Gm ☕️
Real talk: If you’ve missed the recent rotation over the past few weeks, or didn’t catch the trades in Pump, Aster, XPL and whatever, and you’ve been out there still trying to find your edge, whether that’s trading meme coins on Solana or somewhere else, and meanwhile your portfolio is red while the entire TL screams about million-dollar PnLs and everyone getting rich… that’s completely normal.
Right now, feeling drained, uncertain, and stuck on a plateau where you start questioning if you’ll ever be profitable or if you’ll ever manage to consistently pull profits out of this market, that’s exactly the point where most people quit. Some step away for a long break because they don’t trust themselves to develop the skillset needed to trade profitably in the long run.
Taking breaks is fine. But if you feel that inner pull, that subconscious drive that won’t let you walk away, it will keep bringing you back to the markets again and again.
And if you stay committed, build routines, refine strategies, and actually learn how to read the market properly, five years from now you’ll ride an entire rotation from start to finish. The ticker names won’t matter.
What matters is: finding your edge. Don’t stress if you’re currently in the situation I just described, almost everyone is. And the loudest people on the timeline telling you “you missed it, maybe trading isn’t for you” are usually the ones who missed out themselves and are just projecting.
So relax. The market isn’t going anywhere. We’ll have opportunities to trade and invest for the rest of our lives. Everyone develops their own strategy and edge over time. Stay calm, ease up a little if the last few weeks stressed you out, size down, and most importantly, stay active in the market.
The key is to grow through your own experience, your sizing, and your mistakes. Slow, steady progress will get you to the goal in the end. Less gambling, more disciplined trading. And always work on refining your market analysis.
You grow through your process, but the most important part is that your discipline stays the same. If you told yourself beforehand that you’re going to trade the setup with specific take-profit targets and a defined stop-loss, then you execute exactly that. That’s how a profitable mindset is built: by not lying to yourself, not betraying your own plan, and not falling into emotional traps, by staying loyal to your setups.
This is how you create a long-term, stable routine that repeats and evolves as you refine it over time. But if you build a trading plan and then fail to follow it, you don’t really have a framework, you’re trading blind. Avoid that.
At the end of the day, it’s not about how many trades you take per day, it’s about knowing when to size in properly and when it’s time to actually be active.
Because the most important routine isn’t trading itself, it’s life: your health, getting enough sleep, training your body, and taking care of yourself. Everything else, your profits, will stack on top over time.
True wealth doesn’t come from quick one-off wins, but from compounding. That’s what really builds lasting wealth.
If you’re feeling lost right now and think you need to jump into something quickly just to chase the same kind of PnL others are posting, that’s a form of revenge trading, and it’s exactly what you need to avoid. Wait for your setup. Wait until it feels right, the risk management makes sense, and then execute properly and trade with intention.
Don’t just blindly buy whatever you see on the timeline just to “be part of it.” That path only leads into a downward spiral. Your setup, your mindset, your routine, your timing, and your gut all have to align.
Most importantly: don’t start oversizing or overleveraging to make back losses you might have taken in the dip or elsewhere, just to push your portfolio back to ATH. Those are the exact habits that cause burnout and can completely destroy a portfolio.
The volatility and the overwhelming emotions on the timeline, on CT, have led many young traders into the illusion that everything has to happen overnight. The classic myth of “overnight success” or instant wealth.
And that’s the real problem, because trading doesn’t work like that.
Trading works through systematically adjusting your lifestyle, mindset, and strategies over time, so that profits can compound gradually and build lasting wealth. And to achieve that, you need time, discipline, and the inner drive to keep going.