If You Need the Money, Take the Money
If You Don’t, Let It Ride
🧠 If You Need the Money, Take the Money
If You Don’t, Let It Ride
This isn’t about greed. It’s not even about money.
It’s about the moment—the one you’re in, right now.
When the trade is green. When it’s working. When your heart rate is rising.
You’ve got a decision to make:
Lock it in… or let it ride.
And in that second, nothing’s certain.
Not the chart.
Not your edge.
Not the outcome.
Only you.
You’re staring at open profit.
Maybe 5 points. Maybe 50.
You think, “This could be the one.”
But then comes the fear.
What if it turns? What if you give it all back?
So here’s the rule:
If you need the money, take the money.
If that win means something to you right now—because you’re down on the day, or the week, or because you’re just not emotionally steady—take it. Protect your capital. Protect your mind.
But if you’re up big already…
If you’ve done the work, found your rhythm, hit the flow…
Then you’ve earned the right to let it ride.
You’re not gambling. You’re not chasing.
You’re pressing your edge from a position of power.
Here’s the brutal truth:
Every big win starts off looking like a scalp.
You never know which one runs.
You only know after.
And by then, it’s too late.
The trades that become legends?
They ask for everything.
Conviction. Patience. Discipline. Trust.
And the guts to watch open profit grow without grabbing it too early.
But don’t get it twisted—those trades aren’t free.
They come at the cost of letting go of certainty.
Of risking what’s already yours for what might be.
And sometimes, you do everything right…
and it still turns on you.
That’s the tax.
That’s the game.
You can’t hold them all. You’re not supposed to.
But if you’re always cutting early—always afraid to give back what you’ve gained—you’ll never get the big ones.
You’ll stay small.
You’ll survive… but you won’t scale.
And on the other side:
If you’re always holding, always hoping, always swinging for 100 when you need the 10…
You’ll bleed out slowly while chasing the move that never comes.
You’re not a trader then—you’re a gambler dressed in strategy.
So feel the moment. Be honest with yourself.
Ask: Do I need this win, or can I afford to stretch?
There’s no right answer.
Only the one that keeps you in the game, sharp and dangerous, long enough to see the next setup…
...and the next victory.
That’s trading.
Not perfection—perspective.
Not ego—equilibrium.
Not prediction—positioning.
If you need the money, take the money.
If you don’t, let it ride.
The market won’t tell you what to do.
That’s your job.
That’s the art.
That’s the edge.
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