How Traders can Optimize Trading Mindset Part-II

In Continuation of Part -I

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You should have back tested and trusted trading system, rather than plucking one from the internet. I know it's very tempting to simply copy the trading system of some (supposedly) successful trader, and it might very well be a very profitable strategy but the fact that it works for them, doesn't mean it will work for you.
The best thing to do is to take note of those strategies and let other traders tell you what works for them, to see which parts really resonate with you. Borrow bits and pieces from other people's trading strategies, but only to mold them into a strategy that is customized to your trading personality, financial circumstances and time schedule.
If you are a hobby trader and just want to stay in the market without losing too much, you don't have to spend years building your system, but if you are committed, if you are serious, if you want to achieve financial freedom, than it might take you years before you have build and fine-tuned a successful trading system of your own.
Do you think that's a little long? How about if you were starting a business and someone told you it might take you three to four years before it'd

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