A $15,000 Trading Wake-Up Call (And Why It Was Worth It)
13,398 trades.
90 days.
$15,000 vaporized.
The autopsy report reads like a beginner’s guide to self-sabotage:
Leverage addiction (10x became 50x became "why not 100x?")
Stop losses treated as suggestions
Charts checked more frequently than breathing
But here’s the twist—this wasn’t failure. It was tuition.
The Lessons Carved Into That $15k Loss
Overtrading is just gambling with extra steps
Emotions decay portfolios faster than bear markets
The 1% rule exists because math doesn’t negotiate
The market doesn’t care about your:
"Sure thing" setups
Revenge trade fantasies
Hopium-fueled "just one more trade" mentality
What it rewards? Cold, mechanical discipline. That $15k bought more than losses—it bought clarity. Now the real work begins: trading like a robot, surviving like a cockroach, and letting compounding do the heavy lifting.
