Why aren't you earning, even when everything is right?
A very common question among beginners: "Why am I doing everything right but still in the red?"
Answer: because trading is not a deterministic system. It's not a story like "press the button — get the result."
It's a probabilistic game — everything is built on probabilities.
You can enter according to the system, with confirmation, with a stop, with a take — and still catch a loss. Not because you're a fool. But because that's how the distribution of probabilities works.
Each individual trade is like a roll of the dice. Yes, you may have a strategy that gives a +60% win rate over the long run. But that doesn't mean you can't lose 5 times in a row. It's just noise. It's just math.
That's why the key elements of any professional approach are:
— Risk management. One loss shouldn't wipe out the entire account.
— Long horizon. Only it allows you to achieve a statistically significant distribution.
— Understanding of expectations. The point is not to guess every trade. The point is to be right over the long run.
If you think you are "doing everything right" and are still in the red — reconsider not the system, but the expectations.
