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I need to talk about something that frustrates the hell out of me, and probably does the same to you. You can do everything by the book, follow your plan perfectly, execute with discipline and still lose money.
If you can’t accept that reality, trading will drive you crazy. You’ll spend your nights obsessing over what went wrong, rewinding the tape again and again, trying to force logic onto something that was simply irrational.
Here’s the thing: Last week, I made over $1,300 on Monday, lost about $700-$800 on Tuesday, bounced back with $550 on Wednesday and made $850 on Thursday. That nets me over $1,200 for the week despite a painful loss right in the middle.
I don’t like losing any more than you do. I always go back to the tape to see what I could have done differently. But when I’m sticking to my rules, trading 10-15 deltas or even five deltas, I know I have good probability on my side. I just accept that not every day is going to work.
When the Market Does the Unthinkable
Let me paint you a scenario: Imagine right now, in 2026, we experience another 1987 Black Monday crash, a 20 standard deviation move.
There’s nothing you can do to save that trade. You accept the loss and spend the next 20 to 30 days fighting back to recover it.
But here’s what gives me confidence: I know I can do it. That kind of event is an outlier, a Black Swan that goes down in history, but the market can do something you’d never see coming, and you have to accept that possibility.
Some days, there’s nothing you could have done differently. This is especially true with 0DTE trades. The market won’t always follow the book, and you’ll see three standard deviation moves that defy careful planning with 10-15 delta positioning.
That’s why I always play a lot of defense when things start getting ugly. I never want to take the full brunt of a move that’s breaking every rule in the book. Defense keeps losses manageable so you can survive long enough for probabilities to work in your favor again.
It also helps to understand how the market tilts the game: Implied volatility is almost always higher than what the market actually ends up doing, which is why premium sellers and market makers have a structural edge.
They lean into that gap and let time and probability do the heavy lifting. It’s not magic, it’s math.
The 90% Rule That Keeps Me Coming Back
I run a service called the Daily Profit Plan with a 90% win rate, 546 winners out of 611 trades. That track record gives me the confidence to show up every single day knowing I should win.
That confidence is what allows me to bounce back after losses, but you have to accept how frustrating that other 10% can be. Those losing trades are part of the game, built into the system. No matter how well you plan, you can still lose.
That’s why psychological resilience matters as much as trade selection. If you can’t accept that even your best setups can fail, trading will grind you down. You have to be able to take a hit, step back, reset and come in the next day without carrying yesterday’s frustration into new decisions.
The difference between traders who survive and those who don’t comes down to this: Can you accept that perfect execution doesn’t guarantee perfect results?
I’m not going to sit here on a day when the markets are closed and obsess over whether I did something wrong, because I didn’t. I followed my plan. If the plan works, I make money. If it doesn’t, I evaluate what I could have done differently, and sometimes the answer is nothing.
That’s the reality of putting something irrational, the market, into a logical, always-makes-sense box. It won’t always fit. But if you’re planning well enough, your winners will still hit 90% of the time.
And that’s a game worth playing.
I’ll see you in the markets.
Chris Pulver
Chris Pulver TradingÂ
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