If you've been trading currencies for any length of time you know that the most important thing is to keep executing your trading system in a disciplined way.
Switching from one system to another just because it hits the streak of losing trade will lead to empty your trading account. It's not always easy to keep executing the same system over and over again regardless of the last trade results. I can give you a few tips how you can stick to your system.
1. Any system requires forward testing and back testing. Every trader needs to test his system before putting money on it. When you are absolutely comfortable with the system and know the currency pair very well you can transfer it to the live account. This step is necessary if you want to follow with your system regardless of the last trading result.
2. Discipline that is required in trading will leak in other ares of your life. The opposite is also true. To develop discipline in your trading start developing the disciplined approach in certain area of your life. It may be cleaning your room on a daily basis etc.
3. There is an "inner child" lives in everyone of us. Therefore our subconscious mind will have fun from time to time that we see as sabotaging our serious efforts. Having a small "play" or "fun" account will help you to separate fun from serious work. When you feel tired have some fun taking trades on "play" account as if that money was for playing in a casino. That will satisfy your "inner child" and substantially reduce the risk of subconscious sabotage.
4. As with anything in our life we tend to do better if we are accountable to someone. Therefore my advise is to get some partner you can be interested to listen to your successes and failures. He or she should be interested and care about your success as a trader. If you don't have such person around you, then make a habit to keep trading journal. You need to track your success and failures in market in that journal.
5. My last tip is to trade always with clear consciousness. Don't go trading or even looking at your account if you are under influence of alcohol or some drugs. Even sober traders brake their trading rules from time to time. But with alcohol it's very easy to brake those rules.
Working from home concept does not mean you don't take it seriously as a regular job. You need to take it even more seriously. Being relaxed and trading under influence of alcohol or even having some other destructing factors will not help you to succeed in trading business.
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