Oversizing trades removes margin of error, causes panic exits. Trading psychology can't be learned from books.

I missed so many trades back then because I would oversize and I wouldn't get myself the margin of error and where the trade would invalidate that, you know, prior risk would scare the shit out of me. So if it started ticking against me, I was like, I would just reenter when it bounces again. And then that's where the chop comes in. So seeing those P and L's can be extremely detrimental to somebody who doesn't trade sizing wants to. So I think you touched on something super important there. And it's the part of trading that you can't learn from a YouTube video or a book or a PDF or a course and it's trading psychology, which I think goes hand in hand with risk management. The callus that you build up from over sizing on a trade, it goes a few ticks against you, you puke, then it veer versus to your target, holding a trade beyond your target, not taking profit, it dumps 50% down. You're like, Oh my God, I was up so much money. I didn't close those types of emotions, those types of feelings. The only way to learn how to regulate that is by doing it yourself. I could teach someone in a day exactly how I mark up my chart, exactly how I look for my entry, where my stop loss goes. But once the trade is on, it's a completely different ball game, especially when there's real money at risk. And that's something that social media does not capture at all. All you see is the outcome. Oh, they made all of this money. You have no idea what their risk management was, how they managed to hold through the ebbs and flows. They were