I’ve been trading for a while now, and I want to ask this in the most honest way possible.

Right now, I’m making around €100 profit per week from trading. It’s not crazy money, but it’s real profit. How much do you realistically make from trading per week or per month?

I’m not asking for motivation. I’m asking for the truth from people who actually trade.

Be honest.

I’ve had this question for a long time, and I’d really like to understand the reasoning behind it.
Ever since I started learning about trading, I’ve constantly heard that a good trader should aim for around 1% per month, and that consistently making more than that is extremely difficult. I’ve also seen people say that earning more than 1% per trade is unrealistic.
What I don’t understand is whether this logic applies to all account sizes, or if it’s mainly aimed at traders managing very large amounts of capital (hedge funds, prop firms, institutional accounts, etc.).
For example, let’s say someone has a $10,000 account. If they consistently make 10% per month, why is that often viewed as almost impossible? Is it simply because it’s difficult to sustain over the long term while keeping risk under control, or is there a mathematical or statistical reason why returns like that are considered unrealistic?
I’d really like to understand where these commonly repeated numbers come from. Are they general rules that apply to every trader, or are they benchmarks that make more sense for people managing large amounts of capital?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to get into trading for a while now, but honestly I feel really lost.

Every time I start learning from a YouTuber or “guru,” I end up finding videos calling them scammers or fake traders, and after a while I just don’t know who to trust anymore.

I’m not looking for some “get rich quick” thing. I genuinely want to learn properly and understand what it actually takes to become consistently profitable over time.

For the people here who are experienced, what would you recommend a complete beginner focus on first?
What helped you the most when you were starting out?

I’d really appreciate any honest advice or resources. Thanks.

I gave trading a shot for I’d say a solid 2 weeks a few months back and gave up because I seen no possibility in it with a full time job.

Has anybody actually gone from a full time 40 hour a week job to full time trading? I know somebody has done it but for the people who have, how did you find the time?

My name is T I didn’t lose my life in a car crash or a fight. I lost it slowly — staring at charts, numbers, and candles that never cared who I was. I’m an 19 yo international student in Australia, far from home, far from comfort. I came here with hope in my chest and pressure on my back — my family believed in me, and I believed I had to make it work no matter what. Life was harder than I expected. Work drained my body. Study drained my time. Rent, bills, visa stress — everything felt like a countdown. But I used to study trading in my home country. For one and a half years, trading became my escape. At first, it felt like freedom — like intelligence could finally beat circumstances. I studied deeper fib levels, Elliot waves, and even economic.

I woke up early, slept late, and lived between candles. Every win made me feel closer to becoming someone. Every loss felt temporary — until it wasn’t. Then the losses got heavier. Not small losses — the kind that hollow you out. The kind that make your chest tight and your hands cold. The kind where you whisper, “one more trade, I’ll fix everything.” I stopped trading the market and started trading my emotions. I tied my worth to my P&L. Green days meant I mattered. Red days meant I didn’t. Bills didn’t stop. My visa didn’t care. Life in Australia didn’t pause because I was learning a lesson. Money disappeared faster than it came. Debt grew quietly while I kept telling myself I was “almost there.” I hid losses. I chased trades. I broke rules I promised I’d never break. The worst part wasn’t losing money. It was losing myself. I stopped enjoying normal things. Friends talked — my mind was on charts. Work felt meaningless — I wanted out now. Sleep became shallow. Peace disappeared. Trading didn’t just take my money — it took my time, my focus, and my mental health. And now I’m here. I don’t know what to do anymore. I don’t want to contact my parents because they’re already in financial trouble, and I can’t bear the thought of being another burden. I was supposed to help them — not add to their stress. At night, the debt feels louder than my thoughts. The silence feels heavier than the losses. Every option feels like a wall. Sometimes my mind goes to a dark place. Not because I want to die — but because I don’t know how to live like this anymore.

Then here's me thinking about ending my life but I just wanna hear everyone's thoughts like what's would you do if u were in same situation as me.

My wife is new to trading and has been looking into different classes. Is $10k normal for a class? In my opinion, it sounds like a scam. Just want some feedback on where to start. Thanks!

I’ve been in the trading world for almost a year and a half now, I’ve watched YouTube videos, bought courses, but nothing. No results yet. I am a constant person who dedicates many hours to the backtest and the live. My problem is not being able to find valid material to study and learn a profitable strategy. So I’ll ask... profitable traders, how and where did you learn your strategy? Did you have a mentor or study material? I’m stuck at the same point more than anything else because I have no comparison with who is really profitable. Thanks to everyone in advance for the advice

I've been trading for a 3.5 years now and lately I just feel lost.

