【What you’re “pretending” to be doing is the most dangerous】

“I look at charts every day.”

“I’m always thinking about trading.”

“I study, I watch Twitter and YouTube.”

“That’s why I’m working hard.”

…Is that really true?

I used to think so too.

“Even though I’m making an effort, I can’t win,” I was in pain for a long time.

But now I understand.

That was just a case of me being in the mindset of “doing something.”

Just opening the charts made me feel like I was studying.

But I hadn’t done backtesting, hadn’t kept trade records, and hadn’t made improvements.

In short, even while losing, I was trading with an “unfounded feeling.”

“It seems to rebound around here.”

“It seems to rise somehow.”

“It was the same yesterday, so this time too.”

…and I’d lose, thinking, “FX is tough,” or, “I might not have the talent.”

But what changed was

the moment I stopped “doing something” and started “keeping records and testing.”

From there, I finally

figured out “why I lost.”

knew “where I should have taken profits.”

“Is this the winning pattern?”

I started taking reproducible actions.

If you’re reading this blog,

you might also be stuck in the mindset of “doing something” right now.

But listen:

“The winners” aren’t those who are merely in the act of doing something, but those who are following a method that yields results.