Cleaned out my email inbox last night.
Found 23 receipts for trading courses I bought between 2019 and 2021.
Some I don't even remember purchasing.
Looking at the dates, I can see exactly what happened.
Bought one in March. Blew my account in April. Bought another in May.
Like clockwork.
Every course was the same promise.
"This is the missing piece."
And I believed it every single time.
What You're Actually Buying
Here's something I wish someone told me when I was hemorrhaging money on education.
You're not buying strategies.
You're buying the feeling of competence.
That moment after you click purchase.
The course downloads. You open module one.
For about 48 hours, you feel like you've finally figured it out.
Like the gap between who you are and who you want to be just got smaller.
Then you take a few trades.
They don't work. And the gap opens back up.
So you buy another course.
Not because you need more information.
Because you need that feeling again.
The feeling that you've handled it.
That you're finally the person who "gets" trading.
But courses don't close that gap.
They just temporarily distract you from it.
Why Information Doesn't Create Competence
You could memorize every liquidity concept I've ever taught.
Quote my emails word for word.
Explain fair value gaps to a stranger on the street.
And still blow your next account.
Because knowing and doing are completely different skills.
Information creates the illusion of progress.
"I understand more than I did yesterday" feels productive.
But the market doesn't care what you understand.
It cares what you execute.
The only thing that actually makes you feel like a trader is executing trades that work.
Not watching someone else explain theirs.
The Evidence
Here's the brutal math.
You've probably consumed hours of trading education.
YouTube videos. Courses. Webinars. PDFs. Discord screenshots.
But how many hours of focused, intentional execution?
Real trades with real risk following a defined system?
I'd guess the ratio is 20:1.
And then you wonder why you "know" what to do but can't seem to do it.
You don't have a knowledge problem.
You have an execution problem disguised as a knowledge gap.
The next course won't fix that.
The next indicator won't fix that.
The next "secret strategy" won't fix that.
Reps will.
Systematic, boring, repetitive execution of the same setup until it becomes mechanical.
That's the only thing that creates the evidence of competence you're actually looking for.
What Actually Closes The Gap
The traders who make it through aren't the ones who learned the most.
They're the ones who executed the most with the least amount of variables.
One setup. One timeframe. One session.
Repeated until the pattern recognition becomes automatic.
Until the entry doesn't require debate.
Until the trade management doesn't trigger panic.
That's when the gap closes. When you have evidence.
When you've seen yourself execute correctly enough times that you finally believe you can do it again.
No course gives you that.
Only you can give you that.
I put together a free training that breaks down the exact systematic approach I use.
Talk soon,
Atif
