This isn't Nam, this is trading, and there are rules... The quickest way to get your trading account marked to zero is to not follow your trading rules. Wait, you have rules for your trading strategies don't you? If you do not, then you are just a pacifist floating in the wind and you need to take a step back and look at what you are doing with yourself.
If you do have a set of rules for your trading strategy, the most important thing is to, well, FOLLOW THE RULES! If you cross the line, your account will likely hit zero, then you are pretty much out of luck.
I caught myself not following my rules the last couple of days and basically gave back all I made and then some messing around and trying to do stupid stuff that I knew I was taking on more risk than I should. So I broke my rules. But I caught myself before things got really bad. All this even after the conversation I had with @taskmaster4450 on this very subject on Monday, lol. If you missed that podcast, which so far I can tell many have, you can listen here: https://leofinance.io/@thelogicaldude/oyxeeynp
Every Trader Needs A Set Of Rules To Abide By
Trading is no different than any other business. You need a set of parameters to follow to be successful. Every trader has a different style and take on the markets so therefore you will have a different set of rules.
Some traders like to trade on the real fast time frames like me, and if you do not abide by your set of rules, you will get wrecked real quick. The rule I kept continuously breaking was to wait for confirmation on a move. I kept trying to front-run a move that I thought was about to happen, only to get stopped out when the trade went the other way.
I love catching scalps, but I made a rule in my playbook that I would not play any timeframes below the 5-minute timeframe, and only use that for entries and exits, but I started dabbling in the 1 minutes candles and got myself trapped a few times.
Another rule I broke was NO REVENGE TRADING... This is a big one for me. I see the trade going the wrong way and get stopped out before I can do anything, but then I see it try to move the other way so I try and catch it in the other direction to make up for the previous loss. When I do this, I usually lose that trade as well.
Patience Is One Of The Hardest Parts Of A Trade
When you are looking to get in a trade or are currently in a trade, you get anxious, everyone does. Same thing as if you are playing in a poker game. When you have money on the line, you tend to be a bit on edge, so in my case at least, learning patience and letting the trade come to me, then confirming the direction, before I get into a trade.
One issue with me is that I am a very short-term-minded individual. I have a hard time looking for the long term that my trades reflect that. I am usually looking for quick in and out scalp trades, but end up paying the price on my small account in trading fees. I get anxious and I will sometimes get in or out of a trade too quickly and either straight take a loss or leave money on the table in the way of smaller profits.
So by saying this, I need to readjust my strategy to maybe look more at intra-day swing trades versus looking for quick in and out scalps, being that I am trading with a smaller account...
Keeping Yourself Accountable
Being a solo trader can be extremely hard because you don't have anyone but yourself to be accountable for. At least by posting things here on Hive and LeoFinance, I have a community of people that I can write to who can maybe learn from my mistakes as well as help keep me accountable for my own mistakes, and maybe have some insight on how I could adjust things.
I am thinking about really trying to build a trading group on Discord using the Coin Logic server, so maybe we can build a team of traders that can all help each other conquer the wild Bitcoin and greater crypto markets!
Follow The Rules And Succeed
All this is to say that if you are serious about trying to make a living as a trader, then you have to create a set of rules to follow. If you are trading different assets like stocks, you may have a different set of rules than someone trading straight crypto like myself. In that case, you need to follow the rules based on the markets you are trading, although there is a lot of correlation when it comes to charts and the way things work. Remember, it's all just a supply and demand auction, people just like to make it more complicated than it has to be. So simplify things for yourself and keep to the rules!
Until next time traders...
Be Cool Be Real and always Abide!
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This is something that I've got to do. I handle my own stocks and crypto, and I also take care of my mother's investments as well, unless it's realty or insurance related stuff.
I typically don't have rules, I just wing it, so far it has been relatively ok, but I think I could perform better with some strict guidelines.
Yeah for sure. When I just go in and wing it I usually get my ass rekt, 😂
Follow your rules, because most people's so-called "intuition" and "gut hunches" suck to high heaven. Something I remember well from my long gone days of day trading tech stocks, back in the late 1990's. When I followed the rules I pretty steadily would net $500-$800 a week on cruise control. I remember "taking a flyer" once, and it resulted in a nasty margin call that ended up costing $3K out-of-pocket.
I don't really have the stomach for it, anymore... almost exclusively long-term, these days.
Yep, my problem is patience. I rush into trades and it ends up completely screwing me over. Is what it is. Taking tomorrow off to realign. My thing is that it is the only thing I have found that I really feel I can be good at that I don’t have to try and impress anyone else. I write these hoping it not only helps me and keep me accountable, but help someone else that may be struggling as well.
Setting a rules is simple, obeying that rules is the hardest part , patient makes traders, they is always as saying that,the money is not in the execution the money is in the waiting and also is better not to be on a trade that you might lose than be on a trade that win , it's simple cutting your loss
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Yep. It’s the abiding pet that gets me, lol. That’s why I am taking today to not trade and reflect on what I did wrong and maybe even rewrite my playbook.
Yeah, same rules apply with playing poker! Whenever I don't follow my conservative strategy, it can get out of hand pretty quickly ♦️♠️
Yeah I see a ton of correlation between trading and poker. You have to read the market like you are reading a player and look for the tells of a bluff, lol.
It’s funny, when I go to the casino, I actually sit in the sports book area and drink free coffee and trade bitcoin, lol. At least I feel like I have better odds, haha.
There are only 2 rules.
If I were to get into trading fulltime, I wouldn't trust myself to do it manually, I'd offload it to a trading bot. It would follow my "rules" as they were baked into the code. I'd probably start with a reddit/twitter bot that ran periodic sentiment analysis and compared to spot prices for some period of time before and after each one, eventually a positive trust pattern would emerge that could be used for "safe" bets,... The larger and faster the dataset, the better the tradebot results would be.
But I'm lazy, so ... I'll just take the occasional meme tweet that I caught at the right time (first couple hours), toss a few hundos at it, sell the next day. slow & steady, oddly historically super reliable. No regrets when in and out within 24 hours amirite?
I used Cryptohopper in my early days but found myself messing with the bot too much so I might as well trade it myself, lol.
Can’t use any of my leverage trading platforms with a bot. At least now, lol. I like the challenge it gives me though. It’s just me vs the market.
I feel attacked
If it makes your feel any better, for one, this is a message to myself, and two, the market doesn't have feelings.
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