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10 Unsuccessful Trading Behaviors

  
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  1. Refusing to define a loss.
  2. Not liquidating a losing trade, even after you have acknowledged the trade’s potential is greatly diminished.
  3. Getting locked into a specific opinion or belief about market direction.  I.E. “I’m right, the market is wrong.”
  4. Focusing on price and the money
  5. Revenge-trading to get back at the market from what it took from you.
  6. Not reversing your position even when you clearly sense a change in market direction
  7. Not following the rules of the trading system.
  8. Planning for a move or feeling one building, then not trading it.
  9. Not acting on your instincts or intuition
  10. Establishing a consistent patter of trading success over a period of time, and then giving your winning back to the market in one or two trades.

Timeless Qualities Essential to Speculation

  
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    1. Self-reliance: A man must think for himself and must follow his own convictions. Self-trust is the foundation of successful effort.
    2. Judgment: That equipoise, that nice adjustment of the faculties of one to the other, which is called good judgment—essential to the speculator.
    3. Courage: That is, confidence to act on the decisions of the mind. In speculation, there is value in the dictum: Be bold, still be bold; always be bold.
    4. Prudence: The power of measuring the danger, together with a certain alertness and watchfulness, is very important. There should be a balance of prudence and courage; prudence in contemplation, courage in execution.
    5. Pliability: The ability to change an opinion, the power of revision. He who observes and observes again is always formidable.
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