What are your Trading Breakthroughs?

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by mmm, Dec 5, 2003.

  1. My breakthrough has been....win, lose, or draw I'm doing something I enjoy, and that's all that really matters in the end. Which would you rather be? The 7 figure trader that has grown so bored with it all he functions like an android?, or the average at best trader that smiles at the winning trades, frowns a bit at the losers, and lives his/her life to the fullest regardless of how the day went?
     
    #141     Aug 23, 2006
  2. DannoXYZ

    DannoXYZ

    yeah, limiting losses was the biggest breakthrough for me. Stopping out of positions quickly and immediately really opened up possibilities for gains on the upside.
     
    #142     Aug 23, 2006
  3. It is so true...
     
    #143     Aug 24, 2006
  4. tireg

    tireg

    Thanks for sharing that bit, Captain. Sometimes we can get so consumed in what we're doing or the final goal that we forget much of it is about the journey.
     
    #144     Aug 24, 2006
  5. Bootsie

    Bootsie

    another great thread....

    :)
     
    #145     Sep 6, 2006
  6. when i finally stopped trying to find a system which was profitable and instead began searching for a system which consistently lost money on a regular basis and barely made any money back. :p
     
    #146     Sep 7, 2006
  7. I stopped looking for books and courses.

    Start monitoring some great threads here at ET and going into a chatroom where real traders are trading the market realtime.
     
    #147     Sep 7, 2006
  8. OK, I'll bite...where do you think any of that really goes on? I've done interviews for Stocks and Commodities over the years with several who "say" they are trading profitably, but would not produce any evidence to support it. Some even were so blatant as to "past post". I'm not challenging, just asking.

    Don
     
    #148     Sep 7, 2006
  9. Trades are posted realtime. If you want proof, just follow the trades posted.

     
    #149     Sep 7, 2006
  10. Where do I look? Which room are you promoting? (If you already posted it up, I'm sorry...)...just let me know. Perhaps they (you) might want some publicity.

    Don
     
    #150     Sep 7, 2006