21 steps to becoming a successful trader
- I accumulate information, books and seminars.
- I begin to trade with my 'new' knowledge.
- I consistently lose money and then realise I may need more knowledge or information.
- I switch commodities, go to another seminar and then back into the market to trade with my 'updated' knowledge.
- I get 'beaten up' again and begin to lose confidence. Fear starts setting in.
- I switch commodities again, search for more information and go back into the market and see a bit of progress.
- I get 'over confident', the market humbles me and I start to understand that trading successfully is going to take more time and more knowledge than I anticipated.
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- So, I get serious and start concentrating on getting a real education.
- I begin to understand the need for having rules and methodologies in applying my trades.
- I start trading again, this time with rules and find some success, but over all I still hesitate when it comes time to execute.
- I feel I'm very close to crossing that threshold of successful trading.
- As I trade I still have a tendency to violate the Trading Lounge rules so my results are still erratic.
- I gain confidence in the rules and go back into the market and trade.
- I now see the importance of following these rules as I see the results of my trades when I don't follow the rules.
- I begin to see that my lack of success is within me (a lack of discipline in following the rules because of some kind of fear) and I begin to work on knowing myself better.
- I continue to learn with the Trading Lounge, and the market teaches me more and more about myself and my trading personality.
- I master my trading rules and methodology and I begin to consistently make money.
- I get a llittle over-confident and the market humbles me. I continue to lean lessons.
- I stop thinking and allow my rules to trade for me (trading becomes boring, but successful) and my trading account continues to grow as I increase my contract size.
- We are making more money than we ever dreamed possible.
- We go on with our lives and accomplish many of the goals we had always dreamed of.
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