Tell me some of your bad habits

[SmithFX]

I am impatient and easily grow frustrated when suffer losses. What about you?

 

[David's faith]

My bad habits include buying high and selling low, buying low and selling even lower. That does happen sometimes lol.

 

[ktm]

Three years ago I waited until about 5500 miles to change the oil in my car.

 

[trismes]

I once started dozens of threads and ignored all the answers to every question posted.

 

[semperfrosty]

I have to let my dirty dishes 'soak'.

 

[mikeriley]

The same thing every trader deals with.

Fear of loss and Fear of losing acquired profits.

Greed is easy to overcome, but Fear is an
atrociously ruthless beast.

 

[tomkat22]

Being a little tardy about exiting a trade that's moved against me.

 

[TheDawn]

I am impatient and easily grow frustrated when suffer losses. What about you?

I am the opposite. I am impatient in taking profit when being profitable instead of letting profits run. So instead of suffering losses, I lose lot more in potential profit.

 

[zghorner]

The same thing every trader deals with.

Fear of loss and Fear of losing acquired profits.

Greed is easy to overcome, but Fear is an
atrociously ruthless beast.

I agree man but greed has lost me more money than fear. those are definitely the the two killers though.

 

[zghorner]

My current most detrimental habits that I am working on:
- Getting shaken out of good hands by aggressive movement against me. Both upon entering as well as when holding a winner. Basically getting out early before my exit signal because of momentum.
- Overtrading on weak signals. I should be taking 2-3 trades per day, 5 MAX and my average last week was closer to 7.