Within this topic at the Market Mamas trader psychology podcast, host and futures day trader Becky Gaskell explores how to transition from the "boom and bust" cycle to stable, "boring" trading. She emphasizes that consistency is a skill built through process loyalty rather than willpower, and that base hits for your accounts will compound over time. Minimizing the over-leveraged, higher-risk trades early in your trading career will earn you profits faster than you think.

In this episode of the Market Mamas trader psychology podcast, futures day trader and host Becky Gaskell dives into the highly valuable, yet often postponed, practice of backtesting. After being encouraged by her mentor, Becky shares the powerful lessons she was reminded of from dedicated backtesting sessions, emphasizing how this "back-end work" is crucial for fine-tuning a trading system, strengthening pattern recognition, and reducing emotional, discretionary energy in live trading.