Do you find it hard to stay motivated?

why not just listening to yourself? you feel like you lost interest in trading? don't trade, do something else..! maybe come back later.

don't complicate things

To me it sounds like you're asking all the wrong questions. Shouldn't you rather ask what you can learn from your current predicament and challenges?

Your challenges won't go away until you have learnt what they want to teach you.

The hardest part about trading is developing a strategy that is profitable. That is a long, difficult, tiring, frustrating task with no guarantee of success.

But the moment you realise your strategy will work, and generate profit, well that is a moment to savour forever. All the painstaking back-testing, tweaking, re-backtesting, and so on is forgotten in a heartbeat.

However, the moment you stop enjoying the process, then I'd say your odds of success will plummet. If you've tried everything you can think of, and still aren't having success, there's no shame in admitting forex isn't for you and go off and expend your time and energy doing something else that you do enjoy.

Life's too short!

I am totally agreed with Darastonius motivation is the thing which is badly needed in forex business. Because forex trading is such a business that no one can predict. If you do very well in this moment the next moment might be very bad for you. And also there is a chance to get lose continuously. But if you are not motivated you might quite anytime. But the successful trader always motivated themselves and also good broker help a trader to get motivated.

True passion will carry the trader through the tough losing period. Those in the game thinking quick money will vanish.

Seems like you are depressed because you aren't making your money back, or you aren't getting the rush from trade (which put you in this mess in the first place).

Your trades should be as close to boring as is possible, a small risk that you aren't going to change your plan on every 5 minutes when you get a little swing against you. There shouldn't be too many rushes and depressions, stick to your boring strategy, and if it's making money maybe you can think about increasing your equity, but only if you have actually fairly consistent growth.

This is the mistake almost 100% of traders make, Forex and general trading isn't a magic bullet, making hundreds of % per year isn't sustainable anyway.

A lot of amateurs get emotional so fast (greedy) over their losses and they start to lose faith in their stratergy because they just don't understand anything about strike rates, pullbacks in equity curve, probability models, a lot of psychological basic knowledge is just missing.
Once you decided, stick to it. Very true.

Exactly, and unless they truly enjoy the challenge of figuring out what they are doing wrong, they will quit. One thing that I always read about the most successful traders is that most of them always say the biggest thing they attribute to their success is that they didn't quit. Many of them admit they came close, but are glad they didn't. Once you quit, then you truly have no chance of succeeding.

Yup. The best thing to do IMO is chuck that up as the cost of tuition. Don't look to make the money back. Just focus on not losing and when you start gaining, just view that as new money. The old money is gone. It's never coming back.

Yes I hear you !
Thanks for putting your thought and criticism out there.
Its much appreciated !

Nice to see a few opinions about this
I use to read books on motivation years ago, only to find out later on that it was not for me
and the real work started after i dropped the idea of motivation and it all became "almost"
like my second nature_
In forex obviously as in any other business we need to plan how we're gonna achieve our goals, what strategy
to use in order to help accomplish that.... Having a vision of Account growth percent% is a must
and the passion for what we do is the main tool to survive in this business_

I found to be important to be surrounded by like minded people and even amongst the like minded...
a selection needs to be made and stick to those who have a general positive energy_
Enthusiasm, curiosity, the feeling of trying the same strategy and finding new things never
seen before, is something that keeps the desire alive to do well and better_
I often hear words like: You need to be patient, or you need to be Positive and so on, but
we really do not need these old-fashioned words if our mind is not disturbed,,, in fact
why shall i make the effort to be patient if the absence of Rush is there ? Wanting to get things fast spoils everything ...
Or/and why shall i try to positive, if i have already understood that such is life, and I am not feeling negative
in the first place, due to my enthusiams in all i do and the acceptance of the natural ups and downs ?

When something goes wrong and the percent of my account i decided to play for that week, seems to rapidly decrease
it won't be so hard to swallow if I had made my diligent homework before-hand_
Got a negative result ? Fine .. So what's next ! .. and deal with it _
Lastly, i found out that a beaten Ego is more experienced and realistic _
We gotta be hit and be beaten by the market, often so hard that the ego will be finally shaken
and bring up a new part of our brain never known before, which hopefully is gonna make us wiser_

Finally would like to dedicate this song to those having difficulty ...including me of course ,,,
I like this song of a Boy named sue.. Which is a guy who had to deal with so many bad things in his life
due to the awful girly name which was given to him by his father,,, but that thing contributed to make him tougher_
youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
Oppss I see that here there is also Master Copernicus,,, Forgive me Copernicus i am aware this is not really
your kind of music _

In the spirit of this thread....I forgive you for your grievous sin JB :-)