This post is going to be very helpful for all of you.
Day trading is a realm where emotions and logic clash daily.
Victory doesn’t belong to the most knowledgeable —
it belongs to the most disciplined.
We also have strategies, and professional traders make very good profits by following such strategies — but why can't we do the same? Why, after all?
Any profitable strategy only contributes 20% to the growth of your account. But have you ever thought — where is the remaining 80%?
That 80% lies in our emotions — in fear, in closing trades too early, or in excessive greed. Most of us don’t follow any proper risk-to-reward ratio in our trades.
Professional traders, before opening a trade, always calculate the risk-to-reward ratio of their setup. Whether the trade wins or not doesn’t matter much — what truly matters is the risk-to-reward ratio.
This is the mistake that 80% of retail traders make, which leads to more losses and fewer profits, and eventually, we end up blowing our accounts.
If we don’t follow our own discipline, how can we ever win this battle?
Professional traders only risk 1–2% of their portfolio because they know that money is not made from just one trade. They focus on 15–20 trades — that’s how they grow their account by 10–20%.
If it were possible to make all the money from a single trade, then professionals with millions of dollars would become billionaires in a day. Why would they spend 8–10 hours daily watching the screen, waiting patiently, and finding proper setups?
Do you ever think this way?
If not, then why not?
That’s a question — Why not?