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The next two weeks turned out to be one of the toughest periods of my trading career and one of the most rewarding. Stopping when I was down was hard. I realized that what had been at the root of my large losses was my inability to accept losing at all. To me losing was unacceptable. Such was my intolerance for loss that I lost for ten consecutive days. But as the days progressed, even though I continued to lose 500 a day, I found my mood lifting. I actually started to feel OK about losing as long as it was within my limit. At the end of this 10-day period of losses a seeming miracle happened; I started to make money. My target was to get to + 1000 and then not give back more than 20% of my gain. So when I had a profitable day I was making between 800 and 2000, for an average of about 1200. Not only did I start to make money, I did so for 15 days in a row, three entire weeks without a loss. This marked the beginning of a new era of trading for me. In retrospect, I believe that I had been trading scared, scared that I was really a loser. The two weeks of rigidly sticking to my loss limit caused me to revaluate myself. I started to feel good about myself for sticking to my limit. Before it was bad if I lost money, now it was only bad if I lost more than my limit. Before, I never knew whether I was going to make 1000 or lose 5000; now I knew that the worst case was a loss of 500 and that was OK. I started to see that sticking to my trading limits was a sign of strength and my confidence started to rise.

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How To Trade The Futures Market

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