I could trade without knowing the name of the market.
I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.
You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very short period of time. What you can’t afford to do is throw away your capital on suboptimal trades.
Trading decisions should be made as unemotionally as possible.
A good trend following system will keep you in the market until there is evidence that the trend has changed.
When things aren’t going right, don’t push, don’t press.
I learned to avoid trying to catch up or double up to recoup losses. I also learned that a certain amount of loss will affect your judgment, so you have to put some time between that loss and the next trade.
You should always have a worst case point. The only choice should be to get out quicker.
When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you’ve got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.
Trade small because that’s when you are as bad as you are ever going to be. Learn from your mistakes.
When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.