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RISK MANAGEMENT

This question seems to come up daily. There is no one thing. It's hundreds of iterative improvements. Stock answer, remove discretion at the point of execution for the round turn

I ditched the lower TF, now i only use the 4H, it's superboring but profitable so far

I really appreciate this; I work from home now and I want to get into this big time. I'm not rushing into it. Taking my time and learning but the more I'm learning the more excited I get. It's posts like this that REALLY help; the stuff you are not going to learn in books or webinars, but peoples shared experience.

What actually made the difference there wasn’t journaling by itself. It was that you discovered a boundary where execution quality reliably dropped and then removed yourself from it.
A lot of traders keep trading through those windows and try to “fix” behavior with more awareness or discipline. You did the opposite. You stopped participating once conditions stopped supporting clean execution.
That’s usually why these changes feel disproportionately effective. Not because something new was added, but because a situation where interference was predictable was taken off the table entirely.

> ...started journaling every single trade. Not just the ticker and PnL, but what I was feeling, what time of day it was, whether I was revenge trading or following my plan.

So many people are oblivious, intentionally possibly, to how critical this is. They keep wondering when their breakthrough will finally come, and this is one of the most consistent things missing. I can't go into every reason this should be non-negotiable for you all, but you need to believe it is.

OP mentions the revelations in the statistics about the time of day. Some people are getting such a better understanding of their emotions, and how to react accordingly. Some people will discover the triggers for their fomo, their tilt, or their revenge trading. I know for me (only journaling with pen and paper) it just caused me to slow down, avoid impulses, and let my thesis and vision fully develop while observing the price action (and practically narrating the entire session to myself on the notebook page).

If you're wondering why you're still inconsistent and struggling to move forward with this journey, my first and possibly only question is if you are journaling your trades.

Wait 30 minutes to understand the day type. I either join the train (trend) or fade the range. There's a little song in my head.

For me it was realizing that most of my losses weren’t bad trades, they were rule violations. Once I started tracking equity and drawdown properly, it became obvious that I was breaking my own rules after small wins or small losses, not because the setup was bad, but because my risk control slipped.

The strategy didn’t change. The market didn’t change. Only the way I monitored myself did.

I think journaling works when it’s focused on the few variables that actually matter, not when it becomes a diary of everything.

AI is actually really helpful for this, ask it to be a mirror for your trading

Stopped using tight stops. Let it breathe so you don’t die by a thousand cuts.