From a massive loss in one account to stable profits, this is a true experience of a friend. He started with over two hundred thousand dollars and ended up with only thirty-two thousand left. What hurt him the most was not the monetary loss, but the realization that he knew something was wrong with his actions yet could not stop. Frequent trading, going all in and out, blindly chasing highs and cutting losses, he told himself each time to be cautious next time, yet he fell deeper and deeper.
Until one day at three in the morning, he closed his last position, losing another four thousand seven hundred dollars. At that moment, when he shut his computer, he felt completely drained. That night, he was completely sleepless and finally understood one thing: in this market, it's not the smartest people who survive for a long time, but those who have executable systems. Truly consistently profitable traders never rely on feelings but instead depend on discipline and strategy.
Afterward, he spent a whole year reviewing his trading records repeatedly and finally saw the core of the problem. He always set his stop losses too slowly, saw the right direction but made the wrong trades, couldn't hold on when he was profitable, and was reluctant to decisively exit when he was losing.
In the following three months, he devoted himself wholeheartedly, gradually building his own trading system, ultimately leaving three rules that must be followed. First, only consider entering the market when technical signals resonate with market structure, and never place orders based on intuition. Second, always use batch building for positions, eliminating one-time all-in trades. Third, during the stage of stable account growth, position size can be increased moderately, but when the market is unclear, it is crucial to remain light on positions and execute strictly like a machine.
From then on, he no longer pursued making money on every single trade but focused on doing “winning trades” the best he could. Now, he can achieve stable daily profits of about three thousand dollars, and during better market conditions, he can even exceed five thousand dollars. For him, more important than profitability is that he can finally sleep peacefully.
If you are also anxious about frequent blow-ups and suffering from continuous losses, please do not rush to deny yourself. The problem may not lie within you but rather in the fact that you have not yet formed your own trading system.
To truly stabilize your trading, you must first make discipline your instinct. As long as you continue to pay attention to Niu Ge's shares, your trading journey might just become different.