Common reasons why you’re not profitable. Part 1

This post will have several follow up posts. Because the writeup was getting quite lengthy, so i decided to break it up into parts. This is for intraday FnO trades and may be applicable to swing and cash trades as well. This is the first post of this series.

#Overtrading

Back in the days when i start my trading journey, I thought it was completely unacceptable to ever take a loss. I wanted to win every single day. And i wanted to win big ALWAYS. But, the markets are cruel enough to take down a man with this thought. You can’t expect to hit huge targets every day. Not every trading session is the same as the previous one. If I had taken a loss of 1k rs, I’d think, lemme just recover this, then i won’t trade further. The losses would go to 1.5k ,2k ,2.5k, etc. Or, if I had made some good profits, i always thought today is my day and I’ll keep winning all of my trades today. This would generally take away my profits and also close the day in loss. Now, i only take 2 trades a day. If my first trade is in profit, I don’t even take the second trade. If it is in loss, i try to take another trade, but if it fails too, I’m just done for the day. Since i am an option seller, I sell ATM option for my first trade. If it goes in loss, I take another trade. Again ATM. If that fails too, it’s the end of day for me. And, if I see some opportunity after 1st trade being in profit, I take an OTM trade. So that, even if it hits my SL, i don’t lose much and still end the day in profits. You should never let emotions take over you.

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