#TradingStrategyMistakes common mistakes in trading strategies, no frills or links:
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### ⚠️ Typical Mistakes in Trading Strategies
#### 1. **Entering Without Confirmation**
- Betting on a breakout without validating with volume or closing above resistances can lead to false entries.
- In retracement trading, confusing a bounce with a real reversal is common and costly.
#### 2. **Not Having an Exit Plan**
- Many traders define the entry point, but not the exit point. When to take profits? When to cut losses? Without rules, one improvises… and loses.
#### 3. **Over-optimizing the Backtest**
- Adjusting the strategy to the past until it “looks perfect” can generate a useless system in real conditions. The market does not repeat patterns with millimetric precision.
#### 4. **Ignoring Macroeconomic Context**
- Trading without considering conflicts like Israel-Iran or central bank decisions can distort technical signals. Especially in crypto.
#### 5. **Poor Risk Management**
- Using position sizes without logic. Betting everything on a trade that “seems safe.” If there’s no well-defined stop loss, it’s not trading—it’s gambling.
#### 6. **Overloading on Indicators**
- RSI, MACD, Fibonacci, Ichimoku... All at the same time! Excess information can lead to analysis paralysis. Less is more.
#### 7. **Trading by Emotion**
- Fear, greed, and frustration are silent enemies. Jumping into the market because “it’s going to explode” or “I can’t miss this opportunity” usually ends badly.
#### 8. **Not Adapting to Market Regime**
- Using range strategies in trending markets, or following trends in sideways cycles = recipe for frustration.