Discretion or Luck?

How to understand if you have just luck or you build the discretion?

I have entered many trades in my trading history. I would say it is way over 1,000 trades, after all I am trading for some time (since 2020, for those who do not know).

I think that you all know that when you enter the trade and everything just feels different. You just feel the trade and that’s what I want to talk about with you today. If you are in my free telegram channel you might have seen my GBP/JPY trade I took there. Live. Everything was sent there and I was just in the flow. The trade was running a lot of days before I closed it, but I just felt it. Ended up closing on 3.1R, because I added the positions to scale even more profit. It was a good trade.

Even though I am not too often analysing the trades after I take them, I try to focus on 100% just entering based on my criteria, discretion while waiting for the lower timeframe PA, I have to reflect on this one.

I am sometimes asking myself, if the trades I manage really well - in my opinion this was exactly that trade - if I am…