TradersCALM - Symptom Analyser, Stage 3 © "Dedicated to trading with good feelings."                                  All services are free.
	Welcome to the TradersCALM symptom/technique analyser.     You have described yourself as not losing money and having achieved a relatively steady account value, tending to lose back what is gained. Congratulations, you have developed your trading system to a reasonable level of potential profitability and your trading behaviours are also at a point where self-sabotage is less of an issue. Your reward to risk ratio is now acceptable and your self-trust is growing.     Less than 10% of traders seem to reach this point - so you are progressing nicely - and over 80% who get to this stage tend to make it to the next stage, so the odds are strongly in your favour.     Do not be daunted by the long list of symptoms - often it is just two or three symptoms that are source of most blockages stopping a trader moving forward. The most common symptoms experienced (and perhaps needing resolution to get to the next stage) include:       • using a trade frequency based on emotional needs,       • using a trading system not appropriate for your personality,       • trading for emotional reasons not profits,       • wanting to be perfect,       • curve-fitting your trading system without enough experience of results,       • having a lottery win mentality,       • impatience to enter or exit,       • freezing when considering opening or closing a position,       • ego is associated with the outcome of a trade,       • not taking responsibility (blaming others),       • feeling better after a trade is opened or closed,       • not knowing your risk of ruin,       • sometimes feel you need to get even,       • not having a traders log,       • over documenting your emotions for every trade. Now imagine what you are going to do about it..		Welcome Self Assessment Links Inner Tendencies What's New Contact Us CALM Secrets Tip of the Week Risk of Ruin