Check this pattern against your own trading history.

Pull up your blown accounts. Do it…. I know you don’t want to but you have to.

Your worst “give-back weeks”. Now look at where you were when each one happened. Not what the market was doing. Where YOU were.

I'll bet most of the damage came when you were close to something. A hundred dollars from the payout. One green day from passing. A new equity high on the funded. INCHES AWAY.

That's not just bad luck fam. The most critical mistake almost always happens when you're the closest. Far from the goal, you're patient. Nothing to protect, nothing to force. Then the finish line shows up and suddenly you need this one to work. It just has to, how could it not?! You cut the corner you swore you'd never cut. You rush the trade that didn't need rushing.

Why? Seriously, let’s really think about this. Because at the finish line you stop trading the chart and start trading the outcome. You're not executing a setup anymore. You're trying to close a loop, prove a point, finally get the thing.

The market punishes anyone who needs it. No exceptions.

So here's the check for this week. Before any trade, one question: am I taking this because the setup is here, or because of what it would accomplish for me?

If the answer is ever the second one, you just caught the exact mechanism that's been costing you accounts.

There's more underneath this. Why the needing shows up at all, and what actually dissolves it.

That's the center of what I'm covering Monday July 20, 7:30pm CST, live and free. Trading Purgatory: why most traders stay stuck, and how to get out.

Save your spot: https://tradetopia.pro/purgatory

~ Mago 🧙🏽‍♂️