- Refusing to define a loss.
- Not liquidating a losing trade, even after you have acknowledged the trade’s potential is greatly diminished.
- Getting locked into a specific opinion or belief about market direction. I.E. “I’m right, the market is wrong.”
- Focusing on price and the money
- Revenge-trading to get back at the market from what it took from you.
- Not reversing your position even when you clearly sense a change in market direction
- Not following the rules of the trading system.
- Planning for a move or feeling one building, then not trading it.
- Not acting on your instincts or intuition
- 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.
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