Stuck in a Trading Rut: Is There a Way to Break the Cycle?

[MarvieJ]

Man, I’ve been feeling like I’m just spinning my wheels lately with trading. Every time I think I’m making a solid move, something unexpected hits, and I end up covering losses instead of stacking wins. It’s getting to the point where I’m questioning if I should even keep going. Like, what’s the play here when you’re stuck in this cycle of two steps forward, three steps back?

It feels like I’m missing out on some strategy or opportunity that others seem to know about. I’m not looking for a magic fix or anything, but if there’s something that can at least help balance out the losses without feeling like I’m gambling every time, I’d jump on it. Maybe I’m overlooking something simple.

[Oshosondy]

Trading is very difficult to make money from despite that it is easy to learn. Learn from what makes you lose so that you can avoid it next time, and look for strategies that will make you make profit.

Try averaging and do not go more than 1x leverage. Which means if you have $200 for trading, you can begin the trading with $50 and average until it becomes $200 if the trading is not in your favour. If the trading is in your favour, no need to average but take profit.

Do not also trade with the money that you can not afford to lose.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Man, I’ve been feeling like I’m just spinning my wheels lately with trading. Every time I think I’m making a solid move, something unexpected hits, and I end up covering losses instead of stacking wins.

Trading is not holding and you must take profit when you see it. If profit is good and big enough, if you don't take it, it's stupid action.

You can not know what will happen next hours, tomorrow so you never should let your trading position opens and hope that good things will come with your position and money.

From profit to loss, is painful and you can use stop loss order, but lifting the cut loss price to your entry or higher than entry a little bit. This use of stop loss order, will help you to take a minor profit or get a draw even market moves unexpectedly.

[mirakal]

That was also my trading experience way back in my newbie days. Feels like you are not actually trading, but more likely gambling because you lose more than you're supposed to maximize your gains. But with thorough studies and experience trading in the market, believe me, you will come to manage and control your losses, thus creating more chances to gain and make profits.

Learn to analyze the crypto market well. If you want to have worthwhile trading experiences, then focus more on the market and learn to identity its trends and patterns, and its best entry and exit in the market. You will only be in profits if you know how to play the market well. Otherwise, trading without real skill and cool trading strategies will keep you in losses, until you end up quitting on your trades.

[nelson4lov]

Sorry about your experience. That is a process that everyone has to experience in their trading journey. It's inevitable — losses are part of the game. My only advice would be for you to have a trading journal if you don't have one already. And if you do, you should use it to guage your trade ideas, entry requirements and conviction before, during and after each trade so you can learn what works and what doesn't and what you should be improving or optimizing for.

[Zaguru12]

Man, I’ve been feeling like I’m just spinning my wheels lately with trading. Every time I think I’m making a solid move, something unexpected hits, and I end up covering losses instead of stacking wins. It’s getting to the point where I’m questioning if I should even keep going. Like, what’s the play here when you’re stuck in this cycle of two steps forward, three steps back?

It feels like I’m missing out on some strategy or opportunity that others seem to know about. I’m not looking for a magic fix or anything, but if there’s something that can at least help balance out the losses without feeling like I’m gambling every time, I’d jump on it. Maybe I’m overlooking something simple.

There is always this beginners period where you think you’re stuck in the same situation some weeks you’re in profit another week You’re giving  struggling and given back to the market again. I will tell you this, it is the basic steps for every trader to overcome. Some traders actually do not take long before discovering their trading strategy and stop the loss. What I will say is look at the trades that are going against you compare them with the winning trades and then see where your strategy problems is.

For now the best two things you should do is to actually apply more proper risk management, stick more to few pairs one thing that actually gets most newbies into losing their money is the fact that they trade plenty pairs and the thing is not all strategy works for same pair, that’s why many successful traders today are people who were backtesting many strategies before they use it on a particular pair and this to me will help you OP

[AVE5]

In trading you first of all need to balance your sentimental emotions because surely loosing would come but before then, you don't just rush into trading just because you've acquired some basic knowledge of it. No, trading is technical and you must have passed some terms understanding how the crypto market runs before venturing in.
I don't know your trading strategies but maybe I'd suggest you do advance research and figure your lapses so that you can always minimize your losts while you wins gradually.
At all, don't feel greedy on trading.

[Adbitco]

Man, I’ve been feeling like I’m just spinning my wheels lately with trading. Every time I think I’m making a solid move, something unexpected hits, and I end up covering losses instead of stacking wins. It’s getting to the point where I’m questioning if I should even keep going. Like, what’s the play here when you’re stuck in this cycle of two steps forward, three steps back?

It feels like I’m missing out on some strategy or opportunity that others seem to know about. I’m not looking for a magic fix or anything, but if there’s something that can at least help balance out the losses without feeling like I’m gambling every time, I’d jump on it. Maybe I’m overlooking something simple.

