Build Discipline From Day 1 of Trading
Your first 100 trades lay the foundation of strong discipline in trading. Start strong by agreeing a set of rules that will keep you on track.
By following a set of guardrails, you will help to eliminate risky emotional trades, and you will also build good habits early that will sustain you for your trading career.
Placing large positions with your first account, is akin to going to the driving range to learn to golf with 5-10 balls in your bag. Even if a few of them are amazing, all you’ll get is a good story about your one good shot.
PlayMaker is designed to help new and improving traders. Its goal is to allow you to trade safely for 100 trades with whatever trading capital you have allocated to your trading account.
The 100 trade goal is a type of initiation. With 100 trades every beginner has the opportunity to experience good luck, bad luck, multiple market conditions, and feel many psychological triggers like fear / greed.
There will be temptation to double down, cut winners too quickly and let losers run.
You will feel despair and elation, and importantly, you will see how you personally react in both these situations.
100 trades is a taster, it allows you to build muscle memory for both winners and losers. PlayMaker lets you do this in a controlled way. The goal to maintain perfect discipline helps minimize many of the mistakes mentioned earlier.
By risking at most 1% of your trading capital on any one trade, you can clock up a lot of experience, without needing a large amount of trading capital.
Notice I don’t mention P&L here. Simply follow the guardrails and maintain your discipline an the P&L will follow.
Over time you can see how your returns are correlated to your discipline. This is the best teacher – see for yourself the cost of undisciplined trades.
PlayMaker gives you a playbook, tells you how little to risk, and when to stop for the day. You can lose money and still get 100% discipline score. You can also make money, and fail to get high discipline. So forget the P&L. Follow the rules, and I guarantee you will learn more than you can imagine on your 100 trade journey.
At the end of 100 trades you may or may not have made money. You are unlikely to have depleted your account badly if you have stuck to the rules. Your investment will have given you an education that most beginning traders never get. You will have survived 100 trades. You will have metrics – a baseline from which to improve.
Congratulations, you will be one of less than 5% of new traders who make it this far.
You will also:
Have a hunger to trade more
Know what you need to do to improve
Be excited for the next 100 trades
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