Kardec Trader spent two years trading without a plan, constantly switching strategies and sizing positions by emotion instead of rules. The lesson: hours logged don't matter. Intentional practice does.
I think my biggest regret in trading is the first two years I wasn't intentional with my trading. What I mean by that is I would wake up, go in front of my computer unprepared, unplanned, no edge in the markets at all. My strategy is changing every day, every week, every month. My risk is not consistent. One day it's high, one day it's low. It's. It's dependent on how I feel. And that for the first two years of my trading career, put me in a place where I was all over the place. I didn't have any sort of understanding of about myself or about the markets. So if I could go back, that is something I wish I was more intentional about. You know, I would have my screens open for hours and just look at them when I go back. I'm like, what was I looking for? I don't know. So it's the idea of the more hours you put in, you feel like the more you're doing. But in reality, I always say hours doesn't equate to results. It's the quality of hours you put into something.
