🌟 November Trading Performance: Discipline, Data & a 79% Month
- Erica Lorrai
- Nov 30, 2025
- 2 min read
Most people talk about trading like it's a lottery ticket.
But the traders who actually make progress—the ones who build this skill like a craft—understand that results come from structure, discipline, and a whole lot of self-control.
This month, I decided to take my own performance more seriously and track everything the way I teach my students to do it.
And here’s what November taught me.
November 2025 Performance Highlights
(All metrics shown as percentages to protect account privacy—results are the same whether you're trading $500 or $500K.)
Net Monthly Return: +79%
Average Return on Winning Trades: +39%
Average Controlled Loss: –13%
Reward-to-Risk Ratio: 2.86 : 1
Drawdown: Kept consistently controlled
System Behavior: Strong follow-through when trades were allowed to stretch
These numbers might surprise people who think you need a 70–90% win rate to be successful.
You don’t.
You just need discipline and a system that actually makes sense.
🎯 What Worked This Month
1. Waiting for Structure Instead of Forcing Trades
Most of my biggest wins came from setups that were fully formed, clean, and obvious after I waited for confirmation.
Patience paid more than anything else.
2. Keeping Losses Small and Boring
My average losing trade was only –13%.
Not exactly catastrophic.
That’s the magic of disciplined stop placement: you live to trade again.
3. Letting Winners Breathe
Instead of snatching profit the moment something turned green, I trusted my read.
That brought in the 2.8R ratio—and that’s what carried the whole month.
⚠️ What I’m Refining Next
1. Entering Too Early
A few losses were simply me getting a little excited and stepping in one candle too soon.
Easy fix: wait for the killer rejection or TDI/EMA alignment I already know to trust.
2. Reducing “Curiosity Trades”
Those moments of “hmm maybe…” have got to go.
The market is not a place to experiment mid-session.
That’s what backtesting is for.
3. Protecting My Mental Bandwidth
Execution is better when I'm rested, hydrated, and not trying to be Superwoman.
💡 The Big Lesson From November
You don’t need more trades—you need better ones.
Quality beats quantity.
Patience beats adrenaline.
Structure beats guessing.
And honestly?
The emotional stability that comes from knowing you’re following a system is priceless.
🚀 Why I’m Sharing This
I believe in transparency.
I believe in education.
And I believe that traders learn best from seeing real results—not hype, not screenshots, not “signals”—but disciplined performance and data over time.
So I’ll be sharing one of these every month.
Wins, losses, lessons, all of it.
If you’re building your own approach—or you’re learning the dealer cycles with me—consider this your reminder that momentum comes from consistency, not perfection.
💬 Final Thought
Trading isn’t about being right.
It’s about being responsible, repeatable, and relentlessly disciplined.
Here’s to December.
May the cycles be clean, the traps be obvious, and the patience be plentiful.
Stay disciplined, stay dangerous.
— Erica
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