Did you undergo some courses before starting your trading journey?
Like do you have a mentor who brought to trading world or something, or how did you get to know about trading only this will help you because most times you need someone who already in the system to mentor you i mean, someone physically close to you there to mentor you to become successful while trading. As you can see trading isn't that easy thing to do and it requires a lot of patient to start with because you already had this mindset of becoming so wealthy through trading and you aren't that patient to learn the essential things about trading before going live and also, since you are incurring much lose i will advise you to go back to demo trading to practice more things before going live trading.

[JeffBrad12]

try to reevaluate some of you trading decision maybe you will find some enlightenment, find out what's causing your trade to go so well and what causes your trading to perform so poorly you lose anything you've accumulated.
but my advice would be, don't ego trade when you've won or maybe in winning streak, it will drain you of your profit and make you start from zero again. revenge trading also a bad thing too since you're more likely to have uncontrolled margin.

It's also nice to have some basic knowledge about how market work, prominently the technical indicator ones, so when you're about to make trade, you understand the risk.

[Catenaccio]

Did you undergo some courses before starting your trading journey?
Like do you have a mentor who brought to trading world or something, or how did you get to know about trading only this will help you because most times you need someone who already in the system to mentor you i mean, someone physically close to you there to mentor you to become successful while trading.

People can learn not only from paid courses but also from free courses and not all paid trading courses are good in quality.

From learning, newbies can continue with their practice in demo trading accounts, but there is big difference between demo trading and actual trading. When they use real money for trading, they will have more pressure, more emotion, more bad decisions by emotional and psychological effects.

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[Wexnident]

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Isn't that normal? Trading isn't going to be entirely a winning journey after all. And even experienced traders would still experience some bad hits every now and then. Maybe go back to your past trades and check on the metrics you used if you want to equal out the losses and check how they influenced the market. You can also try with some small amounts as well just to keep testing things out. Just always record them to keep a tab on what's happening in your trades. They're usually pretty helpful in checking what and how you're doing.

[michellee]

That is normal thing if you feel like that and you are not alone. Many people have the same thing like you but you should not give up with the situation. Trading is not as simple as you think so you need to learn more to have a good skills. If you can learn more about trading including learning about the analysis, you will find that you have a chance to enter to the market in the right time.

Maybe right now you are difficult to make a profit as you want. But believe me, if you still learn and train your skills, you will have that chance. To be a pro trader needs time so you must be patient while learning so you get the point of your lesson. If you are not familiar with future trading, you don't have to try but you should keep trying with spot trading to improve your skills and analysis. And do not forget to use the money you can afford and always use stop loss to reduce your losses not to become bigger.

[Franctoshi]

Man, I’ve been feeling like I’m just spinning my wheels lately with trading. Every time I think I’m making a solid move, something unexpected hits, and I end up covering losses instead of stacking wins. It’s getting to the point where I’m questioning if I should even keep going. Like, what’s the play here when you’re stuck in this cycle of two steps forward, three steps back?

It feels like I’m missing out on some strategy or opportunity that others seem to know about. I’m not looking for a magic fix or anything, but if there’s something that can at least help balance out the losses without feeling like I’m gambling every time, I’d jump on it. Maybe I’m overlooking something simple.

There is always a time in a traders journey where a trader would experience what you are currently facing trading, getting confused if you actually gonna succeed or continue, and this is where most traders quit and call trading a scam.
To be successful you have to obey sever rules no matter what strategy you have

Do you have trading journals if I may ask?

Taking down your trading activities both the bad days and good days is important,  When you hit a loss, ensure you take note of the time and revisit that particular once analysis, I bet you 90% of the time you would find out you were wrong, whereas the remaining could be base on market manipulation.

Don't base your market analysis only on the smaller time frame, Do a top down market analysis, from Monthly, weekly and daily to map out your direction and support and resistance zones, when the price gets into these zones, go to 1M, 5M time frame, wait and watch the reaction in the price, to see if you would find any of the reversal patterns, H&S, W&M patterns with a volatile movement and break of structure in the opposite direction of the initial trend, and wait for the price to come into that zone once again, if these terms are met, you have found a potential valid support or resistance to execute your trades.

[jaberwock]

That is normal thing if you feel like that and you are not alone. Many people have the same thing like you but you should not give up with the situation. Trading is not as simple as you think so you need to learn more to have a good skills. If you can learn more about trading including learning about the analysis, you will find that you have a chance to enter to the market in the right time.

Maybe right now you are difficult to make a profit as you want. But believe me, if you still learn and train your skills, you will have that chance. To be a pro trader needs time so you must be patient while learning so you get the point of your lesson. If you are not familiar with future trading, you don't have to try but you should keep trying with spot trading to improve your skills and analysis. And do not forget to use the money you can afford and always use stop loss to reduce your losses not to become bigger.

