Nice clean trade!

Today's test is on gold. Very cool! Thanks Master! I'm still learning, but the system is awesome.

Spazmus wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 8:42 pm Today's test is on gold. Very cool! Thanks, Master! I'm still learning, but the system is awesome.

Love the MT5 colours...

I asked GROK a simple question today:

Grok, highlight the mental challenges and myriad human emotions that traders experience and prevent them from sticking to a small but reasonable compounding interest rate of 1% per day for their trading. Why is it so difficult to adhere to this?

Traders almost universally fail to stick to a disciplined 1% per day compounding plan (which would turn $10,000 into over $40 million in one year), not because the math is hard, but because the human brain is catastrophically bad at handling the emotional rollercoaster that comes with it. Here are the main psychological barriers that destroy even experienced traders:

1.**Greed & The "Just One More Trade" Syndrome**
- After a few winning days, the account is up 5–10%. The brain screams: “If 1% is good, 3–5% must be amazing!”
- Traders increase position size or take “slightly better” setups → one oversized loss wipes out a week or two of gains.
- The emotional high from a 5% day is chemically addictive; 1% feels boring and unsatisfying.

2. **Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)**
- Markets often trend strongly. When everyone on Twitter/X is bragging about 10–20% days, sitting on 1% feels like losing.
- The trader abandons the plan and chases momentum, usually right before a sharp reversal.

3. **Loss Aversion & Revenge Trading**
- Behavioural finance shows losses hurt ~2.25× more than equivalent gains feel good (Prospect Theory).
- A single -3% day after ten +1% days feels like the entire strategy is broken.
- The trader either doubles down to “get it back quickly” or abandons the system entirely.

4. **Ego & Need for Stimulation**
- Professional traders often have high-sensation-seeking personalities.
- Taking 15–30 calm, boring 1% trades per month is psychologically excruciating for many.
- The brain craves drama: big wins, big losses, and storytelling (“I made 40% shorting the crash!”).

5. **Drawdowns Feel Catastrophic Even When They’re Normal**
- A realistic 1%-per-day strategy still has:
- 6–10 consecutive losing days multiple times per year
- 15–25% equity drawdowns several times per year
- Seeing the account drop 20% triggers primal fight-or-flight panic, even though it’s mathematically expected and recoverable with compounding.

6. **Overconfidence After Winning Streaks**
- 10 green days in a row → the trader feels invincible.
- “The system is too conservative, I’m better than 1%.”
- Position size creeps up → one inevitable bad trade destroys a month of progress.

7. **The Asymmetry of Compounding Pain**
- To recover from a 50% loss, you need a 100% gain.
- Most traders experience one 30–50% blowup per year because they refuse to take the small 1% loss and let it turn into a 20% loss.

8. **Social & Self-Image Pressure**
- Nobody posts on X: “Another boring +1.1% day, 187 trading days in a row.”
- People post Lamborghini photos and “+87% this month” screenshots.
- Sticking to 1% per day feels like being the only sober person at a party.

Real-World Evidence
- Retail trader statistics: ~70–80% lose money long term.
- Even professional prop firm traders who are given a 10–20% monthly drawdown limit routinely bust accounts chasing higher returns.
- The tiny minority who achieve consistent 0.5–2% per day (e.g., some successful discretionary traders and systematic funds) are almost all extremely boring, process-obsessed, journal-keeping, risk-obsessed introverts—or fully automated systems with zero emotional input.

Bottom Line
1% per day is mathematically easy, but psychologically almost impossible for 99.9% of human traders. The strategy doesn’t fail because of bad entries or indicators—it fails because the human emotional system is wired for stone-age survival, is dropped into an environment of unlimited leverage and 24/7 dopamine triggers. The few who succeed either:
Remove emotion completely (algorithmic trading), or
Develop near-monk-like discipline over many painful years of blown accounts.

Most people would rather roll the dice for a shot at getting rich tomorrow than guarantee getting rich (slowly) in 3–4 years.

This single sentence explains almost every blown trading account in history.

Million account...you just don`t get 1:100 leverage, at least not from serious broker, so 1% plan failed. But anyways, thanks Beatles, it is psychology.

1% per day is mathematically easy, but psychologically almost impossible for 99.9% of human traders. The strategy doesn’t fail because of bad entries or indicators—it fails because the human emotional system is wired for stone-age survival, is dropped into an environment of unlimited leverage and 24/7 dopamine triggers. The few who succeed either:
Remove emotion completely (algorithmic trading), or
Develop near-monk-like discipline over many painful years of blown accounts.

Be like a water. Bruce Lee....NO be like a machine, no emotions.
Trading is boring -Soros-

ROI wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 10:35 pm Million account...you just don`t get 1:100 leverage, at least not from serious broker, so 1% plan failed. But anyways, thanks Beatles, it is psychology.

1% per day is mathematically easy, but psychologically almost impossible for 99.9% of human traders. The strategy doesn’t fail because of bad entries or indicators—it fails because the human emotional system is wired for stone-age survival, is dropped into an environment of unlimited leverage and 24/7 dopamine triggers. The few who succeed either:
Remove emotion completely (algorithmic trading), or
Develop near-monk-like discipline over many painful years of blown accounts.

Be like a water. Bruce Lee....NO be like a machine, no emotions.
Trading is boring -Soros-

You spread that 1% over various accounts. You do not need to have it all in/from one account. So, 0.25% from 4 different accounts...

Yesterday i taked one of my best trade (+140pips) with this incredible system, looking for "CSW setup" in D1 then executed in H1.

BeatlemaniaSA wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:56 pm I asked GROK a simple question today:

Grok, highlight the mental challenges and myriad human emotions that traders experience and prevent them from sticking to a small but reasonable compounding interest rate of 1% per day for their trading. Why is it so difficult to adhere to this?

Traders almost universally fail to stick to a disciplined 1% per day compounding plan (which would turn $10,000 into over $40 million in one year), not because the math is hard, but because the human brain is catastrophically bad at handling the emotional rollercoaster that comes with it. Here are the main psychological barriers that destroy even experienced traders:

How do you do for going from 10000$ to 40 million in 1 year ? If my calculs are correct, with compound, I"m obtain 380000$ ?

remcous wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 1:13 am How do you do for going from 10000$ to 40 million in 1 year ? If my calculs are correct, with compound, I"m obtain 380000$ ?

I think GROK had one too many already by the time I asked the question...

Nabs wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 11:12 pm Yesterday i taked one of my best trade (+140pips) with this incredible system, looking for "CSW setup" in D1 then executed in H1.

Hello traders! I'd like to know the approach for using higher timeframes and finding entry points with a lower timeframe, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it with this system.