you'll NEVER be profitable in trading if you do this

19 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker emphasizes that trading rules exist for a purpose and should not be treated as optional. He cites a recent retrace that was confirmed ten minutes outside the London "kill zone" as an example of a rule‑based entry. He warns that when traders start bending or ignoring these predefined rules—thinking a trade will go up or that an exception is justified—they introduce inconsistency into their performance. This inconsistency erodes continuity, making it impossible to attribute wins or losses to the system versus ad‑hoc decisions. Consequently, a trader’s record (e.g., 10 wins and 10 losses) becomes meaningless because the outcomes are a mix of disciplined trades and creative, rule‑breaking trades, preventing clear assessment of the strategy’s true effectiveness.

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Like the retrace only got confirmed basically 10 minutes outside of the London kill zone, which again brings me back to the point that I was trying to make earlier on in the video where like the rules are there for a reason. The rules do not exist there for you to be, oh yo, let me, let me be flexible with my rules. And this one I feel like it's gonna go up or like this one I feel like it's okay to, you know, kind of ignore the rules. And the moment you allow yourself to do that is the moment where you start getting seem like just super inconsistent results because then there is no sense of like kind of like continuity in terms of your trading. If every single time you lose, you lose because of a different reason, sometimes it's because you followed the rules and you still lost, and sometimes you didn't follow the rules so you lost, you will still look at the overall kind of like balance sheet and you're like, okay, I had, I don't know, 10 wins and 10 losses, but those 10 losses, or heck, even those 10 wins, you do not know if it's a result of just you following the system or if it's you just, you know, getting creative.