If there's one thing I've learned clearly throughout all my years of trading in the markets, it's that "copying other traders" is useless.

It's true that we often try to find solutions to our problems by looking at successful traders, but without much success. Every trader has those small nuances that make the difference between them.

It's true that, generally speaking, trading is governed by principles common to everyone. That's the "trunk." But from that "trunk" branches out a different limb for each existing trader.

Small details, small differences in the way of trading that don't work for me but work for you, and vice versa.

If you know another trader, you can do a little experiment to confirm this:

For one week, list all the parameters that work for you when trading.

At the end of the week, compare and observe how you probably agree on the fundamentals, but the difference will be in the details.

This can be done with 10, 100, or 1000 traders, and none will match 100%.

Therefore, when you separate from the "trunk," the path to becoming a good trader is entirely up to you. No one has the winning formula. Every trader can become consistent through different paths.

And with this, I'm not saying you shouldn't follow or read other traders. There are many times when they give us new ideas or confirm our own, new points of view, though we will never achieve the same result by trying to trade like them. We must first personalize our trading, adapting those ideas to our own characteristics.

From there, a unique and unrepeatable style will emerge.

Trading is an art, and as such, it has no defined form or syllabus to follow like any other profession might.

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