Always remember if the market is crappy and nothing is moving then don't force trade You don't have to trade, if it's nice out go and play golf.
Backtest your trade method and then compare the results to your simulator results (use a real simulator from your broker only) and then compare your results to any real money trading. 3 Different results compared against each other. That should give you clues about your trading. Hopefully you have not started with any real money trading before backtesting your trade method. Most newbies do not backtest and literally just paper trade (write down trades) instead of using a real simulator from the broker. While you're at it...use a professional trade journal software with your simulator or any real money trading for your quantitative statistical analysis of your trading. It will empower you to self-help your trading. There's a few professional trade journal software sponsors of this forum. Thus, you can check them out or just use Google to chose one that's specific to your needs. Come back to the forum in several more months and talk about your results, ask questions...prior to any real money trading. The few newbies doing well out of the gate, most of them will eventually fail when they move into real money trading and they have no facts (statistics) about what they're doing wrong especially the ones that only talk about their trading results without mentioning anything about the trading environment they're trading within. Last of all, do not quit your job to trade until after a minimum of one year of successful real money trading and only after you've saved a few years of income to support your living expenses. wrbtrader