national quitters day: 3 tools to keep your trading resolutions in 2026
today is national quitters day. and I have one question for you:
are you still committed to being profitable in 2026?
or have you already given up on the trading "habits" and "resolutions" you said were going to define your year?
table of contents
- why 92% of traders fail
- simplify your process with the new what's in play dashboard
- remove your emotions with our algos
- find a setup you can actually trust with the ultimate reversal setup
- frequently asked questions
why 92% of traders fail
we've all heard the stat that 92% (or more) of traders fail. and the reason they fail is because:
- their process is way too complicated to repeat consistently
- their emotions hijack their discipline — ruining their profitable strategy
- they don't have a setup they actually trust — so they second-guess every entry and exit
if any of these resonate with you… keep reading.
because I'm about to cover 3 simple tools that'll help you actually follow through this year (and solve the problems ruining your profitability):
simplify your process with the new what's in play dashboard
our entire mission at edgeful is to help you build a strategy you can trust — based on data — and use that data to trade confidently and consistently.
to do that, we completely redesigned the what's in play dashboard. we've made it so you can track multiple reports, on multiple tickers, using live data to give you an instant bias — all on one screen.
here's what it looks like:
again — you can now track multiple tickers at once, pulling live data from whatever reports you want to monitor. each "row" shows you:
- the ticker and report
- current status of the setup based on live price action
- probability percentage based on the live data from the report
- directional bias based on the probabilities from the report
- profit target (when applicable)
and then if you want to go deeper you can — all you have to do is press "view details" on the right side of the row to get more stats that you would see on that specific report's page.
I'll cover a lot more of the new what's in play dashboard next week, but there's one more thing I want to highlight:
the new what's in play automatically categorizes the setups/reports as:
- in play — for setups that have triggered
- forming — for setups that are… forming
- completed — for setups that have already played out
let's imagine you're trading the gap fill setup on NQ.
as you can see in the image above, NQ has a 62% probability over the last 6 months of filling.
premarket, the setup would be in the "forming" section because price hasn't started trading yet. on open, it would move to "in play", and you'd be able to see what type of gap it is, the bias you should have based on the stats, and your target.
the goal is to give you everything you need in one place so you're not wasting time jumping between reports, losing track of stats, and missing setups you should be trading.
remove your emotions with our algos
this one's for the traders who know their strategy works — but can't stop themselves from messing it up.
you move your stop because you're scared of taking a loss. or you take profits too early because you don't want to give anything back. or you completely tilt and revenge trade after a loss. sound familiar?
our automated algos take you out of the equation entirely.
here's what the GC IB algo did over the past year:
- +$107,790 in total profit (+215.58%) on a 50k account trading 2 GC contracts
- max drawdown of 11.31%
- 66% win rate
- profit factor of 1.958
again, with algos — there's no emotion involved. once you optimize the settings to fit your trading style, there's nothing else to do. this may seem boring for some, but ask yourself:
would you rather make money being boring or lose money "having fun"?
I'd choose making money every single time.
find a setup you can actually trust with the ultimate reversal setup
if you don't have a go-to setup yet — or the one you're using doesn't have any data behind it — this is for you.
the ultimate reversal setup combines 3 of our reports into one high-probability trade. here's what you're looking for:
- outside days — price opens outside of yesterday's range (above yesterday's high or below yesterday's low). on NQ, bullish outside days reverse back down 69% of the time. bearish outside days reverse back up 71% of the time.
- gap fill — price opens above or below yesterday's close. on NQ, gaps up fill 57% of the time, gaps down fill 60% of the time. this is the weakest of the three — but when it aligns with the other two, it gives you an additional profit target.
- ICT opening retracement — price opens above or below the 12AM ET opening price. on NQ, when price opens above the midnight open, it retraces back down 74% of the time. when it opens below, it retraces back up 62% of the time.
while you can trade each one of these levels on its own — especially a bearish/bullish outside day, as well as the ICT midnight open — the best action you can take is waiting until all 3 align, and then trade them all at once.
when price opens above (or below) all 3 levels — each of them becomes incredibly simple, data-backed targets. you know they're likely to hit 6/10 times based on the reports.
and when price opens between the levels? the setup isn't in play. you sit on your hands and wait.
if you want to go deeper on this, I wrote a full breakdown here: 2026 trading strategy: the ultimate reversal setup
wrapping up
look — I started this blog post asking if you're still committed to being profitable in 2026.
if you've read this far, I'm guessing the answer is yes.
the traders who actually make it aren't more disciplined than you. they're not smarter. they just have tools that remove the things that cause most traders to fail.
they don't waste time overcomplicating their trading during the day — they open a dashboard and know exactly what's in play.
they don't let emotions sabotage a winning strategy — they let an algo execute without second-guessing.
they don't trade setups they're not sure about — they use data-backed levels, and even wait for confluence before entering, exiting, and taking profits.
that's the difference between the 92% of traders who fail and the 8% who actually make money consistently, year after year.
so if you're serious about making this year different — you know what your next step is:
sign up to edgeful →
you don’t want to look back at the start of next year upset that you didn’t take the chance now.
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