This text may divide your entire trading journey into two parts: the previous trader and the current trader. You might ask, “What are you talking about? Such a big difference?”
The Initial Allure and the Trap of “Easy Money”
Remember the day you first heard about trading. Take a moment and think. Maybe you saw someone post a ₹50,000 PNL sprint, or watched a video claiming you could make ₹10,000 in a minute. Or perhaps a friend said, “Hey, you can easily earn ₹1,00,000 a month with this.” From that day, you thought how easy it would be to earn money through trading.
Then you immediately start comparing yourself with your cousin or your aunt, who earns ₹40,000–₹55,000 by working 8 hours a day. You think, “Man, this is what I should do.” You start having big dreams: if you learn this in a year, you’ll be rolling in money. No matter how much your cousin “lectures you,” you plan to surprise them—maybe with a new laptop.
All of this begins running through your mind, and these thoughts motivate you at that time. You work hard for a few days, do a lot of research, spend 4-5 hours in front of the screen, make notes, and do daily chart analysis. Then, when you make a profit for the first time, you feel like a god.
The Cycle of Loss and Blame
This feeling starts to fade, but after a few days or months, you experience more losses. You think, “No problem. I haven’t learned all the technical analysis yet. That’s why this loss happened.” You watch online content where creators talk about risk-reward and tell you to follow it, but no one tells you how to actually do so.
When six months or a year pass, the losses increase further. Then you start trying to recover your losses from the market, but this only makes the losses grow. Now, two years have passed. Instead of surprising your cousin, you are lying to them and losing money. You are burdened with guilt.
Now you start seeing the market as a villain. You find everything fake: all content creators seem fake, all screenshots seem fake. You think everyone is lying and that money cannot be made from the market. You begin blaming yourself.
The Most Underestimated Truth: Psychology Over Technicals
What I am going to tell you may be the most underestimated truth of trading: it is not about how good your technical analysis is; it is about how strong your mind is.
Some people ask, “If I don’t know technicals, can psychology alone make trading profitable?” That’s a fair question. I am not saying you shouldn’t learn technicals—technical analysis is very important. I am saying that after learning technicals, if you also work on your psychology, it will take just four months to become profitable.
In the beginning, I used to chase technicals, and it was a good thing. I became a master—technicals seemed to run in my veins. Honestly, in intraday markets, from **1:10 risk-reward trades** to stock selection, mitigation, and fair value gaps—I had a strong grip on everything, no doubt.
But today, if I say that psychology is the most important, it is because I have experienced this in my life. The story is a little personal: once my capital was ₹3,00,000, and in just three months it dropped from ₹75,000 to ₹70,000. I used to get scared every day I traded. If this loss happened, then it is over.
And that day came when I lost that, too. After abusing the market, I thought I would not go to the market now; I will do some other business. But after 6 months, I thought, “When I gave so many days, gave 2-2.5 years, there will be a little problem. Where am I not able to understand? Where is the problem?” From that day on, I did not leave the technicals; I started learning my technicals with emotion.
Start: Self-Awareness and Risk Planning
Can you also learn this? Yes, absolutely. But where to start? From self-awareness. Until it is not known when you come in greed, when you get rid of fear, or when you start trading revenge, nothing will change.
Second is risk planning. If the amount of loss in a trade is not predefined, you will lose. You will lose with routine. Trading is an art that runs on discipline, not just by looking at the 5-minute chart to get the jackpot.
An Assignment: Face Yourself
Now I want to give you an assignment. Just sit for 10 minutes, not in front of any chart, but in front of the mirror, in front of yourself. Pick your pen and paper and write: Where am I failing? What is the fear in me? Am I taking my trading like a business or like a fantasy?
Because when you face yourself, it becomes easy to face the market. Remember, the chart will give you a signal, but the mindset will give you a result.
Because you are focusing solely on technical analysis, your system is good, risk-reward is fine, and accuracy is also fine, yet there is still a loss. You have given 9 out of 10 shares of trading to the technical, and the most important part was your mind, your psychology, your inner system, which was ignored.
The Driver and the Map
Those who succeed in the market are not the smartest, but those who can last the longest. And the one who knows how to handle his mind is the one who lasts.
The technical is just a map, but the map only works when the driver can drive the car properly. Not to reverse at every turn. You have a strategy, but if the SL (Stop Loss) is hit, you are out. You also have a plan, but as soon as there is a loss, you become emotional and change the system. This is the real reason for the loss.
