1 Decide that you are in markets for long haul. that is you want to be a trader\investor even 20 years from now
2 learn as much as you can. read and listen to experts but keep a degree of healthy skepticism about everything ask questions and do not accept expects at their words
3 Do not get greedy and rush to trade take your time to learn, markets will be there with more good opportunities in the months and years ahead
4 develop a method for analyzing the markets
5 develop a money management plan
goal must be long term survival
a steady growth of capital and in due course making high profits
most traders put the last one first
6 be aware that a trader is the weakest link in trading system
7 winners feel think and act differently than losers you must look within yourself strip away your
illusions and change your old ways of being, thinking, and acting.
change is hard if we want to be a professional trader\investor we have to work on changing