Usually, we are trading with market, and we have our own trading logic. But , after you are trading for a long time , you will find you are trading with yourself and the biggest enemy is you.
You may have a good trading logic , and you always earning money from the market , but you are still afraid of lossing, am i right?
Every trader should believe in his own trading logic just like a belief, you can't move it. Lossing are not terrible and you should like it.
So i have some advices:
1. make sure you are believe in your trading logic
2. record the reason when you open trade
3. take profit and stop loss strictly
4. back to the records when you close trade, and think why you are earning or lossing
5. according to the records , if you find something wrong with your trading logic, fix it
6. add your trade into a trade journal (advice from @GreatArkansas)
7. do the things 1-6 above again
Does any trader record the reason of opening trade? And how do you guys practice it? Let's talk about it.
Some thoughts:You may have a good trading logic , and you always earning money from the market , but you are still afraid of lossing, am i right?
Every trader should believe in his own trading logic just like a belief, you can't move it. Lossing are not terrible and you should like it.
So i have some advices:
1. make sure you are believe in your trading logic
2. record the reason when you open trade
3. take profit and stop loss strictly
4. back to the records when you close trade, and think why you are earning or lossing
5. according to the records , if you find something wrong with your trading logic, fix it
6. add your trade into a trade journal (advice from @GreatArkansas)
7. do the things 1-6 above again
Does any trader record the reason of opening trade? And how do you guys practice it? Let's talk about it.
ad1. Get a strict set of rules.. don't try to rationalize everything as you can always find a logical reason to follow with your action
ad2. this is similar to 1. get a set of rules and simply don't trade if the criteria are not met
ad3. stop loss is meh, take profit based on your set of rules
ad4. thsi is quite obvious, you gotta learn to improve. if you don't, then others do and outplay you. staying in place is moving backwards.
ad5. is the same as 4
ad6. journal is a must. if you don't have your notes online on the chart then you need to keep it in a journal. it is a good idea even if you keep other type of reminders.
ad7. let's
