As a trader, do not go around telling everyone that you day trade. This is not a journey that people easily support or understand. Regardless if it's family, friends, or partners.

We deal with a lot of emotions in pursuit of trading success and financial freedom. Don't invite even more emotion turmoil by involving others.

Majority of the time this path is meant to be walked alone🚶🏽‍♂️ (Aside from other traders)

Of course I am speaking from my own experience and observations.

Has telling your friends and family been more or less beneficial to your journey as a trader?

The clearest mirror I've seen myself through.

The first one was the addiction to being right. Every trade was a chance to prove something. Not to the market but to myself. I was raised on a story that I wasn't good enough, and somewhere along the way every red trade started feeling like proof of that. So I'd hold losers way longer than I should've, just so I wouldn't have to admit I was wrong. The market doesn't care about your ego. It just charges you for it.

The addiction to control was another one, thinking that when I entered a trade that it was "Suppose" to go to target. I was trying to control a thing that doesn't bend to anyone and getting furious when it didn't. The hours staring at charts weren't analysis. They were me trying to muscle the market into doing what I wanted.

Then there was the dopamine. The rush of quick wins, being right, and feeling smart when TP gets hit is insane. The compulsive checking, even when I was "done" for the day. I'd close winners early just to feel something. I'd open trades I had no business opening because the screen was quiet and I needed noise. That's not trading.

Trading didn't create any of these. It revealed them.

The hard part isn't learning a strategy. The hard part is becoming someone who can run a strategy without sabotaging it because of the stuff you've been carrying for 20 years.

What did trading reveal about you? Like the root issues?

Are we doing the things we set out to do on Sunday - Monday? Journaling? Sizing Properly? Being patient?

If not, we have a moment to reflect and shift gears, and talk about it amongst one another. This is what the locker room is for!

I'll go first below ⬇️

Curious, what's most common strategy traded in the group. 👀

Hear me out. I've done the whole full time trading thing and it's cool but it adds an unnecessary pressure that will inevitably alter your ability to make rational decisions. Since it is now your only form of income, being able to sit on your hands becomes harder, like during the choppy months you should avoid completely. Every dollar lost feels like a threat to your livelihood, and not many people can deal with the uncertainty you have to sit in constantly in order to be a full time trader.

Being a full time trader isn't the goal, financial freedom is and that can be achieved in many ways. Maybe, you could just trade on the side while working a job and buy your time back gradually.

Interested to hear what you guys think?

Hear me out.

Going full time means quitting a stable income to trade with money you actually need. That pressure is what kills accounts faster than anything else. Every trade feels like life or death because it kind of is, and making rational decisions becomes almost impossible.

Trade around a job, stack funded accounts, build slow and buy your time back gradually. Full time isn't the dream, Financial freedom is, and that can be achieved in may ways.

What are your thoughts about trading full time? ⬇️

Genuine ask

Could be a feature, a rule, the platform, the dashboard, support, payouts, the website, literally anything. Big or small.

Doesn't have to be a complaint. Could be something that already works that you'd just want more of.

Drop one thing or a list. I'm taking notes 📝 ⬇️

After the post trade adrenaline wore off from risking half of my account trying to catch bangers, I would just sit there looking stupid and paralyzed with regret.

Sometimes I won big, that was fun, but it always caught up to me eventually. I was Basically just gambling.

Had to actually fix it since I just couldn't afford to be reckless anymore and focused more on Capital Preservation!

Figured out what number I could lose on a trade and still keep calm. For me on a 2k drawdown that's around 5%. So like $100. Anything past that and things start to get spooky.

Three things I actually do now:

• Know my max loss per trade
• Have a personal daily loss limit and actually walk away when I hit it
• Stop loss on every trade. Every single one. No "I'll watch it"

Am I the only one that paid max tuition because of this? 👀

Are you in the eval stage? Are you funded? Are you still learning about prop firms and just scoping things out?

Let me know below ⬇️

Been thinking about this one.

Some traders call themselves profitable after a green month. Some say it takes a year. Some say it's not real until you can live off it.

So where's the actual line? What do you guys think? 🤔👇

I'll go first.

Mine was boredom trading. Creating setups that didn't exist because the dopamine hit of being in a trade felt like progress, it wasn't.

That turned into unnecessary losses, which turned into revenge trading, then eventually a spiral that had nothing to do with the market and everything to do with me.

The cost wasn't just money. It was the confidence and self trust that came with it that made realize I had to straighten up.

What's yours? 👀