摘要：I’ve been trading swing options and day trading stocks for the last 8 years. I’ve blown accounts, overtraded, and made every mista

下面的建议是我搬别人的，不一定全对，我觉得结合自己的经验感受一下还是不错的：

I’ve been trading swing options and day trading stocks for the last 8 years. I’ve blown accounts, overtraded, and made every mistake in the book. But through backtesting, journaling, and sheer repetition, I’ve figured out what separates consistent traders from the rest. Here are 10 things you must avoid if you want to get profitable:

1. Don’t chase every setup you see.

Early on, I tried to trade every pattern, every indicator, every hot stock. It spread me too thin. The breakthrough came when I focused on one model, backtested it 300+ times, and mastered it. Consistency comes from depth, not breadth.

2. Don’t ignore your risk per trade.

Sizing up randomly is the fastest way to blow an account. Pick a % you can live with, 1% or less is standard and track it. Once I started journaling risk vs reward in TradeZella, I saw my survival rate shoot up.

3. Don’t skip journaling.

Your memory is unreliable. Journaling gives you hard data. My biggest improvements came after I could see, in black and white, that revenge trades and premature exits were eating my edge alive.

4. Don’t trade without a plan.

Every trade should have levels, stop-loss, and profit targets before you enter. A plan doesn’t guarantee a win,it guarantees discipline. Forward testing plans helped me realize my execution was my real problem, not my strategy.

5. Don’t treat backtesting like busywork.

Backtesting isn’t about “curve fitting.” It’s about confidence. Once you see a setup play out 300+ times, hesitation disappears. It’s how I built conviction in both my swing setups and intraday scalps.

6. Don’t ignore market context.

A setup that prints money in trending conditions can bleed you dry in chop. I learned to separate my playbooks for different cycles, trending vs range-bound and my win rate stabilized.

7. Don’t get emotional with losses.

I’ve taken 10 losses in a row. What saved me wasn’t luck, it was keeping size small enough that my emotions didn’t hijack me. Most traders blow up not from bad strategies, but from spiraling after one loss.

8. Don’t let wins make you sloppy.

My worst days used to come after my best days. I’d get overconfident, size up recklessly, and give it all back. Journaling made me see this pattern clear as day. Now I step back after a big green streak.

9. Don’t compare your journey to others.

Everyone online looks like they’re making $10k a day. Most aren’t. My real growth came when I stopped chasing someone else’s results and doubled down on my process, one trade at a time.

10. Don’t forget this is a business.

Trading isn’t a hobby. It’s capital, risk, psychology, and systems. I treat my TradeZella journal like my business ledger. If the numbers don’t add up, the business fails.

After 8 years, here’s what I’ve learned: profitable trading isn’t about finding a holy grail. It’s about eliminating the dumb mistakes, building a repeatable system, and tracking it religiously. Backtest it. Journal it. Refine it. That’s how you turn chaos into consistency.

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