 Anyways, I'll cover this quickly. So holding trades, right? Now, the source, I think anyway, I think of holding or not being able to hold trades can come down to several factors, right? One of them, for me anyway, I'm gonna talk about maybe my personal experience and remembering back to when I had the same issue, right? I think for me, one of the main things was risk, right? And risking too much, right? Risking way too much. So let me break this down on any particular trade. So the first thing is if, for example, you was to risk a penny on that trade, yeah? On any trade, if you lose that penny, how would you feel? How would everybody feel? How would anyone feel about losing a penny? Not bad at all, right? You wouldn't even bat an eyelid, that's exactly you. You wouldn't feel bad, right? Oh, okay, so let's do a bit more of an extreme example, right? Let's say, for example, you lost, I'll do 10K, right? 10,000 pounds on a trade, yeah? How would you feel on that one? Exactly, right? Exactly, tears start coming to your eyes. You know what I mean? So, well, it depends on obviously what 10,000 pounds represents in terms of your risk percentage, but just looking at the amount, right? And what the amount represents to you, right? Right, exactly, stop trading, right? But 10,000 pounds could represent, if it represents 0.1% of your account, it's still, again, a bit, you know, it only represents 0.1%, but you know, you think just of what you could do with that 10,000 pounds, right? What it could buy you, a nice car, put, you know, pay off your mortgage, whatever it is, right? So, the point I'm trying to make is this, is that there's an emotional attachment to what you're risking and the amount you're risking, yeah? Even though, generally, I say 0.1%, yeah? On a trade, a lot of traders, A, don't do it, and B, they're not, they're not ultimately comfortable with what they're risking, they think they are, but they're not. And if you're not, it will manifest itself and it can manifest itself in the fact that you're not accepting of the loss, you're accepting of that loss, you couldn't care less, right? But if you lose that one, it's gonna hurt, right? So, as soon as prices start to go against you on a penny trade, you're just like whatever. As soon as prices start to go against you on a 10,000 pound trade, or $10,000 trade, right? You're gonna, you know, like, you know, Ken Put, you're literally gonna start, you know, tears are gonna start coming to your eyes, right? You're gonna start crying, right? It's supposed to be eyes and tears, but, you know, that's basically what it is. So you need to, and this is how I combated it, is understand the risk. And also I'm gonna extrapolate this, right? So let's say it's somewhere between that amount, right? And then just work your way up from there, right? You say, okay, penny, two-peak, three-peak, 10-peak, whatever it is. And it might seem like a thing where it's like, whoa, do you know what? If I risk a penny, I'm never gonna get rich, right? It's quick. But here's another thing as well, is understanding that the timeline, right? The timeline of you, you know, making money, whatever external pressures you've put on yourself, whether it's, you know, you need the money, you put this, you know, you're trying to complete a prop firm deadline in a month's time and all that kind of stuff, right? You have to trade stress-free. You have to not think about the money because ultimately it's about the process. If you can't turn, if you can't make money trading a penny, then you're damn sure not gonna make any money trading 10,000 pounds, yeah? Because it's just about percentages. It's about scaling up, yeah? If you can't turn one-peak to three-peak, yeah? You're not gonna turn 10,000 pounds to, you know, 30,000 pounds. It's just not possible. So don't scoff and don't start going, oh, well, I'm never gonna make any money because if you can't do it there, you can't do it on this. Yeah? As was told to me, if you can't handle peanuts, you're definitely not gonna handle coconuts, yeah? So look at trading and trading psychology as a long-term, you know, endeavor. It's a skill that's one of the hardest things you're ever gonna do, right? Ever, ever, ever gonna do in life. Many people give up and you know the statistics, right? But now I'm gonna extrapolate that, yeah? And not just say on one trade. So what I mean by that is if you lose one trade, cool. That's fine, yeah? But how would you feel if you lost 10 trades in a row? If you had a 10 trade losing streak, yeah? Meaning that if you lost, if you were risking, you know, one-peak, right? If you lost 10 trades in a row, which means that you would lose 10 pence, how would you feel? Probably, you know, you wouldn't feel any weight, right? You'd just be like, whatever. It is what it is, it's only 10 pence, yeah? Obviously, 10 pence could be a lot to some people, but generally, you know, unless, if 10 pence is a lot to you, then you really should not be trading at all, right? You should not be trading. So to the point is, is that 10 losing trades, let's just call it a 10 losing trades, right? Which is definitely possible. I've had a 15 trade losing streak. I've had an 11 trade losing streak, right? In the past, and it happens. It's not often, not at all, right? But it can happen. Now, if you lose 10 trades in a row, yeah? This is really how you should measure your risk. If you lose 10 trades in a row, yeah? And it equals up to 10 pence. Are you okay with that? If the answer is yes, then trading at one pence per trade is what you should be doing, yeah? You should think about your risk in terms of how much you will lose if you go on a losing streak, not how much you will lose on one particular trade or two particular trades, yeah? Divide 10 by whatever the risk is, right? So if you're happy to lose, if you say, all right, then I'm gonna lose. If I lose 10 trades, I'm gonna, you know, and I'm happy to lose, I don't know, like let's say for example, 5% of my capital, yeah? 5% of my capital on 10 losing trades. Then what you're saying is, is that if I lose 10 in a row, yeah? My every individual trade should be at least 0.5%. And that is where, you know, you start when it comes to understanding what you should be risking and why, maybe you're not being able to hold trades because if you're fearful of losing, if, you know, I don't know who put this question in, but if you're fearful of losing, you know, trades and you can't, you wanna snatch profits too soon, and especially still in the face of knowing that price generally does go in your favor, but you're still not confident enough, it can come down to the fact that you're risking way too much on that trade. There are other factors as well, yeah? You haven't accepted, you know, the loss, you haven't understood the law of large numbers, you know, in the fact that every trade is random, a great trade and A1 set up, yeah? The perfect set up can win, right? I mean, can lose, I should say, right? You can have everything line up, yeah? Perfect trade and it can still lose. You can have the worst trade in the world and it can win. You can just place a random trade right now, just press buy or sell without even knowing what's on the price chart and it's 50-50, yeah? Terrible trade, random trade, but it can win or it can lose, but we're not judging our trades over one or two trades, we're judging our trades over 100 trades and 100 perfect trades as well or high, very, very, very high standard, high quality trades, yeah? That's what we're judging ourselves over, not just one or two trades. By the way, is the person who wrote this, who asked a question about holding trades here, are they in the room? Are they in here? If you are, let me know, speak up, yeah? Anyways, so understanding risk, your risk, yeah? Is really important to being able to hold trades and accepting losing trades, not just one, but over a losing streak, 10, 15, 20 trades and it might sound like, well, what the hell? The strategy doesn't work if I lose 20 times but there are strategies that you lose more than you win and are still profitable because it depends on your risk-reward ratio. If you've got a three to one type trading strategy or four to one type trading strategy, then really you only need a win rate of maybe 25% or above that in order to be profitable, right? So some strategies are always about winning win rates. Doesn't really matter about win rates. It matters about when you win, do you win more than you lose and to what degree, great risk-reward. So I think I wrapped that up. I don't wanna go into it so much more depth but I think on the surface level, and I think that person, if they're not in here, if you're still having problems after this, then we'll have to have a maybe a one to one session with you to kind of unpick that but I'm hoping that that does clarify things. Does anyone else have any questions on that, by the way?