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It’s pretty amazing…
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As long as we, as traders, can ignore the media noise and focus on the high-quality day trade/penny stock setups, we’re golden!
And when I say high-quality setups, I mean the ones that have proven themselves repeatedly and are highly likely to succeed again relative to other trades.
Let me give it to you straight…
There is no trade setup, no pattern, no strategy that works 100% of the time.
None. Zero. Zip.
If anyone tries to sell you a system that “never fails,” they’re outright lying.
This isn’t to discourage you…it’s to wake you up.
Because once you accept this fact and embrace it, your trading will start to evolve.
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What I Finally Realized
As a newer trader, I was obsessed with finding the perfect setup…
Clean pattern, great news, high volume, low float, everything. I’d study it and backtest it.
And then I’d take the trade…and it wouldn’t work.
It messed with my head. I’d go back to the drawing board thinking I’d done something wrong.
To be clear, sometimes I did make a mistake — bad timing, poor entry, too much size, etc.
But other times, I did everything right, and it still didn’t work.
That’s when I realized..
Trading isn’t about being right every time. It’s about managing risk, stacking probabilities, and playing the long game.
Patterns Are Probabilities, Not Promises
That breakout setup you love? The one you’ve seen work 7 out of the last 10 times?
Yeah, it still fails 3 times. Sometimes even more.
You’re not looking for guarantees.
Trading has nothing to do with guarantees!
You’re looking for high-probability scenarios where the risk is manageable and the reward is worth it.
You line up your pattern, the catalyst, the volume, the float, the market conditions, and you take your shot.
And always with a plan. Always with a stop.
Because the second you treat a pattern like it’s guaranteed to work?
The market will teach you a painful lesson.
The Dangerous Mindset That Gets Traders Wrecked
Say you get comfortable. Maybe you’ve had a hot streak. Your favorite setup has worked five days in a row, and you start to believe it’s bulletproof.
So what do you do?
You size up your positions, you skip the stop-loss, you ignore all the warning signs that it might not work…
You start trading purely on hope.
The market could care less about your hope.
Then the trade fails, and you take a big loss because your confidence in the pattern blinded you to the one thing that matters more than anything else: discipline.
What Makes a Trader Great Isn’t Their Win Rate
The other day, I talked about why you should ignore win rates, but here’s a refresher…
I’ll take a trader with a 55% win rate and rock-solid risk management over a 90% win rate gambler any day.
Why?
Because if you’re the 55% win-rate trader, you:
- Know when to cut your losses.
- Stick to your plan.
- Size your positions appropriately.
- Survive bad trades and thrive on the good ones.
You don’t have to be right all the time. You just have to:
- Be prepared for when you’re wrong.
- Learn from each setup, win or lose.
- And stay in the game.
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My Final Thoughts…
I still trade my favorite setups because they work…
But they don’t always work. And that’s okay.
I know what to look for: the warning signs, when to size in, and when to sit it out.
Because the difference between a professional and an amateur isn’t the pattern itself…
It’s how you respond when that pattern doesn’t behave the way you expected.
No trade is guaranteed. No pattern works every time.
But your process? That’s what keeps you alive.
Have a great day, everyone. See you back here tomorrow.
Tim Bohen
Lead Trainer, StocksToTrade
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