• ONLY trade money you are OK with losing – In order to not get emotional while trading with real money you need to never trade with money that you need for anything else in your life, as well as never risk more than you are truly OK with losing. Most traders end up trading with money they really shouldn’t be trading with, or they risk more than they are OK with losing per trade, thus they become emotional. Finally, as you progress from the early stages of learning your trading strategy, building a trading plan, and demo trading, you will move to the “big leagues” of real money trading.