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# A losing trade doesn’t make you a bad trader. It j…


## Comments (1)

- **TheInvestingIguana · 2026-09-25T14:50:38.000Z**: Agree. The size point is the one people skip past fastest. Most post-mortems fixate on the read being wrong and never touch whether the position was sized for that read to be wrong sometimes. Easier to blame conviction than to admit the sizing assumed you'd be right more often than the setup actuall


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