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One disconnect here is calling set ups you lost “A+”

If ur a plus setups are losers those are not a plus

U need to find an edge

7 years is a long time to keep getting the same result. So I’d stop hoping it changes randomly and do a hard reset.

First: stop trading live for now.

Then do this like a diagnosis:

1) Prove you have an edge on paper. Pick ONE setup and backtest/replay it over a real sample (like 200 trades). Spend 20-40 hours to backtest it one takeprofit.com or fx replay for example. Track win rate, average R, and max drawdown. If it’s not positive after costs, that’s the answer.

2) Make sure your rules are actually rules. A lot of people think they’re consistent, but the entry/exit is slightly different every time. That kills the stats.

3) Cut it down to one market. One pair, one session, one timeframe. No bouncing around.

Find the leak. If you “blew money,” something in risk wasn’t locked in. Set a hard daily loss limit and a max trades per day. No exceptions.

Backtesting helps you to practice it and fix without risking real budget. If the setup is solid, you’ll see it in the numbers. If it isn’t, you stop wasting years being disciplined with a strategy that doesn’t pay.

You should quit

Learn to invest 

The truth is that daytrading exclusively is doing things on nightmare difficulty. Most people who are profitable substantially pad their results with longer term swing trades and buy & hold. Money makes money, and things get easier with a larger account.

I share my strategy on my profile, might be able to gather a thing or two.

If you want help, send me your last 2 trades and the reasons why you took them

Hey man, I really respect that you're still standing after 7 years. That takes real grit.

But I'm gonna be honest with you. If you've been disciplined, followed your rules, risked properly, only taken A+ setups, and you're still not profitable after 7 years, the hard truth is that your strategy itself probably just doesn't have an edge. You can follow bad rules perfectly and still lose. Discipline only works if the thing you're being disciplined about actually works.

Here's what I'd do if I were you. Stop trading real money completely for a while. Go back to paper trading. But this time, start tracking every single trade in detail not just profit and loss, but what the setup was, why you took it, what the market did before and after. Then look for patterns. Are you losing more on certain pairs? At certain times of day? After certain news events? The data will tell you what's broken.

Also, be honest with yourself. Is trading actually making you happy? Or are you just chasing the idea of it working out someday because you've already put in 7 years? Sunk cost is real. Walking away isn't failure if it saves you more years of stress and money.

If you still really want to do this, find one profitable trader who's transparent about their results and ask them to review your trade journal. Not a course seller, an actual trader. Pay them for their time if you have to. A fresh pair of eyes might see what you've been missing.

Whatever you decide, don't be ashamed. Seven years is a long time to fight something. That alone says a lot about you. Just make sure you're fighting a battle you can actually win.

I think your problem is that you think you have edge because someone told you you have edge? Like are these A+ setups because they have the highest WR out of hundreds of trades (forward testing), or because some course/video told you they were A+ setups. It's good that you arn't breaking rules and being disciplined though. I recommend reducing risk by A LOT until you can actually say you have an edge

A lot of people follow rules perfectly, but the system itself just doesn’t have a real edge, so discipline alone won’t fix it. Also, if your equity curve keeps round-tripping, that usually points to either no edge or sizing issues when things start going well.

Might be worth going back to basics and treating it like a research problem. Track every trade, review in batches, and be brutally honest about what’s actually working vs what just feels like it should work.

Also, real talk, it’s okay to consider that trading might not be the main path. Doesn’t mean you failed, just means you tested it longer than most people do.

consistency without a statistical edge just means consistent losses

You might be following your rules but it might be causing you to overtrade

Have you actually done any backtesting first of all? If you have and you still can't figure it out I would say its time to quit. 95% of traders will fail long term.

Only your stocks tell how good the trader you are. If you pick bad stocks than it's not gonna work. As risks are higher with bad stocks.

Have you tried selling options? Have you tried swing trading?

Show us your so called A+ setup

Sorry to hear you're struggling, I know how it feels! My advice is to start learning about coding and statistics. That was the turning point in becoming a profitable trader for me. Before that I spent years listening to gurus, chart-reading and backtesting by hand with absolutely zero success.

The biggest 'aha' moment for me was when I read 'Testing and tuning market trading systems' by Timothy Masters. It's a great source of information regarding methods for strategy development and evaluation. Personally I use techniques from that book in every backtest. If you're interested in this kind of objective, statistical approach, I made a [youtube video](https://youtu.be/4cHiXysSrcg?si=u9J8cqdCzcyUqYQp) about my backtesting setup and I share the code on github for free.

Not gonna lie, reviewing what you have is going to take a lot of work and you might not get an answer you want to hear. I have created many working strategies so I'm definitely the type of person you'd want to review what you have, but I charge $2000/hr. At this moment in time if you have no idea what's wrong you definitely need at least someone else that's good at strategy building or someone trading exactly like you but profitable to review your stuff.

Forward test a lot and redefine your strategy. Backtest it a lot until you find a flaw(not a losing trade but something that can break profitability). Redo this until you become confident. Start small and make sure your strategy doesn't get f ed up by slippage and spreads and taxes or any extra fees. Redo this again and again and scale up.

that 7-year grind despite the rules? blew accounts for 5 doing the exact same. platform's gold signals finally built the discipline i lacked, now tp hits stack without the bleed. what's your go-to setup?" pace moving. drop it.