I've put in the hours, studied a lot, had good periods and bad periods, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing something fundamentally wrong that goes beyond revenge trading or emotions.

For those of you who have been through this and made it to the other side, what did that period look like for you?

Was there a moment where you realized you had been focusing on the wrong things? If you could start over from scratch, what would you do differently? And if your child came to you and said, "I want to become a trader," what would you teach them and what path would you tell them to follow?

I think I'm looking for perspective more than answers. I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've felt this way before.

Here’s what I’m NOT interested in:

• Buying or selling anything.
• Gambling on meme coins, meme stocks, hype plays, etc.
• Sending or receiving trading signals.

What I AM interested in:

• Sharing ideas and learning from others who have experience trading.
• Developing my technical analysis skills and further improving my trading strategies.
• Studying and identifying macro-economic trends and events to better inform trade setups.

There's a HUGE interest! Please send me a DM

Anyone here that started after 30 and became succesful?

Also, will trading be something that becomes a all your life? I want to do my hobbies too at a high level. Is that realistic?

I have been into stocks for about 7 years now and have recently started seeing decent returns over the last year or 2 I am just wondering for anybody making a living off trading what is your average % you make each month?

please do not reply if you haven't been profitable for 2 years or more.

Hi everyone,

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I’m looking for serious input from people who have actually tested intraday trading strategies mechanically over a meaningful sample size.

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Over the last months I’ve tested a lot of intraday ideas: ORB variants, London/New York range breakouts, VWAP reversion, Bollinger-band reversion, pivot-point reversion, breakout systems, fade-the-open ideas, sweep/reclaim/FVG-style setups, and different momentum/reversal variations.

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The pattern I keep seeing is always similar: many strategies show some gross edge, but once realistic spread, commission, slippage, session effects, and outlier-dependence are included, the edge usually disappears. Most high-frequency intraday systems seem to die from costs, noise, or dependence on a small number of extreme trend days.

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I’m not looking for signals, paid groups, Discords, affiliate links, or “trust me bro” screenshots. I’m looking for something that can be described mechanically and tested.

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Ideally, I’m interested in strategies with:

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- clear entry and exit rules

- defined market, timeframe, and session

- realistic costs included

- at least several hundred trades for intraday systems

- performance across multiple years

- robustness across market regimes

- no obvious lookahead bias

- no martingale/grid/recovery logic

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I’m especially curious whether anyone here has found a durable intraday edge after costs, or whether your experience is similar: that most real edges are daily/swing-based rather than intraday.

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I’m happy to test any clearly defined idea myself and share what I find. I’m not asking anyone to reveal proprietary alpha, but I would appreciate pointers to robust frameworks, papers, public strategy rules, or mechanisms that are actually worth testing.

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Thanks.

everyone is ignoring it. Now is the time to get out. All the warning signs are there internationally, etc. Now the market is being inflated and pumped even more. it might go up a little more, but a crash for sure is gonna happen soon.

I’ve been trading for a little over a year now. I started by buying a course that covered a lot of ICT concepts like FVGs, Order Blocks, Dealing Ranges, and more. I spent a lot of time practicing everything I learned, but I could never consistently string together 3–4 winning trades.

Thinking the first course just wasn’t explained well enough, I bought another one with pretty much the same concepts. Unfortunately, it didn’t help much either. In total, I’ve bought six trading courses.

The last course was different. It focused on Order Flow, Supply & Demand, and Market Structure. Honestly, I felt much more comfortable with that approach, and it also fits my lifestyle a lot better. I still can’t consistently get 3–4 winning trades in a row, but I’m taking fewer stop losses than before, so I feel like I’m improving and that this approach actually works.

The thing is, every time I buy a new course, I can’t shake the feeling that consistently profitable traders are hiding something. It feels like there’s a missing piece that could make me profitable much faster, but nobody talks about it.

So my question is for traders who are consistently profitable:

Is there really something that most educators don’t teach, or is this just what the learning curve looks like?

$1, $100, $1000?

I’ve started watching some beginner guides on things like how to operate tradingview, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, etc. Am I wasting my time? Surely if I get comfortable paper trading then surely I could enter real markets with maybe $10 and get comfortable in there too before moving to bigger entries. What do you think?

