioned that

incompetence is a result of doing insufficient reps. Now, I'll give you a simple example. So, let's say there's this trading guru, 18year-old kid on Instagram that just scrolled upon, right? and he's trying to sell you to join his signal group. He rented his Ferrari for the day, right? He is the lifestyle guru, whatever. And then there's me who have put in the reps, who have a verified track record, who have a million subscribers on YouTube and is not selling you any signal group or what whatever, because I actually trade for a living. Who would you

rather trust? Would you rather trust that 18-year-old kid who have no skin in the game, right? no track record but just good at marketing or would you rather trust the guy who have a track record who have done exactly what he's said he's going to do who practices what he preach and has evidence to show you that he is indeed Good at what he does which guy would you rather trust this guy I don't know about you but I would trust this guy because this guy he has actually put in sufficient reps to prove that

he is indeed competent And that evidence is what gave me confidence to trust him is the exact same thing in your trading. If you think about it, in order to become profitable at trading, you need to trust your edge and trust yourself. But how can you Trust yourself when you don't have confidence in yourself? And you can't build confidence just by blindly shouting affirmations in the mirror and just visualizing the Lamborghini in a garage. No, it doesn't work that way. It comes when you put in so much reps that you have no choice but to

become confident. So conviction comes from confidence and confidence comes from consistency. So do more reps. So the answer to this Question is that it depends on individual to individual. It might take some traders two years to become profitable. It might take some five years. It might take some 10 years. And it really depends on how fast you can remove your blind spots. how fast you can review all your trades and find out what are the stuff that you commit over and over again. What are the mistakes that you tend to repeat and just how fast

can you like replace or rather Eliminate those mistakes because intelligence is defined as the speed of implementation, the speed of action. So if you are able to just eliminate this mistakes as fast as possible, then you'll become profitable faster because every single mistake that you fix is one less way to blow up, right? So it's like instead of focusing on what are the next thing that you can do, just focus on reducing the mistakes because when you reduce the mistakes, you automatically Make less mistakes, which means that you lose less money, which means that you

automatically make more profits. And if I just reflect upon my trading career, I realized that I only got consistent when I became obsessed with reviewing my mistakes. I still remember like after my 9 to5 job, right? Every single day I'll go to the train station, the subway, right, just to commute back home and I'll pull out my iPad, right? And on the subway, it will always be like crowded Because it's like the pig owl and everybody has just ended work from the business district. So everybody's on like the subway, right? is like crowded and there's

like no place to sit. But what I'll always do without fail every single day is to take out my iPad and just look at every single trade that I've journaled like and just like go and analyze why did I get stopped out on this trade and why did I keep on losing? Why do I keep on repeating this same Mistake and based on that constant introspection and analysis of my mistakes I realized that I'm always repeating the same mistakes. So if I can just stop doing this mistake, I would just stop losing or rather I

will lose less. And then I realized that based on all this data, these are the stuff that works. These are the stuff that doesn't work. And I just eliminated everything that doesn't work. And when I eliminated everything that doesn't work, I didn't Become profitable overnight, but I became one step closer to becoming profitable because I had just lose less money. I had just get up to the stage of break even. And now, even though I'm not consistently profitable yet, I was one step closer to becoming profitable because at least I was no longer repeating the

same mistakes, at least I wasn't losing money every single day. Right? So, it's like those periods of introspection led me to my greatest Breakthrough. Which means that if I can just do more of those, right? Once again, input output equation. If I can just do more reviewing, then I can just get more breakthrough. And if I can get more make breakthrough then I would know what works and that give me the confidence to just continue to execute my plan and continue to just refine and improve my strategy and my edge. So quite simply put you

don't need more time you don't need more causes. You Need more reps. You need more reviews. You need more introspection. If I could just change one thing about the trading industry it would probably be the guru culture. The trading industry sells dreams, but it hides the pain that is required to earn them. If you think about it, every single trader, they only show the good side on social media, right? That's their tendency. Obviously, they want to show the good side, the wins, the profits, the chains, but they Don't show you the losses that they incurred

in order to get those wins. They don't show you the price that you have to pay in order to get those wins. Like, for example, if this guy made 100K on a trade, cool. But how much money did he lose before he made that 100K? How much did he risk in order to make the 100K? Because he might make 100K on this trade. But what he didn't show you is the $400,000 that you have lost. And if you look at it from like the grand Scheme of things, from like a bird eye view, you realize

