10% Skill 90% Mindset

[pezz55]

just listening to a psychology course to build on my mind set
I think this is my biggest area to work on

 

[ScottHughes]

Mentality has always stopped me past 1.0 lots

 

[Stephen Paul]

Both are important m.

 

[Jim B]

Mindset is very important, I always make sure I’m in the right mind set before I trade and avoid chasing loses.

 

[Petezaa]

Mentality is the biggest part of Forex. Being patient, holding trades, knowing when to get out. Best thing I've found is set a limit, don't look and let the market do it's thing.

 

[CRPA9]

You are 100% correct.

 

[Alanmarshall]

Never forget this....work on the mental side!

Yes sort of, but not sure how you can define skill in trading

 

[RachelEB]

Cracking the mental mindset was the key for me!

 

[fxoday]

Let we track our own experience, look back our mistake because bad mentality or emotion control, sometimes successive loses can leading emotion trader being recklessly and then trade outside the rules plan to trade, bad mentality might be leading any trader to become reckless and messed up an overall trading plan

 

[K_Robdog]

Never forget this....work on the mental side!

Not sure I agree with those percentages, but I do agree that mindset is a big part of trading