One thing I’ve noticed after years of watching trading content online is how disconnected it is from actual trading.
Social media is full of clean narratives:
“Trade only New York session”
“Focus on London–NY overlap”
“Wait for the perfect setup every day”
It sounds professional, but it ignores a basic reality:
the market doesn’t hand out high-quality opportunities on a schedule.
Good trades are rare. Some days there are none. Some days there’s one move that matters, and it doesn’t care which session you prefer.
Restricting yourself to specific hours and expecting consistent account growth is more about creating content than trading reality.
Most of these rules exist because they’re easy to explain, easy to sell, and comforting to beginners. Real trading is messier, less repeatable, and far less cinematic.
Curious how others here see this.
Which popular trading “rules” do you think are more marketing than reality?
Popular trading rules? I do not think there are any real "rules".
Real trading is subjective to each trader and their technical and fundamental analysis skills and knowledge. A better trader than me is going to see things that I might miss and because of that, make bad trades. The better you are at TA/FA, the higher your profits in the long term.
The biggest mistake is taking the words of "trading experts" social media influencers and signal groups seriously.
