# The 5 Day Trading Mistakes Robbing Your Account ($10k+ per month)

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- **Канал:** SMB Capital
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ
- **Дата:** 12.05.2026
- **Длительность:** 31:16
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## Описание

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00:00 Intro — The 5 Trading Mistakes Costing You $500+ Per Day
01:19 Why 90% of Traders Stay Stuck
03:58 Mistake #1 
11:15 Mistake #2 
17:36 Mistake #3 
23:23 Mistake #4 
25:20 Mistake #5
29:17 Final Recap — Fix These 5 Mistakes


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## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ) Intro — The 5 Trading Mistakes Costing You $500+ Per Day

March 15, 2026, 9:45 a. m. I'm watching one of our traders. His nickname's Marcos, right? Been with us for I think eight months at the time. He's up $400 on the day. It's a solid morning for him, right? Three good trades, three good trading decisions. And then I watch him make five mistakes in the next two hours. And it cost him $970 by 11:30 a. m. by like noon, right? He's down 570 for the day. Now, here's the thing. These weren't random mistakes. They weren't bad luck. They weren't unusual market conditions. They were the same five mistakes that I see traders make every single day. If you're losing money intraday, I guarantee you're making at least three of these right now. But in this video, I'm going to show you the five mistakes that we see on the desk at S& B Capital that are costing you $500 or more per day. And we're going to show you exactly what they look like in real time. And then we're going to show you how to fix them, right? Because it's not enough to say, "Here are your mistakes. " We're going to talk about what we've learned to fix them today. So, let's go. I'm Jeff Holden. I'm the head of trader development at S& B Capital. And over the last 20 years

### [1:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=79s) Why 90% of Traders Stay Stuck

we've trained more than 300 professional traders, right? And I've personally reviewed over probably 50,000 trades while building our trading development program. But here's what I've learned. 90% of traders who are stuck, who are breaking even or losing money month after month, are making these same five mistakes. It's not 10 mistakes. It's not 20. It's just five mistakes. And the brutal part of it is most of them don't even realize that they're making these exact mistakes. Here's how I know. Right? A few months ago, we had pulled all this data. Right? We did this experiment. We pulled 20 traders from our program. All of them stuck. All of them frustrated. All of them working their tails off with the hope that they were going to break through. We had their data. We had their stats. We had actually the video logs of them trading, but we asked them individually, you go ahead and do your analysis and tell me what's your biggest problem. You know what the most common thing they said was? I need a better strategy or I need to find better stocks or I need faster execution. Wrong. Wrong. Right. We pulled all of their trade logs. We ran all the analysis. We studied some of the video of them actually trading, what their screens look like, all that stuff. We found 19 out of 20 of these traders were making at least three of the five mistakes we're about to talk about. And all almost all of them were making mistake number two. We fixed the mistakes. Not the strategy, not the stock selection, just the mistakes. We focused on this intensely with them for 60 days. 60 days later, 16 of those 20 traders were back on track. Same strategies, same stocks, different execution, and most importantly, they built a skill that is infinitely repeatable. Eliminating execution errors, that is the golden ticket to so much growth in trading. When you can eliminate execution errors, some of the things we're going to talk about right now. Here's the deal. If you're losing money day trading, it's probably not what you think. It's probably one of these five mistakes or maybe more. And the good news, every single one of them is fixable today, right now. So, let's get into them and break them down.

