Need to improve: 30 minute after I closed the trade, price when above my profit level. Should have patient more with the price action.
The other 4 things you mentioned aren’t relevant at all, compared with this one. If you ever remove a stop-loss so that one trade can “almost kill your account,” then you need to be trading on demo, not with money, and definitely not as a job!? (I mean it helpfully, not rudely!).
Thanks for your feedback. I will add it into my weaknesses. I have two methods of trading, swing (which rarely use) and scalp. For scalp, sometimes my method request to add more position. For examples, I usually enter in a strong break out hope for a second leg if the first entry not goes well. The original stoploss use to prevent the suddenly crash/increase of the market, not the swing/ movement. This method requires to reduce the position size 1/4 to 1/5 swing trade and a good position when enter the trade. The point is, since I am a beginner, my trade position is not good. So, my rule is to reduce size to 1/10. But I usually broke the rule due to over confident/emotion/ jump into the market without thinking. And because the size is to large, it lead to I very slow in cut/ exit the trade. So, I think the root cause is the big size of trade that I enter.
Upon reading your posts, you are all over the place. Nothing wrong with that as a beginner. However, you need to buckle down and start cleaning up your act. There are enough horrible habits, inclinations and variables, you could go around and around for years before you get traction. If you can't keep discipline in any single element of your trading, then there is NO HOPE to keep all of them disciplined. Furthermore, unless you start to put a stake in the ground on a single element, you will NOT be able to fix other things. Simply because you are on shifting sands and the number of data points will be too big. Sorry to be the bring bad news, and only intend to be honest. So: Trade only one size Trade only during regular hours when the action is consistent. After hours and regular hours are two different markets. Day trade or Swing, but never cross over. Stick to a single time frame. One and only one. Scale or don't scale, don't use it as a crutch to buy down after the entry is bad. Pick an entry method and exit method. Don't change it all the time. Etc. etc. etc. If you can't do this then the issue is not with your system it is with your ability to place, manage and exit trades. Crappy systems or crappy discipline will sink you. You have to have both working well, and it will still be a challenge to be consistent in both as the markets change day to day. GET ON SIM for a year.