{"id":46624,"date":"2018-02-22T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=46624"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:01:05","slug":"the-progress-of-losing-less-on-your-worst-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-progress-of-losing-less-on-your-worst-days","title":{"rendered":"The progress of losing less on your worst days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-biggest-spark-for-our-trading-improvement-in-2017\">Daily Report Card<\/a> an improving Junior Trader noticed his progress on losing less on his worst days.\u00a0 This is important progress.<\/p>\n<p>The Junior Trader wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Was really quite a back and forth type of day and never really gained much traction. However, I was green, which I was surprised at the end of the day because I really felt like many things didn\u2019t really go my way. This is a good feeling because I know that allot of my trades didn\u2019t work out, but still was able to remain flexible and stay green. <strong>This is something that I have been working on and has lead from big red days becoming smaller and smaller.<\/strong> The ability to be flexible and ADMIT WHEN I AM WRONG has saved me on many trades.<\/p>\n<p>We often set a goal to make more in our best trades.\u00a0 Another way to make progress, important progress, is to lose less when we are not seeing screens well.<\/p>\n<p>This Junior Trader has been making terrific progress in his trading of late.\u00a0 His numbers are improving month over month.\u00a0 This is just one way that is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you might consider this for your trading.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for your comments\/feedback-\u00a0mbellafiore@smbcap.com<\/p>\n<p>*no relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Daily Report Card an improving Junior Trader noticed his progress on losing less on his worst days.\u00a0 This is important progress. 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However, I was green, which I was surprised at the end of the day because I &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-progress-of-losing-less-on-your-worst-days\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":46625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5463,1],"tags":[5191,1664,1104,38,76],"class_list":["post-46624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bella-daily-update","category-general-comments-2","tag-coach","tag-mentor","tag-proprietary","tag-trading","tag-training","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The progress of losing less on your worst days | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/the-progress-of-losing-less-on-your-worst-days\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The progress of losing less on your worst days | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a recent Daily Report Card an improving Junior Trader noticed his progress on losing less on his worst days.\u00a0 This is important progress. 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