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YOU MUST BELIEVE

 There is something that cannot be taught to new traders.

You must believe that you will become great.

At the start, you will most likely be net negative your first three months. You can look at this data and easily get discouraged. You can let this typical beginning data affect your fourth and fifth and sixth month, which will manifest more data that can convince you out of the market. If you do not believe, you will use this data as proof that you cannot become a successful trader.

You can be a consistently profitable trader using a system that starts not yielding profits. You will have to tweak this system just a little to make money once the market changes. If you do not believe instead of tweaking the system and then measuring your results, you become consumed with your bad results. You lose confidence. You start to question whether tweaking your system will work. And then this lack of confidence affects your every trade. Since you do not believe, now you have data to support your conclusion that you are destined to fail.

With any trading system, the market will offer you exits for your trades that are poor. If you are starting a position, the market may try to shake you out. If your confidence is low, you will most likely give in to the market’s bullying and take your loss. This is what you have prepared your mind for since your confidence is low.

On the contrary, if your position starts to work for you, you are more likely to exit too early. Once you have a chance to lock in a profit, you do so sacrificing further significant profits. Or there is the chance you will hold a position too long, being offered the opportunity to exit like you had planned, but in the mindset of losing money. So you are more likely to let that stock reverse and wipe out your profits. The market demands that you believe.

You can train at the best prop firm in the country, but if you do not believe that you will succeed, then you will not. If you cannot visualize yourself as a successful trader, then you will never become one. If you never obtain the confidence that you will succeed, then you will not survive to enjoy the most opportunistic markets.

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