Also I feel the same way, a few years ago I was just a newbie into trading and just calculated some information how to get profit by trading also I looked for some traders who have consistent profit by their trading.
But, I wasn't aware that my emotion (greedy, overconfidende and etc) are the most part when I trade. So, I just find and learn more startegies such Moving Average, fibbonaci and etc and spent all of my time to learn them until I got a bit understanding of them and I start to trade. I tried to deposit arround $100 and just take a few time I got failured (I was trading forex at that time).
I was thinking what was wrong in my trading because in theory I should gave a profit and in reality I got nothing. Thinking a thausand of time and I decide to pause my day trading and learn more about trading again. And yeah, I realized that I miss another important part in trading and I was regreted it. So, I learn more about money management and my emotion that should be done when I trade and it has gave many thing to me.