Inner Trading: The Turning Point
Now, a very important turn comes from here: on such a labour, 90% of traders go back, but the same 10% people start inner trading. Inner trading means trade that does not run on the chart but runs inside you. If you lose in a trade, why does it affect your next 10 trades? Why do you think after the trade that “I am a fool, I will not be able to do it”? Why do you make your loss your identity?
Now is the turning point where real traders are made. At that point, you choose one of the two things.
- First: Either you start looking for a new strategy again—RSI plus MACD, Fibonacci, Volume, I don’t know what it is. And next month, you come back to the same circle.
- Second: You start questioning yourself. Why am I getting triggered? Why is my loss happening? Why is my SL hitting? Why am I overtrading? Why can’t I trust my system?
From here, your growth starts. In trading, the real edge is yours—your state of mind. You have a Zen trader inside you that can win over time by staying calm and following the rules, but you are so distracted by the outside that you are unable to hear that voice.
Money Comes First
In this game, money never comes first; first come your control, patience, and clarity. Get all this only when you learn that the market is a mirror. And the fear, greed, anger, impulsiveness that you are seeing in it—all that is coming from within you.
Never compare yourself to any YouTuber or anyone else. Because the very first rule of trading is: One size doesn’t fit all. Your mind, your risk threshold, and your stress response are different. What you see in your eyes may not be visible to anyone else.
Look, I am holding the direction because people are scared there. Now, someone trades on a breakout because he is profiting, but I consider a breakout to be fake. So someone trades on support and resistance, making money in that. So what I am saying is that you should stay in what you are good at. Don’t run away after seeing someone else. If your system is working properly, there is no need to change it.
The Biggest Killer
But people get greedy after seeing the P&L on social media. They think, “She is earning ₹40,000 daily, so why am I making only ₹4,000–₹5,000?” This is where the comparison starts, and this is where clarity ends. It is the biggest killer of profitable trading. Your strategy may be simple, but if it aligns with your mindset, it will deliver extraordinary results.
As soon as you start following someone else’s trading style, you get confused. First thing, you think: “I also saw the same thing, then why did my SL hit? He showed profit in the setup, then why did I lose? Am I making a mistake?” When this question keeps coming to mind, your self-confidence starts to decline. The confidence starts to fall from there, where trust hits your own system.
A tractor is working hard in the field. That tractor can do a good job in the same field, which is his, where he is holding, where his weight is properly attached to the ground. If someone says, “Brother, take this tractor to the river and work hard there,” what will happen? Either he will drown, or he will slip and get stuck there.
This is exactly what trading is. Every person’s mind, thinking, reactions, and courage are different. If your strategy is working, stop searching and start refining. Create your own trader state. You make your journal and keep track of every day. When you perform better, write everything in it: where emotions came, where the fear was overpowered—note that too.
How to Work on Psychology: Three Labels
Now let’s come to the real question: How do I work on psychology? Look, it’s simple. Understand the 3 labels very well.
1. Internal Silence
Means inner peace. Start the day at least 5 minutes before trading. Close your eyes and sit. No data, no WhatsApp, no telegram. Just connect with yourself.
2. Input Control
The YouTube video that shakes your system—stay away from it. The Telegram channel is confusing your entry and exit from that channel.
3. Self-Reflection
Start asking yourself questions. Ask yourself after every loss: “My loss was due to the system or because of emotions?” Ask after every profit: “This profit, is it right or wrong?” Because remember, loss of trading wins is not on the chart; your inner decision is already there; there is only execution on the chart.
Mindset Building: The Real Fight
I have seen many people who, out of 100 trades, get 85 right, still end up at break-even or in the red at the end of the month. I have seen a lot of examples. Why does this happen? Because technically, they have learned to take an entry, but to hold a trade, exit, or maintain stability, they could not. The real fight of trading, which you fight alone with your mind.
So I want to say: if today you are running in the technical race, ask yourself once: “Am I running in this race in the right direction?” Because technical is about a fast car, but the mindset is about its brakes and balance. If there is no brake, no matter how fast you drive, there will be an accident at some point.
It has come to work from that place where it makes the most difference: your mind, your thinking, your emotions. Don’t just listen to those things; start living in yourself. Keep track of your emotional reaction. Ask yourself questions after every trade. It will work a lot. Observe yourself daily: “How am I feeling today during trading?”
Because profit is an event, but mindset is a process. Profit will come once; it will go. But if the mindset is set, then the profit will come automatically. It will give you so much money that you won’t be able to keep it.
So start this journey from now. The people who think this is just a chart war—show them that this is a mind war. And the winner is the one who learns to control himself. Don’t work on the chart; work on your mind. Because from there, your real victory is going to come. Keep evolving.
