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Old 12-12-2007, 09:16 AM
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Excellent post. Can totally relate. I'm currently coming out of stage4 and trying to be stage 5. It's tough. Mentally more than anything. Has taken 5 years to get to the start of stage 5. But the key things I have learnt are:-
1) know thyself! Are you impatient? Quick tempered? complacent? Risk averse? Insecure? Lazy? If you don't know beforehand, you will certainly find out along the way.....
2) money & risk management,
3) find a setup/market that suits your personality (see 1)
4) focus only on the setups NOT the $
5) never, ever give up!

Nice one Soultrader - excellent summary.

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

Almost follows the pattern:

you don't know what you don't know

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

Soultrader, this is awesome!! What a great way to describe the journey. I am very new, only have been at this for 3 months, but I went to stage three, as I didn't allow myself to make foolish mistakes. I knew enough, that what I don't know, I better not do, at least not too much to cost me too much.

I just joined this site and pretty glad I did.

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

It's interesting, I THOUGHT I had a well laid out trading plan. But the more real time experience I get, the more I find myself seeing better setups and ignoring the ones I put in my plan. My trading is getting better and more consistent, although I still find myself shooting from my hip and taking bad trades for no reason. When this happens I walk away for a while and get my mind off trading.

Now the hard part is writing down the trades I see setup in real time and putting them on paper for my trading plan.

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

Decades ago I watch a young man on a tower up about 10 feet dropping tools. I asked why he was dropping tools and he said "I must learn not to go after tools if they are dropped or I will go down with them. I must learn this before I can work on towers."

A bad trade is the same as a tool dropped from a 500 foot tower. Don't go after them just let them go or you'll go down with them. You must learn this before you trade!

Nice article...thanks for all!

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

great analogy phantom

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

I am just entering stage 1 but I am determined and I have some help from a friend wish me luck and any advise will help.( not to mention a hot tip now and again)

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Hot Tip: Don't take hot tips

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Good advice. any help is appreciated thx

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Re: A New Traders Journey to Success

Soultrader-
Thanks for a great post. Stage 4 right now and the dream is to one day be able to go to my wife and say: "Honey Look- I can legitimately make more money by quitting my job and trading full time"

I have already and regularly make more money before 8:00 AM than I will working my day job- it feels good, yet frustrating at the same time- making a nice $400 score prior to going to work for 8 hours- to make 1/4 of that- makes you a bit frustrated.

But that is why we have dreams and to keep working towards them!
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