Progress in trading isn’t linear because the market doesn’t reward you for feeling improved - it rewards you for being aligned with current conditions. You can be disciplined for weeks, then hit a stretch where your exact same setups stop paying because volatility changes, structure shifts, or liquidity runs differently. That doesn’t mean you “fell off.” It means you just ran into the part of the journey where your edge gets stress-tested. That’s why it feels like you’re moving backwards sometimes: a losing week can happen right after a winning streak, confidence can vanish after one sloppy trade, and a drawdown can make you question everything even if you’re doing the same process. But the real growth is hidden in what you do during that dip - do you revenge trade, force setups, and start gambling or do you tighten your rules, reduce size, review your screenshots, and come back cleaner? Non-linear progress looks like this: you level up, you get humbled, you adjust, and you return sharper. The losses don’t erase the wins - they reveal what still needs refining. And every time you survive that cycle without breaking your discipline, you’re not just getting better at trading you’re building the trader that can actually hold the end goal. #futurestrading #propfirm #daytrading #tjr #motivation