Sometimes history can assist us in becoming greater at what we want to do.

However, one of the biggest struggles we all face is that fact that we generally know what we need to do, but because we do not like the task, we do not do it.

As a trader, we all want to become better. Instead of using only our time in front of the charts to enhance our skills, use the time that we cannot even trade to become better.

Every Saturday-Sunday, the markets are closed. This is the perfect time to have you own personal trading school. Sit down with your trading journal of all of the trades you made last week along with your charts or the screen shots of your executed trades and analyze what you actually did.

You will soon discover that the information surrounding these trades will provide a wealth of information that will assist you in seeing your areas of strength and areas that you need to strengthen.

If we never look at where we have just been, then we will never be sure that the path we are continuing on will get us to our desired destination.