This is a RANT
You either wanna be right all the time, or you wanna follow your system. Decide.
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego cage of "I," "me," and "mine" -Bhagavad Gita, 2:71
Warning: This might hurt a bit.
Everyone says they’re systematic—until their system tells them something they don’t like.
Then suddenly it’s,
“But the market looks choppy…”
“There’s no follow-through…”
“I’ll just wait for things to ‘settle’…”
Nah, that’s not being systematic. That’s you trying to outsmart your own rules because your ego wants to be right, or too scared to take a loss. You’re still chasing the perfect moment, trying to avoid losses, needing every trade to work. That’s not trading. That’s hoping.
Why a System Even Matters
A proper system isn’t just entry/exit rules on a chart. It’s your off-switch for overthinking. It’s how you move execution from System 2—slow, effortful, emotional—to System 1: fast, instinctive, automatic. Its how you make your trading effortless. (Nitin recently wrote a brilliant piece on this topic).
You’ve already done the hard thinking when you built the system. That work is done. Now? You just pull the trigger when the rules say so.
But here’s where people mess it up:
They keep judging the system by its results.
One red week and suddenly—“This system sucks.”
One green trade and it’s—“I knew it. I’m back.”
That’s not systematic thinking. That’s your ego playing God with a sample size of ten.
And worse—it’s unscientific as hell. You’re basing the validity of your process on short-term outcomes. That’s like saying a coin is broken because it flipped tails twice.
Every real system has losses baked in. Wanting a system that only wins is wanting a fantasy.
And then……
There’s a breed of traders who show up after the move’s over and go:
“See? It was obvious the environment wasn’t good—there was no follow-through.”
Yeah? No shit—in hindsight.
But when you’re actually placing the trade, nobody knows if follow-through will show up.
Not you. Not me. Not even the best traders alive.
Follow-through is something you experience after.
It’s not a signal—it’s a result.
Anyone pretending they knew it is either lying or delusional.
These are the same folks who will say,
"You should’ve known it was choppy."
Cool. Based on what? Based on “trust me bro?”
What they fail to get is this: your job isn’t to predict follow-through.
Your job is to follow your system.
And if your system says to trade, it’s your job to trade.
And if it says not to, you don’t.
Short-term results shouldn’t judge your System
Here’s one of the biggest traps traders fall into:
They judge the quality of their system by the short-term results.
A couple of losses and they start second guessing. Distrust in their system creeps in.
One win? “It works!”
One loss? “It’s broken.”
Two losses? “I need to change my rules.”
Three wins? “God mode activated.”
It’s a yo-yo of delusion.
This mindset is not just wrong—it’s dangerous.
Not having a system is bad.
But you know what’s worse?
Having a system and not trusting it.
It leads to emotional instability, anxiety, system hopping, which leads to epic underperformance.
Professionals know that every system includes losses.
Hell, even a 60% win rate means you're wrong 4 out of 10 times.
Are you gonna trash your edge every time those 4 losses hit?
If you built your system based on logic, data, and testing,
then your only job is to follow it.
Not re-evaluate it emotionally after every trade.
You don’t change the plane mid-flight because of turbulence.
You fly the damn plane.
The Hindsight Experts
You’ve seen them.
You’ve probably been them (No kidding).
The ones who say,
“Look at that chart… it was obvious the environment wasn’t great.”
“There was no follow-through. You could tell it was a choppy week.”
“Clear distribution if you look closely.”
Hindsight geniuses.
All the clarity in the world—after the fact.
But here’s the problem:
Follow-through is always a hindsight phenomenon.
No one—and I mean no one, not even the best—
knows if a trade will follow through when they take it.
At the moment of execution, all you have is your setup, your data, your edge.
Follow-through only reveals itself after the fact.
So making post-trade judgments based on that is just intellectual cosplay.
You’re not being smarter.
You’re being dishonest—with yourself.
This is why we have systems.
To filter out noise and self-deception.
To make decisions based on what we know now, not what becomes obvious later.
The Debate Is a Distraction
Every week, there’s noise.
People arguing:
"Should we be trading this market?"
"Is this a low probability zone?"
"Wait for more confirmation!"
"Not the right time!"
None of that matters if you already have a system.
If your system signals a trade, that’s the end of the discussion.
All this debating is just your ego in disguise—itching to be in control.
It wants to feel smart, to avoid being wrong, to pick the “best” environment.
But here’s the truth:
Your system (that is if you have one) already has the environment factored into it.
Trying to outthink the system is just another version of trying to be right.
Another layer of control.
Another form of fear.
Professional traders don’t ask if it “feels” right. They ask:
“Did the system say go?”
That’s it. Full stop.
The rest?
Just dopamine-chasing.
Just narrative-building.
Just ego.
Kill the debate.
Execute the plan.
“You Don’t Rise to the Level of Your Hindsight, You Fall to the Level of Your Execution”
The average armchair traders are great theorists. They know how to talk systems. They know how to dissect setups, quote market wisdom, and screenshot ideal trades in hindsight.
But when it comes time to pull the trigger—or not—they freeze, hesitate, override, or justify.
This game isn’t won by knowing what a good system is. It’s won by repeatedly executing it, especially when it’s boring or painful to do so.
That’s what separates the real ones from the crowd.
“You either want to be right, or you want to be consistent. Pick one.”
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Man, i thought I was super disciplined and then i read this and I feel seen..ouch but in a good way.