Instead, social media depicts trading as something that is quick and thrilling and which has a lot of glamorous returns and swift achievement.
The thing is though that trading is not a rabbit game. You can crash down when you are fast without discipline just like in the case of the rabbit in the fable of Aesop.
Trading is rather a turtle game, not fast, not methodical and not deliberate. And the turtle always wins. Let’s explore why.
🐢 Why You Need the Turtle Mindset in Trading
1. Speed Kills, Slow Progress Builds
🔸 Fast trades often mean reckless trades.
🔸 Chasing pumps, overtrading, and gambling on hype? That’s rabbit behavior — and it’s dangerous.
Turtles move slowly, but one step is considered.
It is possible to have a compounded interest of 2 percent in a week and on one year the account would be doubled.
The question to ask is, Will I have Instant money or long-term success?
2. Patience: The Turtle’s Greatest Weapon
🔸 Rabbits jump at every opportunity. Turtles wait for the best setups.
Patience in trading means waiting to be confirmed, waiting to receive good risk-reward and not pushing up trades.
Majority of blown accounts are inflicted not because of bad trades- but impatient trades.
The real traders do not trade on timing of the market they believe in the system.
There is no point in doing more things to make money in the trade markets rather than doing it in a better way.
3. Risk Management: The Turtle’s Shell 🛡️
🔸 A turtle’s shell protects it from harm. In trading, your risk management does the same.
🔸 In its absence, it only takes a single bad move to remove weeks or months of work.
🔸You should always apply stop-losses, your position size should be small and do not risk more than 1-2% of capital.
🔸 Rabbits risk big and fall fast. Turtles defend their foundation and last long in the game.
4. Consistency Beats Velocity
🔸 The bunny can run quickly —- but it cannot keep the speed.
🔸 Most traders fail to come out of this game at the end of their lives and blow up accounts hunting high returns only to land at zero.
🔸 Turtles, however, build slowly and consistently.
🔸Consistency implies adherence to a strategy, recording all the trade, and muscle memory to succeed.
5. Continuous Learning Is the Turtle’s Path
🔸 Fast traders think they’ve “figured it out.” Slow traders know they’re always learning.
🔸 Every trade, win or lose, is a lesson.
🔸Turtles study charts, backtest, study data and journal their move.
🔸 Rabbits skip the homework. Turtles study the course.
🔸 You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your system.” — James Clear
6. Emotional Control Separates Pros from Amateurs
Rabbits become emotional- they chase and fear pumps and react to not only dips but other oppressive things as well.
🔸 Turtles move with calm, following structure and logic.
🔸 Emotional discipline in trading is everything.
🔸 When you’re calm, you stick to your strategy.
🔸 When you panic, you make costly mistakes.
🎯 Some Advices
It is not the speed of trading, but the survival and strategy in trading
🔸 Rabbits chase. Turtles plan.
🔸Guard your capital as a turtle guards his shell
🔸 Let your edge play out over time
🔸Don t smell the market by seeking speed, instead strive to outlast it
Trading rewards those who play the long game.
Therefore instead of making a mad race, you being a rabbit, you just walk around together with a turtle.
🔸 Be patient.
🔸 Be disciplined.
🔸 Be consistent.
That is what it takes to win, create and remain in the game.
Fast traders make noise. Turtle traders build wealth. Which one will you be?
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