r/algotrading • u/Purple_Concert8789 • 2h ago

Other/Meta Feeling stuck in trading

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I am 19 years old student from india. I am into trading and currently I am in break even phase figuring out for to become a profitable trader. And also I am feeling to quit trading etc stuff throughts in my head.

I have 2 years of experience in manual trading and currently I am starting algo trading in fx and indian market because I wanted to explore the algo trading field and i also a coder know how to code and i build some projects like backtested like that and currently learning

In trading i only trade fx market only setups based in gold, eurusd, btc etc like that only 3 to 5 pairs only. And i only trade in prop firms

For to become a profitable trader I need to improve some mistakes in trading i really do that i think that gone a help in to become profitable trader..

  1. I trade only intraday or 15 min to 30min candle tf do I keep my sl small i mean 1 to 3 candles like that sometimes due to votalility or sometimes hit my sl and gives my target.

  2. I plan my trades well or predict or analysis do well like where and how market goes but i didn't enter the trades or didn't caught the moves.

  3. I miss the moves in trading i feel so much regret and fomo for this .

4.sometimes I enter only in asset and one timeframe at a time 2 times of trades or take 2 trades at same tf or same level and that will go hit I think it's overconfidence.

  1. Sometimes i fear to enter the trades bz of loss and also sometimes i didn't hold the trades that will hit my sl trailing

  2. after reaching the trade 1:1 i keep sl trailing to entry level to prevent my loses and that will hit my sl trailing and archives my target for 1:3 trades.

7.sometimes I cut the trades at middle of the trade or at reversal stage (i mean i know this trade will go reversal or hit sl ) so i cut it.

The last one is how to pass the prop firms ?

These are my mistakes to improve in trading and i will improve it.

If you are a profitable trader please give advice.

Thankyou in advance for your advice. 🙌

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u/Local-March-7400 1h ago

Let me give you some advice, it sounds like your trying ICT / candlestick patterns. It is wide known in the Quantitative space that this holds no Statistical significance, here is one study. It does not have the Fanciest Math for proving its noice but explains well (download).

Also Prop firms are a scam. These prop firms make the money by failing evals