🔥 Why do most traders abandon their plan exactly when it is needed the most?
Every trader starts with a promise to themselves: “This time it will be different. I will stick to the rules, stops, discipline.”
And for a few days, everything really works.
Until the first real test comes:
❌ A series of losing trades
❌ Three failed setups in a row
❌ A day when the plan says “do not enter,” while others are making money
It is precisely at such moments that traders often break down.
The plan works when it is comfortable.
But when it becomes uncomfortable — most make typical mistakes:
🔻 They move stops because it hurts to accept a loss
🔻 They overtrade because they are scared to miss a move
🔻 They discard the strategy because it is temporarily in drawdown
But the truth is simple:
✔️ The trader you want to become is forged on difficult days.
✔️ Not when it’s easy — but when you want to give up, but you don’t.
Anyone can stick to the rules when the market rewards.
Those who win are the ones who stick to them precisely when the market does not.
