Trading for a Living

How to make money trading stocks/Commodities

(a) Identify the reason for the trade
(b) A Stop Loss
(c) A profit target or trailing stop mechanism
(d) The point at which you accept that the trade is not working even if the stop did not hit.
(e) Number of shares / contracts that you will hold. Keep in mind that your loss on a single trade should not be more than x% of your capital (you decide the x%)
(f) maintain a trading journal in which you write every evening, without fail.

As a sportsman(So too as a trader), you've got to realize that it's not the end of the world if you lose one game or more..You should get down to basics and play every point on its merit. The moment you sit down to differentiate the first point from the last, emotions take over. Now, that needs to be..

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