Question 56—The Impact of the Last Trade

Answer 4 None of the above
Allowing the results of your latest trade to influence your plans for the next is amateurish behavior. There is a fair degree of randomness in the market, making the outcome of any single trade difficult to predict. A professional puts his trust not in any individual trade but in his or her ongoing performance over a period of time. The pros do not let something as relatively minor as the outcome of the latest trade make them deviate from their thought-out plans.

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