What a wild ride this past week has been.

I started my IBKR account with €800 and came in ready to take trading seriously for the first time in years. But instead of approaching it with discipline and patience… I went absolutely nuts.

It was like something snapped. Back in 2014 and 2016, I was terrified to place a trade. I’d overthink everything and freeze up at the idea of losing money. But this time? It was the complete opposite. No fear at all — just a reckless, uncontrollable trigger finger.

In five days, I made over 200 trades. Yeah… two hundred. Almost all of them were impulsive, emotional, and completely without a plan. I chased, I FOMO’d, I bought tops, I held and hoped, I ignored the bigger picture and got caught up in meaningless upticks and downticks. Honestly, it was more like gambling than trading.

And of course, the market doesn’t reward that kind of behavior — it punishes it. Hard.

At the end of the week I lost in total €900.. That stings. But man… I’ve learned so much in just these few days. I’ve started uploading all my trades to my Profit.ly profile, and reviewing them has been a real wake-up call. Some of them are honestly embarrassing — I look at them and think, “What the hell was I doing?” 😅

But hey, this is part of the process. At least I’m not scared to trade anymore. I broke through that fear. And on Friday, I actually made a few really solid trades. That showed me what’s possible when I slow down and focus. Unfortunately, I still fell back into bad habits later in the day, but that contrast taught me a lot.

The potential is real. I felt it this week — and even though I lost money, my motivation has only gotten stronger. I now know I need to learn so much more. I need to become disciplined, to focus only on the best setups, to protect my capital, and to gain experience — the right kind of experience.

I’m 100% committed to this journey, and I’m so grateful for everything I’m learning. Thanks to everyone here for another incredibly valuable week. Onward and upward!

 

(And by the way — full transparency — I’m using ChatGPT to help me translate these blog posts. I’m definitely not some English grammar wizard 😅. I mean, I could try to write this myself… but trust me, you’d need Google Translate just to understand what I was trying to say. So yeah, shoutout to the AI — it makes me sound way smarter than I am.)