Your long term success will be based on your willingness to keep on speculating while managing uncertainty, fear and greed, losses and gains, the knowns and the unknowns. Success is about speculating again after multiple, managed losses knowing that the next big winner may just be the next trade. Success is about speculating again after a winner, not fearing that the next trade may chip away at your recent gains.
Successful traders think differently than the rest and they never quit…win, lose, or draw.