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Quote from: Lightmanalmani on July 31, 2025, 10:52:28 AM

There are alot of preachings and sensitization about how one should be persistent in the journey of trading and not to give up.

Yes but not at the expense of your constant loses, we try to keep it going regardless but we should be mindful and know when to stop.. it's just seems like gambling you're pushing in for positivity but then there are factors limiting you to do so and hence you don't want to give up. But when you know the trading system isn't for you it's better to stop rather than having waste of funds .

Yes, this is true, but realistically speaking, trading is difficult but it is not something that is impossible to achieve success in, although not everyone can succeed here and that is why if you cannot improve yourself in any way and keep losing, then it is definitely right to give up, trading requires a positive attitude, but at the same time it is important to accept reality. People are not perfect in all matters and not everyone can do everything, similarly, trading is not impossible but it is not for everyone.

Before deciding to quit look for objective signs not just frustration. If the system shows negative expectancy after honest review and enough sample trades, if drawdowns breach predefined risk limits and threaten the account, if trades become emotion-driven by fear or fomo instead of a plan, if backtests and demo trials fail across different market regimes, or if mental health sleep or relationships suffer because of trading stress these are real signals that the strategy isnt working and stopping is protection not weakness.

try structured steps before folding completely, take a fixed cooling-off period rather than quitting impulsively, drop position sizes dramatically or move to demo for a set time like 1–3 months, run systematic backtests and forward-tests with clear pass/fail metrics, get a fresh pair of eyes from a mentor or honest community to spot blindspots, simplify the system by removing cluttered indicators and focus on one clear edge, and set hard limits such as max drawdown or a re-evaluation deadline so the decision to stop is based on rules not feelings. If after disciplined testing nothing improves accept that trading may not be the right fit and pivot wisely, consider lower stress investing methods like dollar cost averaging into long term assets, switch to trading-adjacent roles such as research data analysis risk ops or prop desk work, or apply trading skills in other finance roles where spreadsheets, backtesting and storytelling with data are valued.