### [3:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=238s) Mistake #1

Number one mistake, holding runners, open runners after 10:30. Right. Mistake number one, this is the biggest account killer I see. Holding runners past 10:30 a. m. and here's what it looks like, right? You get into a stock at 9:40. Beautiful setup. Let's call it a 9 EMA continuation trade, right? Tape looks great. Stock runs. You're up 40 cents, 50 cents, two bucks, whatever, right? And you think, "Wow, this thing's going to go like really go crazy. I'm going to hold. " 10:15 comes around, the stock's still looking relatively strong. You're up a pretty good amount now, right? 10:30 hits, stock starts to chop, it pulls back, it pulls back 25% of the move and then bounces a little bit. You're like, "Oh, okay. " Right? Pulls back 40% of the move, right? You're still holding because now you don't really have a plan. By 11:00 a. m., you finally get out after it's flush VWAP, right? You just gave back like 70% of the entire profit that you could have captured on that trade. Now, why does this happen? because you're not respecting intraday momentum windows. Right? Let me show you what I mean. Here's the reality of intraday momentum. And this is data. This is not opinion. We analyzed 5,000 momentum trades over the last 12 months. Stocks that ran more than 5% in the first hour. And here's what we found. Right? 73% of those moves made their high of the day before 10:30 a. m. 89% of the of them made their high before 11:00 a. m. Only 11% of all the stocks we analyzed first hour runners made new highs after 11:00 a. m. Why? Well, this lines up across all these stats that we've studied for markets, for individual equities, for sectors, because after 10:30, after 11 o'clock, that's when momentum tends to die, especially from the open. The first 30 to 60 minutes of the session, it's price discovery. And then you have that urgency, right? That's when you have FOMO. That's when retail's chasing. That's when institutions are executing their size. But after 10:30, that urgency tends to fade and the volume tends to dry up and the algo traders step in, right? The options market makers sell against it. The stock starts to chop. And if you're still holding through that, you tend to just give back profits to people taking the other side of the move. Let me show you one of Marcos's trades, right? This is the thing that started this whole video off. The ticker was Cororeweave. It was a day two gap up into resistance. You enter short at 942 at 91 bucks. stock goes down to 85 by 10:30, right? He had probably taken some profits along the way, but he was sitting there and literally saying to us, "This looks like it's really going to crack. This looks like it maybe is going to be an all day fader. " He had this data that he was like, "If this just fades all the rest of the day, think about how much money I'm going to make. " Right? But as he's telling us this, a clock's going off in my mind. And I'm like, "Dude, Marcos, it's 10:15, man. Let's start to think about taking it. " and he's like, "This is this is really weak. It's really going to unwind. " Right? Then the stock pops to 86, moves a buck against him, right? He sees a seller. And so he's like, "Oh, I can really hold this trade now. I see that seller. This is really going to roll over. " Right? By 11:00 a. m. the stock's back up to 88. By 11:30, 90. Now, he's literally just frozen. But his selft talk, it's it's all just based on his open P& L. He was telling himself, "Well, my stops break even anyway, and if it really goes, it's really going to be great. " But at 11:46, the stock round tripped on him, and he got stopped out. He gave back eight points. Eight hardearned points that he should not have given back. And what's worse is he made a really good momentum trade, but he didn't respect the momentum window. And then he missed the turn. And then instead of making money on the long, which he could have done had he covered a short and then just waited for a simple backside trade, he gave it all back on that old short idea. Right? So here's the rule, and this is nonnegotiable. If you enter a momentum trade in the first hour, your target exit is before 10:30 a. m. Period. Not 10:35, not 10:45, but 10:30. Why? because statistically you're fighting the fade after that. Now, does that mean every stock dies at 10:30? Of course not. Some keep running, but those are the exception and exceptions don't make you profitable at first. The probabilities do and you have to earn the right to know when it's an exception. Let me tell you about a trader on our desk, S, right? S has been with SMB for two years. For 18 months, S was stuck, break even trader. Some months maybe up 500, some months down 500. Basically spinning wheels, right? We pulled all the trade logs, we ran all the numbers. Win rate was like 62%. That was good, right? Average winner 43 cents. That's pretty solid for an average winner, right? Average loser 19 cents. But here's the kicker, right? 38% of her winning trades turned into losers or turned into small winners simply because she had held past 10:30. Let me say that again. 38% of her winning trades became losers or break even trades because she held too long. All right, let's go out and calculate the cost. Over 18 months, she was giving back like $14,000 in profit fade by holding past that momentum window. $14,000 for somebody who's up or down 500 bucks a month, right? So, we simplified it. One rule, non-negotiable. First hour, exit before 10:30. No exceptions. First week, she completely hated it. She watched and only focused on the three stocks that kept running after she exited, right? But the second week, she started to see it. Two of her trades had faded pretty hard after 10:30, and she was already out. She was locked in the profit. Third week, it finally started to kick in, right? The statistical edge isn't catching the last 20% of the move. It's in taking the middle 70% and getting out before the fade starts. 60 days later, S is break even to averaging now. Pretty good amount of month, right? Same strategies, same stocks. One rule, exit before 10:30. And here's your fix starting tomorrow. If you enter a trade between 9:30 a. m. and 10:00 a. m., set an alarm for 10:25. Set like on your phone, set an alarm 10:25. Start scaling out or exit entirely or at least move a stop way up there. So, you're going to get stopped out. No exceptions. No, but this one looks strong. No, I'll give it five more minutes. 10:25. Exit strategy enacted. And then do this for 30 days and track your results. I almost guarantee you're going to add 300 to 500 bucks a month just from this one fix. Mistake number

