Because you won’t always be right, you’ll undoubtedly experience some losses. The stock market is incredibly humbling, and a long stretch of winning trades can instantly be cut short by devastating losses. But losing trades are healthy in the long run of your trading career, so long as you learn from them. Ask yourself why the trade went awry, and learn how to minimize similar mistakes in the future. Also, make sure that you exit a position as soon as your risk is fulfilled or a technical barrier — such as support, resistance, volume, etc — has been broken.