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Confidence, Discipline and Consistency

While day-trading is a great way to make a living when you are consistently profitable, it can also be the worse career choice if you consistently lose. Continue forward with system development, or working towards effective risk management, money management, or mastery of your trading psychology. Trading psychology means the big 3: discipline, confidence and consistency.The trading psychology takes precedence because it is needed to make sure that the other two are followed.

It takes a skilled trader to understand execute all of the things that are needed to be successful and earn a significant amount of profit doing this alone. Money Management is essential to preserve your trading capital and is simply a set of rules that governs how much money you have at risk. Take control of your trading Psychology and adhere to strict discipline in trading your developed and refined Trading System.

Building confidence on the system is extremely important as that is the only reason why you stick to the system during bad times. Day trading requires focus and discipline on the part of the trader with a high degree of risk tolerance since losing trades are numerous. (more…)

Consistency is the Key

Consistency is an essential component for a successful trading career. This is how you achieve confidence and become comfortable with “riding a trading bike”.

Psychological comfort is the key to a long term trading career and is achieved by becoming consistent with small profits. If you can make consistent $ per day: it can be increased drastically within a year and become exponential in long term.

When I hear from students that their goal is ”to make a lot of money“, I always emphasize that there are few essential steps that must be achieved prior : building confidence by achieving consistency with small lot size is the step that cannot be skipped. (more…)

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