It's not about a strategy. It's about how you see yourself.
When I first started trading, after beginners luck period, I honestly believed the strategy was the missing piece that would fix everything, like once I found the right setup the market would finally make sense, my losses would stop, and Id just execute trades like a machine and collect profits on schedule.
So I did what most beginners do, I went on the hunt, watching hours of content, saving charts, screenshotting models, changing my templates, and telling myself I was learning, when in reality I was just chasing certainty because I hated the feeling of taking losses. And if you fall into the ICT universe, that hunt becomes endless, because theres always another video, another name, another new concept that looks fresh on the thumbnail but feels suspiciously like an old idea with a new label, and it keeps you busy enough to feel productive while you quietly avoid the one thing you actually need to face.
Thats the doom loop.
You lose, it hurts, you blame the method, you go searching for a better one, and you repeat, not because youre lazy, but because your brain is trying to protect you from pain by convincing you the solution is more knowledge.
Later I found its not strategy what makes you profitable, but you. You turn it in to profits. Let me explain why.
How is this possible?
Same strategy in hands of two traders - One person will make make money, get funded and retire and another will keep blowing accounts, frustrated and at some point start to look for another new better strategy again. How ? If they both have good strategy? It's about how you see yourself. How you see yourself you will behave.
Self Image - Identity - Wrong aproach
Beginners always thinking, once Im profitable and funded I will be dis