- You know every stock symbol on the top of your head.
- You’re not satisfied until you can make a profitable trade to make up for bad trades.
- You enjoy the challenge of trading over actually making money.
- You are constantly flustered by the ups and downs of a stock in a given day.
- You start to make crazy excuses and blame others for your bad trades.
- You frequent message boards and social networks to try and pump up your stock.
- You are glued to the Twitter stream to see what traders are actively buying and selling.
- First thing you do when you get up and last thing before you go to sleep is check your stocks.
- You find and follow a new stock everyday.
- You start buying based solely on what somebody says.
- You bet large portions of your portfolio on a few stocks.
- You check your account balance every 5 minutes of market hours.
- You scoff at the trading strategies of other people.
- You never really actually get better at trading.