The 10 Most Common (and Costly) Mistakes

The painful truth from the research is that most active retail traders lose — but the reasons they lose are not mysterious or varied. The same short list of mistakes shows up again and again, across markets and decades. The good news in that is enormous: a known failure is a fixable failure. Here are the ten that do the most damage, and the journal habit that catches each.

The mistakes that bleed your account dry