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You’re already ahead of most traders, the only thing missing now is screen time under pressure, because trading psychology is easy on Excel and completely different when real money starts attacking your ego.

You're heading in the right direction, especially with figuring out your emotions. Perhaps you could add a book to your mix on the psychology of trading which happens to be about 80% of the game. Most traders have a decent edge (although they all think they have the best when tried out in the sim) but they can't figure out the why (why did I revenge trade, why did I not put in my stop, why did I not follow my strategy?). A book like trading in the zone by Mark Douglas or Gamber to Trader by Drysdale will help you understand some of that but you just need to get the experience in cash to really begin the journey of knowing yourself. I thought I knew myself until I started trading in cash.

You've started well, now all you have to do is this:

1. Find the strategy, instrument and timeframe which suits your psyche/personality best. Some of them you will just be naturally better at. This will probably take a year of so of experimentation

2. Once you have landed on a strategy, instrument(s) and timeframe (you may have to build your own strategy), apply something called 'deliberate practice' until you are an expert. This entails finding support/mentorship, breaking everything down into measurable components, spending as much time as you are able in practicing each component which means promoting the effective ones, removing the redundancies, improving on the necessary ones, until you can instinctively recognise a high probaility trading environment and set up. Estimated timeframe: 2- 3 years.

3. While you are becoming adept at your chosen strategy, put *even more* effort into retraining your mind. To do this, you will almost certainly have to change the way you are as a person. Without the development of a trader's mindset, your strategy will not work. This runs concurrently and takes around the same amount of time. 2 - 3 years.

4. Once you acheive consistent profitability after around 3 to 4 years, be prepared to never stop practicing, evaluating, experimenting and improving yourself as a trader in order to maintain your edge. Timeframe: rest of your career.


Good luck.