The journey thus far

Psychology

I started day trading and ict education in late January this year After my 3 year profitable friend put me on. I've learned all the standard and advanced ict concepts from fvgs to turtle soup and mech models very simplistic stuff (doesn't mean easy) I had no real problem taking in and comprehending the ict material. Had to go through the tjr boot camp lol friends request and as an introduction to ict and day trading it accomplished its task, after that I moved to some more advanced material ttrades Justin w and dodgy very helpful but I'm sure I wouldn't have understood them without going through tjrs bootcamp first. For most of this journey I've struggled with the whole "break even phase" and "win one lose one phase" risk management is always on point tho. When this started my friend got me an eval and he helped me pass it took forever but since then he got me 4 more I'm currently working on passing them.

I had to realize something about trading its just psychological after my friend spent a week with me helping me isolating my issues he came to the conclusion that my issues are fear of losing, lack of confidence in my own abilities, OVERTHINKING and OVER ANALYZING because the reason I lose is trailing stop, tight stop and if it's not those 2 things I just flat out miss great set ups because I'm OVER ANALYZING AND OVERTHINKING everything. Last week I said I'm done messing around I started doing somethings different mentally and believe it or not didn't even have a losing trade only took 3 one thrusday and two Friday. I looked way to hard Into the charts I had to simplify it down to liquidity and imbalances Surprisingly enough so much clicked I'm actually starting to feel confident in my abilities. Confidence In general has never been my thing So when I started trading it showed and even more issues I didn't even really know I had came out. I guess reason I came here is to ask this question.

I feel a great change brought about by discipline happening within myself I fear because I lack confidence that I won't be able to maintain (aka be profitable) and I also don't wanna get over confident because I had a one great week but I do feel like I'm on the precipice of being a profitable trader.

THE QUESTION: how do you maintain discipline?? How do you achieve a present mental state of here and now?? How do you stay out of your head so that you can enter the here and now?? How do you find patience??

I know it's a lot of jabber but I don't have anyone to ask these questions to

Posted Aug 4, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

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