How do you recover from a bad first week of live trading?

A losing first week feels like a verdict, but it's just data. The question is what the losses were: tuition on real execution, or evidence of no plan at all.

How do you recover from a bad first week of live trading? — central bank rate path diagram
A central bank's policy rate path across recent meetings

If your first week was red:

  • what the losses taught you
  • how long you paused, if at all
  • what you changed for week two
How do you recover from a bad first week of live trading? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The demo vs live guide explains which parts of the first-week experience are normal.

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