---
title: 'Follow Your Trading Plan Regardless of How You Feel'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=9FFSOmkoH-U'
video_id: '9FFSOmkoH-U'
date: 2026-08-16
duration_sec: 84
channel: 'The Trading Geek'
---

# Follow Your Trading Plan Regardless of How You Feel

> Source: [Follow Your Trading Plan Regardless of How You Feel](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9FFSOmkoH-U)

## Summary

The video emphasizes that true discipline in trading is tested during difficult times, not when everything is going well. It warns against common emotional pitfalls and stresses the importance of following your plan consistently.

### Key Points

- **Discipline is easy when things go well** [00:03] — Discipline is easy to claim when the market is clean and you're winning, but the real test comes after a loss or during a losing streak.
- **The real test of discipline** [00:32] — The real test is what you do when you're bored, frustrated, or watching others make money while you're on the sidelines.
- **Common mistakes when abandoning the plan** [00:46] — Traders abandon their plan by moving stop losses, entering trades too early, taking random setups, and revenge trading.
- **The purpose of a trading plan** [01:00] — Your plan is there to protect you when emotions try to take over, not when trading feels easy.
- **Consistency is key** [01:15] — If you have a proven trading plan and don't follow it consistently, you might as well not have one.

## Transcript

if you only follow it when you feel good, when you feel like following it. when they are winning, when they are making thousands of dollars. Everybody can say, "I'm disciplined." when the market is clean, you know, they've won
the last trade, and their emotions are stable and under control. But, the real stable and under control. But, the real test is what you do after a loss. What drawdown. What you do when you are stuck in a losing streak. The real test is
what you do when you are bored, when you are frustrated, or watching everybody else makes money while you're sitting on the sidelines. Because that's when most traders abandon their plan. That's when they start moving their stop loss.
That's when they start entering trades too early. They start taking random setups. They start revenge trading. And they wonder why their strategy doesn't work. Listen, your plan is not there to protect you when trading feels easy.
Your plan is there to protect you when emotions try to take over. Discipline doesn't matter when everything is going well. Discipline only matters when everything inside you wants to break the rules. So, yeah, just understand that.
If you have a proven trading plan and you don't follow it, or you're only following it sometimes, then you might as well not have a trading plan.