10 trading lessons that took me 5 years to learn (free in 3 minutes). Write this down.Save it. Come back to it. Send it to a trading accountability partner. 1. If you don’t know the odds, you’re gambling. 2. If you let go of needing to “win” every day, week, or month… it becomes much easier to win over a year. 3. “Consistently profitable” trading is basically an oxymoron. If you want a paycheck, get a job. 4. The more perfectly optimized a system looks, the less likely it survives live trading.