Juank

One thing I notice about newer traders is that they spend a lot of time looking for entries and almost no time thinking about what happens after they're in. The entry is maybe 10% of a trade. The other 90% is managing it. Where do you take partial profits, how do you trail your stop, what do you do if it goes flat for three days, how do you handle it when price is one tick from your target and starts reversing. These are the situations that actually determine your P&L over time, and most people never develop a framework for them because all the education content is focused on finding setups. I had this problem early on. I'd spend hours finding the perfect entry and then have absolutely no idea what to do once I was in. I'd either take profits way too early because I was scared of giving them back, or I'd hold too long because I was anchored to some arbitrary target that the market had no reason to respect. What helped me was starting to think about every trade in three stages before I entered. Where I'm getting in, where I'm wrong, and where I'm taking profits. Entry SL TP. And not just rough areas, but actual levels I could point to on the chart and explain why they matter. If I couldn't do that for all three before entering, I didn't take the trade. It sounds basic, and it is. But the gap between knowing this and actually doing it every single time is where most accounts die.