There's something interesting about how quickly traders forget their own trading history when they find a new strategy. You discover a setup that looks promising, go through a few charts, and find several examples where it would have worked beautifully. Clean entries, obvious stops, and targets that seem almost too easy. Then you start trading it live, and suddenly things look different. The levels aren't always that clean, confirmation takes longer than expected, and some of those textbook setups fail without much warning. I've seen traders get excited about a strategy after reviewing a handful of winning examples, without spending nearly as much time studying the trades that would have lost. And that's where expectations can become unrealistic. It's easy to find great setups when you're looking at charts that already show you what happened next. Trading them without knowing what happens next is a completely different experience.