If You Don’t Know Your Strategy Works, Don’t Trade It

If you don’t have a proven strategy that you know has worked for you in live markets… don’t trade it.

I don’t care if somebody else made money with it.

If it worked for them, great. You can learn from that.

But that doesn’t mean it’s going to magically work for you.

That’s not the way trading works.

People see someone else’s results and think, “Okay cool, I’ll just do the same thing.”

No.

Those people didn’t wake up one day and suddenly become profitable. They didn’t flip a switch and everything clicked.

They built something.

They tested.

They learned where they messed up.

They figured out how they needed to execute it.

And that didn’t happen overnight.

And the crazy thing is — you don’t have to be the smartest person in the world to do this.

Honestly, the smarter you are, the more you overthink this whole thing.

Trading gets a lot easier when you strip it down to the basics:

If X happens, I do Y.

If X doesn’t happen, I don’t do Y.

That’s it.

But the problem with trading is this:

There are no rules unless you create them.

And you can’t create real rules until you’ve tested something enough to know, “Okay, this works for me. This actually makes sense in live markets.”

You don’t need to risk money to figure that out.

You don’t need to feel like you’re missing opportunities.

You don’t need to jump in early just because the chart looks “good.”

All you need to do is prove your edge before you try to trade it.

Test it in replay.

Test it in demo.

See how it actually behaves.

Watch it play out over and over.

See how it feels when you’re “in the moment.”

Because once you’ve done that — once you’ve seen it work for YOU — that’s when trading becomes simple.

Not easy.

But simple.

If you haven’t seen it work in your hands, in your chart, in your environment…

don’t trade it.