Lately I’m so hyped about trading and making it my career. Hard to explain, but it feels different now, like success is closer than ever. My setups flow, habits are clear, and trading finally feels simple.
I stopped overloading my brain with everyone’s opinions and just focused on what I’ve tested and know works. Best decision I’ve made.
If you want to make money trading
Get off the 1min charts bro
The smaller the timeframe, the more it’s manipulated
Switch to 1D, 4H and 1H for analysis and 15min for entries and see what happens
The boring stuff,
The journaling,
The waiting,
The planning,
The battling drawdown,
The ups, the downs,
Fall in love with the process.
You’ll hate it but do it like you love it.
That’s discipline.
That’s the recipe.
Trading isn’t the only industry w/ a 90% failure rate yet it’s singled out as so.
Why is that?
Other failure rates:
-> Startups 80–90%
-> E-comm 90%
-> Content creation 90%
-> Real estate 70–80%
-> Restaurants 80%
-> Affiliate marketing 90%
-> Music 95%
-> Fashion 90%
Watch your thoughts, they become words;
Watch your words, they become actions;
Watch your actions, they become habits;
Watch your habits, they become character;
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
If you actively trade, don't multitask or use social media.
Focus on one thing only.
No distractions.
The goal is to reach a state of flow. You can’t achieve it while mindlessly scrolling through social media.
The 5% That Breaks Most People
The closer you are to the truth, the more it hurts to miss.
No one warns you about the danger of almost making it.
Everyone talks about failure like it’s a clean break. You try something, it flops, you move on. But that’s not how most people give up. They don’t quit after failing badly. They quit after coming unbearably close, again and again.
It’s not laziness that kills ambition. It’s proximity.
There’s a kind of psychological violence in trying your hardest, outsmarting the odds, tasting the win, and then falling just inches short. Once? You get motivated. Twice? You feel cursed. Three times? You start to wonder if the universe is laughing at you.
And that’s the trap: because getting close feels like evidence that you're broken, when in reality, it’s proof you’re almost there.
I wish someone had told me this sooner. Before I hit any of my biggest wins, I failed inches away from success more times than I can count. Brutal, razor-thin losses. Ideas that were right, but slightly too early. Trades that were smart, but exited too soon. Efforts that deserved to work, but didn’t.
And each time, the voice got louder: You’re not cut out for this.
Until one day, I changed the script.
I stopped seeing “almost” as failure, and started seeing it as validation. If I kept getting 95% of the way there, I couldn’t be on the wrong path. It meant I had the formula mostly right. I wasn’t lost, I was simply solving for the last 5%.
That reframe changed everything. Instead of feeling shame, I felt urgency. I stopped questioning if I would succeed and started asking what was left to fix. I went harder, not because I was naive, but because I had enough data to know I was close.
And eventually, I hit it big.
Then I learned the final lesson: those near-wins weren’t just stepping stones, they were rehearsals. Each one gave me something I would later use when the real opportunity came. And when it did, it was ten times bigger than anything I had missed before.
Sometimes, life delays success so the lesson sinks in. Sometimes, the frustration is the curriculum.
So if you're close, painfully, maddeningly close, don’t quit. Don’t mourn the almosts. Understand what they are: markers of progress, not failure. Every time you get close and miss, you’re tightening the loop. You’re narrowing the error. You're training for the one that will hit so hard it makes everything else worth it.
People don’t quit because they’re far from success.
They quit because they were almost there, and didn’t know how close that really is.
Remember.....
If you're consistently close, you're not unlucky, you’re unfinished.