Are You Learning From Your Trading Mistakes?

By  //  June 25, 2019

5 Common Trading Mistakes

Every trader will make mistakes at times, it’s a part of the journey. But if you’re not learning from your mistakes, you’re missing out. In fact, one of the most common mistakes that traders make is not learning from their mistakes.

Every trader will make mistakes at times, it’s a part of the journey. But if you’re not learning from your mistakes, you’re missing out. In fact, one of the most common mistakes that traders make is not learning from their mistakes.

In order to start learning and growing from your mistakes, you first need to acknowledge what mistakes you’re making.

Therefore, we thought we’d walk you through some of the most common trading mistakes as well as offer tips on how to best avoid them and, better yet, how you can learn from the inevitable.

Note that these tips can be applied by any and all traders regardless of the market you trade on.

5 Common Trading Mistakes

  1. Lack of Knowledge

Trading is a skill that one has to learn and that takes time and effort. Therefore, any serious trader should be constantly learning and improving themselves so that they can be the best trader possible.

Knowledge is the key to most things in life, and nowhere is this as obvious as in the world of trading. The more you know, the better you will get and the more profits you’ll make. It’s really as easy as that.

So if you’re not constantly learning, you need to start now. A good place to start is with your preferred broker’s educational material or educational websites. We would also advise you to start using a demo account if you haven’t already.

  1. Not Keeping Records

Over the years, we’ve noticed that one of the things that separate beginners from experienced traders is that experienced traders always keep records of their past trades.

By doing so, a trader can constantly evaluate his or her strategies and techniques with the goal of improving. Naturally, keeping records is also essential to anyone that’s interested in learning from their mistakes.

Keeping a trading journal is a good tip but today, many trading tools and platforms do it for you automatically. 

  1. Too Emotionally Invested

You probably already know that one of the most important skills to master is to not get emotionally invested. Yet, it’s also one of the hardest.

Nevertheless, if you want to succeed, you will have to learn how to control your feelings or your losses are guaranteed to sky-rocket. 

  1. Not Enough Analytic Work

This tip goes hand in hand with the previous one. Anyone that thinks they can invest or trade without doing their diligence and analyzing their instruments will fail.

Not only is it risky to trade without an analytic base to stand on, but it’s also completely unnecessary since all you’ll do is guess.

Learning how to analyze the market and evaluate your instruments is the most important step you can take to becoming a successful trader.

  1. Always Expecting Profits

Lastly, a common mistake that inexperienced traders often make is always expecting profits. It’s just not feasible.

Even the best and most experienced traders lose money at times and open positions that they have to close at a loss. The goal is to learn how to deal with it and always continue moving forward. Also, don’t forget to never let your emotions get the best of you.

Summary

Besides the above-mentioned mistakes, there are many other things that traders have to learn such as opening the right stop losses, not learning how to short trade, figuring out which brokers one can rely on, and so forth.

However, out of all the lessons there are to learn from, learning from your mistakes is the most important.

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