40% of new traders quit within their first month.
Of the 60% who stay, only 15% survive past 3 years.
Of those, only 1% are consistently profitable over 5 years.
But the data gets worse.
85% of blown accounts follow the exact same 4-phase pattern:
1. Cautious success
2. Overconfidence
3. Catastrophic loss
4. Terminal decline
Revenge trades — entries within 15 minutes of a loss, with oversized positions — have a 22% win rate. One case study documented $4,200/month in losses from revenge trading alone.
Overconfident traders' buys underperform their sells by 2% over a year. The more certain you feel, the worse you do.
Leveraged day traders average a return of -4.53%.
The pattern is always the same: you don't lose because of the market. You lose because you don't see your own behavior.
That's exactly why we built DexlessEx AI Dashboard — it decodes your trading DNA: win rate, behavioral patterns, when you actually perform best, and what's killing your edge.
Most traders never look at their own data.
The ones who do are the 1%.