The following situation happens quite often to many traders.
Look it over and see if it has been happening to you:
You have been faithfully following your trading plan and the
rules you've set for trading. By following them you are now in a
trade that doesn't look so good. At the same time, by following
your trading plan, you see that you've missed a beautiful move in
a different market, one that could have made you a lot of
money.
You are in a bad trade and you've missed out on a great trade.
You become disgruntled. You think to yourself that your trading
plan must not be so great. You think there must be a better
methodology that you should use that will prevent this from
happening. You think to yourself, "Yes! That's it, I'll change
the way I do things." So you create a new rule or modify an old
one so that such a rule would have let you capture the trade you
missed and avoid the one you took. Have you been making this
mistake?
Here's another way it can happen: You are in a trade, and your
rules cause you to be stopped out with little or no profit.
Shortly after you exit the trade according to plan, prices take
off and move to where, had you stayed in, you would have made
substantial profits. The move leaves you sitting there thinking
you are stupid. You reason that there must be something wrong
with the way you do things.
Your rules, your plan, or both must not be right. So you
change what you are doing, or make a new rule so that the next
time this happens, you won't be left behind.
You have just abandoned all of the hard work you've previously
done that enabled you to successfully trade futures. You've
abandoned your education and learning. You've abandoned the
wisdom that will enable you to be consistently successful as a
trader. You've just started trading history, and you are supposed
to be trading on the future movement of prices. You are trading
what happened, not what will happen. By not being willing to be
left behind, you are setting yourself up for being left out.
If you've been having thoughts, or have been acting as we've
just described, you have a terrible problem with greed. Why?
Because greed can never get enough. You can't satisfy greed.
Greed wants more, and yet more.
Not every trade is your trade. Not every trade has to work out
for you. You have to be satisfied with getting a reasonable share
of trades that fit your description of a good trade. Some of
those trades will turn out to be great trades, others are good
trades, and a certain percentage of your trades will be bad.
There's no way around it.
Not every good trade will turn into a great trade. When you
enter a trade according to your rules and trading plan, you have
no idea whether or not it will turn out to be a good trade, much
less a great trade. The reality of trading is that, try as you
might, you cannot know the future.
Whenever we miss a big move and then try to find some pattern,
indicator, rationale, or modification to make to what we are
doing so that the next time we will not miss the "big" move, it
is a part of the hunt for something magic - a continuation of our
quest for the holy grail of trading.
What a terrible mistake to allow yourself to make. Winning as
a trader consists of making some small profits and some larger
profits on a regular basis. Obviously, there will be some losses.
We regularly want to keep losses small, but there are times when
a loss will get away from us and turn out to be bigger than
desired.
If adversity causes you to become disgruntled, then you really
need to examine your thinking and your approach to trading. Your
trading plan must allow for disappointment and loss.
You've got to believe in what you are doing and be able to
trade from the knowledge that when you follow your rules and your
plan, you will make money from your trading. When you become
disgruntled and begin to change your plan, your rules, or both,
you are setting yourself up for almost certain failure and the
worst thing that can happen to a trader - you will lose the
courage of your convictions. Without it you cannot trade with any
level of confidence.
This is why we encourage you to write out the reasons and
rationale for every trade you make, even if you have to do it
after you have completed the trade. You must develop a keen
recognition of the trades that are your trades. Write out your
trading plan every day and for every trade you intend to make. If
you did not have time to plan every trade, be sure to review
those you did make without pre-planning. Then you can go back
over your trading and be able to see why and when you are
successful.
Reminder: Here are some steps to take before the market
opens.
View major formations on the charts of those futures you
intend to trade. View potential congestion areas, get the big
picture from the longer term charts.
Write down all potential entries as you see them on the
chart.
You need to go through this exercise every day that you trade.
This takes discipline. However, doing so will help you develop
the kinds of habits that will mold you into a great trader.
If you are too busy to be disciplined, then you are too busy
to trade. If you don't discipline yourself, you will soon
disappear from the trading scene.
Joe Ross has been trading for more than 47 years, and is a
well known Master Trader. He has survived all the up and downs of
the markets because of his adaptable trading style, using a
low-risk approach that produces consistent profits.
Joe is the creator of the Ross hook, and has set new standards
for low-risk trading with his concept of "The Law of Charts?."
Joe was a private trader for most of his life. In the mid 80's he
shift his focus and decided to share his knowledge. After his
recovery, he founded Trading Educators in 1988 to teach aspiring
traders how to make profits using his trading approach. He has
written 12 major books on trading. All of them have become
classics and have been translated into many different
languages.
Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.
He did his Masters work in Computer Sciences at the George
Washington University extension in Norfolk, VA. Joe still tutors,
teaches, writes, and trades regularly. Joe is still an active and
integral part of Trading Educators.
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