that this guy is actually not profitable. He's just showing you the 100k win, but he's hiding the 400k loss. And that's what leave like a bad taste in my mouth. Like I in general, I just hate the guru culture. the I rented the lumber for the day, I flex my demo profits, buy my signal, like sort of marketing. So, if I could just change one thing, I'll just strip the entire trading Industry of that noise and just force people to show their results and just provide real education. Trading is already difficult enough. The industry makes

it even more difficult by lying to people with like this shiny facade. So, the game doesn't need more hype. It needs more truth. And that's what drove me to actually create this video is to just show as much truth as possible and allow you to shine the light to the real side of professional trading. Yes, the Market is rigged against traders, but not in the way that you think. The market is neutral just like a referee in a soccer game. What's Rick is your psychology stop hunts volatility market manipulation liquidity sweep all this does is

to expose your weaknesses is to expose who you are at a deeper level is to expose your flaw strategy now last time whenever I got stopped out I used to think that brokers smart money are out to get me like oh they know where I'm placing my stop loss that's why I keep losing right it's like they have this unseen advantage age on me. How can I win at a game that is rigged against me? Right? That was my constant selft talk in my first year. But then I realized that where I point my blame

finger is where the power goes. So if I'm actually blaming the broker, the smart money, the hedge funds, which is things that is outside of my control. I'm continuously relinquishing power to Them. I'm giving them the power, which means that I will never actually become profitable because I haven't taken the power back myself. I haven't taken responsibility for my trades. I haven't taken extreme ownership over my life. So, it's like if I can't change what they're going to do because like they're just going to continue manipulating the market, continue stop hunting, right? If I can't

change that, then what can I really change? Well, my actions, the way That I shop to the charts every single day, the way that I actually manage my risk, the way that I actually uh control my emotions in real time, all of this stuff are within my control. So instead of pointing the blame finger at them, I point it back at me. I realized that okay, I shouldn't be blaming the external circumstances. I shouldn't be blaming my parents for being poor. I should just start taking extreme ownership over my life. And when that Happens, everything

started changing because now I actually have the power to change my destiny. I actually have the power to shape my own life. And that is where I just like becoming incredibly brutally honest with how I trade and I just reviewed everything and I realized that yeah, you're right. It wasn't the market's fault. It was my fault. It was my fault for chasing setups when there's no opportunities. It was my fault for revenge trading after a Losing streak. It was my fault for placing my stop loss at the price point where all the other retail traders

are placing their stop-loss. It's all my fault. And once I took extreme ownership and once I like stopped having this victim mentality, I just decided to play the game because in life you can either play the victim or you can play the game. And you might as well play the game. The best way to become profitable at trading is to stop Trying to be a hero and stop trying to be consistent because consistency beats intelligence in trading. Don't try to outsmart the market, right? Because the market is a force to be reckoned with. you will

never ever be able to be smarter than the market. Trying to outsmart the market is like trying to play a game that you can't win is you just can't. There is no way you can be smarter than the market. So instead, put all your time, your energy, your Attention, your focus on building a process that you can execute over and over again consistently without deviation whatsoever. That is how you are able to put the odds in your favor. That is how you can really have like a higher probability of winning the trade, right? Of staying

in the game. That's what makes you profitable. Not trying to predict the trade outcome, but by executing your trade plan consistently and letting your Edge play out over the law of large numbers, over a large sample size of trades. That's what makes you profitable. That is indeed the fastest way. The goal of a trader isn't to get outsized returns. It's to make the best trades because the money follow as a byproduct of that. Now, my trading routine is incredibly simple. It consists of pre-market preparation, trading, and postmarket review. Right? Pre-market preparation is where I Analyze

the charts, spot my trading opportunities, mark up my high property point of interest, plan my trade ideal, and set my alerts. And then when it comes to trading, I just wait for my alert to get triggered or wait for price to get to my desired point of interest and then I zoom down to the lower time frame, spot my entry model, get extra confirmation. Once I see those entry confirmation, I enter the trade. If there's no entry confirmation, I just Wait until it presents itself. And then after I'm done trading, that is where I would

journal every single trade I've taken for the day. Review every single one of them. If it's a loss, I find out why did I commit this mistake? How can I improve? How can I get better? If it's a win, I think about what could I have done better to make this trade, right? Maybe refine the entry, refine the exit, and how can I repeat this win again in the future. And that's it. That's pretty Much my entire trading routine, right? And I realized that the edge isn't in the live trading portion. It isn't in the

