#Psicologia I have realized something I have observed while reading what I see in this community: everyone is far from understanding what this profession means and what it means to be a trader.
I have seen people trading with excessive leverage and posting profit captures with a ROI of 400% and they consider themselves professionals or the best when that is simply just one trade of 100. It only takes one negative day for your entry to wipe out all your capital.
Beginners who come with the idea of getting rich, of making profits, hit a wall when they discover that it is not as quick as they initially thought and fill their minds with pictures of people making thousands or hundreds of dollars to boost their dopamine, while the reality is different.
Trading is not making an entry of $500 with excessive leverage, risking 100% of your capital on a single trade. Trading is not about making a big hit and catching all the strong impulses. Trading is none of what most people sell in terms of trips, luxuries, and exaggerated profits.
Trading is a business and a profession that requires the right mindset to endure the uncertainty of the markets and the stress and anxiety this can generate. You need to learn to manage risk and capital. One trade cannot wipe out 50% of your capital because trading is not just one trade; it is a set of operations that must generate profits in the long term, considering a fixed and defined risk. Trading requires statistics; you must have a specific type of entry and discover a statistical advantage that, over time, generates profit. Losses are absolutely normal in this profession; losing is inevitable, but just because it is inevitable does not mean we will lose everything in a single trade or in one week.
I share with you two weeks of trading operations $BNB
I started with $5 and with a fixed leverage of 20x and a defined risk of $0.5 per operation.
As my capital increased, my risk of losing did as well, always controlled. Just because I have one positive week or a good streak does not mean I will break my plan and start over-trading or risk more than allowed because remember this: 'Losses are inevitable' and one trade will not burn my account nor will it make me lose two weeks of profits.
Currently, I have a risk of $0.85 per entry, and to lose all my profits, I would need to have a negative streak of 45 trades, which gives me enough time for my statistics to express themselves in the sense that if I take 45 trades following my plan and my risk management, what is my result? Many don't even make it past 5 trades because they have already lost everything.
Let me tell you this; Having much more capital will not necessarily make you earn more money. On the contrary, if you have not yet mastered the necessary skills for trading and do not have the right mindset, you will lose more money. If you cannot properly manage $10, what makes you think you can manage $100 if you can't even handle $10? Money amplifies the person we are. Currently, I have about $38 in capital; it may seem little, but I started with $5, and with proper management and a defined plan, I had the discipline to follow it to the letter. Now everything remains the same; I continue to respect the management and protect my capital because trading is long-term and it is a process. I am learning to master myself and grow my capital, and I will reach a point where I will be risking $800 per entry, but my capital will be $36,000 since I would have to be wrong 45 times in a row to lose it, just as I am currently where I am now.
