Sanjeev S

I made no meaningful progress for the first 6 years of my trading. What did I finally do that started my upward trajectory? This is the ONLY shortcut you need 👇🧵

@propfilmtrader This was a throwback! Love to see it man 🙏

Best quote Ever asking question. @TradingInTheNow Supper blessed .

@AMoyisco18947 Appreciate you man - glad it was of value!

@TradingInTheNow Best tweet I've seen so far this month ✅✅✅🫴

Your stop loss getting hit isn't failure. It's you protecting capital on an idea that didn't work.

Your edge in the market can only be seen over a large sample size of trades and time. So why are you celebrating the outcome of one trade? One passed challenge? One payout?

@iamzarb @JamesBruce131 You need to take him to Johns of Bleecker street 🔥

First NY Slice 🍕@JamesBruce131

Most traders will spend all their energy preparing for entries. Very few prepare for the emotional side of being on the sidelines..

I know these moments are tough, but this experience can be one you look back on in a few months as a real turning point with the right mindset. If you did something stupid, the honest truth is this is the best outcome. It needs to be painful so the mind learns. The more you’re rewarded for doing things wrong, the more you reinforce the wrong behaviour. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your tipping point today? What are you struggling with that you can’t seem to stop doing?

Here goes all the progress made in May down the drain. No one to blame but myself. Accounts are still alive but at their last leg due to trailing drawdown. I need to lower my risk by half and try to claim back small bits of the trailing little by little. Because risk is halved, I'm thinking it might take me 2 months of decent/good trading to get back to where I was literally just yesterday. It's gonna feel like 2 months of time just wasted, but I'm trying to convince myself that at least, I won't have to spend a dime on accounts. Lastly, similar to what I did the last time when I blew all the accounts in April, I'm going to take a break from social media so that I can just focus on regaining consistency. I've never claimed to be a good trader. I've never felt I was good enough either to start a paid service. This type of day is exactly why. Anyways, I will update when either all the accounts are blown, or if there's good news, or there's solid progress made. Updates will probably be weekly or biweekly, and not daily till then. I let down myself, my family, God, and you all.

Trading is hard because the markets don't just test your analysis. It tests what happens to your decision-making once money gets involved.

For a long time, I thought becoming profitable meant being perfect. You learn with time and experience that the belief causes more damage than any crappy strategy ever could. I dug deeper into this in the latest episode of Off the Charts. Links in my bio!

Consistency in trading is not about being perfect. Too many traders are aiming to never be emotional, never make mistakes, and make no stupid decisions. The more I get to connect with profitable traders, the more I've learned that a lot of profitable traders still suck. They just suck less at the things that actually destroy accounts. They still get things wrong. Sometimes they hesitate. They still feel frustrated. They still have messy days. And they still overthink. The difference is, they stopped measuring succes by: - Win rate - Big payouts - Making X% per month - Looking smart online They started measuring this game by survival. 'Can I stay in the game long enough for my edge to actually play out?' Most traders never make it this far..

The problem I find for most people is that they only start to recognise the emotion either after the fact or once they're already at the boiling point. So I completely agree with your point on awareness - it's the starting point to every lasting point of change. The more you recognise your patterns of behaviour, the more proactive you can be to get in front of it before it takes over.

100% bro. By the time the impulsive trade happens, the nervous system has usually already been building toward it for a while. The trade just becomes the release point. Once one outcome starts feeling too important, everything changes. Perception changes. Patience changes. Risk changes. Even neutral price action starts feeling emotional. That’s why awareness matters so much before the click, not just after it. I hope everyone comes to understand this!

I find most emotional trading starts long before the actual impulsive trade. It usually begins the moment one outcome feels too important..

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@ITSIGMUS 💯💯

@TradingInTheNow Consistency is the key to win in life

The strategy is not the hard part. You can teach a monkey to draw lines and boxes on a chart. What makes trading hard is being consistent in executing your plan regardless of short-term outcomes.

@bobbthetrader Ironically, it takes the longest time to come to that assumption.

@TradingInTheNow The strategy is usually not the hardest part.

I speak to a lot of traders who struggle to stay out of the market because they constantly feel like they're missing an opportunity. This is the wrong way to look at it. Not trading is not costing you an opportunity. It's saving you capital so you can deploy it when conditions are prime, and conviction is high.

@martinfxtrade That's why so many fall into the trap!

@TradingInTheNow Revenge trading feels logical in the moment

For many traders, a loss isn't the end of the problem; it's just the beginning. It opens up the door to an emotional trade, a forced setup, or the impulsive need to 'make it back'. This is when your discipline is really tested, and for most, emotions tend to take over. In that moment, your mind will make it feel like revenge trading is the most logical next step. You'll start to believe that: - One good trade can fix this - You just need to get back to breakeven - The next play will be the one that works This is all just your mind's natural reaction to discomfort. I wrote about all of this in this week's Mind Over Markets newsletter. I unpacked why we all tend to suffer with that need to 'make it back' and a mental reframe to break the pattern. You can read it for FREE here 👇

@ITSIGMUS 🎯🎯

@TradingInTheNow After taking a loss, the best and logical step to take is, step away from the market. if you don't, You might end up losing more than you signed up for