I need that raw, killer instinct back.
I also need to sleep, I’m at 9 hours of sleep debt in the past two weeks even if I go to bed early (9h30 pm), don’t drink, am careful about big meals before bed, take magnesium (treonate, citrate and carbonate), take l theanine, no caffeine.
What is happening to me?
Anger. I can feel it seething inside of me.
After so many trades missed. Whether because I was sleeping, because it was late at night and I said to myself “It’s not my trading window”, or because I get into a wrong trade, or because I’m in a meeting.
I keep missing the good trades, I see them in front of me. Vision distorted of the market, good analysis that hit when I’m asleep. I keep seeing it over and over. I could have passed my FTMO over 5 times with just the month of december.
No need to catch them all, just not 0%.
Since I’ve started this FTMO in october, it’s been misstep after misstep. Like I’m keeping myself from succeeding. After 4 months with 10+% in profit, how to explain this.
Thinking about all of this and after some more mistakes this week. Anger is starting to flow inside of me.
Have you tried to taking both GABA and Magnesium on an empty stomach ? it might help. It should assistant in sleeping.
Oh yes, my sleep is fixed 
I did not mention it, but I’m happy with it!
Will soon restart journaling.
I’ve restarted the gym this week. I’ve restarted eating a bit better, not perfect, just better.
I’ll add journaling soon.
I’ll try this technique of journaling as if my success already happened… Journaling in the past. “When I recieved my first prop firm payout…”, “When I noticed I hadn’t had a negative month in a year…”, etc.
I see my order’s SL getting triggered. I’m spending the evening with my wife, I don’t necessarly check it too much.
I check the next day. My SL was hit by like : The candle reached 211.482 as low and my SL was at 211.46, which represent 2 pips on the GBPJPY pair. This is definitly not the tightest I’ve been in my SL, I’ve seen way worst in the past few months.
SL hit exactly as the market reverse (by 0.1 pip, or 1 pip) multiple times.
This morning I had an opportunity to maybe re-enter, stressed out because I just had taken a loss and was frustrated. Missed it, and then, I re-entered after missing it at the third less safe entry. It will be my only entry, we’ll see how it goes.
My psychology really is messed up these days.
This week with C&C I have been more agressive on the market, but I’m trading like I already have good positions open.
Right now is the time to only take great setups, not risky or lowish probability to hedge my bet.
It’s time to be careful and only trade the best! C&C really is pushing me.
Finally caught a trade!! Went 2.5k into profit and I closed it when it hit my trailing SL at 1.3k, very good one. Had strong potential to go even higher. I risked 188$ on it, so RR is still good. It gives me more ammoes for later.
1.2k left on my FTMO hahaha
I’ll do a couple of days of washout after today. I’m increasing my listening time of C&C and WDB at 7m for the last day. Anti-recon is highly effective!
I also lost 0.5% yesterday in trading, missing the move, so I have 90750$ in my FTMO, almost out but whatever, at this point it was a nice and long run, dropping this would probably allow me to recenter.
Posting this for some of my challenges C&C brought up.
When you trade, you trade.
When not trading, don’t trade. That’s it. When I trade I need to be very aware of the reaction of the price to a certain level. Most of the time if I miss the first entry, it will, be hard to “re-enter”. Second entry will often be less optimal, bigger SL, bigger risk and won’t allow for crazy results.
I need to find my POI in the higher timeframe zone I’m watching and enter when I see a reaction of the market to it. It’s a mix of gut feeling, strategy and that can make shit ton of money.
I’ve asked the support for my issue I noted two post earlier
Here is the reply they gave me :
Knowing this, while I wait for RT, I’ll run Limit Destroyer, which I might even rotate with WDB and C&C once RT comes out.
RT+C&C+WDB → RT+WDB+LD → RT+LD+C&C → RT+C&C+WDB
Should allow me to work on everything I want, and hopefully the adaptative scripting in C&C and eventually RT will allow LD to be more potent.
Worst case scenario, RT + LD for precise growth.
Rich trader pre-results or Limit destroyer is removing some blockages in my mind?
This morning my execution was pretty good, I brought back some of my knowledge from last summer (mai, june, july, august and september 2025), which I had lots of trouble executing on.
I made a tiny mistake which unfortunatly made it so my position was half as large as what it could have been. Currently my trade is at 7R, with a target at 20R. - Floating profits means nothing, it could fall back to 0 anytime.
