A method to dramatically improve at trading! Return to the basics

This time Investment Navigator+ writes about “A fundamental return to the origin: how to drastically improve your trading.” The content is priceless. I, who has experienced writing the flow to become profitable from the origin.

Back then, when I was practicing, I didn’t think much about the article’s content, but looking back, there was a solid basisthat made it work.

If you are wandering, I wrote this content hoping that through real trading, as many people as possible would grasp a “winning path.”

This content is the story of a time when I, who had wandered and grown tired of trading, obtained a winning trigger. It is also something I want to deliver to everyone who continues to wonder, “how can I become able to win?”

Especially for small-time traders with less than 5 million yen in surplus funds, I would like you to try it.

Now, the trading world is flooded with countless information. SNS, YouTube, GogoJungle… Every method seems to say something correct, but you don’t know which one suits you, and you end up lost. Before you know it, you’re just studying and lacking practical experience — I was in the exact same situation.

But one day, my way of thinking about trading changed. It was through “repetitive practice” and “dividing capital management,” seemingly simple and obvious things. Once I started applying these two, trading became reproducible technique.

After finishing this book, you will feel this:

“No need to rush. The path to winning does exist.”

And I hope, if your isolated bits of knowledge connect into a single line, your trading will start rising to the right. Please use this content to take that first step.

I wrote this while my left eye spasmed, so please treat me to a cup of Starbucks coffee (660 yen).

Also for free, I wrote a little about methods, so even if you’re the type who drinks coffee yourself, please read up to halfway. I apologize for any typos or parts I may have forgotten.

Chapter 1: Why do so many people study so hard but still not win?

Many people who enter the world of trading think, “I will win.” But the reality is different. 99% of people dissolve their funds and disappear from the market midway. There is a clear reason for this.

That is because they do not view trading as a job.

Every profession has steps of “learning,” “practice,” “experience,” and “growth.” Just as a professional baseball player cannot become top-tier in one year, or a chef cannot be put in charge of a famous restaurant in a few months, trading is fundamentally a craftsman's world, in my view.

Nevertheless, most people spend their time just trying to find a profitable method, and do not know how to improve.

The only way to win in trading is probably repetition. No matter how much theory you learn or how deeply you study indicators, unless you actually look at charts and move your hands, you won’t improve. Knowledge alone won’t make you able to win.

If a major leaguer teaches you how to swing a bat, can you hit a home run tomorrow? Everyone knows that’s impossible. For those without accumulated practice, hitting a home run tomorrow is out of the question.

Think back to your own work. How many years did it take you to become proficient? How long did it take for your junior colleagues or subordinates to become capable?

Nobody was perfect from the start. You fail, feel frustrated, think, and try again. It’s through that repetition that the sense is finally formed. Trading is exactly the same.

Yet in the market world, it often looks like “easy money.” So when you lose a little, you feel you lack talent and can’t continue. But in reality, you simply lack experience.

Many people are not “unable to win” but “not enough practice.” Their study and effort are misdirected. No matter how much you study, in trading real-time practice is everything. True understanding comes only from the charts.

If you truly want to win, start by treating trading as a job. Learn, research, practice, reflect, and practice again. The road to becoming a profitable trader lies in this dull, tedious repetition.

However, now through GogoJungle and SNS, there is an environment where you can purchase and share knowledge and logic that other traders have actually used. If used correctly, it can save a lot of time and help prevent unnecessary losses.

Back then, I belonged to a 20,000-yen-per-month school for two years, but after starting to use these methods, I began to win in about three months.

Of course, every indicator or method will have a compatibility with your life, funds, and past experience with you.

At first it may feel a little hard to fit, but the process of adjusting to fit you is what will cultivate your real trading skill.

Chapter 2: A story where capital management changed my life

If you ask me what truly helped me win in trading, I would answer without hesitation: “Changing capital management.”

At first, I faithfully followed the common 1–3% loss rule. It sounds planned, right? But after about six months, my funds melted away, and my spirit broke. (I had been trading for roughly the previous three years in a messy way.)

What I found and leaped forward with was capital management split into 300,000 yen into 100 parts(1,000–3,000 yen per trade). I simply didn’t want the funds to vanish, so I thought, “Even if I lose 10,000 yen in a day at the slots, I’ll feel okay,” and started operating with that sense. Still, I loved trading and frequently watched the charts.

Back then, trading was quite sloppy in hindsight, and I would think, “Since it’s 3,000 yen, I don’t need a stop-loss.” I used lot sizes of 0.02, and a roughly 10-dollar move against me would trigger a stop. Initially I traded somewhat arbitrarily, but because I didn’t like the feeling of getting stopped out immediately after entry, I gradually began to consider the relationship between stop-loss width and entry position.

And I realized that “trying to counter-trend on a 1-minute chart leads to instant profit”. As a result, the practice of “losing small” helped develop the ability to lose correctly. Repeating with a small unit of 3,000 yen allowed me to gain hundreds of experiences, and gradually the relationships among entry position, stop-loss width, and take-profit points became visible.

A particularly big discovery was “on the higher-timeframe’s horizontal lines, counter-trend on the 1-minute chart works”. I would counter-trend on the 1-minute chart and enter in line with the support and resistance on the higher timeframe. It’s simple, but the reaction was surprisingly strong. It was then that the concept of “risk-reward” finally clicked for me.