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Why Day Traders Fail in The Stock Market


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Why Day Traders Fail in The Stock Market  With any type of investing and trading, it takes practice, a lot of hard work and a custom strategy that fits your needs. Here the three main reasons I have found that traders fail.   When you begin trading you may think that your account is too small and you need more money. That is false, you do not need a large account to make money. You need proper education and software.  Don’t Understand Risk Balancing risk is the most important part of any long or short-term investments. When you invest you have to ask, “how much upside and downside risk should be accepted”.  The ideal situation would be asymmetric risk reward meaning you risk .06 to make a $1.  An investor would invest 16 times before you lose money. What you don’t want to invest in is an investment where the profit is less than the maximum loss.  Uneducated  Other than practice the most important thing swing traders can do is learn. Many swing traders fail or give up because they don't understand why they are losing money. Those types of traders may catch some stocks over the long term, but soon the stock market always beats uneducated traders.   Repeat Failures The second worst thing, other than gambling, a trader can do is repeat failures. This would include swing trading downward trend markets, unsure strategy and more. Any time a swing trader loses money they have failed. What a smart trader would do is look back at their trades and understand what they did right and most importantly, what they did wrong.    Social Media: Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/c/carterfarr * Podcast: https://anchor.fm/daytrading * Books:  Active Trader: https://amzn.to/2I7Dpgv Swing Trader: https://amzn.to/2NBcvDI Day Trading for a Living: https://amzn.to/2IcrIcr Day Trading Patterns: https://amzn.to/2GwHDQk  * * Chat Room: https://discord.gg/RAnCPPj

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