Winning traders focus on rules not outcomes to succeed

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It feels good to have a winner when you are coming out of a drawdown.

Trades, like hitting in baseball, will come in groups and segments. We are powerless over when and how those streaks will show up. All we can do is follow our rules that we know have positive expected values.

Follow your rules even if you are in a drawdown - here's why.

If your model generates trades that have positive expected values, and you DON'T put on the trades, you are effectively giving that money away each trade that you do not put on...so you're still losing.

Think in terms of percentages, not hard dollars so you don't get hung up on what you're missing out on. There is a trade-off between what you lose on a trade and what you could have bought with that money, but remember that there is a "quality" to your money.

The money you save is not the same as the investment capital you have. In Economics, "saving" is the act of "not consuming." Investing is looking to outperform cash.

Remain objective and let go of the need for one specific name to bring you to the pearly gates.

Focus on process and the results will come. You are powerless over WHEN they come. Surrender and let whatever name your system generates bring you to the holy land.

I'm often surprised that what I thought would work out as a trade did not, but some obscure name that my system generated was a 5-bagger and made up for a lot of other losses. Trust in your process and your system. The less you impose your will on a trade, the more sane you'll be and probably more profitable also.

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