20 Points of Successful Traders

  • They have the resilience to come back from early losses and account blow ups.
  • They focus on what really matters in trading success.
  • They have developed a trading method that fits their own personality.
  • They trade with an edge.
  • The harder they work at trading the luckier they get.
  • They do the homework to develop a methodology through researching ideas.
  • The principles they use in their trading models are simple.
  • They have mental and emotional control is key while winning or losing.
  • They manage the risk to avoid failure and pain.
  • They have the discipline to follow their trading plan.
  • Market wizards have confidence and independence in themselves as traders
  • They are patient with winning trades and impatient with losing trades.
  • Emotions are dangerous masters to the trader; they know how to manage their own emotions.
  • Market wizards evolve as a trader to avoid eventually failing in a method that has lost its edge over time.
  • It is not the news but how the market reacts to that news is what they watch for.
  • The fully understand the right way to position size for their goals of returns and drawdowns based on their risk/reward and winning percentage.
  • Market wizards understand comfortable trades are usually losing trades while the more uncomfortable trades are usually the winners.
  • They are good losers. Cutting losses when proven wrong and even reversing the direction of their trades when the price action dictates it.
  • The best traders are always learning through their own mistakes.
  • Passion for trading was the fuel for their eventual success.