A Way to Dramatically Improve at Trading! Returning to the Basics

This time Investment Navigator+ published “A method to dramatically improve trading! Returning to the origin.” The content is priceless. What I experienced I wrote the flow to win while returning to the origin.

At the time, I wasn’t thinking about the article’s content while practicing, but looking back, there was a solidbasis that made it work.

If you are wandering, I summarized this content because I want as many people as possible to grasp a "winning path" through real trading.

This content is a story of how, when I was once迷走 and a little tired of trading, I obtained awinning trigger. It’s also a message for everyone who continues to wonder, “how can I become able to win too?”

Especially for small traders with surplus funds of 5 million yen or less, please give it a try.

Now, in the world of trading, there is an overwhelming amount of information. SNS, YouTube, GogoJungle… Each method may claim to be correct, but you don’t know which suits you, and you end up getting lost. Before you know it, you’re just studying and lacking practical experience—that was exactly my situation as well.

However, one day, the way of thinking about trading itself changed. It was the seemingly simple things of “repetitive practice” and “capital allocation management.” Once I started practicing these two, trading becamea reproducible skill.

When you finish reading this book, you’ll feel this:

“You don’t need to rush. The path to winning does exist.”

And it would be wonderful if the knowledge that had been scattered into points becomes connected as a single line. May your trading begin to rise steadily from here. Please use this content to take that first step.

I wrote this with my left eye twitching, so please treat me to one cup of Starbucks coffee (660 yen).

Also for free, there is a bit more about the methods, so even if you’re someone who prefers to drink coffee yourself, please read up to a point. If there are any typos or parts you’ve forgotten, I’m sorry.

Chapter 1: Why do many people stay enthusiastic but fail to win?

Many people who step into the trading world think, “I should be able to win.” But reality is different. 99% of people lose their funds partway and disappear from the market. There is a clear reason for this.

That reason isbecause 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, and a chef cannot be put in charge of a renowned shop in a few months, trading is inherentlya craftsman’s world.

Nevertheless, most people spend all their time looking for a “winning method,” anddo not know how to improve..

Is the only way to win in trading not simplyrepetition? No matter how much theory you study and indicators you examine, you won’t improve unless you actually look at charts and act. Knowledge alone won’t make you win.

If a Major League Baseball player teaches you how to swing a bat, can you hit a home run tomorrow? Everyone knows that isn’t possible. For someone without accumulated practice, hitting a home run tomorrow is impossible.

Think back to your job. How many years did it take you to become proficient? How long did it take your junior colleagues to be able to do things independently?

Nobody starts off perfect. You fail, feel frustrated, think, and try again. Through that cycle, the sense develops. Trading is exactly the same.

Yet in the market world, it can look like you can earn easily. So when you lose a bit, you feel you lack talent and can’t continue. But in reality, it’s justnot enough experience.

Many people are not “unable to win,” but “not enough practice.” The direction of study and effort is off. No matter how much you study, in tradingexperience is everything. True understanding only comes from the charts.

If you truly want to win, start by treating trading as a job. Learn, research, practice, reflect, and practice again. Only through the slow, boring repetition can you pave the path to becoming a successful trader.

However, nowadays through GogoJungle and social media, there is an environment where you can purchase and share the knowledge and logic that other traders have actually used. Used correctly, that 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 using this method, I started winning in about three months.

Of course, every indicator or method will interact with your life and money management and your past experiences, andcompatibilitywill emerge.

At first it may feel a little hard to fit, but that process of adjusting to fit you is what will cultivate yourgenuine trading skills.

Chapter 2: How money management changed my life

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

In the beginning, I faithfully followed the so-called loss of 1–3% rule. It sounds planned, doesn’t it? But after about six months, my funds were gone and my spirit was broken. (Before that, for about three years, I had also been trading in a sloppy way.)

What I found and leaped forward with wascapital management by dividing 300,000 yen into 100 parts(1,000–3,000 yen per trade).

At that time, trading was, in hindsight, quite rough. I was trading with 3,000 yen per trade, thinking I could skip setting a stop loss. The lot size was 0.02, and if the price moved about 10 dollars against me, I would stop out. At first I traded somewhat by feel, but there was a feeling of “being disgusted by stops getting hit right after entering,” so I graduallybegan to consider the relationship between stop loss width and entry position.

And I realized that“entering on a one-minute chart with a counter-trend tends to go into profit quickly”. As a result, the practice of “losing small” helped cultivate the power to lose correctly. Repeating with the small unit of 3,000 yen allowed me to accumulate hundreds of experiences, gradually seeing the relationships among entry position, stop loss width, and take-profit points.

A particularly big discovery was“reversing on the one-minute chart near higher-timeframe horizontal lines works”. Enter on the one-minute chart in a counter-trend, align with support and resistance on the higher timeframe. It’s simple, but the response was striking. And it was then that I truly understood the concept of risk-reward.