#TradingStrategyMistakes Mistakes That Destroy Your Capital
📌 What is it?
These are the fundamental mistakes traders make when applying strategies in the market, whether due to a lack of discipline, overconfidence, or technical ignorance.
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❌ The Most Common Mistakes:
1. Not having a clear strategy
→ Trading impulsively, without a defined plan.
2. Ignoring risk management
→ Trading with all your money or without a stop-loss.
3. Overtrading
→ Engaging in trading too often due to anxiety or greed.
4. Constantly changing strategies
→ Lack of consistency kills any plan.
5. Not testing the strategy in advance (backtest)
→ Entering the market without knowing if the method has worked historically.
6. Letting emotions control decisions
→ Fear, greed, and revenge are poison for a trader.
7. Not accepting small losses
→ Waiting for the market to “come back” and turning a small loss into a big one.
8. Copying others' strategies without adaptation
→ What works for one may destroy another.
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🎯 How to avoid?
Have a plan and stick to it with discipline.
Use stop-loss and determine risk per trade.