A reason you should be careful comparing your trades.

[nara1892]

Every trader has their own strengths and weaknesses in each strategy, so you can never compare yourself to others, especially professionals. Even if your strategy is the same as someone else's, they usually have different ways of operating it, and these differences can often increase or decrease your chances of making a profit.

This is why you sometimes still experience losses even though you're using the same strategy that often generates profits for others.
In my opinion, the key is to learn everything yourself, identify the weaknesses and strengths of your strategy until you truly understand how to operate it properly. As the saying goes, "a move practiced a thousand times is far more deadly than a thousand moves practiced once."

[Japinat]

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Are you feeling stuck in trading due to your strategy? The person you are thinking their strategy is working, may have a strategy that is not sustainable. While it is important to be able to unlearn and learn something you should be able to understand also sometimes that your strategy is not working because you have not gone deep enough in the mastery of it.

I think this is the common mistakes of traders who are just starting. Just like after a few trades, and those few trades started to lose, then some of them can't accept the fact that there is really something wrong with what they are doing, and some of them can't adapt to change.
There's a lot of room for imporovement in trading.

Beginner traders just want to gain quick profits from trading that’s why they want their trading strategies to work instantly, without realizing the fact that any strategy should also be given enough time to make it more developed and become productive in your trades. It shouldn’t be forced, but it should be enhanced and improved instead.

And just like what everyone is saying, there’s always room for improvement. If it’s not working today, maybe the exposure isn’t just enough.

[TheUltraElite]

Comparing our results with others is not a wise move, because everyone goes through a different process and also needs a different time to reach success.
As long as we are sure that the strategy we are using is right, then do it by continuing to evaluate because there may be other strategies that are better for us to generate profits in trading.

The only method I can see is buying low and selling high. Does any other method even makes sense?

Whatever strategy and all people keep saying, as long as spot trading is concerned, this is the final word.

No method is going to get you rich in a quick period. Trading depends a lot on your patience and your points of entry and exit. If you mess these up you will have told those positions for quite some time before you can break even.

[michellee]

If you compare your trading and see your friend's success in trading, you may not be confident and you may stop trading. If both of you are learning about trading, that will help you to understand the lesson better. That is because one of you will try to explain more details and vice versa.

However, if you and your friend compete to achieve your goals, that may work because you want to develop high skills in trading by learn more. Although you learn together with your friend, you will have your own secret to win from him.

We can compare our trading but we need to learn by ourselves. We don't want to rely on others to decide because when we see his strategy, we may want to copy it to see the result. That is okay if your friend explains the details. But if not, you may confuse and lose.

[SuperBitMan]

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Are you feeling stuck in trading due to your strategy? The person you are thinking their strategy is working, may have a strategy that is not sustainable. While it is important to be able to unlearn and learn something you should be able to understand also sometimes that your strategy is not working because you have not gone deep enough in the mastery of it.

I am still stuck in the trading platform due to some of my wrong strategies in the trading platform. Actually, there is nothing right in every person, a person has to learn everything in different ways. When someone learns everything slowly from his own experience, later he can become a good expert. When I first joined the trading platform, I was not very experienced in trading and I did not have much experience in all the strategies that the trading platform had, due to which I participated in trading based on assumptions, as a result, later I had to suffer losses because of assumptions, the trading platform has not yet allowed me to recover that loss, so I want to say that some strategies must be adopted in the trading platform, all the strategies can bring success in the trading platform.

I believe if you went for a trading class you won't be trading through assumption maybe it was because you learnt it on your own that was why you were trading with assumption, well just like you said the more you trade the more knowledgeable you become in that aspect trading is not that easy I have a friend when he started trading he was losing a lot of money but that did not make him stop trading because he's teacher told him the only way he can become perfect is by learning some strategies on his own and when he's losing he should not stop he should continue so he did exactly what his teacher told him and right now he's gaining more than his losing.
Since you have already started gaining in trading surely you will recover all you have lost but don't put your mind in trying to recover all you have lost forget about your loss and focus in the future of your winning.

[lizarder]

Are you feeling stuck in trading due to your strategy? The person you are thinking their strategy is working, may have a strategy that is not sustainable. While it is important to be able to unlearn and learn something you should be able to understand also sometimes that your strategy is not working because you have not gone deep enough in the mastery of it.  

I once quit trading because I couldn't control myself and struggled to engage with discipline. The various methods I tried didn't work for me personally, which meant I was stuck. After a few months, I began to realize that the fault wasn't in the method itself, but rather in my own lack of understanding of the method. This is a common problem for traders because trading methods are based on certain concepts, but they aren't able to learn them properly.

This crucial aspect needs to be improved, even though we know that trading isn't always profitable, as we will experience losses. However, it's not normal for someone involved in trading to always experience losses, so it's important to analyze the mistakes made so they can be corrected.

