Right. The market allows what the market allows. I never use targets, of any kind - per trade/day/week/month/year.
In 1999, I quit working for our government, had made/saved 3 million/plus trading account funds and bought 900k bus, after 6 months of driving around and 2 different girlfriends, one at a time, Except for trading on bus, I was hopelessly bored. Went back home, sold bus and back to trading, hired a small staff, developed more systems, traveled much more first class but fits of boredom comes and goes. Would take students, but the time to teach them takes so much time to learn to trade. Every couple years want to shut everything down, let go of larger staff, but then to do what? Trading is so boring, once you figure out the game...plus I don't want to learn more. Just not motivated to trade or life, but been this way couple decades.... can't help you.
If one is truly successful one can always do better until one wins all the $ in the world, but that’ll never happen. Therefore, it’s not easy to get bored.
Both, but beginning there are many many patterns and many stats they have to keep/remember. I only have 42% of them successful, meaning they quit their jobs, retired or worked cause they were able to do both. What I do know is if someone is over fifty years old, I can't help them to scalp, memory issues. And besides, many more wealthy traders do better at longer term. Am on my very last guy am tutoring, I don't have the motivation or desire to teach any more.
Staying motivated after success is essential because we cannot be overconfident in trading; we must learn to remain calm and motivated throughout the trading journey.