Most common mistake: Being less than 100% objective. If you are trying to trade like a Jedi with your feelings and emotions it's not gonna work.
Traders Common Mistake
- Thread starter NeilKruger
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We are human, not machine. Even the set it and forget it strat sys traders.
Laughable to think emotions are not a part of our decision-making. Believe it or not they can sometimes help us.
Anyone who has ever been in a trade and froze. Shut down. Unable to think or decide what to do about things going the wrong ... in a big way. Brain freeze, nothing.
Maybe it is fear about taking a big loss, taking yet another loss X times in a row, needing to make a car payment at end of the week, whatever.
In any case a bit of emotion, slamming keyboard, yelling at the screen and getting the eff out of the trade would be a good thing.
Level headedness should be the goal, very little up/very little down emotionally no matter the markets or one's trade account balance. Zero emotions is simply unattainable.
Laughable to think emotions are not a part of our decision-making. Believe it or not they can sometimes help us.
Anyone who has ever been in a trade and froze. Shut down. Unable to think or decide what to do about things going the wrong ... in a big way. Brain freeze, nothing.
Maybe it is fear about taking a big loss, taking yet another loss X times in a row, needing to make a car payment at end of the week, whatever.
In any case a bit of emotion, slamming keyboard, yelling at the screen and getting the eff out of the trade would be a good thing.
Level headedness should be the goal, very little up/very little down emotionally no matter the markets or one's trade account balance. Zero emotions is simply unattainable.
The mistakes traders make are all connected with their plan.
So, trading without a plan, trading an untested unrefined plan, trading contrary to the plan....
But as has been said above, these are decisions, they're not divine acts.
What the individual error comprised on this trade at this time on this market is not too helpful as subject for minute dissection and study.
So, trading without a plan, trading an untested unrefined plan, trading contrary to the plan....
But as has been said above, these are decisions, they're not divine acts.
What the individual error comprised on this trade at this time on this market is not too helpful as subject for minute dissection and study.
What would you say is a fair estimate of the percent of traders that use a written trading plan?
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