Trading Feels Impossible Right Now. Has Anyone Else Been Through This?

I've been on my trading journey for a while now, and honestly, there are days when trading feels almost impossible.

I've put in the work.

I've read books on price action, studied volume analysis, gone through Anna Coulling's material, watched countless AMT videos, and spent hours trying to understand how markets really move. I'm not expecting a magic formula or a strategy that wins every trade. I know losses are part of the game.

But here's where I'm struggling.

The reality of live market conditions feels very different from what is presented in books and educational content.

When I'm studying charts after the fact, everything seems clear. The setups look obvious. The concepts make sense. But when the market is moving in real time, things become much more confusing. What appears to be a textbook setup often ends up hitting my stop loss almost immediately.

This has been happening a lot.

I'm currently trading futures and practicing through paper trading, so fortunately no real money is being lost. However, after showing up consistently for several days, taking trades based on the concepts I've been learning, and seeing more than 80-85% of them fail, it becomes difficult not to question everything.

Am I interpreting the market incorrectly?

Am I trying to force textbook concepts onto a market that doesn't behave as neatly as educational examples suggest?