How to Be a Successful Trader

Bob Greene: Traders need to be like athletes in many ways. You follow, you watch your eating, you watch his exercising, you do a regular routine and just kind of keep doing it no matter what the market is doing. He says that even Jesse Livermore said he was not a genius but could sell stocks if they didn't work for him. The post analysis is always the hardest thing because we can see our strengths and weaknesses more clearly than when we first got into trading.