The only thing that is different between demo trading and live trading is that the money is real on a live account, but this fact clearly causes all kinds of new mental process to kick in for most traders, and it is largely these unnecessary mental processes (thinking too much) that causes many traders to self-destruct shortly after starting to trade live. 2) As I mentioned in last week’s trading lesson: Snowball Your Trading Success and Stop Losing Money, many professional traders essentially make sure that they are “distracted’ from the market, and this helps them to avoid over-thinking and over-analyzing their trades.