A personal, first-person reflection by a trader (Kardec Trader) on coping with trading losses. The speaker reports being profitable every year for the past six years and explains that sustained prior profits make individual losses feel smaller—contrasting being overall up (e.g., up $400,000 despite a $30,000 loss) versus being in multi-year drawdown where incremental losses grow and feel worse.
Six years
Because I've had multiple green years back to back to back to back, like, past six years, I've been profitable every year. Like, I've been in the game long enough to understand the losses happen, and I understand long enough that if I stay alive, I will walk out green, essentially. And I've also learned to understand that it's part of the game. And because I've had green months and green years and so on, I'm essentially up. That makes sense, right? So I think for most people, when you're in that stage of you're still red for the year or past two years or since you've started, the loss hurts deeper because now your drawdown, instead of it being 40k, now it's 50 instead of 50, it's 60 instead of 60, it's 70. It's like, oh, my God, I'm down 70k in total now instead of, well, you know, I'm still up $400,000. I took a 30k loss, which sucks, but I'm still okay.
