Discipline and Rules
A trading system only proves itself on the trades you don’t want to take, the ones where every instinct says skip the entry or break the stop, because that’s the moment discipline and simply having rules stop being the same thing. The rule you keep is the one you dislike Anyone can follow a rule that agrees with what they already want to do. The real test of discipline is a rule that says take this trade when it feels wrong, or don’t take this one when it feels obviously right, because in-the-moment feeling and a tested plan disagree with each other more often than most traders expect. A trader who only follows their rules when the rules happen to match their gut hasn’t built discipline, they’ve just been lucky the two lined up so far. ...