PJ

Trading is kind of a solo sport, but it doesn't have to be a lonely one. Here's why you should find your tribe, a why good community might be the best thing for your development. This is not a shill just to join @TradingStable, it is a call for you to at a minimum find your way off Twitter (I refuse to say X) into a room of tight knit people trying to win. Yes, when you're in a trade, no one can help you. No one can manage your emotions for you, size your position for you, or pull the trigger for you. That's all you. The development you need to do, the mental work, the screen time, the journaling, the review process, that's definitely an individual pursuit. But early on, trading in isolation is one of the worst things you can do for your growth, and one of the reasons why people that started with a prop and professional background can succeed afterward is because of what they picked up when on a team, and around other bright and hungry people. There's something that happens when you're around other people who are serious about the same thing you are. You see someone hit a level you haven't hit yet and suddenly it becomes real. You see people day in and day out making real life changing money. You also see the other side of that, and can begin to pattern match the details that separate the two outcomes. That matters more than people give it credit for. Most importantly seeing proof that it's possible, from someone you can actually talk to, changes how you think about what's achievable for yourself. Suddenly it's "Oh shit, people actually can consistently hit and make life changing money." I do get why people are skeptical of trading communities though. Most of them are garbage. Alerts, hype, people selling a lifestyle they don't actually have. Real traders are usually pretty stoic, not all, but most. So yeah, those bullshit communities are real, they are abundant, and worth being skeptical about. The look of these communities is kind of all the same, and if you have been around real traders long enough you can smell them immediately...(Sorry, but no one serious trades on Tradingview or relies on just technical analysis) But that's so far from what a good community is. A decent group, whether a solid group chat or a trading community, isn't there to think for you. It's there to make you better at thinking for yourself. Honest discussion, people who you can bang ideas off of, exposure to how other serious traders approach the same markets you're in. There is actually value in that. The goal isn't dependence. It's growth through proximity to people who are doing the work at the same level or higher than you are. This kind of osmosis is much easier in person, but it certainly exists to some extent online as well. So yes, those great communities exist. They're just harder to find, and all the shitty ones overshadow the good ones.