What habits make your trading profitable?

You know, anyone can be smart to mention profitability. Indeed profitable traders not many. You should ask them.
If you had asked me, I would say the profit is impermanent word to me. It is, but quickly vanishes. I have no patience, control and money that will help to survive the drawdown.

Another thing I have found helps me recently is keeping a trade log. Of course your platform logs your trades but I have an excel spreadsheet that I have started using to record trades. This helps me quickly go through my past trades and analyse them. It is also good psychologically as I feel as though every trade has to be accounted for on that spreadsheet. I have attached an image of a trade that has just been closed, target hit with R:R of 1:2 - Disclaimer: Not all my trades run to target and hit 1:2 RR, i often close trades with 1 or 2 pips profit and sometimes less than 1:1. This trade on EUR/GBP just happened to go as planned.



@AlexFF - Humans are creatures of habit, if you analyse your own trading on the trades that you are most profitable and do more of what you do on the profitable trades and less of what you do on the not so profitable trades my guess is that can have a positive impact.

The idea of the thread isnt to find profitable traders but to try and determine what works for people and do more of it.

What works for one wont work for all but curiosity it is I guess.

- Enjoying a good book.
- Posting on FF.
- Watching TV.
- Exercise.

Profitability comes from sitting pat while allowing winners to continue winning. This may be extremely boring so be sure to have a long list of things to occupy your time.

My advice: don't make "big" deposits in your first 100 acounts. If you then can't double a $200 account you can't double a $20k account either.

Do you think that the trader must earn the capital, starting with a small deposit in order to protect yourself from loss of lack of experience?
Then, it's good advice.

Starting with small capital is essential.

Starting with small deposit is essential.

Always be careful about risk, setup stoplost and lower spread, maybe miss some opportunity that make higher profit, but also make me more safe.

All are right. There is no need to regret the missed opportunities because there will be millions more. It is impossible to make all money