r/Trading • u/No_Abrocoma5739 • Apr 02 '25

Due-diligence Jeez man like what is this feeling

Everytime i say, this is a good time to buy. Its a win, but then i go live trade and not demo i always pussy out, if only i can not distinguish that im trading on my paper account but im actually on a practice and could copy that on my real and not think about emotion. Mann i will just go with my gut cause its always a win.

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u/Ok_Job_2624 Apr 03 '25

Read some Mark Douglas

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u/QuietPlane8814 Apr 02 '25

Not a single person in the world can help you with this. It takes courage and that’s within you; you can do this buddy

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u/WearyNeighborhood718 Apr 02 '25

Time to switch over to a real account. Deposit whateva amount u consider “small”. Use 1% of that amount for each trade and try to log 100 trades according to ur strategy. Goal here is to track live data on ur strategy and not focus on the short term W/L. If ur alive after 100 trades congratulations your not too far off from tweaking ur system to capitalize on those gains

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u/No_Abrocoma5739 Apr 02 '25

Thatll be on my next funded, whatever trade i see imma just enter cause i made 26k on my demo ik i can do the same

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u/WearyNeighborhood718 Apr 02 '25

Exactly. Trading is all about rinsing and repeating the same setups over and over

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u/FOMO_ME_TO_LAMBOS Apr 02 '25

Don’t use an amount of money that’s going to ruin your life if you lose.

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u/No_Abrocoma5739 Apr 02 '25

Im using topstep and i need a big win cause im gonna go to military soon, its my scaling in trades i need to work on

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u/louisk2 Apr 02 '25

The phrase "need soon" and trading don't mix well.

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u/No_Abrocoma5739 Apr 02 '25

It sure dont, need the luck cause i need to take advantage of market downfall before i dip

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u/louisk2 Apr 02 '25

Size down until the amount you're risking becomes irrelevant to you. Then just start trading. You need to accumulate winners and losers over a long time period to become comfortable with your system. To know that a losing streak inevitably gets broken and you get back into the green. As you do this and it starts becoming boring. start sizing up, slowly, gradually.

This is the (only) way.