The sleepless nights, researching liquidity concepts, pure stress...
The negativity you're experiencing when another trade goes against you.
We all experienced it.
I'm looking down from that mountain of consistent profitability.
Seeing you climb...
This is the pain of trading success.
I'll be honest, most of you will not make it through.
But have you ever asked yourself why?
Here's the reality...
You will only fail if you quit.
It's cliche, but here's why it's true in trading:
You're due to succeed.
The math of mastery
Becoming "good" at trading is just doing it for long enough that it is no longer justified for you to be "bad" at it.
The game of trading success is really grinding to the point where it is unreasonable for you to not be profitable.
Let me give you an example.
If you say you are "bad" at reading liquidity sweeps...
You are not bad at reading liquidity sweeps.
You have just done so little practice identifying them that it is not justified for you to be "good" at spotting them.
It all comes down to practice.
You were born without being good at anything.
Maybe you were shit at your 9-5, but good at video games.
Why? Because you spent focus on video games.
And you spent little time focusing on your career.
Because it's not "time" that makes you better at trading.
If you stare at charts for 12 hours without understanding what you're looking at...
You'll still be shit at trading.
But if you spend 1 hour with full focus studying one liquidity sweep, understanding why it happened, how institutions positioned themselves...
You become better at reading the market.
The key isn't "time" spent. It's "focus" spent.
Why most traders quit
You will just keep doing the work without expecting immediate results, and you will then see breakthroughs and never stop because of the momentum that gives you.
That's the sentence that summarizes trading success.
But what makes people quit?
It's the doubt in their head while working with "no results" that tells them they aren't going to get that first profitable month.
So how do you combat that?
You just keep working with detachment from the outcome.
Just keep studying like a robot.
Robots don't look for instant profits.
They just execute the process.
That's what you do as a serious trader.
And the results will come.
The inevitable point
You should work so much on understanding market structure, liquidity, and institutional behavior that it is no longer justified for you to not be making money.
Or in other words...
Study so much that it would be "weird" for you to still be unprofitable.
I've seen it happen countless times.
Students who put in the work - real work, focused work - reach a point where profitability becomes inevitable.
Not because they found some magic strategy.
Because they understood the game so deeply that losing became unreasonable.
What this looks like
Most traders think "putting in work" means watching YouTube videos and taking random trades.
That's not work.
That's entertainment.
Real work is:
Studying every liquidity sweep until you can predict them
Understanding why fair value gaps work in some contexts and fail in others
Analyzing your losing trades until you see the patterns
Practicing entries until your execution becomes mechanical
When you've done this enough, something shifts.
You stop hoping trades will work.
You expect them to work.
Because you've put in so much focused effort that any other outcome would be weird.
Programming
Success is inevitable if you have the right mindset.
Program yourself differently.
Stop looking for quick wins.
Stop expecting results after a week of "trying."
Start thinking like someone building a skill that will pay you for decades.
Btw…
You should probably brainwash your mind to think successfully
I wish you luck
Talk soon,
Atif