Truth no one is going to tell you clearly
Trading is not a dream, not a shortcut, and definitely not a game. It is a ruthless environment where every mistake is punished immediately and every excuse costs money. The market doesn’t test your intelligence — it exposes your weaknesses. Your greed, your fear, your impatience, your need to be right. One bad habit is enough to drain months of hard work in minutes.
Losses don’t come from the market being unfair. They come from overconfidence after a win, revenge trades after a loss, and the illusion that you are “special.” You are not. The market owes you nothing. It will move without you, against you, and straight through your stop if you trade emotionally. Hope is not a strategy. Confidence without rules is suicide.
Most traders fail because they refuse to accept the one truth that matters: survival comes before profit. If you can’t protect capital, you don’t deserve returns. Discipline is boring, slow, and lonely — that’s why few have it. Everyone wants the rewards, but no one wants the routine, the journaling, the missed trades, the days of doing nothing.
There is no mercy here. No motivation will save you. No indicator will rescue you. Either you respect risk, cut losses without emotion, and stay patient — or the market will erase you quietly and move on. Trading doesn’t care who you are. It only rewards those who adapt and punishes everyone else.