What to do when you are ready to lose your mind from trading?

Did you maintain a trading journal all this while? Perhaps
you should go back in time and evaluate your mistakes. I’d suggest you to measure profits you made on winning trades and the money that you lost on losing trades. The possibility is that you might be losing more on a few losing trades than you are making collectively through your winners.
 
I think it depends on what it is underpinning my poor run. Is it a poor run of variance over which I have no control but my statistics suggest that providing I am practicing good risk management I can outlast? Or is it directly as a result of not sticking to my trading strategy and psyching myself out? If the former I am happy to trust the law of large numbers. If the latter then I will step away for a few days. Maybe go back to demo trading to get back into the groove before risking live funds again.
 
I agree with other traders that you might be lacking money management. Even after picking 80% of winners, poor money management can cause you lose everything and much more in 20% of the losing trades.
 
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