What makes a retail trader different from a professional trader?
I believe it's the risk management.In order to be successful in trading, it doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong when placing a trade. What does matter is that when you are wrong, you lose a little bit and when you are right, you maximize your gains. The risk reward ratio should be atleast 1:2.
If you give a profitable strategy to some newbie who doesn't use proper risk management, the newbie will surely lose money.
Why do most traders (especially day traders) lose?
They don't have prudent risk management skills. End of Story. Now, a lot of folks may say, "but the newbie trader doesn't know how to pick entries and exits". While that may be true for some, the real issue is that when they are wrong, they stay married to a position, or add to a position in order to not admit failure. Your best bet would be to learn to embrace failure, learn to shrug it off, learn to admit when wrong and learn to stay in trades that are winners.
Loss is part of the game. Sometimes, you have to take the loss in order to make a big win. But, the losses have a negative impact on our psychology as we are trained from the childhood that failure is bad. This negative impact leads us to make some more bad calls which makes a further dent in our account. So, to be profitable one needs to have a strong trading mind and should know how to embrace the loss.
I believe it's the risk management.In order to be successful in trading, it doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong when placing a trade. What does matter is that when you are wrong, you lose a little bit and when you are right, you maximize your gains. The risk reward ratio should be atleast 1:2.
If you give a profitable strategy to some newbie who doesn't use proper risk management, the newbie will surely lose money.
Why do most traders (especially day traders) lose?
They don't have prudent risk management skills. End of Story. Now, a lot of folks may say, "but the newbie trader doesn't know how to pick entries and exits". While that may be true for some, the real issue is that when they are wrong, they stay married to a position, or add to a position in order to not admit failure. Your best bet would be to learn to embrace failure, learn to shrug it off, learn to admit when wrong and learn to stay in trades that are winners.
Loss is part of the game. Sometimes, you have to take the loss in order to make a big win. But, the losses have a negative impact on our psychology as we are trained from the childhood that failure is bad. This negative impact leads us to make some more bad calls which makes a further dent in our account. So, to be profitable one needs to have a strong trading mind and should know how to embrace the loss.
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