### [11:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=675s) Mistake #2

two, and this one's so painful. This one sneaks in and it undermines so much good work and most people aren't even aware of it because it shows up in three different ways. This is one mistake that shows up in three ways. Ouch. Right? Honestly, this whole video should just be about this mistake because it's so common and it's so deadly. But that data from our little experiment that we did, it showed all five mattered even though this one is the most dangerous one. Right? This is just a simple mistake and I'm going to say it and you're going to gloss over it, probably even skip this portion of the video. Don't adding to losing positions is mistake number two. Now, there's a core idea here, but there are two twists within this as well. So, let's lock in because this one runs deeper than most traders realize. When we had run our experiment and we reviewed trader behavior, this was the mistake that triggered the most defensiveness, not curiosity, not ownership, defensiveness. When traders would walk in, they would almost fight us on this point. They would literally say, "I don't do that. That that's not me. I don't average down, right? " And we'd pull the luggs. We would actually watch the tape with them of their trading. We're sitting in this room watching tape of a trader trading and one trader literally said to me, "Did you edit that video? I can't believe that's actually my trading. " That's how sneaky this mistake is. And here are the three ways that this shows up. Here's the obvious one, right? Averaging down. You buy a stock at 10 bucks. You plan to risk a 9. 85. Stock drops to 990. You think, "Oh, it's just a dip. I'll add a little bit here. " Right? you get a better price, same stop. How much am I risk am I really adding? Right? This is the most basic version. Just averaging down. Here's the truth, though. The problem's not the ad. The problem's the mindset. You're not making a calculated decision. You're trying to bluff your way out of a bad situation. The outcome does not matter when you've done that. You increase the risk without the trade earning it. That's the most straightforward one. But let's get to the sneaky one, right? you're adding without the EV expanding. So, here's the situation. You enter a trade, right? The stock just kind of flatlines. Maybe it t ticks a little bit in your favor. Maybe it tries to go but actually never confirms your thesis and then it pulls back a little bit and you're like, "Oh, if it goes now, it's really going to work. So, let me add, right? " You justify it even by saying, "I'm not averaging down. I'm actually getting better prices in my favor. This can still work. And if it works, it's going to work out really well. But here's the key. The stock is not behaving exactly how you want it to behave. And if it's behave, it's a losing position. It's not read in P& L yet. It's not worse price than you had before. But no confirmation equals a losing trade. So let me ask you, show me on this chart where the expected value expanded in your favor. Where did the probability of this trade improve? Where did the payoff improve on this chart? It didn't. Right? Price alone has zero relevance to expected value. Let me say that again. Price alone has zero relevance to the expected value of the trade. And in this case, you didn't add to a winner. You actually tried to finance a mistake. That is so detrimental because it's just as bad as averaging down. You're just averaging down with the expected value not going in your favor. Let's get to the third one because this is the most dangerous of the three. It's the one that this got the trader to say, "There's no way that's actually me. " Right? re-entering the same bad trade. That's just averaging down, right? You're entering, you're re-entering the same bad trade. You took a trade, you get stopped out, 3 minutes later, you're back in the same trade, and you're telling yourself there's new information. But there isn't. It's the same trade. It's the same idea, the same lack of confirmation, just more time, and unfortunately for most of us, more hope that we put into it. If the new information does not improve the trade, you're in the same losing position. And every dollar that you put back into that, you're showing you don't value capital the way you think you do or the way you tell yourself you do. Right? All three of these are the exact same mistake. They're all averaging down. They're all adding without confirmation. They're re-entering without a new trade. Right? These are all three averaging down adding without more confirmation and re-entering without a new trade. You are just increasing risk while the expected value of the trade is not improving. That's it. This is the simplest way to recognize that if every trade you make the expected value isn't better, then you are making this mistake. And here's the fix. We tried a ton of different solutions, right? There's only one that work consistently. You are only allowed to add when the trade is already working and confirming your thesis. That's it. It makes all this super binary. Before every ad, before every click of a button, you have to ask, "What new information improved this trade? " Where's the confirmation? Was it the level? Was it the tape? Was it the structure? Would I take this trade fresh? Would I take it again right here? If the answer to number three is no, the ad is illegal. You're not losing because the trade didn't work. You're losing because you increased risk when the trade didn't deserve it. Elite traders don't add because they want to be right. They add because the market proved them right.

