Most traders don't lose money because their strategy is bad. They lose money because they don't follow their strategy.

Here's the pattern I see constantly: someone backtests a setup, it looks great on paper, they start trading it live — and the second they hit 2-3 losses in a row, they abandon it. Not because it stopped working, but because they never defined in advance what a normal losing streak looks like for that strategy.

The fix isn't a better indicator or a secret entry signal. It's building a rules-based system where:

• Every trade has a pre-defined invalidation point (not a feeling)

• Position size is fixed as a % of account, not adjusted based on 'conviction'

• You track win rate over a minimum 30-trade sample before judging a strategy, not 3 trades

I built Prime Trade Lab's Core Trading Course around exactly this — less about finding the 'perfect' setup, more about the discipline layer that makes any decent setup profitable over time. If you're a trader who already has some experience but keeps blowing up good strategies through inconsistent execution, this is built for you.

Happy to answer questions on this in the comments.