The only thing you should concern yourself with is the individual performance. Stop reading success stories of others if they make you feel sad. If you bought at $8000 and was able to sell at $8500 then it's perfectly ok! You shouldn't concern yourself that price has risen to $9000 or $10000 after that. If you made profit, in short, you made a successful trade.
what do you mean individual performance?
is that some kind of hard work?
controlling emotions in trading is only a matter of time, if we already understand trading management and always practice it, just wait for your emotions to be controlled, because controlling emotions is like planting a tree, if you want to feel the fruit then you have to be patient.
Glendall do you understand what your wrote? Controlling emotions is not a matter of time, some people are not capable
for that even after a long period of time. Patience and controlling emotions in trading are two different things.
Individual performance is your own achievement, your possibilities with your set of skills. Is it a hard work? I`m sure that
practicing can be hard, learning can be hard to for people who are newbies in something.
When you plant a tree, you can sit down and be just patient! You need to take care of that plant, to water it everyday,
to cut weeds around, depending on the tree you need to do what it takes for that tree to give you fruits. Just planting and
waiting will lead you nowhere.