The most dangerous stage of trading isn't being a beginner. Itâs being competent but unprofitable.
You are stuck in the middle:
*You cut your losses
*You don't revenge trade anymore
*Your execution is clean
But your equity curve is flat. Or worse, bleeding slowly.
Most traders quit here because they think they lack the skill. They start changing strategies, adding indicators, and messing with their system out of pure desperation.
Don't fix what isn't broken. And don't force what doesn't work.
When you are in this ghost town phase, your emotional memory lies to you. You need raw data to prove to your brain that your setups still hold a mathematical expectancy over a larger sample size.
If you donât track the reality of your process, the emotional fatigue will kill your account before the market does.