I thought I lacked consistency until I realized I had no standards
For a long time I thought my problem in trading was consistency. Some days I followed my rules and other days I didn’t, so I kept telling myself I just needed more discipline. But after some time I noticed that my rules were not even clear from the start. Some days I would take trades I normally wouldn’t take and other days I would skip setups I had already taken before. My risk was not always the same either.
Looking back, it was not really inconsistency. It was the fact that I did not have a clear standard for how I was supposed to trade. Once I started defining things better like what I trade, when I trade, how much I risk and when I stop, everything started to feel less random. I am still working on it, but consistency now feels more like a result instead of something I am trying to force.