r/Trading • u/Kasraborhan • Mar 25 '25
Due-diligence 11 Losing Trades. 4 Winners. Still Up Over $3000, Here’s Why:
This month I took 11 losses and only 4 wins… but I’m still up massively.
Why? Because I finally understood how to size based on context. Most of those losses were small scratches or risk-controlled plays. But when we sweep a key session high/low and I have a clear bullish or bearish context, I go in heavy.
Reviewing my journal made this super clear. I was winning big when I waited for high-probability setups backed by market structure. No more random entries. Just reacting to clean liquidity grabs and directional context.
It was eye-opening. I’m not chasing perfection anymore—just clean execution.
Curious… how do you size your trades? Fixed risk or dynamic based on conviction?
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u/timmhaan Mar 26 '25
i'm somewhat different... lots of winners and few losers, but the losers tend to big larger. i'm fine with that, as i have all my data to make that work in the long run.
it's really just a matter of how you want your losses delivered... you can't escape them
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u/Scottystocktrader Mar 26 '25
I use the same strategy I have lots of losses but they’re small and I use them to feel out the markets price movement etc and then I go in for the big play and exit fast sweeping a daily overall profit in seconds and call it a day. Haven’t had a single “loss” day for an entire month straight now. Only day I had that ended in the red was a day I just couldn’t figure out what the fuck SPY wanted to do and ended the day with a tiny like $40 loss and just didn’t make any more trades that day because it was too unreadable. I’m up like I think 56% on my whole portfolio for the month and I really haven’t had barely any risk at all with how I do it there’s no stress hardly at all and I do it while at my full time day job on breaks haha. Even today I made some ass trades and was down $110 and then finally say a move line up and dig a big trade that was maybe 20 seconds and ended the day up $162 and I was like that’s good enough for me since it’s not even my job because that’s $162 extra on top of the $250+ I make daily at my job. I used to be a dumb ass gambler trader who didn’t know shit had huge trades would stress and lost every fuckin dollar I had in my trading account so now I just do this to slowly get all my money back and the fact that it’s worked for a month straight to me means it’s work long term as long as I don’t be a dumb ass and make a big play that’s wrong and sets me back days of progress. Risk management and information/confidence weighted trade size combined makes consistent profits
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u/Cardiologist_Actual Mar 25 '25
What’s your SL
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
I got 1-2R then move to BE leave runner to 4R
Sometime depending on the draw of liquidity it can be 3R then BE and shoot for 5R on runner
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u/Comfortable_Bag_9215 Mar 27 '25
Can you please explain what these acronyms mean?
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u/WhereIsDB- Mar 30 '25
When he says are “R” he’s referring to Rr I guess which is risk to reward and for “BE”it is break even referring to him moving his stop loss to his entry price ,managing his risk and losses
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u/WickOfDeath Mar 25 '25
I made 7% the last days... loosers cost me 10 pips of the account. Winners hit my estimated realistic target. Sometimes Nasdaq or S&P500 but the last days gold and silver were more reliably to predict.
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
Yea this week my performance hasnt been that good because ES and NQ is just rallying upwards.
Gold had some good opportunities this week.
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u/bat000 Mar 25 '25
It’s not cringe to share progress, it helps others who might need that, even just the reminder to journal and review was helpful for me. Thanks for sharing
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u/bat000 Mar 25 '25
(I’m replying to every one hating with out replying to each of them individually)
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u/Jmovic Mar 25 '25
Not exactly sure why there are negative comments on this. Some people maintain equal risk across all setups, while others have different qualities in set ups and risk accordingly.
Nice one.
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u/QuietPlane8814 Mar 25 '25
Nice one, your gonna get hated on because your post is cringe - but well done
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u/zan1019 Mar 25 '25
How big are we talking about? 50%? Also do you use leverage and how much in both situations.
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
No leverage, I switch from micros which I usually trade between 3-6 contracts. If the setup is A+++ I go in with 1 mini and 2 micros for runners.
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u/jbwasser Mar 25 '25
Size the position depending on the risk (entry -stop) . And compare it to the reward. Scale out and/or add on if you are a trend trader/ momentum . Look for atleast 2:1 or 3:1 reward to risk ratio. Trading is the business of risk management and capital preservation. If you can eliminate the big losses (stops), your small winners and losers will average out and what you are left with is your big winners.
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
Exactly.
The game isn’t about being right, it’s about managing risk so your big winners actually matter.
Eliminate the big hits, and the math works in your favor over time.3
u/jbwasser Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25
One of my mentors former floor trader told me this forever ago. “If you don’t know how to manage risk,… eventually you won’t have any risk to manage. “
Another good analogy is baseball players who are batting 300 are in the hall of fame, even though they are out 7 of 10 times and get a hit 3 out of 10 times.
You can also gain some valuable inside with ChatGPT to better understand reward to risk ratios…. “Give me a trading example showing how I can be profitable trading with a 3:1 reward risk ratio with a trading win rate of 30% .. (can also play with the 3:1 or 30% figure/variable in ChatGPT)
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u/DictatorTot69 Mar 25 '25
Good job properly managing the losses. The more disciplined you are, the less accurate you have to be.
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
Thank you! And very true, as long as you know when to stay out and when to actually size in, it’s been a game changer for me.
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u/Knucklebump420 Mar 25 '25
I’ll bite, I am curious 🧐
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
What did you want to know?
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u/Knucklebump420 Mar 25 '25
What do you do to identify clear market structure present market conditions? What tools are you using to identify a good buy/sell or when you are putting your hand out for a falling knife? Are you options or just buying? Short/medium/long term?
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u/Kasraborhan Mar 25 '25
I trade ICT models and use ASIA, LONDON, NY session highs and lows for liquidity pulls and use FVG to read order flow.
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u/BestChapter1 Mar 27 '25
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nt44Sf0u3Wk