You've learned the basics. You know what a moving average is. You can read a candlestick chart. But your P&L is still flat — or worse.

Here's what I see over and over with traders who've been at it for 1-2 years:

1. Trading every setup

Not every pattern is worth your capital. The best traders I know take 2-3 setups a week, max. They wait for confluence — multiple signals pointing the same direction. If you're taking 5+ trades a day, you're not trading, you're gambling.

2. Ignoring the higher timeframe

You found a perfect 5-minute setup. Great. But did you check the daily? The weekly? If you're longing into a major resistance zone on the higher timeframe, your "perfect setup" is fighting the trend.

3. No post-trade review

Winners forget their trades. Losers forget their trades. Neither group improves. Every trade should go in a journal — entry, exit, reasoning, and what you'd do differently. This is the single highest-ROI habit in trading.

If any of these hit home, that's exactly why I built Trading Signals Tech. Real-time signals with the context behind them, structured courses on execution and risk management, and a community of traders who actually review their work.

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