I lost 10 followers today.
Which is funny because every time I post loss porn, it goes viral.
So here’s your regularly scheduled programming.
Today’s lesson: How to turn a perfectly good green day into a red one.
Step 1: Wake up.
Step 2: Take good trades.
Step 3: Make money.
Step 4: Ignore all evidence that the day is going well.
Step 5: Continue trading for absolutely no reason.
Step 6: Give it all back.
I’ve become quite skilled at this process.
The crazy part is that I don’t have a trade problem in the morning.
I have a “one more trade” problem.
Every single day I find good setups.
Every single day I prove to myself I can make money.
And then my goblin brain convinces me that the answer is obviously more trading.
Narrator: It was not.
Before anyone starts typing out a novel of trading advice, I promise I’ve heard it before. Longer dated options. Shares. Smaller size. Bigger size. Trade less. Trade more. Sacrifice a goat under a full moon.
I get it.
The problem isn’t finding winners.
The problem is walking away from them.
For those keeping score at home, I’ve taken $100 to over $4,000 three different times in the last six months.
Unfortunately I’ve also demonstrated what happens next.
So this is less of a transparency post and more of an accountability post.
If you see me posting next week about how I had a beautiful green morning and then proceeded to donate it back to the market because I couldn’t stop clicking buttons, feel free to publicly shame me.
Also I’d like my 10 followers back.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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