When you first learnt about the potential of trading, hearing lot of
rags to rich story, a normal person do get tempted and probably
venture towards trading.
But then, just before you started
trading, you heard stories of traders losing fortune and the Stock
Market Scams of Harshad Mehtha, Ketan Parek and Satyam Scam . You
probably heard of the large percentage of loss-makers and than fear sets
in should we trade or not. Are market manipulated by the FII"s and
Operators.
If you eventually managed to overcome that initial fear
and traded, then you probably have to battle other fears each and every
day.
A common scenario is where you enter a trade on the prediction that it will go in a particular direction.
For
example You took a trade in morning its making money for you as per
your trading plan.After 1 hour trade achieves your intital target but it
keep going up and up as per your plan.Then halfway into the trade, it
starts losing. All of a sudden, your 10K gain of a few minutes ago has
been reduced by 3K and sliding further downward.
If you give in to
fear at this point, you will exit the trade to save the gains you had
already made. Then a few minutes after you exit the trade, imagine
seeing the gains returning and the trade closing just as you had
initially predicted it would with 20K gain. Now that is how fear can
ruin your trading and drain you psychologically.
There are various ways you can deal with fear and be a successful trader. Let me discuss few of them
1. Over Analysis of Trade.
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