Have a trading plan and trading journal – In order to develop proper trading habits and to keep emotional trading demons at bay, it’s critical to have a trading plan and a trading journal…that you actually use. If there is one definite difference that is very obvious between struggling traders and full-time Forex traders, it’s that a full-time trader has developed positive trading habits as a result of following a positive daily trading routine each day, whilst struggling traders typically have all wrong / negative trading habits. To achieve the proper trading mindset, you need to be realistic and have a structured trading routine like we have already discussed, this will forge proper trading habits which will then forge the proper trading mindset.