Like most traders I have suffered from this syndrome on and off in my career and I wanted to share a technique that I find very useful.
Making the presupposition:
Good Trading is simply Good Habits, the question is HOW do you develop a habit?
Well one answer is repetition,
Here is what I challenge you to do,
Scale down to a minimum trade size and stay at this size until you are profitable for 1 entire month.
Then scale up 50% of that size each profitable month thereafter.
IF at any time you have 3 losing trades in a row scale back to the previous size until you are profitable for another 30 days.
Example:
Start with $50 risk per trade once you have a profitable month at this level, then scale up to $75 risk per trade and at anytime during the new month you have 3 consecutive losses scale back to $50.
Simple enough right?
We have all heard it said 1000 times that trading is 90% psychological and I think 90% of the experienced traders in here would agree with this statement, this little technique (if you apply it honestly) will CURE you of overtrading.
It never ceases to amaze me how many traders forget to master the basics.
Happy Trades.
Making the presupposition:
Good Trading is simply Good Habits, the question is HOW do you develop a habit?
Well one answer is repetition,
Here is what I challenge you to do,
Scale down to a minimum trade size and stay at this size until you are profitable for 1 entire month.
Then scale up 50% of that size each profitable month thereafter.
IF at any time you have 3 losing trades in a row scale back to the previous size until you are profitable for another 30 days.
Example:
Start with $50 risk per trade once you have a profitable month at this level, then scale up to $75 risk per trade and at anytime during the new month you have 3 consecutive losses scale back to $50.
Simple enough right?
We have all heard it said 1000 times that trading is 90% psychological and I think 90% of the experienced traders in here would agree with this statement, this little technique (if you apply it honestly) will CURE you of overtrading.
It never ceases to amaze me how many traders forget to master the basics.
Happy Trades.
I can't help putting this to my systems and evaluating strings of wins vs. strings of losses...but thats just me...I previously have done this forwards and reversed...I concluded that mathematically there is no increase in profitability...but to manage emotions may be another point that I did not consider.