It’s time to restart and get my feet wet again - I’ve taken a long time off the market. Few months. For a reason. Not just because I was running out of capital, but the more I tried the more I was losing my mind and in the end I realized many things about my own self and why I haven’t been able to see consistent profitability.

• Stop rushing the process - Excitement creates rush - rush is not sustainable in the trading world - we need to take it one step at a time.
• Do not feel like you’re behind everyone else - it is true, everyone is on their own journey and you should only worry about your own. Make proper decisions that align with YOU.
• I have to understand my trading - I need to set strategy and rules in place to follow during the time I spend in the market - without strategy and rules, we’re just purely gambling.
• Trading isn’t just about money - It’s aligned perfectly with your growth as a human being - You will only level up within your trading if you also level up in every other aspect of life - discipline, maturity, etc. - You make smart decisions in life = You will make smart decisions on the chart.
• Start small - if you lack data to back up that your strategy is profitable and also if you lack the trust in yourself to follow your own rules, you should NOT invest into multiple funded accounts. - Only one at a time until you start to see progress within yourself.

The current plan to get back in the game is not to just jump back into prop firm trading. I have to take it one small step at a time. Currently, it’s December - from my knowledge, December tends to be a really slow month in the market - therefore, I think it’s a perfect time for me to back-test the last couple months and to also work on my strategy. What “work on it” means is understanding it. Understanding win-rates, chances, and all possible confluences, entries, etc. How do I trade, and how can I perfect it to be more precise and to only get better moving forward.

So, step number 1 - Back-test previous days, weeks, months when the market is closed, but if I have a chance to trade during market hours, I will only trade a paper account. This process I need to work on consistently for around 2-3 weeks. Then I will revisit with myself to see all the information I’ve collected, data from back-testing, and data from trading on the paper-account. The point of the paper account is to get back into the zone where those trading emotions appear - I have not experienced them for a while, so right now it feels like it’s gonna be a piece of cake. But I know that when real money is on the line, you treat it differently. Who knows though. Maybe my psychology has improved, it certainly feels that way. We will have to see our data at the end of this process.

Step number 2 is gonna be starting out with one cheap funded account - not paying attention to firm’s rules, not paying attention to how quickly I can get a payout - the idea is to just get a funded account and trade on it the way I’m supposed to and to follow my system.

This is the plan of action for now, as we move forward, we will keep working on this and keep improving. For now, it’s the baby steps. I currently have a small flow of income, so I don’t have to worry too much about money. We are in a very fortunate position, so much better comparing to the last few months. It’s time to take things seriously and commit completely to what I’ve always dreamed of. Remember why you started.

Step no. 1

Collecting Data - Back-testing

Collecting Data - Paper Trading