You Don’t Need the Best Ticker — You Need to Make a Commitment
How to stick with your rules.
Join me on July 5th for a live masterclass: "How to Stop Sabotaging Good Trades and Manage Urges in the Moment."
We’ll break down real-time impulse control and emotional regulation.
If you have a strategy but still battle impulses, don’t miss it.
How do I choose the right ticker?
Traders ask me this all the time. Especially after they realize most of their mistakes come from complexity — too many charts, too many opinions, too many moving parts.
So they start trimming: fewer indicators, fewer trades, fewer distractions.
But then they hesitate: What if I’m missing something? What if the best ticker/setup/market is somewhere else?
The truth is — you’ll never know if your ticker/watchlist/setup and whatever you set as a rule is the best one.
And that’s not the point.
Fear of Commitment
Choosing your watchlist is a lot like choosing a partner.
How do you know it’s the one?
You don’t.
You choose according to what truly matter to you — and then you build.
The relationship isn’t made by certainty. It’s made by depth.
You make it right through time, understanding, and repetition. You learn the subtleties. You spot the patterns. You know what makes them run and what makes them pause.
It’s the same with your watchlist.
You don’t win because you found the “perfect” one.
You win because you stopped looking and started committing. You don’t get rewarded for chasing the one with the biggest moves. You get rewarded for knowing it better than anyone else.
The ones who struggle are still dating around. Always swiping between charts, just in case there’s something better.
But here’s the hard truth:
In both dating and trading, confidence doesn’t come from options. It comes from commitment.
You don’t need to know if it’s the best. You need to believe in the one you chose.
You Don’t Need More Control. You Need Less.
I used to trade 8 forex pairs. It felt diversified and strategic because I could use correlations smartly for my positions.
But it was more noise than anything else.
One year and a half ago I made the decision to cut it down to 2: GU and EU.
They are enough — more than enough. Correlated pairs, offering divergence, clarity, and rhythm.
And most importantly: familiarity.
Sometimes, I still think about GJ — the wild moves, the big reward potential…
But I don’t touch it.
Because I know what it would cost me: a whole new learning curve. A whole new layer of cognitive load. A whole new source of information and data.
As my client Neto says — and I love this line:
“Gladly, I am blessed to know what’s enough.”
Make Your Choice the Right One
You don’t need to find the perfect ticker. You need to make your choice — and then make it work.
Loyalty to one or two pairs doesn’t limit you. It sharpens you.
In a world obsessed with “more,” choosing “less” is a power move.
So here’s my invitation:
Stop dating around. Pick your ticker. And commit like it’s a relationship worth building.
Also, join me on July 5th for the live masterclass on “How to Stop Sabotaging Good Trades and Manage Urges in the Moment.”
We’ll dive into the mechanics of real-time impulse control and emotional regulation.
This webinar is a paid member benefit.
If you’ve been thinking of upgrading, this is the time.
Peaceful trading,
Sara
Some Paid Subscribers’ notes:
You’ve hit it on the head