Maximum duration of losses in time

If the method you have spent so long looking for and that has worked for a period is

not working anymore, whose fault will this be?

whoever taught you the method ?

your emotions?

your lack of discipline?

Wake up!

The market could simply have changed and the moment has come for you to adapt.

When the system is not performing anymore, the only responsibility you have is to

notice it before having lost your entire capital and having given it away to whoever

was already ready to receive new money, yours!

Number of consecutive losses

The maximum number of consecutive losing trades is a bother.

If you lose for 5-10-20 consecutive times, troubles will start.

You start losing your trust in the method, and then you start doubting the market

moment, and in the end you lose trust in yourself as a trader and as a person.

When you reach this stage, the first instinctive reaction is one of discomfort, then

the feeling grows and starts taking on the look of frustration, and then sadness

amplifies the feeling of frustration.

At this point, if you want to get out of the “corner” and not go k.o. you decide to quit,

looking for an alternative that justifies the fact that trading does not suit you, or

,simply that trading is a tool with which it is impossible to earn and in doing so you

feed the legend that “with trading people do not earn money”.

I decided that I would definitely stop trading when in only 6 months I managed to

accumulate a small fortune that allowed me to buy my parents' house in cash. At

that time those were modest dreams: I lost the same amount of money in around 3

months.

The feelings I felt were so strong for me, that a wave of pure ammonia in a closed

elevator would have been nothing in comparison, even if the wave went on for 1

hour.

At that point I decided to definitely stop trading.

To rebuild the “neuronal” journey that allowed me to accept the loss and to start

facing the market again has not been easy.

It was like after the first free fall parachute jump , the emergency landing near a tree

made me completely forget the idea of carrying on jumping, and years later a

partner of mine suggested I try again.

Well, at that time I was already conscious that I wanted to trade again and I was

already earning money with it, which made it seem easier for me to do another

parachute jump.

That's how I got my parachutist’s licence.

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