Have you taken more than 400 trades?

Are you still positive (in the same account) after taking more than 400 trades in the spot forex market?

Then probably you have sound control over your emotions.

If yes, please join this club. Lets see if the myth of 95% losers in the market is true or not.

I have taken more then 5000 trades. In a year Learning curve going up fast when you are scalping

Excellent

I've never had the persistence and willpower to make 400+ trades using the same criteria to get a good sample size.

That's probably something I should work on.

learning curve or losing curve?

The vouch system back in the day used to be 1K vouches meaning you vouch for people who you know to have taken over 1000 live trades.

This was a better mindset IMO for people in giving out vouches.

It counts for a lot even if you are a losing trader to have been through he process of many many live trades with the emotion and ego attached.... Feed the right wolf.

You live you learn... you trade.. you learn to trade...

Combine this with some market understanding and you have yourself a profitable edge. How profitable is this edge? As profitable as your understanding of the market.

Psychology
Edge
Money management

Train your wolves. The rest will take care of itself if you are enough desired.

I have taken easily over 400 live trades.... Yes I have survived yes I can profit. However this is not enough as I am kind of under capitalized, so some same issues repeat themselves over and over again. Reward for effort is the biggest psychological effort to overcome IMO/Reward for risk is focused upon by investors but for small retail traders usually trying to escape the rat race... reward for effort is the strongest psychological barrier to overcome.

Those taking on trading as a hobby or just some extra income don't need to deal with this hurdle.but the ones who truly see themselves as a potentially full time trader making the big bucks. This is a massive barrier to overcome.

The problem is that these people usually pertain enough talent to do what they wish. the only problem is the clock ticks against them in regards to the early stages of the equity curve, when they could be out in the real world making 2 times as much on minimum wage.

In the meantime you have friends and family quietly whispering that you are dreaming and that if you are for real then where is the money?

Blah... Capitalization is key... Knowledge is key... Experience is key. To have all these things you are pretty good. Usually a trader is missing one or the other and therefore meets his/her doom...

My opinion

hope one can see where i got it

Why are 400 trades a good gauge? Just wondering why that number.

I hope that one day I will get closer to this number

I have taken much much more than 400

I have taken more than 2500 trades since 2007, still losing but I have survived.

Now that's some sh*t