Right! In each thing that we do, we can always came across a time like we feel that we are stuck. It can only be temporary though and we will only need to do something to get out of the boredom. There must also be a solution if we think the problem is taking forever to get removed. One of it is of course by breaking the cycle or by changing the activity. Being stuck means we are not new on it anymore.

This is what you and others say that we need to keep on learning more even if we think we already learned a lot. This ensures us to continue the momentum. It is like having a backup on hand. If we aren't familiar with something or futures trading for instance, it doesn't mean that we will now avoid it because how can we be familiar with them anyway? But there is only no need of rushing if the first or early stage is not yet mastered.

[Dewi Aries]

If you want to get out of the cycle then don't make trading like gambling, I understand the situation you are experiencing which is clearly very boring when you take two steps forward but take three steps back, and from the situation you are experiencing it seems I can say that it seems you are trading without implementing a plan, or maybe you don't learn everything that makes you experience more losses.

So the first thing you need to do is find and learn where the mistakes are that make you experience losses, and after that improve your risk management, try to keep using low leverage even though you see opportunities that seem profitable, and after that learn various new strategies that you can find from experienced traders who usually share some of their strategies or you can also create your own strategy by continuing to try to pay attention to market habits.

[Potato Chips]

Sorry that happened to you but perhaps you can consider elaborating the said scenarios in detail.

I think people could help you more that way-- provide a different perspective and share specific insights. After all, looking back and spotting what went wrong is how we learn.

[Text]

I feel you. One thing I’ve learned from my own trading struggles is to take a step back and re-evaluate the approach. Are you sticking too rigidly to one strategy? Sometimes switching it up, even in small ways, can help you see things differently.

Another thing that’s helped me is focusing on risk management. It’s easy to get caught up in trying to recover losses, but making sure you’re not over-leveraging and staying disciplined can prevent those major setbacks. It might help you break the cycle without feeling like you’re just gambling every time.

At the end of the day, it’s all about keeping a level head, learning from mistakes, and being patient with the process.

[GreatArkansas]

Did you undergo some courses before starting your trading journey?
Like do you have a mentor who brought to trading world or something, or how did you get to know about trading only this will help you because most times you need someone who already in the system to mentor you i mean, someone physically close to you there to mentor you to become successful while trading.

People can learn not only from paid courses but also from free courses and not all paid trading courses are good in quality.

From learning, newbies can continue with their practice in demo trading accounts, but there is big difference between demo trading and actual trading. When they use real money for trading, they will have more pressure, more emotion, more bad decisions by emotional and psychological effects.

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Thanks for quoting my topic One of best weapons in trading.
I agree with you that everything can be free now, everything is already available online, there are a lot of free resources that you can use, videos, e-books, articles, podcasts,e tc.

The only challenging part is how you will apply it and how you master it. Trading is extremely difficult especially there is already emotion involve and your hard earned money already.

[shinratensei_]

Honestly, trading is essentially that, sometime you go 2 step forward and 1 step back, sometime you go 1 step forward and 10 step back, it's wild west .
even the most expert trader I know are also like this just going back and forth, because trading market is so full of manipulation sometime we can lost track.

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Isn't that normal? Trading isn't going to be entirely a winning journey after all. And even experienced traders would still experience some bad hits every now and then. Maybe go back to your past trades and check on the metrics you used if you want to equal out the losses and check how they influenced the market. You can also try with some small amounts as well just to keep testing things out. Just always record them to keep a tab on what's happening in your trades. They're usually pretty helpful in checking what and how you're doing.

yeah that's the thing with trading, since market is unpredictable nobody could really predict what's gonna happen except some speculation but in essence, we don't know, so going forth and back is pretty normal, as long as we still score some profit, it's still going great. only things becoming problematic if we have tried trading and the lose is greater than the profit, then we are only giving money to market because we're not cut for it.

[michellee]

Right! In each thing that we do, we can always came across a time like we feel that we are stuck. It can only be temporary though and we will only need to do something to get out of the boredom. There must also be a solution if we think the problem is taking forever to get removed. One of it is of course by breaking the cycle or by changing the activity. Being stuck means we are not new on it anymore.

This is what you and others say that we need to keep on learning more even if we think we already learned a lot. This ensures us to continue the momentum. It is like having a backup on hand. If we aren't familiar with something or futures trading for instance, it doesn't mean that we will now avoid it because how can we be familiar with them anyway? But there is only no need of rushing if the first or early stage is not yet mastered.

The other suggestion is when he feels stuck in trading, he needs to break from trading for a while. He can do many things to rest his minds but he can come back to market when he feels his minds already refresh. That will help him to understand the lesson and analyze the market better so his chance to find the time to enter to the market will be there.

We must learning more because there is no stopping time for learning something especially if that is about trading. The market will always moves no matter you are ready or not or will not waiting for you. You need to adapt with the market situation so with take a break, you can see the time to trade. You determine when you can trading and follow the market moving so you can adapt with better without any problem.