2 April - Learn to take your losses

I had been in good winning streak for last 2 weeks. That build up wrong confidence and that's where exactly the losses start. I should have closed the system when my stoploss was hit according to strategy but I did these 3 mistakes:

1. Didn't do kill switch.

2. Traded opposite the trend - no strategy

3. Traded sensex and that too on expiry day




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