Here are some mistakes that can cause you to fail to 'trade for a living':
1. Unrealistic expectations.
These unrealistic targets will cause you to over-trade or take too high a risk to achieve it, which will eventually destroy your account. To get consistent results you must focus on the process in trading, not on the end result that you expect.
2. Trading by using funds for daily needs or loan funds.
Using funds for daily needs means that traders are required not to lose so that emotional involvement will be far greater than if using funds that are not used (disposable money). Not infrequently, traders who use loan funds or credit cards so mentally will add to the burden if it turns out to have a loss.
3. Insufficient knowledge and trading experience.
What traders often experience is too quickly switching to real accounts with insufficient knowledge and minimal trading experience. They think the experience and knowledge of trading will be learned on the fly, but in reality it is difficult to do because the focus of the trader's attention will ultimately be on how to make the biggest possible profit in a short time.
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