What to do when trading clicks

Trading Discussion
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What do you do when you finally have and edge and trading start to click

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Keep clicking! :+1:

Make sure you have statistically significant evidence of your edge, and that your position-size is low risk.

Withdraw profits regularly (you have to pay yourself!).

Grow the account gently and carefully.

Keep looking around and investigating other things, too, in case whatever you’re doing suddenly stops working (as trading systems can?).

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When things finally start to click and you know you have a real edge, the key is not to get cocky — get consistent.

Here’s what I focus on:

  1. Double down on discipline.
    journaling every trade, reviewing weekly stats, and sticking to my rules like a robot.

  2. Slowly scale up.
    I don’t immediately jump from risking 1% to 5%.

  3. Stress test the edge.
    I keep running the setup across different market conditions — low volatility, high volatility, ranging vs. trending — and validate that the edge holds. If it doesn’t, I adapt, not abandon.

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Same with what Jackie said! :blush: It really takes a while before that happens, and I feel like not all trades get to experience that. :sweat_smile: So, once it does, I think you just have to stick with it and eventually try to look for ways to improve it! :blush:

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I try to be disciplined with risk management and try to at least reach the break-even point with a withdrawal to save capital first. Then compound some of the profit to add a power margin.