What is the biggest threat to your Account balance?

What have you found is the biggest threat to your account balance and success in trading?

One thing only:

Getting caught up in the action, losing the cool, and making emotional decisions instead of following the tried and tested rules.

the ego

This forum

Failure to act.

I am the biggest threat to my account balance and successful trading.

Can you be more specific cammomile?

The biggest threat to my account balance, that's ALL OF YOU!.YOu people who come to the market everyday and trying to get this piece of the pie. You take the other side of my trade just 'hoping' to get my money. But everytime I win a trade i get the satisfaction knowing i got the right deal, so screw all of you.

Runaway losses will kill your account and your spirit. Imagine making gains over the last month and losing it on one trade. Kill the trade that goes wrong early to avoid going down that road.

Runaway losses IS the biggest threat to your account balance.

the biggest threat to a professional trader is taking the risk more than he can take.
it is not difficult to climb 99 floors, it is too difficult to prevent from a jump at 100 floors, which means the lost of all previous profit and even the survival of the trader.