Stop taking bad trades

9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, The Art Of Crypto shares a personal trading story: a $10,000 profit was effectively reduced to $4,000 because he kept taking numerous lower‑quality “B” setups. He explains that true “A+” setups are rare outliers—trades that are unmistakably high‑probability and clear in their upside. The speaker argues that consistent success comes not from chasing every opportunity but from exercising strict discipline and patience to only enter these A+ setups while avoiding the “garbage” trades that appear between them. The core message is that mastering self‑control and selective trade entry is the path to winning in crypto trading.

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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.