[justdimin]

I believe if you went for a trading class you won't be trading through assumption maybe it was because you learnt it on your own that was why you were trading with assumption, well just like you said the more you trade the more knowledgeable you become in that aspect trading is not that easy I have a friend when he started trading he was losing a lot of money but that did not make him stop trading because he's teacher told him the only way he can become perfect is by learning some strategies on his own and when he's losing he should not stop he should continue so he did exactly what his teacher told him and right now he's gaining more than his losing.
Since you have already started gaining in trading surely you will recover all you have lost but don't put your mind in trying to recover all you have lost forget about your loss and focus in the future of your winning.

Yeah, learning how to trade means a lot and you should be learning how to do that as well as you can. It's not an easy task, but someone teaching you would result with better results. It's not something that can be done overnight, it takes months to be great at it, and then after studying is done you have to realize that you should be making some good returns with what you have later on as well.

So you need to gain experience after you study, because just study isn't enough and if you gain some experience with some small amounts as well, then you can do better job. This isn't easy but it can be done and many people are doing that, so you should look at that possibility. Learning, and then experience, much better duo.

[JeffBrad12]

Doubt is good actually, it lets you see the bigger picture. When I opened a position and doubt my own strategy, I will put more effort into seeing the chart, then I figured out that my position have high risk of being liquidated and then I cancel it.

From what I know is that there's no foolproof strategy just use whatever works. I personally always do test and trial.

[Peanutswar]

For me its ideal to deal with different traders because of the knowledge and the perks of it, imagine there are a circle of traders do you have that are willing to exchange an idea with you if its free its good because you are willing to share with yours too just a courtesy with the help they given into you, but of course make sure to test it out if its applicable with your trading habit and at the same time trading strategy to make sure it will become an efficient to use so if not try into different approach or make some modification on it, if it works fine in you good because you learn new things to trade. But again we have different trading paths  sometimes they gain sometimes you lose now its your risk management and control with your trades.

[harapan]

Absolutely the journey of trading is not an easy one and just as learning never ends you learn each day different measures as well as strategies that you'll be profitable with, but along the line you may be tempted to look down on your efforts and it may seem like you ain't doing a great job and it's due to seeing the next person's growth ad success whereas everyone is not on the same pages and at such they grow on different pace therefore the reasons of comparison of one's trade should be cut out.

[nara1892]

In my opinion, every trader has their own way of trading, even if the strategy is the same, they usually have several different ways of executing it and this is the reason why a strategy that works for others turns out to be different for us, I understand this after I went through the process of 8 months of learning and also trying to copy other people's strategies, that means for me comparing our strategies or trading methods with other traders is useless, unless the goal tends to lead to risk management such as limits, now I prefer to learn autodidactically and create my own strategies from the results of learning.

[TheUltraElite]

I once quit trading because I couldn't control myself and struggled to engage with discipline. The various methods I tried didn't work for me personally, which meant I was stuck. After a few months, I began to realize that the fault wasn't in the method itself, but rather in my own lack of understanding of the method. This is a common problem for traders because trading methods are based on certain concepts, but they aren't able to learn them properly.

Discipline is important I agree, but sticking to the buy low sell high method is also important. Be disciplined in that and you should be able to make a good amount of money from each up-down cycle. There is very little to understand in buy low sell high method, rather what it is difficult is the ability to continue holding that low position till that high is reached and also buying multiple low positions when the market is crashing.

This crucial aspect needs to be improved, even though we know that trading isn't always profitable, as we will experience losses. However, it's not normal for someone involved in trading to always experience losses, so it's important to analyze the mistakes made so they can be corrected.

The experience in trading does help teach a naive person a thing or two about the market and how to make money from it. The average joe will leave trading but a mature joe might use the experience to come back a better trader.

[LogitechMouse]

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But during the learning process one major thing that you should know is to be careful comparing your trades, that is comparing your trades with someone who is already successful in trading or even comparing your trades amongst yourself. While it may sound like a good thing to do, the danger is that even if you are doing the work to learn, it can build up a lot of doubts about your strategy and your learning pattern, you may begin to think that because you are not seeing results currently, the strategy line that you're learning is not functional when in fact it is.

Are you feeling stuck in trading due to your strategy? The person you are thinking their strategy is working, may have a strategy that is not sustainable. While it is important to be able to unlearn and learn something you should be able to understand also sometimes that your strategy is not working because you have not gone deep enough in the mastery of it.

"Trust the strategy." That's what I want to say.
If you believe that the strategy you're using works, it will work. You just need to constantly use it, and be better at that it.

I've seen people posting their successful trades on social media platforms, and there are also a few that are sharing their own trading strategy to their followers. I've seen them, but I'm not the type of trader where if I saw that my strategy doesn't work on my way, I will find another one immediately. I always say to myself "They found a strategy that works for them so I need to find mine as well." I know that it will take time for a trader to be profitable in trading. Those who are successful in trading right now took them years to learn the strategy that gave them thousands of dollars in profit.

