Stop taking bad trades

9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this instructional monologue, the speaker recounts a personal experience where a large $10,000 profit from a single trade was reduced to $4,000 after a month because of numerous lower‑quality "B" setups that eroded the gains. He emphasizes the concept of an "A+" setup – a rare, clear‑cut trade with high upside and low ambiguity – and argues that consistently targeting only these outlier opportunities is the key to sustained success. The speaker stresses that most trades are not A+; the market is filled with mediocre "garbage" setups that can derail performance. Therefore, traders must cultivate strict discipline, patience, and a precise definition of what constitutes an A+ setup, avoiding the flood of sub‑par trades. By doing so, they can protect profits and achieve long‑term profitability.

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There were moments before where I remember in a single trade I made like $10,000. Then when I look at the, you know, kind of like end of month report and, you know, when I actually go to, you know, withdraw that money into my account, there's only $4,000. That's because I was getting derailed by all of these B setups. And this ultimately just ties back to something that I always like to tell you guys in the YouTube videos, which is we all know what the A+ setup looks like. This is the trade to where everything is so clear and so straightforward that there is no other way to explain it other than this is a great potential trade. Now, if we only took those, again, we will be incredibly successful. The hard part about trading is to avoid all of the garbage that comes in between those A+ setups, because the entire kind of concept about these A+ setups is that they are outliers. And by exception, it means that it is not the norm, so it doesn't come around that often. So as a trader, if you are able to exercise more discipline, to be patient, to know exactly what you're looking for, and to only go for the A+ setups and avoid all of the garbage in between, that is how you win.