How I dramatically improved my trading! Return to the basics

This time Investment Navi+ has written “The method to dramatically improve trading! A return to the origin.” The content is priceless. It describes the experience of writing the flow to winning while returning to the origin.

At the time, I wasn’t thinking about the article’s content as I practiced, but looking back, there was a basis that worked.

If you are wandering, I compiled this content because I want as many people as possible to grasp a “winning path” through actual trading lessons.

This content is the story of the moment I, who had wandered into trading and was a little tired, obtained a winning trigger. It is also a message for everyone who continues to wonder, “How can I win too?”

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

Now, in the world of trading, there is an overflow of information. SNS, YouTube, GogoJungle… Every method seems correct, but you don’t know which one suits you, so you end up feeling lost. Before you know it, you’re just studying, with little practical experience—and I was the same.

But one day, my approach to trading itself changed. It was about “repetitive practice” and “dividing capital,” seemingly dull but essential. From the moment I started implementing these two, trading became a reproducible skill.

When you finish reading this book, you will likely feel:

“Don’t rush. The path to winning does exist.”

And I hope that the knowledge that has been scattered into points will connect into a single line. Your trading will begin to rise steadily from here. To take that first step, please use this content.

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

Also, for free, there are some practical methods written, so even if you prefer to drink your 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 who are enthusiastic fail to win

Many people who step into the world of trading think, “If it’s me, I can win.” But the reality is different. 99% of people melt their funds partway and disappear from the market. There is a clear reason for this.

That reason is because they do not treat trading as a job.

Every profession has steps of “learning,” “practice,” “experience,” and “growth.” Just as a professional baseball player cannot become top-class in a year, or a chef cannot be put in charge of a renowned restaurant after a few months, trading should fundamentally bea craftsman’s world.

Nevertheless, most people spend their time only chasing a “winning method,” and do not know how to improve. how to improve.

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

If a major league player teaches you how to swing a bat, can you hit a home run tomorrow? Everyone knows this. For those without consistent practice, hitting a home run tomorrow is impossible, right?

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

No one starts perfectly. You fail, you feel frustrated, you think, and you try again. With that repetition, you finally develop the sense. Trading is exactly the same.

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

Many people don’t fail because they can’t win; they fail because they lack practice. The direction of study and effort is off. No matter how much you study, in trading practice is everything. True understanding comes only from the charts.

If you are serious about winning, start by treating trading as a job. Learn, research, practice, reflect, and practice again. The path to becoming a profitable trader lies in this steady, repetitive process.

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

I, too, joined a 20,000 yen per month school for two years back then, but after starting to use this method, I began to turn winning in about three months.

Of course, every indicator and method will have some compatibility with your life and money management, as well as your past experience, compatibility.

At first, it may feel a bit hard to fit, but it is precisely in the process of adjusting to suit you that your genuine trading skill will grow.

Chapter 2: A story where money management changed my life

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

In the beginning, I faithfully followed the commonly told loss limit of 1–3%. It seemed planned, right? But after about six months, my funds melted and my spirit broke. (Earlier, for about three years, I traded rather sloppily.)

What I found next and what propelled me forward was 30,000 yen split into 100 portions for money management (1 trade was 1,000–3,000 yen). Simply because I didn’t want to lose all my funds, and since I was a bit tired from melting funds, I began to operate under the idea that “even if I lose a day in slots, losing about 10,000 yen is tolerable.” That mindset was the trigger. Still, I loved trading and kept watching charts frequently.

Back then, the trading was quite rough in hindsight: “It’s 3,000 yen, so I won’t set a stop loss.” The lot size was 0.02, and a roughly 10-dollar adverse move triggered a stop. At first I traded somewhat loosely, but I began to think, “It irks me to be stopped out right after I enter,” and gradually I started considering the relationship between SL width and entry position.

And I realized that “Reversing on the 1-minute chart tends to go into positive quickly after entry”. As a result, the practice of “losing small” trained me to lose properly. By repeatedly using the small 3,000-yen unit, I accumulated hundreds of experiences, and the relationship between entry position, SL width, and take-profit points gradually became visible.

The most significant discovery was “reversal on the 1-minute chart works near higher time-frame horizontal lines”. I would reverse on the 1-minute chart and enter along the support and resistance on the higher time-frame. It’s simple, but the response was surprisingly strong. And it was then, for the first time, that the concept of “risk-reward” clicked for me.