Making money in trading is not difficult.

The hard part is really maintaining it.

We are all ordinary traders, and I wrote this article to save that young, foolish, naive, and impulsive person who is painfully struggling.

As a day trader, you engage in high-frequency trading but without any real informational advantage (not knowing the true liquidity, order thinness, not being a market maker, having no execution advantages, nothing at all).

How many times do you do it every day, and how long can you keep it up? How many times do you do it every week? How many times do you do it every month? What win rate can you guarantee, and how much wear and tear?

Even if you possess the strongest "self-discipline" and "risk management" capabilities in the world, the probability of winning and losing will leave you helpless.

Retail traders do not fail because they (we) have never won.

We fail because we never stop, and high-frequency behavior has only one final outcome: destruction.