But what separates professional traders from the retail investing «herd» is that successful professional traders
follow a disciplined trading strategy that enables them to keep their profits when more challenging market conditions eventually arise.
The goal of our service is for a trader to learn how to properly
follow a disciplined trading system and to manage risk in their own accounts.
Not
following a disciplined trading program leads to accepting large losses and small profits.
Not exact matches
For us, we plan to remain
disciplined and patiently wait for the pitch,
following the proven methodology of our swing
trading system.
The best way to remove (or at least minimize) emotions from
trading is to
follow a well - defined and
disciplined trading strategy at all times.
So the best advice I can give you to overcome a lack of
discipline is to define a
trading methodology that works best for you and
follow it religiously.
If the way you view a price chart or evaluate a potential
trade setup is different from how you did it a month ago, then you have either not identified your methodology or you lack the
discipline to
follow the methodology you have identified.
When you have clearly outlined and identified your
trading methodology, then you must have the
discipline to
follow your system.
Over the past two months, in which the main stock market indexes have been trending steadily lower, the benefits of consistently
following a
disciplined, rule - based swing
trading strategy and market timing system have again been brought to light.
Regardless of what type of
trading system you
follow, one of your most important keys to success is
disciplining yourself to merely react to price action, rather than attempting to predict it.
But if you're serious about consistently raking in short - term
trading profits over the long - term, you must develop the patience and
discipline to
follow our proven swing
trading system taught every day in this newsletter.
Although there is no right or wrong way to profit in the stock market, we feel the best way to yield consistent stock
trading profits is through
following a
disciplined, rule - based
trading strategy and market timing system that yields consistent gains with the least amount of proportionate risk.
As you probably know, we
follow a
disciplined, rule - based
trading system, but a bit of common sense and discretion is often required.
Avoiding risk of ruin is a matter of applying money management models to control your
trading size and having the
discipline to
follow them.
The only enemy we have as traders is ourselves — our own lack of patience and
discipline in the market, self control and not making or even
following a
trading plan.
Instead, be motivated by learning proper
trading processes and habits, i.e., staying
disciplined and patient /
following your
trading strategy to the T.
Thus, it would make far more sense to «hope» for a profitable
trading year IF you
follow your strategy and implement consistent
discipline in your money management, rather than «hoping» that every
trade is a winner, because then you are hoping for something that is not realistic.
Once you've found a profitable
trading strategy for your personal style of
trading, you must then have the
discipline to
follow the rules of your
trading system.
I also noticed from working with different clients, that if one has the
discipline to apply and
follow the same rules to his or her day
trading, the chances for success increase as a trader eliminates the «sudden - death syndrome.»
Just focus on your
trading discipline and
follow your
trading strategy.
Once you put your own
trading plan together you must ensure that you actually use and
follow it each time you interact with the market, this will work to reinforce positive
trading habits like patience and
discipline, and it is these habits that will make you money over the long - term.
Long - term
trading goals: To build my
trading account up to $ 25,000 through mastery of my
trading strategy, patience, and the
discipline to
follow my
trading plan every time I
trade.
Nothing can save your account if you don't
follow a
disciplined risk management method in your
trading.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock
trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-
trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock
trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock
trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock
trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock
trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock
trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of
discipline to stick to your stock
trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd -
following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock
trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of
following it
To any new trader starting out in
trading, having a
trading method is all well and good but if you do nt have the patience and
discipline to
follow it with laser sharp accuracy and patience then you will not succeed as a trader.
No
discipline: No self control to create a systematic
trading process and even if there is one, then no
discipline to
follow a predetermined method.
You must have a
trading plan and the
discipline to
follow the
trading plan.
Intraday
trading requires a lot of
discipline and making and
following a
trading plan is a critical part of that
discipline.
If you did not
follow your
trading plan then you could have some regret about a loss of
discipline that caused you to not take an entry, exit, or not
trade with the right position sizing.
Disciplined investors can beat out the speculators by
following the principles of value investing, through careful examination of a stock in order to purchase securities that are
trading below their intrinsic value and offer a margin of safety.
And if you have your
trading plan in place and you are
disciplined enough to
follow through, putting on
trades and taking off
trades should be an effortless endeavor.
They can even have more losing
trades than winning ones and still be profitable because they
follow a
disciplined approach.
They are
disciplined and they
follow a strict routine, they know they are in the business of
trading and they treat it as a business.
For example, it's good to expect to be profitable at the end of the year IF you
follow your plan and
trade with
discipline and patience.
Although it is the worst possible outcome for your
trade, be glad, as you have
followed your
trading rules with the
discipline required for
trading success.
A win that results from
following a
trading plan is justified and reinforces
discipline.
When you stop
following your
trading plan, you become rewarded for lacking
discipline and you may start believing that abandoning a
trading plan is no big deal.
Lack of
discipline, cowboy
trading, not
following the game plan, revenge
trading... These are all common reasons as to how traders end up seeing the dreaded margin call.
If the way you view a price chart or evaluate a potential
trade setup is different from how you did it a month ago, then you have either not identified your methodology or you lack the
discipline to
follow the methodology you have identified.
(yeh right)... Have a
trading plan... strive for consistency... strive for
discipline... and most of all
follow the
trading plan that matches your personality...
Fatal Flaw No. 2 — Lack of
Discipline When you have clearly outlined and identified your
trading methodology, then you must have the
discipline to
follow your system.
You need to really get interested in tracking your
trading progress and in
following your equity curve, because it is this aspect of
trading that truly defines and separates the
disciplined and organized traders from the rest of the herd who continually lose money and blow out their
trading accounts.
So the best advice I can give you to overcome a lack of
discipline is to define a
trading methodology that works best for you and
follow it religiously.
To be very clear, the horror stories you hear about day
trading have NOTHING to do with the technical chart patterns, or that
trading doesn't work, they are almost entirely down to lack of emotional
discipline by not
following their
trading plan.
Trend followers simply use preset price signals to identify trends, they manage their risk on every
trade, and they
follow their system with great
discipline.
Follow your trend
following system all the days that you are
trading, so that through
discipline you will be successful.
The market environment may be constantly shifting and that's the nature of the beast, but remember that consistent profitability can be attained by staying
disciplined and
following your tried - and - tested
trading plan.
It is the epitome of not having a
trading plan, lacking
discipline, and not
following a
trading plan.
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DISCIPLINE TO
FOLLOW THE METHOD: Having the ability to identify opportunities is only one part of the
trading process.
Over
trading will cause you to lose faith in yourself as a trader with the
discipline to
follow a plan.