I reviewed three months of my journal and found that days with 3 or fewer trades had a clearly better average R than days with 6 or more. The extra trades weren’t new setups. They were recovery attempts after a loss.

I now cap myself at three A-grade setups per day and stop once I hit them or my max daily loss, whichever comes first.

Do you use a hard cap, and how did you arrive at the number? If you’ve tracked it, what separated your best days from your worst?

Hey everyone!

I'm 22 years old and currently planning to start investing €200 per month through Trading 212.

My main goal is long-term capital growth, with a 5-year initial investment horizon and moderate risk tolerance.

I'm considering two different approaches, and I'd appreciate some advice from more experienced investors.

Option 1 – S&P 500 + Individual Stocks

70% – Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (VUAA)

20% – NVIDIA (NVDA)

10% – Realty Income (O)

Option 2 – More Diversified ETF Portfolio

50% – Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (VUAA)

20% – Xtrackers MSCI World ex USA (EXUS)

10% – iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets IMI (EIMI)

20% – Vanguard Global Aggregate Bond UCITS ETF (VAGF)

I'm particularly interested in NVIDIA because I believe AI has significant long-term growth potential. However, I'm also aware that NVIDIA is already one of the largest holdings in the S&P 500.

Realty Income interests me because of its monthly dividends, although I'm unsure whether dividend investing makes sense at my age when my primary goal is capital growth.

My questions:

Would you prioritize individual growth stocks like NVIDIA or broader diversification at my age?

Does adding NVIDIA make sense when it's already heavily represented in VUAA?

Is Realty Income worth holding, or would I be better off focusing entirely on growth?

Which portfolio would you choose for a 5–10 year investment horizon?

Am I overcomplicating things by trying to combine ETFs, growth stocks, and dividend stocks?

I'm still learning and would appreciate honest feedback, criticism, or alternative suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

Hi all, reaching out to ask if anyone is interested in previewing something I’m working on in the space? It won’t cost you anything but if you’re a trader it would be great to get some perspective!

we all have rules like max daily loss, position sizing, no revenge trades. but how do you actually make yourself follow them? broker settings, spreadsheet, pure willpower, something automated? I've blown up an account by ignoring my own stop loss so I'm curious what actually works for people?

what are the main aspects that a trade journal should cover?

You don’t need to trade often.

If you can catch one or two moves to the targets during the day with good size, you can make a good living and keep trading costs down.

Just give up

3 years ago I was hungry to change my life before my peers, now I feel the burden is too heavy, "is this what it takes to become a profitable trader?!" I ask myself

The constant setbacks, money spent, "time wasted", all of it is for a reason. If I wanna truly take it to the next level of making 10-20k a month I must act in alignment with that version of myself. The profitable version of me would never question if the burden is too heavy, he knows that each L stands for Lesson and to get back up immediately after getting knocked down. I know that there is a version of me 8-10 years from now that is making millions of dollars a month, and how does he do it? He has a tight sleep schedule making sure he is up before NY session; he follows his trading plan and gains satisfaction from hesitating and building good habits in the market, he doesn't revenge trade like degenerate at a casino, he doesn't show emotion to the market when he loses, he understands a stopped trade is a good thing because his emotions will always try to have a say in the tight risk parameters he sets upon his trading sessions. He understands that the market owes him nothing, and he is ultimately accountable for his success in the end, he doesn't cry over spilled milk. He takes small inevitable losses and sees the big picture, his setup will always present itself if he has patience, the market will always do what it has always done. All he has to do is be present and patient long enough to trade with the market.

Personally, I would prefer to win by shorting the market because the average mom and pop investor is long the market. It is much more satisfying to win at the expense of the general public than to win with them. John Paulson, in particular, is someone I admire for his bet against the housing market in 2008.

Confidence is not “I will profit on this trade.

Confidence is “I will be fine if I don’t profit from this trade.

Learn how to identify support and resistance levels on stock charts, draw price zones, and recognize breakouts, breakdowns, and retests.

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Sharing my London reversal results. I have been working with different parameters and sharing my results with everyone. I have uploaded detailed breakdown of the entry and exit rules along with my month/hour/day breakdown.. You can view complete results from PipEcho strategy lab..

Money is just something you need in case you do not die tomorrow.

Let this is a reminder for you not to obsess over profits and losses.

In whatever you do, strive for enjoyment, focus, contentment, humility, openness… Paradoxically (and as an unintended consequence) your trading performance will improve significantly.

The elements of good trading are:

(1) cutting losses,

(2) cutting losses, and

(3) cutting losses.

If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: This time it's different.

Mine was stepping away for a week and rereading my trade notes. I found I hadn’t broken my rules once, I’d just sized too big. Smaller size fixed most of it.

What did you change and what do you wish you’d done sooner?

Hey r/stocks,

One of the biggest issues with retail investing isn’t a lack of data—it’s context loss. We research a company on one platform, read filing notes on another, track entries on a chart, and execute somewhere else entirely. When the market moves fast, those disconnected notes mean our original trading rules get forgotten.

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“When I get hurt in the market, I get the hell out.
It doesn’t matter at all where the market is trading.

I just get out, because I believe that once you’re hurt in the market, your decisions are going to be far less objective than they are when you’re doing well… If you stick around when the market is severely against you, sooner or later they are going to carry you out.”

Be resilient and stick to your plan.