The Art of Crypto's presenter argues that breaking your own trading rules kills profitability. He cites a price retracement confirmed ten minutes outside the London kill zone, showing how flexibility makes it impossible to know if wins come from your system or luck.
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 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 seeing 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.
