If you do these 5 things, your self-operated trading assessment pass rate will be significantly improved.

In EagleTrader’s self-operated trading assessment, we have observed a recurring phenomenon: many traders fail not because of problems with their strategies.

But after suffering a loss, traders tend to make wrong decisions in just a few seconds.

Trading signals themselves rarely have problems. What really goes wrong is how traders respond to losses.

The following five rules can helpYou avoid this trap during the assessment.

Only implement proven strategies and never trade based on your feelings

If you cannot explain in one sentence why you opened a position, then you are trading based on your feelings rather than your strategy. There is no trading advantage based on subjective feelings.

A set of proven strategies needs to pass backtesting, simulated account exercises, or have actual historical records, and have clear opening and closing rules.

You will not change your strategy at will just because the market feels different that morning.

Subjective trading is also possible, but subjective judgment must follow clear rules in advance, rather than on-the-spot impulsive reactions that can be explained with reasons after the fact.

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Don’t wait until a position has been established and your judgment is no longer objective and neutral before making a decision.

Traders rarely enlarge their stops when they are clear-headed.

Most of them are under market pressure during the position holding process, and they enlarge their stop loss with a fluke mentality that the market will reverse.

It is this behavior that leads to the vast majority of “maximum loss in a single day” risk control violations.

Before clicking buy or sell, set both stop loss and take profit prices.

Once you enter the market with a position, what you have to do is to execute the trading plan, rather than temporarily modify the plan.

The risk of a single transaction should not exceed the upper limit of the loss you can bear

No strategy can make a profit in every transaction, and your strategy is no exception.

If a loss will consume most of the maximum retracement limit, then a failed transaction will directly end the assessment, and your strategy will not even have a chance to be fully verified.

Quick self-examination: Based on your current position, calculate the loss caused by five consecutive losses.

If the result will trigger the maximum single-day loss limit, or approach the maximum retracement red line, then no matter how high-quality the entry signal looks, your position is overweight.

Never increase your position to make up for losses

This is one of the bad habits that triggers the most risk control violations, and the parties often do not realize that this is a mistake, but mistakenly think that they are confident in the market.

After a loss occurs, you are sure that the next transaction will be profitable, so you increase your position.position, hoping to make back the losses quickly.

But a loss will not change the profit and loss probability of the next transaction, it will only change your subjective mentality.

Putting more money after a loss is an emotional decision. It is this kind of behavior that turns a single ordinary loss into a risk control accident that touches the largest loss in a single day.

For the next transaction, strictly follow the trading plan and do not regard it as an opportunity to equalize losses.

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Waiting until these bottom lines are touched before stopping is equivalent to trading on the edge of a cliff with risk control violations, and at this time your judgment is at its worst.

Set yourself a set of stricter internal constraints: if you lose three times in a row, or if you have consumed half of your daily loss limit, you will stop trading for the day, no matter how tempting the next entry signal looks.

The account system will not help you enforce this rule, you must do it yourself.

A set of proven strategies, set stop-loss and take-profit before opening a position, reasonable position control, and the elimination of retaliatory trading, plus a personal stop-loss line that is stricter than the account rules – these five things are not complicated on their own, but when combined, they are the dividing line between passing the assessment and violating risk control regulations.

These rules do not need to be believed blindly, they only need to be verified by you in real assessment transactions.

During the assessment, many traders broke the rules because they were afraid of missing the market, and eventually lost their trading qualifications.

But there are always opportunities in the market. What is truly scarce is your ability to continue trading.

EagleTrader’s proprietary trading assessment tests your strategy and trading discipline, whether you can continue to survive under real constraints, and ultimately move towards stable profits.

The road to trading is long, and only those who are steady will make it to the end. At EagleTrader, we look forward to seeing people like this.