At some point you need to trust your own analysis. If you simply highlighted Daily levels and bought regardless of headlines, you would've outtraded 90% of CT and your group chats.

It's so easy to get caught up in the hive mind especially while you're glued to low timeframe charts. Everyone's bullish on one 5 minute candle, then bearish on the next. 20 different opinions within a single hour.

If you're constantly looking around to confirm whatever bias you may have, you're not trading your system. You're trading someone else's confidence.

You'll start doubting clean setups because someone doesn't share the same opinion. You'll hold onto positions longer than you'd like because that one guy in the group chat is still confident (he scaled out days ago without saying anything).

Take the time to build your own system and use it. Learn to respect your own lines. If you're wrong, adjust things and continue to improve your analysis and execution.

That's exactly how you grow. Not by copying conviction. Backtest your own decisions and learn from them.