This is not so for many amateur traders however; they tend to give far too much importance to every trade they take, unaware of the fact that each trade is simply another execution of their trading strategy, and for that strategy to make them money they need to give it a chance to play out over a large series of trades. 3) Doing point number 2 above by ONLY trading when you are “sure” your trading strategy is providing you with a high-probability / obvious trade setup and not cranking up or ratcheting down your dollar risk per trade because of how your last trade made you feel.