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There are many full-time stock traders making a very good living. There are also many people making good money on a part-time basis with stock trading. Then there are also thousands of unsuccessful traders who don’t realize they have to educate themselves before venturing into trading.
The most important reason for failure as a trader is not the market. It’s yourself. Once you realize that you are not really trading “against the market” but against your own weaknesses, you are on your way to become a successful trader. If you are afraid of risks, for example, or you hate to lose money, you will always tend to exit a winning trade long before it has reached it’s full potential. And you will also tend to stay with a losing trade long after you should have let it go, because you hope it will turn around and you can’t stand the idea of losing money.
To become a success as a trader you have to learn to ‘let profits ride’ and cut losses before they become too big. To do that you will have to learn self discipline and have a set of trading rules to which you stick at all times.
The best way to do this is to go into every trade with a set stop loss and a set take profit level. That means that no matter what happens, if the trade turns against you and you lose for example five percent of your money, you will get out. Similarly, you won’t exit a trade before you have made the profit as determined by the take profit level you decided upon before the trade.
The next important step you have to take is to educate yourself. Learn how the various technical and fundamental indicators work. Study how they are influenced by different types of markets. Then get yourself decent trading software with the ability to chart all the different indicators.
Once you have learned self-discipline and you are familiar with the rules of trading, stock trading will become both pleasurable and profitable.
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