time where you are constantly looking at the market. It's in the preparation, the pre-market routine, and it's in the review, right? The postmarket review. The best traders win before the market even opens because they have done sufficient preparation and review to know that what price at what time at what place is the most Ideal entry point. The biggest lie trading gurus sell is that you can get rich quick without pain. Gurus they sell the highlight reel, right? They show you all like the flashy marketing but what they don't show you is the seven accounts blown,

the years of frustration, the endless cycle of blowing accounts over and over again, the late nights crying over the charts. I live that. And the reason why I can describe every single one of that Situation in such a vivid manner is because I've been through all of that. There were days where I was plagued with self-doubt, not knowing whether I'm going to pay the bill this month because I've just lost everything on that one trade. There were days where I worried about returning my debt, the money that I've lent from him to trade. There were

days where I just feel like I was not going to make it. I was constantly impaired with resentment, Frustration, despair, and I just feel like I just couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Like I was just blindfolded and I just couldn't see any light whatsoever. I like those were the days. Those are the days like now looking back those are the good old days, but those were the days where were incredibly painful. The only reason why I pushed through those days is because I knew that I was Eventually going to become

successful at trading. Like I didn't know when I didn't know when I'll be profitable, but one thing I know and I know for sure is that I will not quit. And if I don't quit, eventually I will be profitable. So that's what kept me going throughout the entire phase of like just depression. So yeah, everybody wants the view, but nobody wants to climb. Everybody wants quick profits, but nobody wants to put in the Work that is required to get those profits. The market rewards those who stay in the game long enough to enjoy the profits.

The biggest mistake that most traders make is thinking that the market is the enemy. It's not. It's your need to be right. It's your ego. Now, I used to fight the market all the time, right? I always felt like the market is something that I can win over, right? I can just impose my will on it and I will eventually succeed. So as a result, I Will add on to losing positions. I would refuse to cut my losses because I just want to prove to the market that I am right and the market is wrong.

But what I failed to realize is that the market is not wrong. It's not right. It just is right. The market is just doing the thing that it knows how to do best and that is move. Right? So by imposing my will to the market, I was actually burning myself. I was inflicting self harm. Right? And once again after like Reflecting and introspection I realized that every single time that I'll blow account it's out of my urge to be rucked right it's my ego telling me that I need to defeat the market if not I'm

unworthy and that ego is bloody lying to you now ego could be good at times and the truth is ego just like the market is not good or bad ego is good in terms of it allows you to push beyond your limits it allows you to have ambition But ego is bad when it actually prevent You from spotting your own blind spots. Prevent you from seeing your own shortcomings and your weaknesses. And it just forces you to just try to be right rather than try to make money. Like I said, your goal as a trader

is to make the best trades and money will come as a byproduct. So if you are focusing on being right all the time, you are not going to take the best trade and you're just going to repel money away. So the moment I learned how to cut losses fast And stay humble, everything changed. That is why nowadays I always say that you want to be incredibly arrogant in your analysis, but you want to be humbled in your bias. You want to be flexible enough to just change your position when the market tells you to do

so. You want to open your ears and listen to what the market is actively trying to tell you. You want to open your eyes to see what the market is trying to show you rather than impose Your will, impose your bias onto the market. Now, people often ask me, "What is your win rate, Brad?" Well, my win rate is irrelevant and so is yours because my edge doesn't come from winning every single trade. It comes from making more when I'm right and losing less when I'm wrong. Like, honestly, my win rate is hovering around 40%

to 50%. which means that on average I actually lose more trades than I win. But I'm still profitable is because when I'm winning I make 50k. I make 60k. But when I'm losing I'm only losing 10k, 5k, 20k. So as a result, my wins are always humongous. And this is why I can keep going when I'm in a losing streak. This is why I can continue to follow my trade plan and continue to execute when I see a opportunity when I've lost five trades in a row, when I've lost 10 trades in a row because

I know with every ounce of my being that the next trade could potentially be the one big trade that Will pay off like the past few losses and that's the trade that will allow me to be profitable at the end of this month. And if I stop and hesitate on before I take that trade, guess what? I just shot myself in the foot and I could just end the month off negative because I was scared because I lack courage. So, it's not my win rate that made me profitable. It helps to a certain degree, but

most importantly, it's my average R multiple. It's my Risk-to-reward. It's my ability to make every single trade an intelligent risk-to-reward decision. is my ability to spot trades with an asymmetric risk-to-reward that led me to getting outsized returns. So stop chasing a high win rate and start chasing high quality execution. That is how you become profitable in the long run. The number one quality that every single trader should develop is not intelligence, it's courage. It's the Courage to size up when the edge is there. It's the courage to sit through drawdowns. is the courage to let

