Just curious to see what were worst trading mistakes that we commited for the list just to help each others....
* Traded blindly without any homework or trading plans (poor discipline).
* Traded impatinanctly in congestion or non-trending zone (poor trade plan).
* Traded without Stop Loss or with too big Stop Losses (poor Risk Management).
* Traded way too many trades in a day resulting net losses (poor Risk and Money Management).
* Traded against the prevailing trend and then booked losses (poor Plan and Risk Management).
* Traded with the trend but booked small profit and too early.
* Traded with good plan (mm, rm, plan, discipline) but with no faith in the plan resulting less profit to cover other big losses.
* Traded booking small profits and big losses.
* Traded at Market Price in less volume scrips resulting big losses.
* Traded on speculations, rumour or news and getting traped in Market Makers game resulting big losses.
* Traded within fear/greed barrier and without knowing risk/reward ratio.
* Traded on spoon fed tips resulting huge losses.
* Traded getting psyched from CNBC or US/Europe speculations and resulted huge losses.
* Have commited all above and now seasoned trader.
* Have commited some of Marked above Plus some other
* None of above but some other.
* Never commited any mistakes.
* Traded not even realizing after loosing lots of money & time in markets is Not Knowing which Time frame suits personality.
* Averaging and overleveraging to losing position and selling in panic.
* Converted intraday or swing trades into short term and long term without reasons.
* Committed some or all of above - again and again.
* Was unable to bare the loss and then traded more and more to recover the loss..ultimately completely or nearly wiped out the account.
* Traded blindly without any homework or trading plans (poor discipline).
* Traded impatinanctly in congestion or non-trending zone (poor trade plan).
* Traded without Stop Loss or with too big Stop Losses (poor Risk Management).
* Traded way too many trades in a day resulting net losses (poor Risk and Money Management).
* Traded against the prevailing trend and then booked losses (poor Plan and Risk Management).
* Traded with the trend but booked small profit and too early.
* Traded with good plan (mm, rm, plan, discipline) but with no faith in the plan resulting less profit to cover other big losses.
* Traded booking small profits and big losses.
* Traded at Market Price in less volume scrips resulting big losses.
* Traded on speculations, rumour or news and getting traped in Market Makers game resulting big losses.
* Traded within fear/greed barrier and without knowing risk/reward ratio.
* Traded on spoon fed tips resulting huge losses.
* Traded getting psyched from CNBC or US/Europe speculations and resulted huge losses.
* Have commited all above and now seasoned trader.
* Have commited some of Marked above Plus some other
* None of above but some other.
* Never commited any mistakes.
* Traded not even realizing after loosing lots of money & time in markets is Not Knowing which Time frame suits personality.
* Averaging and overleveraging to losing position and selling in panic.
* Converted intraday or swing trades into short term and long term without reasons.
* Committed some or all of above - again and again.
* Was unable to bare the loss and then traded more and more to recover the loss..ultimately completely or nearly wiped out the account.
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) mistakes but the greatest improvement in my trading came about when I understood the concept of success rate and the reward/risk of any trading method. Now I will never take a trade with idea of making 10 points with a stoploss of 10 points unless I am sure that the method has a success rate of over 60-70 %( which I know that is very difficult to hit ) And making a trade with 10 points objective and 20 points stoploss is unthinkable now. But initially,most of my trades used to be in the last catagory..
