Good Investing Lessons

Recently, I had missed out the opportunities to make a few thousand dollars due to impatience. In each of the 4 cases, I sold out just before the break out because the counters refused to move while I was holding over a week. That cost me to missed out over $6,000 of profits. I noticed that I had unfounded fear of tying down my capital and not being able to fully utilizing my capital for additional gains. However, the true fact is that I have 75% of my capital sititng there and waiting. So, there is no compelling reasons to sell my existing positions since they had not breached the stop loss point. This is an important lesson to learn. Be patient and committed. Trade with more conviction then trying to hit-and-run. Quote Eckhardt did not want the Turtles to worry about linear decreases in their accounts. The slightest exponential curve from a big trend would eventually surpass the steepest linear curve they saw while losing. Discipline, money management, and patience were the only way