It's good to hear you've been treading water, but don't expect profits to magically come if you don't feel like making any changes. To have been able to keep your account afloat on the sea of slippage and commission you must be doing something right.
So sit down. Look at your trading clinically. Take what's working so far in what you're doing -- money management, patience and selectivity, whatever edge you are exploiting that's keeping your head above the market rake -- and intensify your concentration and application of those ideas. Take what's not working so far -- letting losses run, hope and complacency, desperation (revenge) trading etc -- and strive to minimize those things. There aren't too many shortcuts to success in this business, but using what you've learned so far to improve further is the closest thing, don't let it go to waste. Think of yourself as the first rough diamond ever discovered, that needs to use its own dust to cut and polish itself.
We're all on the same road to one extent or another -- good luck on your journey!
So sit down. Look at your trading clinically. Take what's working so far in what you're doing -- money management, patience and selectivity, whatever edge you are exploiting that's keeping your head above the market rake -- and intensify your concentration and application of those ideas. Take what's not working so far -- letting losses run, hope and complacency, desperation (revenge) trading etc -- and strive to minimize those things. There aren't too many shortcuts to success in this business, but using what you've learned so far to improve further is the closest thing, don't let it go to waste. Think of yourself as the first rough diamond ever discovered, that needs to use its own dust to cut and polish itself.
We're all on the same road to one extent or another -- good luck on your journey!
