Being “prepared” and “playing properly” means you know why you are trading and exactly what your end-goal is, and it can’t just be “to make fast money”, because honestly, you are not going to make fast money unless you get super lucky, and if you are relying on luck to make money in the markets, you’re gambling and you’ll eventually blow up your account as a result. You may say that you’re here to make money long-term but how you trade and how you feel when you’re planning and about to place a trade will tell you a lot. You may think you deserve trading success but if you aren’t seeing it reflected in your trading account then I promise you that you don’t deserve it yet, so you need to re-group and plan out what you can start doing to deserve that success you so desperately desire.