Excerpt from The disciplined Trader by Mark Douglas -------------------------------------------------- 1. Refusing to define a loss. 2. Not exiting a losing trade, even after you acknowledge the tradeâs potential is greatly diminished. 3. Getting locked into a specific opinion or belief about the market or stock direction. 4. Focusing on price and monetary value of a trade instead of the potential for the market to move based on its behavior and structure. 5. Revenge trading to take back from the market what you have lost. 6. Not reversing your position even when you clearly sense a change in the market direction. 7. Planning for a move or feel one building, but then finding yourself immobilized to execute the trade, thus denying yourself the opportunity to profit. 8. Not acting on your instincts or intuition. 9. Establishing a consistent pattern of trading success over a period of time, and then giving your winnings back to the market in one or two trades and starting the cycle all over again. ******* How to over come wrong thinking and trading patterns. ----------------------------------------------------- 1. Define and enter a stop loss at the time of entry. 2. Define a maximum amount of loss after which no matter what, you will exit the trade. 3. Be flexible and open to change your opinion on the market and stock direction. 4. Have a well defined system of trading and follow it. 5. After a loss or a trading setback, do not impulse trade. Study what went wrong. Also trade small position size or take a break from trading till feeling confident. 6. Accept that stock can change direction at any moment, and that all trades cannot be profitable. A successful trader has to keep losses small, and should not let a profitable trade turn into a loss. 7. To overcome uncertainty and to enter trade with confidence, It gets easier when a long or short entry is made and the stop loss is defined beforehand at the time of entry. 8. Successful trading involves the ability to pull the trigger. The confidence to pull the trigger come from trading with rules. 9. Discipline and risk management is a must to ensure that trading is consistently profitable, while at the same time not risking more when on a profitable run. 10. Finally, it is important to keep a record or a dairy of all the trades executed each day and to review the trigger points for the entry and exit and if they are as per the defined rules. Lessons learnt from wrong execution to be codified into rules. __________________ Trade with an edge. Be Disciplined. Manage Risk.
is surf's defense , writers are making a 20 year stew,so all things come in and add to it and supposedly they will hit nirvana,it just comes to them, its a myth for 99% of writers but some hit it ,giving the other 99 fodder to hang on to perpetual denial and put off getting on with their life, so if surf was given this info from a non artist ,he would have ignored it,since the author didn't understand the artist,denial is the defense and staying power for the rejection one has to endure in the artists pursuit,it's a noble pursuit ,but surf's constant attack on everyone who is getting on with it, show's a crack in the denial he has so long protected in the pursuit of the nirvana .in reality , a realistic writer would get a real job, submit occassional short stories for publishing, while working on their masterpiece,all along surviving and hanging on to reality,which in the end would be their saving grace,if the manifesto was to ever be one..denial is a river in africa, beyond that it has no place in reality
as an add on, with the mistruths being perpetrated on the market today i see a major breakdown in the quality of et's post's ,the smarter than i posters who i came here to sift thru are diminishing, et,baron, as a site need to wake up and save the site, something that is not being done by our politicians, baron, you made a life change ,time to apply it to your bread and butter,lead don't follow,complacency is a slow death