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🔎 Why Traders Fail
- Oversizing positions to hit a profit target quickly, which turns a normal losing streak into a breached drawdown.
- Ignoring the daily drawdown because the max drawdown seems far away — the daily limit is usually the one that ends accounts.
- Revenge trading after a loss, abandoning the plan that was working.
- Not reading the rules — missing a consistency rule, a news-trading restriction, or a weekend-holding restriction.
- Trading a strategy on the evaluation that is different from the one that works live, usually because of pressure to hit the target fast.