Why Do I Keep Losing Money Trading?

If you keep losing money trading, the first instinct is to look for a better strategy. Sometimes that is the answer. Often it is not, because the same strategy can lose for very different reasons, and each reason needs a different fix. Before changing what you trade, it helps to know how you lose.

A losing account usually comes from a short list of causes. Losses that are larger than wins, so even a decent win rate cannot pay for them. A few big losses that erase many small gains. Position size that grows right after a loss. Trades taken faster once you are down. One instrument that costs far more than the others. Each of these leaves a different fingerprint in your trade history.

The trouble is that none of this is visible from the inside. Memory keeps the dramatic trades and smooths over the pattern, and your total profit and loss tells you that you are losing, not why. The only reliable way to see why is to look at every trade at once and measure it.

That is what the analyzer below does. It reads your closed trades, calculates your results, and checks them against the patterns that most often sit behind a losing account. It only reports a pattern when your numbers clear a clear threshold, so an empty result is a real answer too. Nothing about it is advice.