Since I've been holding a trade since Friday and monitoring it very closely, I've realized that fear can make you make you either miss a trade or get out of a trade too early. But when you control your emotions in a trade and monitor the trade closely and just observing without emotional attachment to the trade results, you really get out of a block of many traders. I've been just monitoring it, marking out the structures and swings, and waiting for it to get to my anticipated point of exit. And if it meets my exit rules before getting to my TP point I'll just close the trade and call it a success @Omiyang William You're the source to this development in me from last 2 weeks interactions in your posts and comments flowers to you🌹 since you I can now confidently just watch the charts while the trade is in profits and not have hesitations to close the trade early but just watch and see what the market movers have to do

Trading can be related to driving: When you start or have the urge to go for driving classes you have to choose a certain college where you'll be learning it. When you get into the car for the first time, you have your own anticipations about how you'll get into the car and steer that steering wheel and amaze the teacher with your skills because maybe you've been playing some driving games😂. But to your surprise, you enter the car and you find you know nothing about anything in the car🤣and the teacher starts by defining the parts of the internal side of the car and how to hold the steering wheel and your first thing to do is just pressing on the accelerator and the brakes and also changing gears if it's a manual car, then after some days you get to start learning about the steering wheel and balance. All this you master it in around 1-2 months. You master driving by consistently going to the same school and doing the same thing until you finish and get your license and do exactly the same thing you were taught until you get it and get used to the roads by yourself. The same applies to trading. You had your own anticipations about trading and you got the reality of it when you landed to the charts and found it's not what you though. Now the problem starts when learning, you want to be taught with different mentors at the same time, you want to study as many strategies as you can get them. But this ends up messing your journey. Focus with one mentor if you have one, one strategy that you'll learn and master very well and trade with no fear or hesitation after which now you develop your own edge. The teacher at the driving college will not come to drive the car for you on the roads, but you will be the one encountering and experiencing the roads. Meeting the big commercial vehicles and also meeting other small size vehicles, and the fear must end for you to drive the car very well. Learn that strategy daily, analyze the market the same way every time you're on the charts until you master the craft and start developing your own way on how you see the market. Stick to your rules as you always follow all the traffic rules when driving.

This really made me reflect on my own trading from last week. I’ve noticed that sometimes the issue isn’t that I don’t know my setup; it’s what happens after the previous trade. A loss can make me hesitate on the next valid setup, and then missing that setup can create the urge to force the next opportunity. It becomes a cycle. For me, the biggest takeaway is the importance of having my criteria clear before the session starts. That way, when the market moves, I have something objective to fall back on instead of making decisions based on fear, frustration, or urgency. Still learning and working on this myself

Before you open a chart this week, one question about last week. Sometime this week a setup came along that met every rule you had written, and you did not take it. And sometime this week one came along that met none of them, and you took it without pausing. Most of us did both. Often on the same day. Those are not two different failures. It is one loop. You hesitate because you are afraid of losing, you miss, and missing makes the next one feel urgent - so you force it. The forcing loses, and now you hesitate harder. The way out is not more discipline. It is deciding earlier. Write your entry criteria down before the session starts, so the trader who shows up at 2pm has to argue with something in writing instead of with a feeling. So - the win I want from you today, in R only, no money amounts: Which one were you this week: the one who hesitated, or the one who forced? And what was written down before the session started, if anything?

The market doesn’t destroy your confidence you do, when you let one loss change the way you see yourself as a trader. Good session this week 📊 @Ocapa Jonah @Omiyang William @Dez Dezer @Rosetta Kimatu @Stephen Njoroge @Jade Solomon @Ndungu Njoroge @Lewis Kirui @Aineruhanga Peter @David Mwangi @Simon Dande @Steve Ngewa what is your view on this