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i dont know the exact case....so take it for what it is....or ignore it
when once makes enough $s....per ones thinking....they think they are correct. Being correct and making money in trading does not always go hand in hand. You can be wrong and still make money if execution prevails.
when one's thinking is clouded by thinking they may have been technically correct....they may hold onto pos's longer....and widen their stops....thereby violating their own thinking of not moving stops.
the reason to stay humble....as cockiness has it's own rewards(sarcasm)..market will mostly humble any who is cocky. Also when one is not humble....their mental equilibrium may not be calm.
@paps beat me to it. The market will teach you to be humble if you are able to stay in it long enough to learn the lesson. Also agree with @wldman, this sort of thing is exactly why you should start a journal. There are so many benefits to doing so...
Personally, I think it's good that you're mad at yourself... get it out of your system, then cut yourself some slack. Make sure you remember this day and how it felt. Everybody who has ever traded has likely done the same exact thing. At some point you have to take your lumps, painful though they may be, it's all part of the process.
And... never move your stops. They are there for a reason, to protect you from these sort of devastating failures and keep you in the game. I used to do it a lot, much to the detriment of my account. This is an older screenshot, but one I like to keep handy as a reminder to follow the plan... which includes stops
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As far as my own struggles with self, being disciplined, using my emotions as a guide/gauge to market events and focusing completely on money management... the entry being, relatively speaking, of small importance compared to it.... I feel myself slipping away from good trading as profanity abounds. With every unseemly word uttered I know the work needed to polish the filth from the tablet of my heart is great indeed.
Ron
...My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy...
The steed of this Valley is pain; and if there be no pain this journey will never end.
Buy Low And Sell High (read left to right or right to left....lol)
Pride, Ego and Greed are concerned with being right, acquiring things and makes us artificial.
Humility is concerned with what is right and makes us real.
There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance and that is Humility.
Keep things as simple as possible, but no simplier. Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it to an eight year old it's to complicated
the questions and the responses being generated by the thread starter. A "new" guy, here as a guest is provoking us to examine ourselves...at least that is what is happening when I decide if and how I will respond.
Horrible though that the collection of thoughts are spread across a number of random threads...all of which will likely soon be forgotten. Old timers, you know exactly what I mean.
Humility would be good...good enough, or humble enough to start a journal thread. I am not going to divide attention to post in a non centralized place. I'll respond in my thread with a link, so that information can at least be reviewed after these threads and unfortunately, this thread starter are long gone.
So, I think humility was/is the wrong term here. Without a proven, consistent and repeatable track record, what we are talking about is luck. To build consistent profitability, the right word is discipline. Requisite of good discipline is focus.
To illustrate, today I thought it would be a good idea to set up a printer near the desk so that I could send things there as to avoid reading them during productivity time...good discipline to foster increased focus, right?
The open was "slow" for me today, my overall bias was long, the only "signals" or indications I could see where contra bias short trades. While there is a metric to take those, generally they are a lower probability outcome and they have a 1:1 risk/reward context.
I took a questionable entry and proceeded to pull cords and make space for the printer. As a tech imbecile, and true to form the connected printer would not print, yet I still split focus to tend a menial bologna task that should never be considered between 8 am and 11 am.
Split focus is bad discipline. I guess arrogance could be the opposite of humility, but I don't seek arrogance, just like I don't rely on luck. I do though seek laser beam focus and extreme discipline.
Here is an example of lack of focus leading to poor discipline:
28 or 29 to 41...call it 12 handles. So, being a fool does teach humility. But focus as a discipline issue is the reason you make 3 handles on a 1:1 and miss 12 handles.