Disliked{quote} I as a trader have a job.. my job is to execute perfectly my plan. It is not acceptable to take a loss due to lack of discipline. It is not acceptable to miss a trade due to lack of discipline. If you have a profitable system then you need discipline to execute it. And when we are dealing with money discipline takes a different road. I found we are bad risk calculator, and when we are dealing with trading we tend to focus on how much profit we can make rather than how much money we can lose. We like to predict the future especially when...Ignored
I also have a tendency to put more emphasis on the money aspect of it than executing my method properly. And like you I have lost many trades (in $ wise it wasn't big amount) but still it affected my performance. the more I lost the more fearful I became and the more I focused on how much I could make. I have to break free from this vicious cycle, or else I won't make anything really. So that's what I"m working on for now.
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