A devoted trader and someone who knows about how the bear market and bull function can never make same mistake, this is excluding knowing about technical
The thing is, if you keep making same mistakes for the past 5 years then I must you are not taking trading serious or it's not meant for you, meaning it would b more better you do investment than trading. Just imagine investment of 5 years, meaning right from 2020 you could had made serious profit from your investment than trading.
If a trader can not trade well and make same mistakes over time, it's a bad trader. Making trading mistakes in five years that are very long time possibly causes very big fund loss that can be an ending of that trader in trading career. You can lose all your money even within shorter period than five years if you are a very bad trader and has practice of using all money you have for trading.
It is risky to trade but if a person decides to go with trading, make sure knowing about stop loss order and actually use it in trading. It is very helpful for defending trading capital and reduce loss.
One of the best weapons in trading.