### [17:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=1056s) Mistake #3

Mistake number three, and this is the one that separates amateurs from professionals, right? If you're trading without tape confirmation, and here's what it looks like. See a chart setup, you know, bare flag, bull flag, VWAP bounce, opening range breakout. It looks perfect. You enter, but you enter based on the chart alone. And then this is what can happen. The stock immediately goes against you. Stop out, took a loss, right? And then you look at the tape after the trade and you realize that the tape was screaming, "Do not take this trade. There were no sweeps. The bids weren't stacking. The offer was absorbing every single buy. " All the signals were there. You just didn't look. We actually just had this happen today. There was a trader that had set all sorts of price alerts in this stock. All the alerts went up. He was like, "I'm long. " He didn't even look at the tape. Had gotten long. We're sitting there. The first thing we did was look at the tape. The stock had spread out by 30 cents and then the stock then the spread started collapsing and then it spread out again. He's sitting there staring at the chart saying, "This is going to go. " And we're sitting there looking at the tape going there's no way this is going to go. This is the difference between a 50% win rate trader and a 70% win rate trader in any given strategy. The chart just gets you in the game, right? The tape tells you if you should stay in the game or if you should just back off. And let me show you why this matters, right? Here's the data. And this is from our internal SMB Capital database. We tracked two groups of traders over a period of time. Both groups traded the exact same setups, right? They traded day2s and they looked for hitchhikers. They looked for second chances and then they looked for backides. Group one entered based on chart signals only. They didn't look at the tape, right? We didn't even really focus on it. They were people that said, "I don't need to trade with the tape. I don't want to go to the reading the tape meetings. " Whatever. Fine. Group two required tape confirmation before entry. If there was no tape signal, there was no trade. The results were fascinating, right? In group one, 54% win rate, 1. 6 risk-to-reward ratio. Your average month monthly return was decent, right? Group two increased their win rate up to 68%. They had better riskreward ratio. They were making more money. there was a big gap almost a 14% gap in their win rate alone and a huge percent gap in their monthly returns just because one was looking at the tape before entry and one was just focused on the chart. If you look around, every experienced trader is staring at their level two and time and sales around the time of entry. Why does it work? Because the chart just shows you where price has been. But when it comes down to execution, the tape shows you who is in control right now. Bull flags on a chart, they don't tell you if there's a buyer or a seller at the breakout level. The tape does. You can see it. You can see the bid stacking. buyer. You can see an offer refresher. You can see that seller, right? And if the tape says there's a seller in control, you don't take the chart breakout. Or you do and you cut it almost immediately because it's probably going to fail. Here's what tape confirmation looks like. And these are the four signals we teach. Signal one, size on the offer, thinning, right? There's a big seller that was there, but now they're getting cut through. Signal two, sweep orders, right? Multiple price levels getting cleared at once. That's usually institutional buying or big players buying, right? Signal three is bids stacking, big size appearing on the bids during pullbacks, right? That's supportive buying. That's looking for continuation to the upside. And signal four is just the print speed accelerating. Trades happening faster. There's urgency that's increasing. When you see three of those four, the tape is confirming your chart setup. When you see one or zero, the tape is always saying wait or don't size this up. And here's the key. The tape is usually right. There's a trader on our desk. It's been trading here for I don't know quite some time. When they joined SMB Capital, they were a decent trader. Break even. some good months, some bad months, couldn't really break through and had really good chart reading skills, but could not really identify what was happening on the tape. When we worked with them, we found every chart setup was being taken the exact same way. Every trade There was no filter for confirmation. Setup appeared, took it. Right? Chart trade appeared, took it. The result, half the trades were immediately going against them because the tape was saying, "Don't take this. " And they weren't listening. Right? There was no trade without at least two tape signals. Two of the four we just talked about. There was a lot of concern and a lot of debate, but the reality of the situation is by using those tape signals, you avoiding bad trades. That's it. You're avoiding the bad trade. The trades with tape confirmations are good trades. The trades without them were just bad trades. Right? There is something to be said about eliminating mistakes. That's what this video is all about. Trading without the tape is a big

