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Jul 21, 2024 1 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Some people think that following the rules is meaningless if they lose, but this is a mistake.

The purpose of following the rules is not to win the current trade.

Follow the rules and lose properly.
By doing so, you will ultimately profit from a system that has an edge.

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What you can control in trading 🧵

Many traders waste energy and lose capital by fighting what they cannot control.
Market movements. The outcome of a single trade. None of these are under your command.
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Every time you focus on results,
you are abandoning what you actually can control.

Focus only on rules and actions.
That is the lever that moves probability.
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There are only three things you can fully control:

1. The preparation, such as building a strategy with an edge
2. The percentage of risk you take on each trade
3. Your consistent actions
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Embody probabilistic thinking 🧵

It’s not about the outcome—it’s about the process. Profits will follow in due course.
These phrases are not meant to console you after a losing trade.
Only those who remain steadfast—no matter what—earn the right to say them.
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“It’s not about the outcome—it’s about the process.” “Profits will follow in due course.”

These ideas rest entirely on trust:
Trust in your strategy. Trust in statistics. Trust in the law of large numbers. Trust in your own thorough preparation.

The market never guarantees you profit up front.
Randomness will naturally deliver losing streaks and drawdowns.
Whether you can still—no matter what—faithfully follow the rules of your edge-tested strategy depends entirely on how deeply you trust that strategy and the law of large numbers.

That trust is measured by your consistency in action.

In other words, when you’re in the thick of a losing streak and feeling unsettled, what’s truly being tested isn’t your strategy—it’s your trust.
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No strategy, however brilliant, can avoid losing streaks.
Conversely, even the most haphazard entries can sometimes string together wins.
That’s randomness.

Short-term results are heavily swayed by randomness; long-term results become inevitable.
But for that inevitability to manifest, you must activate the law of large numbers—which demands long-term consistency.

Rules exist so you can repeat trades under identical conditions.
You must wait according to the rules. You must lose according to the rules.
For those who abandon the rules midway, probability ceases to function—and you’ll never extract your edge.
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No matter how strong a system with an edge you have, you still won't succeed 🧵

Many people still don't succeed, no matter how good their system is.
Here's why.
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Many assume a great strategy is enough to succeed, but it's not that simple.
If anything, what comes next is where it gets truly hard.

Even if you have a system with an edge, probabilistic by design, the reason it fails to work is simple.
Probability works through the Law of Large Numbers over a large sample size, and that requires your consistency.

When probability doesn't seem to work, it simply means the Law of Large Numbers isn't kicking in, and that happens because of one of two things.

- You lack consistency.
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In short, no matter what system with an edge you have, it only works through your sustained consistency over the long run.
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Many people assume that once they have a system with an edge, staying consistent will be easy.
However, a system with an edge is not a "can't‑lose" system.

As long as you treat losses as "bad," you won't let probability do its job.
Because even the best strategies inevitably include losses and losing streaks, and if you treat losses as bad, you'll try to avoid them.

As a result, no matter how good your system is, you won't even be able to trade strictly according to its signals, and even if you manage it in the short run, sustaining it over the long run will be extremely difficult.

You likely won't blame yourself.
You'll decide "the system stopped working" or "the market changed" and start shopping for another one.
In other words, with the best of intentions, you end up abandoning consistency.
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This misunderstanding is widespread.
The truth is not that they lack emotions.
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Elite traders are not emotionless.
They simply do not consider a single isolated loss to be bad.
This is not wishful thinking but something they understand completely, both logically and through experience.

If anything, they are convinced that cutting losses in line with their rules is what leaves profits in the end, and they place their value on whether they executed the process faithfully.

In that sense, they feel intense aversion and discomfort toward breaking rules or failing to execute the process faithfully.
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The emotions that arise have changed because what they value has changed.
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Inexperienced traders place a great deal of value on wins and losses.
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Because they do not recognize other value systems, they assume elite traders have “eliminated emotions” or possess “extraordinary mental toughness.”

They may meditate or study emotional control techniques to remove emotions, but they do not realize that this is not a fundamental fix.

The intense emotions that wreck your trading do not appear because you lack emotional control.
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Run a simple simulation and generate about 1,000 random trials at a 40% win probability, then look at the results.
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Even then, can you maintain consistency all the way through, as the simulation implies?

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In the end, trading hinges on this capability.
Every strategy will face losing streaks, and what you think, feel, and do during them is decisive.

In the end, no matter what happens, you must not change anything, and you must remain consistent.
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Your job is not to win the next trade.
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Most people can’t do this because their thinking is short-term and they want to win the trade right in front of them.
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You cannot control whether the next trade wins or loses.
Even a strong strategy loses, and even a careless entry can win.
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Short-term results are influenced by randomness, but long-term results become reliable.

However, to make long-term results reliable, one condition must hold: do not change the conditions that define your large sample size.
Only under consistent conditions does the law of large numbers do its work.
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