If you are doing things like: Trading without stop losses, moving stop losses to breakeven too soon / every trade, taking small profits (less than 1R), closing out trades before they hit your stop loss at your predetermined 1R risk amount and other similar emotion-induced trading errors, YOU ARE trying to avoid losses, and that is the wrong approach my friend. Meaning, you are taking good trades that meet your trading strategy criteria, and the losses you have are just good trades that don’t work out, as every trading method has. Simplifying your trading approach from your charts all the way down to your trading office is a big piece of insight I would have told my former self if I could go back in time to when I started trading.