### [23:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=1403s) Mistake #4

mistake that you can avoid, that you can eliminate. Mistake number four, and this one traders a lot of money because you don't protect your profits, right? If you ignore three red bars in a row after a strong move, and here's exactly how this plays out. The stock's running, right? You have five green bars in a row. Green bar, green bar, and you're in the trade. You're up. It feels great, right? And then you get your first red bar. second red bar. And you're thinking, it's just a pullback. Maybe I'll get some more out of this. And then you get your third red bar, consecutive red bar. You have to be very careful here because what happens next tells you so much about what's going to happen in the trade. You have to see that third red bar high get taken out immediately. If it doesn't get taken out on the next bar, you need to be exiting your position because you're going to give back 60% of your profits in the next two bars. Those three red bars are the momentum shift signal. And if you ignore it, you're going to give back too much profit every single time. If you see those three red bars, you have to make a trading decision. If you don't, that's not trading. That's hoping. Here's the rule. The first three red bars after five or more consecutive green bars, that is your signal to make a trading decision. You just draw a line at the top of the next bar of that red bar. And if it breaks that, you can stay in. If it doesn't, you have to reduce size. You don't have to exit the entire trade, but you should be taking some profit off into the next up move because momentum is shifting. The buyers are fading. The sellers are stepping in. And if you wait too long, you're going to give back all of the profit. That three red bars is the indication. It's that canary in the coal mine and it's telling you the

