Beginner traders often make some mistake when they trading first time. This is a major reason for their taking losses. Here are some mistakes that beginners can do and they do. They should be aware of and try to avoid these mistakes.
- Lack of Education: Beginners start trading without understanding the markets, strategy, and instruments.
- Over trading: They make a lot of trades in a single day without thinking about their brokerage.
- Neglecting Risk Management: Beginners do not set their stop-loss orders or risking their too much capital on a single trade.
- Take Tips: They follow tips from Telegram, Instagram, friends, and unverified sources.
- Not having plan: They don’t have any plan and strategy for trading.
- Revenge Trading: Attempt to recoup their losses by making larger, risky trades.
- Emotional Trading: Trade with emotions like fear and greed.
- Failing to adapt: They don’t adjust strategies in response to changing market conditions.
- Ignoring Costs: Don’t think about Taxes, Transaction cost, and commissions.
- Impatience: Want to big profit with single trade.
- Lack of discipline: Don’t make any rule and strategy for daily trading. Or not sticking to a trading plan.
- Ignoring fundamental: ignoring fundamental analysis only depends on technical analysis.
- Stop-Loss: Not using stop-losses to protect positions from significant losses.
- Lack of research: Do incomplete research of assets and markets.
- Overconfidence: Believing that trading success is guaranteed or underestimating risks
- Time Commitment: Think that trading is easy and doesn’t require knowledge, dedicated time and effort.
- Ignoring events: Neglect the news and events about markets that can impact.
- Learning from mistakes: failing review and learn from their past trades mistakes.
These mistakes that beginners do mostly. Not easy to become a successful trader or investor. It’s necessary for beginner to educate themselves, develop a trading plan, practice risk management and gain experience over time. Learning from mistakes and continuously improving your trading. I you will avoid all of these mistakes.
I am doing same right now 😔