The only way to eliminate emotion from trading is to trade with a fully backtested system with clearly defined trading rules, as this will give you total confidence.
When you are absolutely confident you will make money in the long run, then after trading for a while you will start noticing that you don't give a rat's ass about the outcome of each trade anymore.
When you finally reach that mental state, then you made it as a trader
Agree. Prolonged positive confirmation is a good base for confidence and confidence leaves less and less place for fears and doubts over time.
The main issue is most people never get there, cause even if they get a working system at their hands, it still takes extremely hard period emotionally of trading it with full discipline in order to receive objective confirmation of positive outcome.
I witnessed traders who developed great systems they worked on for years, which excellently work in simulated environment (and don't depend that much on fills, so sim or live is technically irrelevant here), but when they try to make a living trading their system, emotions kick in and lead to a wreck after wreck. All for pure emotional reasons and a lack of belief in that following rules is the only path to success.
