How did you become profitable in trading?

[LonArcvarden]

How did you start trading? Are you profitable? If so, how did you become profitable?
If not, tell us why you believe you are not yet profitable.

[princemeraj]

Speaking of profitability, I have been profitable for my different portfolios, but for stocks, I mostly just held onto a single stock that I believed I would profit from in the long run, and I did, and I also got dividends from it.

[MichaelSavan]

For me, things turned around once I stopped chasing every shiny setup and focused on one playbook I could repeat without overthinking. Journaling every trade helped me spot dumb habits I kept repeating. Getting access to structured tools and better execution through something like https://blackeaglefg.com/ also made my risk control way smoother. Consistency came less from big wins and more from cutting the nonsense I used to ignore.