The 7 Secret Elements To Successful Day Trading
1. Successful traders stay neutral:
Staying neutral means to be emotionally detached from your trading decisions. I've met many day traders that were emotionally suffering for the rest of the day after losing 1000 or even less and when they made 10000 they would be "on top of the world". They are definitely not trading neutral.
If you are like that, then your trading will definitely be driven by fear and greed; if you are down 1000 you probably don't want to take a loss, just because you know that you will be emotionally suffering. If you are up 10000 you might want more, even though you should take profits. Or you might end up taking profits way too early because you are afraid that the position might turn against you. The professionals don't let the day-today oscillations in their account faze them. The results of one week don't matter much, not even the monthly results. It's just a small blip of time in their career, so the day-to-day oscillations don't really matter. Emotional ups and downs are pretty normal for beginners. If they influence your trading decisions too much, then I would strongly advise you to go back to paper trading in order to gain the confidence you need to not let those oscillations affect you too much.
Staying neutral also means to see the price movements like they really are, not how you want them to be. You might all know the situation where a trade is going against you, and you start looking for other reasons why it is still a good trade and you should hold it. This is very dangerous since it leads people to breaking their stops and to lose big. Your entry and exit criteria has to be absolutely clear before you make a trade. Switching strategies while you are in a trade is one of the worst things you can do. You can always find a reason for your position to go up or down, but you don't see the actual price movement a..
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Staying neutral means to be emotionally detached from your trading decisions. I've met many day traders that were emotionally suffering for the rest of the day after losing 1000 or even less and when they made 10000 they would be "on top of the world". They are definitely not trading neutral.
If you are like that, then your trading will definitely be driven by fear and greed; if you are down 1000 you probably don't want to take a loss, just because you know that you will be emotionally suffering. If you are up 10000 you might want more, even though you should take profits. Or you might end up taking profits way too early because you are afraid that the position might turn against you. The professionals don't let the day-today oscillations in their account faze them. The results of one week don't matter much, not even the monthly results. It's just a small blip of time in their career, so the day-to-day oscillations don't really matter. Emotional ups and downs are pretty normal for beginners. If they influence your trading decisions too much, then I would strongly advise you to go back to paper trading in order to gain the confidence you need to not let those oscillations affect you too much.
Staying neutral also means to see the price movements like they really are, not how you want them to be. You might all know the situation where a trade is going against you, and you start looking for other reasons why it is still a good trade and you should hold it. This is very dangerous since it leads people to breaking their stops and to lose big. Your entry and exit criteria has to be absolutely clear before you make a trade. Switching strategies while you are in a trade is one of the worst things you can do. You can always find a reason for your position to go up or down, but you don't see the actual price movement a..
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