### [25:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=1520s) Mistake #5

environment is probably changing. Pay attention. Mistake number five, and this really is the most costly one. I've said it about all of them, but I'm saying that because I made this mistake today, right? And this is the one that keeps good traders from becoming great traders or even in that moment, which is all you need to do. If you're not taking profits at resistance levels, here's what it looks like. You're in a trade, stock's running, you're up three bucks, $3. 50, but the stock's approaching a resistance level, prior high. It's a whole number. It's it's some really important area, and you think it's going to break through. I'm holding for the breakout now, but then the stock hits resistance and it just fades. you give back a dollar,$2 dollars, whatever it is, because you would hope for a breakout instead of taking profits at the obvious spot. This is trading on hope instead of probability. And it kills your consistency because what m what happens is you then go back and make a different mistake. Let's look at the math on this. Here's the reality of resistance levels. And this is something most traders don't understand. Resistance exists because sellers are there, right? By definition, that's what makes it resistance. So when your stock approaches resistance, you're approaching a level where sellers are waiting. Now sometimes the stock does break through. The buyers overpower the sellers. Most of the time when that happens, you're going to look for a pull in and a consolidation before that breakout happens. But most of the time, if it's run right into that resistance, the first test of that resistance fails. The sellers are going to defend. The price is going to reject off of that level. Now, if you took like 5,000 intraday trades with stocks approaching identified resistance levels, here's what we're going to find. Your first test of resistance, 68% of the time that resistance is going to hold. The price is going to bounce down off of it or it's going to fade. The second test, only 54% of the time it holds. The third test, 42% So, on the first approach to resistance, you've got a 68% chance that the stock doesn't break through or won't break through. But here's what most traders do. They try and hold through the resistance hoping that it's the 32% outcome. And then when it doesn't happen, they don't manage their risk. They give it all back. Right? Here's the rule. When your stock approaches a clear resistance level, take profits or at a minimum, take partial profits. So you don't have to exit the whole position, but you should be reducing size at obvious resistance spots. Why? Because the probabilities say it's probably not breaking through on the first test. And if it does break through, you can always re-enter. But at least you locked in profits in the high probability rejection zone. That is trading probabilities. That's not trading hope. When a stock is approaching a clear resistance level, exit 50% of the position 10 cents before the level. If it does break through, you still have 50% of the position. You can always add back, but if it rejects that level, at least you've w locked in profits in the optimal spot. If you do this and you track it over 90 days, it's going to be fascinating to see. Same entries, same stocks, just one change. Take profit and resistance instead of hoping for all the breakouts, right? So before you enter any trade, identify the nearest resistance level, whether it's a prior high, whole number, VW, whatever the resistance is, and then write it down, put it on your chart, and then put an offer up there for 50% of your position. When your stock gets within 10 cents of that level, make sure you're out. Don't wait to see if it breaks, just take the profit. And if it breaks through, great. Re-enter with the other half or add it back after it pulls back in and gives you continuation. But at least you're taking half off. Do this for at least 100 trades and track your profit per trade. I bet you you'll see an increase

### [29:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNXTEEn1HQ&t=1757s) Final Recap — Fix These 5 Mistakes

in 40 to 60% of your per trade profit just by doing this. Let's bring this home. Five mistakes, five fixes. Mistake one is holding runners past 10:30. Mistake two is averaging down. Mistake three, trading without tape confirmation. Mistake four is ignoring the three red bar momentum shift. And mistake five is not taking profits at resistance. Okay, here's the thing. You don't have to fix all five at once. In fact, you really shouldn't. You should pick one. The one that resonates the most with you. The one that you know that you're doing. Fix that one first for the next 60 trades. Track it. Measure it. I guarantee fixing one of these mistakes will add 300 to 500 bucks per month to your P& L. And if you fix all five, you'll add a lot more. That's the difference between a struggling trader and a profitable trader. Consistently profitable trader. Not strategy, not stock selection. Execution discipline. Here's what I want you to do right now. Go to the comments. Tell me which mistake you're making. Be honest. No judgment here. And just say, "I'm making mistake number X. " and then commit for the next 60 trades, you're going to fix it. We'll check back in 60 days and we want to hear the results. Also, if you want a deeper breakdown on tape reading and how to identify those four confirmation signals, we're going to be posting a video on that in the next week. If you found this video valuable, hit subscribe. We try and post something like this every single week, breaking down real execution mistakes that keep traders stuck. All right, that's it. Go fix one mistake. Track your results and we'll see you in the next video.

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