Have a specific time frame of let's say 1-2 months. Use a strategy during that time frame then put it in a journal where you will put your trades using that particular strategy that you're using there. As for me, I'm currently using trendline trading strategy plus some indicators, and I can say that it's working for me.

[Futurexxx]

As long as it has advantage, it will also have disadvantages but I don't expect the disadvantage to be bad in terms of comparing each other's trade because these two people can be practicing and learning just exactly the same strategy but one of them can be doing better than the other and if that is the case, it will be obvious among them that one person will have more winning trades than the other. So, there's room to learn and compare your trade to the person that seems to know more than you. Group learning can be very helpful but has  other disadvantages like misunderstanding, trust problems.

Their is a saying that "we all look, but we see differently" . By comparing trades, most folks might sees opportunities to learn more and re-adjust, which will eventually makes the said person to be better, but some people will only see troubles instead of lessons, so I think that it's more of our mindset and how we sees things that defines our decision making while trading.
Advantage and disadvantages normally works hand in hand, because their is nothing that has advantage that doesn't have a disadvantage, but that shouldn't be a reason why you shouldn't be learning while doing comparison, so i think that doing comparison is a healthy practice that is more likely to improve your trading skills than setting you backward.

[Questat]

Comparing yourself to others is inevitable, most especially if you are still in the learning process. That’s actually normal, you set your own model and as much as possible become as pro as he is.

However, what isn’t normal is when you expect to be as profitable and successful like those early traders. You don’t know how much they have suffered at first and how far they have gone through before they become successful in trading.

Instead, stick to yourself and watch yourself as you develop and harness your skills and strategies in trading. Different traders have different trading outcomes, but do your best and develop your own identity in the trading industry.

[Emitdama]

Comparing our trades might not work but copy trading will work a couple of times. We can not just rely on someone else with our open positions. They have totally different point of view whereas we are stuck and piling up losses. But also, to be honest not everyone showcases their trades so how can you be sure that the person you are comparing to has genuine trades open and not just a blindfolded screenshot?

In copy trading, we leave our trades with one of the seasoned trader and he/she takes care of the trade until closure. That keeps us away from mental pressure. All we have to do is keep a watch and do nothing. I don't really think comparing our trades to others will work until and unless you really know that individual personally and can check the trades directly in their phone/computer.

[Franctoshi]

Your strategy may work for you and not work for another person, because of your personality, if your personality didn't match your strategy it becomes a problem for it to work for you properly, because my strategy may require a patient trader, or disciplined trader,  or someone who is not emotional about your decisions, where you lacks this quality my strategy will never work for you,  develop a strategy around you that work for you.

[o48o]

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If there are two traders who are on the journey of learning to trade, it has its pros and cons, and some of the pros of it is that you both keep yourself motivated through the learning journey such that one person is not discouraged from how difficult the process is from knowing nothing about trading to becoming a profitable trader.

But during the learning process one major thing that you should know is to be careful comparing your trades, that is comparing your trades with someone who is already successful in trading or even comparing your trades amongst yourself. While it may sound like a good thing to do, the danger is that even if you are doing the work to learn, it can build up a lot of doubts about your strategy and your learning pattern, you may begin to think that because you are not seeing results currently, the strategy line that you're learning is not functional when in fact it is.

Are you feeling stuck in trading due to your strategy? The person you are thinking their strategy is working, may have a strategy that is not sustainable. While it is important to be able to unlearn and learn something you should be able to understand also sometimes that your strategy is not working because you have not gone deep enough in the mastery of it.

I don't even understand that concept.

Are you talking about bragging on some skills to your friends or in tradingview? Because other then that, what's the reason for it?

You are most likely making money for yourself, so why would it matter if others made more or less. You are doing your best anyway. Hell, in trading you can make more in one week then in whole rest of the year anyway, so what that says about your "skills"?

Only reason i can imagine other then flexing in tradingview would be if you are selling some kind of trading service where you would need to compare profits against other investing companies.

[Churchillvv]

The fact remains that newbies or people compare themselves is not really bad but comparing your one step to some who has become successful in trading will only land you in trouble because you don’t know the struggle behind successful trades that they flex, one thing is experience and luck plays hand in hand so if you have a strategy try them out and explore others to know which will be good and best for you.

[Sanitough]

We all have different talents and skills, and different time zone. Some just learn early trading, and makes profits earlier as well. While those who are still new and still starting to learn, although comparing is quite unavoidable, but having known that everyone has unique traits and skills, then we should not tolerate ourselves to keep comparing with other traders.

For me, it isn’t a good motivation, it will only develop envy and insecurity instead. Try to trade on your own pace, and ignore all those distractions, and let others trade freely on their own as well without no competition at all. Trading is a game of skill, the more you learn trading mastery, the more profitable you will be in the future.