I am more concerned with keeping profits than making them. Anyone can get lucky and make money trading but only the skilled can hold onto that money over the long term.
- I am more concerned with how good a trader I will be a year from now than I am today. While I know what my skills are currently the upside of my futures skills is open ended based on my focus and work in this field.
- I am more concerned with my draw downs than my equity peaks. I know how to make capital grow and it is a much more pleasant task when I do not have to play catch up after a losing streak or trading too big.
- I am more concerned about what the chart is saying than what some talking head is saying on television or social media. The more they believe they have a crystal ball the more I try to avoid them.
I am more concerned about whether my trailing stop or stop loss is triggered in a trade than about my own personal opinion about what may happen next. While the market is open I trade the plan I made when the market was closed regardless of what my emotions, opinions, and ego want me to do after entering a trade.
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