The key to conquering the addiction of trading, is to avoid placing a trade when there’s no reason to do so, and also to avoid fiddling with the trades you do take. I won’t fill this lesson with points about trading addiction and gambling, instead I will provide ways to avoid becoming addicted and to help you break a trading addiction / obsession that is likely destroying your trading account right now… Check the markets each day a couple times, especially at the end of the trading day, run through your trading plan / checklist and if no trade is clearly present, then walk away until your next scheduled market analysis time.