Each person will has different weakness in trading, whatever experience you have in training your mind, changing your attitude, first you need to aware of the weakness. That could be fear of pulling the trigger, fail to execute the stop order, not take the profit in the right level. Bottom line is try to spend more time to improve your trading mentality rather than your trading skill.
Paper day trading perhaps can help start that training. The time spent is well worth for beginners. This can sometimes pump up your heart beat as well, by the time paper trading is no longer affecting your heart rate then you can move on to something else. Beginning traders sometimes lose money from wrong order; for example, using a stop order instead of a limit order, or shorting a S & Pcontract instead of a S&P emini, forgeting GTC order and it goes longer than expecxted.
"It took me years of studying the markets before I began to make money. I tried all sorts of off-the-shelf trading systems that promised to make me rich in a few weeks or even days. Of course, none of them worked, the only people getting rich were those people selling these systems.
Eventually I realized that what was really needed to succeed as a day trader was a basic understanding of the mechanics of trading, a bunch of proven trading setups and the knowledge of how to apply them, and the discipline to trade according to my plan. Once all those fell into place, profits were quick to follow - and were beyond anything I had come to hope for."
Recommended for day trading beginner - "Day Trading Freedom is that understanding, those trading setups, and the plan that took me all those years to discover, all condensed into an easy to follow course that cuts right to the chase. All you as the trader need to add is the discipline to follow the techniques presented in the course, and naturally Day Trading Freedom contains plenty of advice on just how to go about achieving that. This is the course that I wish had been available when I first made that decision to become a day trader." - Harvey Walsh |