Do you consider breaking even over several months a success?

If you trade for several months, and don't lose any money, is it a good thing to you?

For me, it is, because I have preserved capital in spite of risk.

its a success because this is a difficult business. It's not a HUGE
success, but its definitely the first step.

It would depend on "why" you are breaking even to determine if it was a success or not. How much time you are spending to break even, may start to raise questions about opportunity costs - unless you are doing trading as recreation.

Taken in isolation, it's not really a success. But if the other seven months of the year were profitable with your methodology, and you traded the break even period to the letter of your plan, then i guess you would consider it to be a success.

Well, seeing that we have no real edge in trading because we have no insider information of what the CBs will do, breaking even is very much a success.

The only edge we MIGHT have is news trading, which is not realistic for many of us.

So....... we trade with stupid TA because that's all we can do..... and it just doesn't work a lot of the time. Therefore, drawdowns are inevitable.

I'd love to see some live statements from the self-proclaimed expert traders that claim profits are expected every single quarter.

If you're trading to breakeven, you're wasting your time.

Time = money, so no it's not a success and quite frankly unacceptable IMO.

I think everyone should figure out how much their time is worth before taking on any task that requires a substantial amount of time with the objective of earning money.