Two traders explain why choppy markets kill profits: breakouts fail repeatedly, positions pile up with no payoff, and only about five or six days per month generate 70% of yearly gains. Risk management and trade sizing matter more when the market won't commit to a direction.
You know what's the day where I lose the most amount of money?
Like here, when you keep entering, entering? No, no, no.
It's the days where I never have an expansion phase. Like days where I have marketing consolidation challenging the breakout of the high, failing 20 times in a day. This is the day where I accumulate position, but I never monetize them.
You're protecting yourself. My worst days are days like this where I'll try to catch this long 3 times, 4 times, 5 times. And it's all unsuccessful. And I'm just completely wrong on the analysis.
If you enter with low risk and you have a bigger stop loss, you will be right more times, right? But if I can enter heavy sizer, when I have AAA confirmation with a really high risk to reward, maybe I take less positions that are successful during the day. But at the profit and loss of the day, I have the good days that are really 25 worst sessions. Like I noticed that in the month, 5 to 6 sessions make 70% of the money.
100%. There's somebody I know that 5 days out of the year makes his whole year and everything else is just a wallet padding.
