Trader Dale Volume Profile

Trading psychology
How to get back on the right track
Sometimes what was working before seems not to work anymore. Instead of jumping to another
strategy, I suggest that you try to find what you were doing differently back then when your
trading was just fine and your strategy was working.
The best thing you can do is to take a screenshot after every trade you take and add a brief
commentary to it. Taking such a screenshot literally takes 1 minute and it can save your trading
career! Some people do only screenshots of their bad trades but instead of focusing only on the
negative, you also need to see what you were doing right and what was working. So, when you
are struggling, go back to your screenshots and go through them. See what trades you were taking
when everything worked just fine. Now you only need to trade the same way as you did before
when everything was fine. This will help you get back on the track. It is like when your Windows
crashes. It loads a backup of the last configuration that worked. You should do the same.
Another thing you can do is to go through your statistics and see what trading instruments work
with your strategy the best. If we are talking forex, then it is usually the EUR/USD that
outperforms the other pairs. So, if you are struggling, I suggest that you start trading only the
instrument that works the best for you. Don’t trade anything else until you regain a major part of
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