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The 10 most common trading mistakes you should avoid<br />

professionally looking photos and professionally looking market analyses. Unfortunately, their<br />

only job is to make you trade more. Nothing else. They are employees and the more you trade,<br />

the more money their company makes. Their wage isn't based on how much you make. It is based<br />

on how much the brokerage makes.<br />

If you decide to follow someone's trading idea, then make sure you understand the idea, the logic,<br />

and concept behind it and that you too made your analysis and you believe in that idea. Also,<br />

make sure you know all the aspects you need to know before entering the trade. You need to<br />

know your PT and SL, and you also need to know how you will manage your position before you<br />

actually enter the trade.<br />

#9 Jumping from strategy to strategy<br />

I have already mentioned it before – jumping from strategy to strategy without really giving it any<br />

chance, time and patience won’t lead you to a magic strategy. It will only lead you to losses and<br />

to frustration.<br />

You need to put a lot of work and patience into any strategy before you understand it and before<br />

you start trading it successfully. There isn't any magic formula, that leads to quick profits. As in<br />

everything else in life, mastering a strategy takes time, patience and hard work.<br />

#10 Sticking with a bad broker<br />

So many traders stick with their old broker just because they are used to trading with them and<br />

because they are too lazy to create a new account and transfer their money elsewhere.<br />

They also don’t realize the big difference broker can have on their trading results. They think that<br />

half a pip now and then isn’t that significant, or that a small few pip slippage from time to time is<br />

also okay. In fact, it makes a HUGE difference and a few pip slippage is not okay. It happened so<br />

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