Originally posted by Quah
Yep. Karma plays havoc with your trading and your head. I've made a lot of money over the past year trading ES, and I've lost a lot of money. The main thing I noticed is when I started talking to other people about how easy it was - how it was like printing my own money - how I had found "the system" - almost immediately after that I'd lose my ass. The more talking you do the more likely you are to let a loss run on you. Now I talk about nothing - I don't set myself up for failure.