Since my FTMO only had 1% left in it before I fail (91k, can’t go below 90k as that would make me fail), my trading risk is 0.05% per trade, and I got 2 position on this morning, effectively risking 0.1% for a potential profit of 2%.
While I slept market reversed, took me out and I got tagged in my orders below. -0.15%.
One of them at least, hopefully I’ll get tagged in my other order, which is a very precise entry, and a bigger position. We’ll see if this was the low of the week.
EDIT: My buddy showed me the Yen basket, looks like the yen is strengthening I should probably be selling this week.
I saw a post online today with a trader who has a different TP than mine.
I have issues with my TP, usually being too agressive with them, wanting to hit homerun all the time.
After seeing that online post, I re-evaluated the volume inside my targeted zone and decided to move my TP closer. MT4 doesn’t allow me to do partially close position so I need to have realistic TP.
Regarding the refinement of my entries. I’m integrating more and more the concept of “Don’t predict, react”.
Here is how I entered my latest trade, which is now standing at a whopping 37R. This is not a tutorial, I still need more practice and experience to make it work and see if it was only luck. I need to figure out if it’s just impressive or there is actually a way for me to make it work. Instagram screenshoot of 37R looks very impressives, but can someone makes a strategy around it? We’ll see.
Since starting Rich Trader, I’ve been fascinated by this pattern :
Classic reversal pattern, price goes down, comes back up higher than the high of the last impulse down. Thing is, since the market is fractal, this pattern happens on all timeframes. Daily, 4h, 1h, 15m, 5m and even on the 1m.
So, (and this is what happened for my entries on my last trade), if I’m :
In the case study of my last entry, price did a liquidity run on that 15m supply zone. Just below the 15m supply zone, I went on the 1m timeframe and identified a classic reversal structure that happened just after that liquidity run. I placed my limit order for a retest of that 1m structure and was able to get a first entry at 0.1% risk.
Then, as price kept moving a bit higher and created another 1m structure to the upside, I added another entry at 0.1% risk.
I have done things like that in the past, but Rich Trader is making me focus on how to maximize those entries and how to make sure I don’t lose tons of money trying to enter on all of those potential reversal that happens everywhere. I need to apply those types of entries on powerful key levels.
I got a bit of recon yesterday after running 7m Rich Trader, I was experiencing doubt, fear and uncertainty.
Really thinking too much about where to take my profits! What if price goes higher, what if price goes down before it hit TP? Alright, whatever happens, I just have to follow traces of the market and trade.
I love the fractal way of seeing the market.
I go on the 5m, see a structure shift (bullish vs bearish), then go on the 15m, wait and see if we see a follow up structure shift from that 5m shift, then the 1hr, then 4hr, etc.
Insane, all is clicking together. I need to stay focus not get too excited by this and start trading everywhere, but it changes my perspective, the 4h zones I was trading and looking for were just zones that sits between less relevant zones (1h, 15m, 5m, 1m, etc) and more relevant zone (daily, weekly, monthly).
I need to remember this : Don’t predict, react : There is not way to predict exactly where the market will reverse, but by analysing all the fractals we can see some shift and try to place our bets as best as we can.
** My big trade is still on, price pulled back a bit at 25% profit floating, still aiming for 35% before I try to short the market.
Trade is gone from 33% floating to 18% at the moment, I feel the attachment and emotions coming into play.
I feel stuck, I’m scared it will come back to 0%… Phew. Even with RT’s detachment I have things to work on hahaha
I need to let my strat play out and adjust myself.
I need to be highly mindful of my mental state.
For some reason along the run I became attached to that 30% profit.
Friday my subconscious told me to take a day off listening, I might have been in recon and lost some potency of RT’s effect. I’ll go back to 3 minutes listening time, going up to 7 launched me into recon.
I need to remember that profit is not mine yet, and it can always come back to 0 unless I close my position.
I need a break.
Seeing my trade going from 33% to now 10% is insane for my mental. it’s only tuesday morning and my mind is already in mush.
That’s another thing I need to be aware of, when I play with big games, I need to be mindful of how much it takes out of me. I have two trades that could comes back to zero very quickly, what will I do.
Now! For 2026, I need to keep working on my targeting system, I think for this one I could have made my target a little bit better, I could have shaved off that 20 pip that made me missed that 33% profit, but my targeting wasn’t wrong, just a bit more on the gambling side. 33% profit would have been good for almost 0 gambling type of entry.
I also need to be working on my entry system!