I have been MIA posting a bit because the market is consuming me, but I polled The Stable recently about this, and only half of everyone has one solid trade they can actually call their own. I think that explains a lot. I think a lot of traders are bouncing around between whatever sounds good that week, and especially now when markets are ripping. Breakouts, sweeps, options flow, macro, mean reversion, earnings, low floats, htf swing trades, intraday scalps, etc - Trying to wear multiple hats at once. If you don't have at least one thing mastered, than whatever number of things you are doing are just a number of different ways to lose money. If you are taking this seriously, you abso-fucking-lutely need one trade you know inside and out. Don't even move on to something else until you have that. You can have many arrows in your quiver but you need to start with one that you can fire surely. You should know: What it looks like when it is clean? What it looks like when it is forced? What environment rewards it? What environment kills it? Where you are wrong? When to press? When to do nothing? The full context determines whether it deserves your risk.
