I started trading at 17. Dropped out at 19. Full time ever since.
I was at one of the best universities in the world. But I couldn't think about anything except trading. It was all I wanted to do. So I took the leap and went full time — and that's when the real psychological problems started.
I was overtrading. Overrisking. Not because my strategy was wrong, but because rent was due and food cost money and trading was the only income I had. That pressure does something to your head. I was entering trades I shouldn't have been in, not because the setup was valid but because I needed the money. It put me in a genuinely tough place mentally.
But I chose this. Nobody forced me. So instead of quitting, I started obsessing over my emotional state before every entry. Was I taking this trade because the setup was there, or because I was scared of my bank balance? Learning to tell the difference changed everything.
I never liked journaling. Always felt pointless, but I ended up giving it a go. Months in though, I couldn't remember why I'd taken half my setups, what I was feeling, what I saw. The information was just gone. Now with AI, that's changed completely. The technology remembers everything so you don't have to. Patterns surface that you'd never spot on your own. That's what MindEdge is. Everything I had to figure out the hard way, built into one place.
Every trade I take gets posted live in my Telegram group. Entries, exits, reasoning. Everything. Free, always.
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