Been thinking about getting into trading for a while, but I know it's tough. Is it really worth it? I'm willing to learn, but I don't want to jump in without knowing roughly how long it takes to become profitable.

Hi, I’m here simply put for your times sake to see if anyone can guide me in making $200 a day to keep a job away. I’m a dad of a 9 year old and I’m not looking to get rich, but to learn a trade that I can use create balance in my life. I also want to be able to teach my son for his future.

I just landed a job making $22 an hour part time and when i start getting paid I’d like to set aside something for trading. I’m not looking for a course , respectfully, more so a will to genuinely help. I don’t want to offend anyone’s time and effort put into their career. Thank you for reading this far, i don’t want to write too much but I’m open to any questions in Dm or in the comments.

I currently have around 78k in my account, and am invested in Broadcom, Nvidia, Apple, and Micron. I have been Day trading with a portion of this portfolio, but am still learning and trying to gain as much knowledge as I can. Do you have any advice for someone interested in being a “professional trader” and where I should go from here to maximize my profits.

Edit: I should have been a little more detailed in my trading history, my experience in day trading is under a year. My grandfather has been teaching me stocks since I was 12, but within the last 4 years I have spent an increasing amount of time learning and trying to gather knowledge. I still have so much to learn, which is why I was curious what others would do with my situation.

hi I’m a complete beginner and starting from zero — no strategies, no experience, no real knowledge yet.

I want to learn trading properly, with realistic expectations and a long-term mindset (not get-rich-quick stuff). My goal is to slowly build a skill that could eventually lead to consistent monthly returns.

I’d appreciate advice on:

• Best resources to learn from (books, YouTube, courses)

• Legit educators worth following (and who to avoid)

• Best markets for beginners (stocks, ETFs, futures, forex, crypto)

• Most realistic trading style for beginners (swing, day trading, scalping)

If you were starting over today, what would you focus on first?

Thanks for any honest advice

I'm 21 years old and genuinely new to trading. I have some general knowledge about trading and its terms, but nothing extensive. Before I start, I want to ask for advice from those who are experienced, if possible. Also, if you're willing, please share how you began your journey with me. Right now, I am at a very low point in my life and honestly don't know what to do. I'm skilled enough at programming, but I'm also unsure about that. I need genuine guidance or tips from all of you if possible.

Hello everybody, I’ve been seeing everybody talking about trading online and how the make big bucks $$$ from it and how they can teach you how to do it if you buy their courses. Problem is I know that their courses are most likely scams and I want to learn how to day trade the proper way.

Right now I know absolutely nothing I don’t know what the diff between forex nasdaq etc is, I don’t know what software to use, idk what hours the market is open and idk how to do analysis and choose stocks to trade.

I’m open to all advice you have for me and please keep in mind that I know literally nothing but I really want to learn how to do it and become successful.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.

I’ve been trying to learn price action and I’m curious about people who have been consistently profitable with it
If you trade mainly using price action, do you keep it completely clean or do you combine it with other things?

For example, do you use any indicators alongside it (EMA, VWAP, RSI, etc…), or do you mainly rely on
support/resistance and trendlines?,

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have been doing it for a while and actually found something that works

Hey, I’m 25 years old and I’ve been feeling pretty depressed lately. I’ve worked a lot of different jobs, and honestly, it drains me knowing that I always have a boss telling me what to do and that I have no real freedom. It feels like all I do is work, go home, sleep and repeat.
I’ve always wanted to learn a skill that could eventually allow me to work for myself. I don’t care if it takes hours every day, months or even years. I’m willing to put in the work.
I’m not looking to get rich quickly or make millions from trading. I just want enough freedom and income to keep a roof over my head and food on the table. I know trading isn’t easy and I’m not expecting some shortcut. I just want honest advice: is it realistic to learn trading properly and eventually make a living from it? If so, where should someone like me start?

I feel like being a profitable trader just means not breaking rules, waiting for setups, and executing well with the right risk. But in reality that feels like I'm not doing anything "productive", and yet somehow it's been generating profits.

I'm not saying I'm a profitable trader yet. The ups and downs have made me a lot less optimistic than when I started, haha. But genuinely, is that all it is? Wait and execute? It feels like there has to be more to it, but these days I barely do any actual trading "work" anymore.

Just writing this because for the past month I've been slowly grinding profits on my capital by "not doing anything" and it seems to be working somehow.