Consistency has to be priority number 1

“Consistency has to be Priority #1”

Those all to important words spoken by Vince Lombardi.

More often than not I would see this all too common scenario:
Traders get on a roll where they would have many days in a row of great trading.
It might be $5 a day or $10,000+ a day, depending on there trading level. Then,
all of a sudden, a tremendously bad day, where it brings us all the way back to
when the roll started, and sometimes below that. It’s as if we take 5 steps
forward, 7 steps back. We get on a good streak and then boom it’s all gone…And
it always seems to happen when we start thinking thoughts like, “it’s clicking”,
“it’s finally happening”, “I finally got the hang of this”, “it’s my time”,” I
know what I’m doing.” All of a sudden…boom! We have that bad day in the market,
and it humbles us all the way back to zero, or further. Sounds familiar?

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