Katherine

منذ فترة عندما كنت أبدأ في ذلك، أخبرت صديقي أنني أمارس التداول اليومي وأنني أتعلم المزيد. لقد تجاهلني فقط وقال لي إنه قمار.
الآن بعد أن أصبحت شبه رابح، خلال محادثة ذكرت كيف تسير الأمور بشكل جيد بالنسبة لي في الوقت الحالي وآمل أن أحصل على أول دفع لي قريبًا نسبيًا. أشعر بالغباء، لكنني عرضت عليه أن أعلمه قليلاً. الآن هو "متحمس جدًا" للتعلم وهو فقط يسألني كيف يمكن للمرء الحصول على المدفوعات وما إلى ذلك. لا أعرف لماذا أندم على ذلك كثيرًا.
لن أكذب، لا أعتقد أنني أريد أن أشارك أي شخص في تداولي لأنني كان علي أن أتعلم/أعمل بمفردي. فشل بعد فشل.

لا أشعر بالقلق بشأن الحركة اليومية التي كانت بين 50 و 250.. لا أهتم على الإطلاق بالتداول المتأرجح أو البيع عند 100 أو 200 أو 300 أو 400. سأفكر في البيع إذا رأيت حركة برابولية مثل ثم قم بتجميع المزيد عند أي انخفاض

Compounding in trading is what turns consistent performance into explosive growth. For example, if you start with $1,000 and make 35% per month consistently, after one year your balance isn’t $4,000 but over $36,600. That extra growth comes from your profits generating their own profits. Over time, this effect creates exponential acceleration even with moderate returns. But compounding isn’t only about making more; it’s also a powerful risk management tool. By risking a fixed percentage per trade, like 2%, your position size adjusts automatically as your balance changes, smaller after losses and larger as you grow, which keeps your exposure stable and prevents emotional mistakes. This approach smooths your equity curve, reduces pressure, and allows you to recover naturally from drawdowns. For example, a 10% loss only needs an 11% gain to recover when risk stays controlled. On the other hand, a bad trader who risks too much, say 10 to 20% per trade, experiences the opposite effect: volatility destroys compounding, drawdowns become devastating, and recovery becomes almost impossible. The secret is realizing that compounding rewards patience, not aggression. It helps you and forces you to take only high-probability setups because every unnecessary loss delays your exponential curve. At the same time, you shouldn’t let one, two, or even three losing trades confuse your long-term target. The traders who master compounding don’t just think about the next trade; they think in terms of hundreds of trades. Over time, that mindset turns discipline into freedom and small wins into something life changing

Every trader knows the golden rule…
Cut losers fast and let winners run!
Which makes sense on a quiet Sunday afternoon before the markets open. We tell ourselves confidently that this week we are gonna do that. But when that trade is open we do the exact opposite. We’ll sit there watching a losing trade bleed out like we’re waiting for some kind of divine intervention or something. We’ll move stops then justify it by telling ourselves “it’ll come back” but it hardly ever does. AND then the second a trade actually starts working??…..
We slam that close trade button like it’s about to self-destruct.
Tell me you’ve never thought this before…
“If I’d just done the exact opposite of my trades, I’d be rich.”
That’s not just a joke, it’s psychology because your brain is literally wired to prefer comfort over being right. Think about that for a second..
When a trade is losing, closing it means facing pain by admitting you were wrong. So you don’t close it and you hold, hope and wait for comfort to return. But when a trade’s winning, holding it means risking that comfort so you cash out early to lock in that relief.
We’ve all felt that. The inner voice like the devil on your shoulder. Causing impulse decisions in the moment that you later look back at and, from a now logical after the fact way of thinking, you can’t understand why you added to that losing trade, why you 10x’ed your revenge trade and why you closed that now 5R trade for 1R…
You’re not bad at trading. You’re just obeying the same survival instinct that kept humans alive for thousands of years: avoid pain, grab safety. The problem is that the market punishes both of those things and it rewards the opposite. Kind of like the emotional reverse.
So you should…
Cut a loser when it hurts the most to do so.
HOLD when it’s scary to lose what you’ve gained.
And that’s why the thought…
If I’d done the opposite…” stings so much.
Because deep down, it’s true!
The version of you that can act against your instincts is the version that will finally start to win.