A while back, a trader reported to me that his trading was not making the kind of money that he had hoped. We examined his performance statistics and it indeed seemed as though he was making money. His hit rate on trades was favorable and he was making more money on winning trades than losing ones. His Sharpe ratio--the amount of money he was making per unit of risk taken--was solid. So what was the issue? Quite simply, he had a small trading account. He could not make significant money because he started from a small capital base. If he leveraged his account too much, his drawdowns would eventually place him in a risk-of-ruin situation even though his overall trading was sound. What he needed was greater access to capital. The answer wasn't a psychological technique; nor was the answer to change his trading. The answer was to gain greater access to capital. I helped him identify a proprietary trading firm that fronted his trading and he found far greater monetary success. This was a business problem, pure and simple. A different trader was struggling because he was following too many markets and tracking too much information. Our evaluation found that tracking all this information did help his trading. What the trader needed was an assistant to help him sift through information. His trading had grown to the point where he needed to build out a team. That's a business problem, requiring a business plan and a new business direction.