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Great advice and thanks. I do great on SIM. i am consistent. Just I freeze up LIVE. I make excuses I think, telling myself today isn't a good day. I would SIM, then go live and then go back to sim 3 seconds before entering a trade . . . . and then it be a winner.
I speak to other traders. I know that trading is something that is learned not a natural thing you are born with so I know this is something I can learn.
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Indeed it is, if it is thought that way. By that I mean, if someone had no care and only thought that sim and live are the same, then their feelings will be the same to either or. But when you have that feeling of "ohh man this live now," that feeling turns into your mentality, which makes you think with more fear when trading live.
When you can get rid of those emotional feelings on trading live, and keep level headed and think like a pro trader, you will start thinking differently about live trading.
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See but the thing is I do normally think emotionally siming the same way I do trading live: However you dont EVER get partial fills or as much slippage as you do live.
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Your thinking and your emotions being the same live and sim is a step in the right direction.
If you are profitable in Sim with the same mindset as you would be Live your pretty much there IMO.
What do you have to fear?
If 1)You have a trading plan and it works; ie. you make money everyday in sim.
2) Your emotions and mentality are the same in Live and Sim.
If you can check those things off, then you should be good to go.
Maybe, you not trusting your plan when it comes to handling your actual money?
Or just afraid of losing in general, losing real money or just plain being wrong when it Counts?
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If your emotions between live and sim are too different, then you need to honestly ask yourself why this is. I think for the majority of people it really boils down to trading with money they can't afford to lose, or reliving past experiences.
If you are trading with money you can't afford to lose, then you aren't trading at all. Your just gambling.
For the second point though, what I mean is that some traders have emotional issues that are related to prior experiences from their own trading. For instance, early on they had a terrible and stupid habit of holding on to losers too long, so now years later in their trading that can still effect them in many psychological ways, maybe they now get out of trades too quick because they are too afraid to have any loss. Maybe in the past they've lost a huge amount of money in one bad day or trade, so now they over trade trying to dig themselves out of a hole, and go on tilt and make it worse.
In any event, to fix it you need to create a journal, record every single trade entry and exit, and then come up with a clear plan of how to improve, then measure yourself daily and hold yourself accountable. Simple as that.
Mike
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You'll probably be homeless because of your trading. 
