Katherine

A while ago when I was getting into it, I told my friend that I Day Traded and was learning more. He just brushed me off and told me it’s gambling.
Now that I’m almost profitable, during a conversation I mentioned how it’s going well for me at the moment and Im hoping to make my first payout relatively soon. I feel stupid, but I offered to teach him a little. Now hes “so down” to learn and he’s just asking me how one would get payouts and stuff. Idk why I regret it this much.
Im not gonna lie I don’t think I wanna get anyone involved with my trading because I had to learn/grind alone. Fail after fail.
This is also a good friend though. Thoughts?
UPDATE:
I told him. All the sudden hes been real talkative today. Wants to have real convos and such. On top of that i blew my express that I just earned. Not to make an excuse, but ever since I told him my whole game has been off. In a way, Im glad it’s blown. Keeps me humble and now Im gonna lock back in for the next one. Alone.

Not worried about the day to day movement have had between 50 and 250.. not remotely interested in swing trading or selling at 100, 200, 300 or 400. Would consider releasing if I saw parabolic movement like and then accumulate more on any drop

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.