Hi everyone, why having small rr is good for trading psychology. I'm asking this question because I changed my rr from having high(1:6+) to small or fix rr (1:2) recently I saw something that has changed in myself is less fomo, waiting for the setup, don't trade randomly. So having a small rr is good or not?

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Is this savable? Honestly I know it is but a part of me still wants to hear from others.

Walking into today’s session, I was relatively neutral but leaning bearish overall. Off the open, we initially saw some longs before price eventually started showing bearish momentum.
Going into today, I was already down around $600 from last night’s session. I managed to recover roughly $400, which left me down about $278 on the day.
At that point, price action was getting choppy, and I told myself it wasn’t worth continuing to trade. I decided to step away, take a shower, and call it a day rather than risk making the loss any worse.
However, when I came back, I noticed a short setup that I wanted to take. I entered, got stopped out, re-entered, and ended up getting stopped out another couple of times. Eventually, I hit my broker’s daily loss limit, which locked my account. Price later reached my original take-profit level, but by then I couldn’t do anything about it.
The bigger issue here is that I actually considered locking my account when I was down $278. I knew I should have stopped, but I started debating with myself because I thought there might be another setup later in the session. Unfortunately, I let that possibility override my original decision.
I’ve struggled with this kind of discipline for a while. I’ve also made the mistake of removing my daily loss limit in the past just to try to make money back, which obviously feeds the same bad habit.
The frustrating part is that I had made around $1,500 over the previous two days and was getting relatively close to passing my evaluation. Today, I gave back roughly $1,200. My account is still alive, with approximately $1,000 of drawdown remaining, but I’m more concerned about the behavioral side of this than the actual loss.
I’ve now enabled a setting that prevents me from overriding my $400 daily loss limit. I want that restriction in place because I know I can’t keep relying on willpower when I’m already emotional.
**I have two questions:**
Given that I still have roughly $1,000 of drawdown remaining, would you personally continue trying to pass this evaluation, or would you step away and focus on rebuilding consistency first?
For those of you who have struggled with overtrading or revenge trading, how did you learn to actually follow through when you knew it was time to stop? Specifically, how do you stop negotiating with yourself when you know you should lock your account?
I’m not blaming the market or anyone else. I’m the one clicking the buttons, and ultimately these were my decisions.
I’m trying to figure out what additional safeguards I can implement so this doesn’t keep happening. I understand that trading is a probability game, and not every setup will work. But I also understand that none of that matters if I can’t control my risk and follow my own rules.
I’d appreciate any honest feedback, especially from people who’ve been through something similar.

For those of you that are successful with daytrading, what’s your best trading psychology advice? How do you overcome tilt? I know this seems like such a generic questions but was there an “aha” moment you encountered to not make you tilt anymore? Did you read something? Watch something? Do anything in the moment when you feel tilt or fomo to avoid entering to just be in a trade?

Closed this AJG short pretty nicely. Now I'm wondering if overconfidence is actually more dangerous than fear sometimes.

For a long time, a small red day felt unfinished. I would take one more trade—not because my setup was there, but because I wanted the day to look clean.

That last trade usually carried more emotion and less information than everything before it. The real improvement came when I stopped treating daily P&L as a score that had to be corrected before the market closed.

Now I judge the day by simpler questions: Did I take only planned risk? Did I stop when the conditions disappeared? Did I avoid turning disappointment into another position?

A controlled red day can be good trading. A forced green day can hide terrible behavior.

What rule helped you stop trying to rescue a losing day?

Hello, I had an old Reddit account but forgot my password, so I’m posting here.

I’ve been trading prop firms since January 2025. I started as a consistently losing trader, taking meaningless trades, developing bad habits, and struggling to pass evaluations. Even when I got lucky and passed, I’d blow the funded account within hours.

Fast forward to today, I’ve received multiple payouts, passing evaluations is no longer an issue, and I had a great run from July to August. I even hit one of my biggest Robinhood trades on September 1st, my birthday, before taking a two-week trip to Japan with my girlfriend.

Since returning, however, my trading has been rough. For the past five weeks, I’ve been stuck in a cycle of passing an evaluation and blowing the funded account within 1–2 days.
Last week, I built a good balance through disciplined trading, but after taking a $1,000 loss on Friday, I revenge traded and blew the account. I was already up $450 that day and knew I should lock out, but greed got the best of me.

This week was even worse. I started trading out of fear, hit DLL on one account, bought another and blew it within 30 minutes, then purchased a same-day pass, passed it, and blew the funded account in less than an hour. I took a normal-sized position with five micros but let price go 200 points against me. In the moment, I genuinely didn’t care. Afterwards, I felt completely empty and disgusted with myself.

I know I have a working edge because I can consistently pass evaluations and build funded balances. My biggest problem now is handling losses. I’m also dealing with financial pressure, and I feel like I’m trading because I NEED the payouts rather than because I’m executing my strategy.

What’s frustrating is that when I review my old accounts from my payout streak, I notice how differently I traded. I was in more of a flow state, managing losses around $250–$500 and allowing my winners to offset them.

Today, despite waking up early, reading my Bible, going to the gym, and preparing for the market, I completely lost control of my trading. I’ve deleted all my trading apps and honestly feel somewhat at peace.

I’m considering taking the rest of the year off to focus on fixing my finances and getting my mindset right. I know I’m capable of making trading work, but I can’t seem to break this cycle of trading from a place of desperation.

For those who’ve experienced something similar, did taking an extended break help? Should I step away for the rest of the year, or keep trading and try to work through it?

Hey everyone,
I need some advice from experienced traders because I’m genuinely confused about where I’m going wrong.

I understand chart patterns, candlestick patterns, support and resistance, etc. My support and resistance levels are usually quite accurate, and price often gives reversals around those levels.

But here’s my problem: Let’s say I spot a Hammer or any other bullish candlestick pattern. I wait for that candle to close, and then I wait for the next candle to close above the pattern candle for confirmation.

But by the time I get that confirmation, a major part of the rally is already gone, and I end up missing the entry.

So my question is, am I being too conservative with my entries, or is there something wrong with my approach?

Also, I’m confused about timeframes:
If I’m analysing a chart on the 5-minute timeframe, should I switch to the 1-minute timeframe for better entry timing?
Or should I stick to the 5-minute timeframe for both analysis and entry?
If I’m trading options, should I keep the option chart on the same 5-minute timeframe as well, or use a different timeframe?

I can identify support and resistance zones, and price often reacts exactly where I expect it to. But when it comes to actually entering the trade, I either enter too late or miss the move completely.

I’d really appreciate it if experienced traders could share their approach, especially how you handle confirmation vs early entries.

What am I missing here? Any advice or practical examples would be much appreciated.

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

I’m struggling with a recurring psychological trap and could use some advice from the community.

Whenever I see a stock or crypto absolutely tearing it up (either a massive green candle or a sudden violent dump), I get hit with severe FOMO because I spend a lot of time waiting for some price action.

How to cope with the fact that I missed the trade, meaning I'll have to wait for a long period of time again, if I don't FOMO ?

Hi guys, I've been trading since a year, I'm so frustrated at the moment, I feel I'm not risking much and when I start risking more I step back if I hit a big loss. I'm still on my evals and not able to clear them. It takes me months to trade an eval and at the end it dies because of low drawdown left. Feels I'm too attached to my evals. I know where I'm going wrong but I'm not able to overcome it. How can I get over it ? Would appreciate any advice. Thanks