Your C-game is expensive.
Every day, millions of retail traders enter the market on gut feel, hype and fear — a tip in a group chat, a green candle, a screenshot of someone else's P&L. Without a mathematical framework, that isn't trading. It's gambling with better graphics, and the house always wins.
Worse, the bleed starts before the first charge lands. A trader with no verifiable edge runs negative expectancy from the opening bell — the trade is a losing proposition before brokerage even hits. That is the cost of no system, and most traders pay it on every single trade.
Hidden costs
STT, GST, stamp duty, exchange charges and funding leave your account quietly, trade after trade. They never appear in the candles — so traders judge every outcome on gross P&L and wonder why the balance tells a smaller story.
Emotional leaks
Revenge trading after a red day. Doubling size after a green one. Moving the stop because it "feels close". This is the C-game — your worst trading, on repeat — and it costs more than any fee schedule ever will.
No verifiable edge
A strategy is not an edge until the math says so. If you can't state your expectancy in numbers, you don't have a system — you have a habit, and the market charges full price for habits.