your winners run high. Now, bear in mind that I didn't scale to seven figures by being the smartest person in the room or by playing it safe. I scaled it by having the courage to follow my trading plan. Even when it hurts, even through losing streaks, even when I didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel, I just kept executing because that's what Trading is about. It's not about winning. It's not about losing. It's about executing. And it's about becoming a skilled trader. is about continuing to execute and trust your plan even though

you have lost 10 trades in a row. So remember courage beats knowledge because without courage you would never be able to use what you know. As long as you are alive and you are a human you can't eliminate emotions. The only people who are emotionless are buried five feet Under the ground. Because as long as you are alive, as long as you are a human, not an AI agent, whatever you cannot eliminate emotions because you will feel stuff unless you're like a psychopath. But what you can do is to be aware of the emotions. You

can be mindful of the emotions when they arise and you can let them go. Now fear used to control me. I used to hesitate when I see an entry opportunity. I used to exit a winning Position early because I'm scared to hold it all the way up and I'll close the trade to offset my previous loss and then I would try to revenge trade and all do all these like beginner mistakes that stems from emotion. The breakthrough came when I stopped trying to be emotionless and I started trying to be more mindful and be more

aware. Now if you think about it, every single action that you make in the market stems from an emotion and every single emotion That you face stems from a thoughts. So if you can be conscious about what are the things that you think about when you're about to make a reckless decision, what are the behaviors you tend to take when you're about to make a reckless decision? What are the emotions that you face when you're about to make a reckless decision? What happens now is that you are able to spot the signs. you're able to

spot the signal that You're about to make a bad decision. So once you're able to see these symptoms, these signs, these signals, whatever you like to call it, the next time these signs arise, you spot it. You'll be aware of it. You'll be mindful of it and just stop it. Stop it from allowing you to make a bad decision. Stop it from allowing you to enter into a trade recklessly and emotionally. I realized that whenever I start revenge trading, right, my heart rate always start Pumping faster. My pump start getting a little bit sweaty and

I start like opening my eyes up and my pupils start dilating, right? And when I realize that, that is when the next time the same sickness arise, right? Which means my heart rate starts going up. I start breathing in a very shallow manner. My pupil start dilating because I'm in the fight or flight instinct has triggered. The next time that happen, I'm aware of it. I just pause. I tell myself, you Know what? This is not the time to execute. This is the time where I'm emotional and I'm irrational and I'm not logical or objective.

So, I should just stay out right now. And I can come back when I'm much more calm and I'm and I've came back to like a mental equilibrium. Then you can start trading again, right? So yeah, just by being mindful and aware of like the thoughts, the emotions, the actions that you tend to take when you are emotional, it helps you to build That awareness so you can be conscious the next time they arise. The next time the unconscious thoughts try to overwhelm you, you're training your conscious mind to be aware of them and you

stop them from taking control of your traits of your life. So remember, you don't control your emotions. You control how you respond to those emotions. Whether you respond to those emotions or not, that is within your control. The hardest truth I had to Accept is that trading isn't about predicting price. It's about predicting yourself. It's about predicting your behavior, your actions, your belief, your tendencies. Because at a fundamental level, price, the market, it doesn't blow accounts. You do. the trader blow the account. Like what I mentioned earlier, I blew seven accounts, failed so many funding

challenges, lost thousands of dollars. Not because I didn't understand the Charts, not because of bad entries, not because of my strategy, but because I couldn't stop overtrading after the bad entry because I kept revenge trading trying to make back the money that I've just lost. And ironically, that caused me to lose even more money to blow even more accounts. Once I became aware of that, I realized that all I need to do is just stop trading after a losing streak and just take a break so that I can reset my mind and my focus back

to The mental equilibrium state, right? Back to like a baseline and then I can go back to the charts. Once I mastered my emotions, mastered myself, that is when results started coming. Not before, right? not when I was still emotional but after I have mastered my emotions. So like I said earlier the market is simply neutral but the market is simply a reflection of you of your character of your discipline. It exposes your greatest weaknesses. It exposes your Deepest flaws. It exposes all your unconscious thoughts and patterns. So if you don't get aware of them,

you won't be able to fix them. You can't fix what you don't see. You can't fix what you don't know. That is why it's so important for you to just be brutally honest with yourself and find out what are the mistakes they tend to repeat. What are the emotions that seems to impair your decision making skills and just actively develop solutions to Counteract those problems. All right, so that's a bloody long video. Those are the lessons that took me from blowing seven accounts to consistent six-figure months. If you want more no lessons just like this,

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