So if you DO achieve your weekly profit goal on the first trade Monday morning, what next? Stop trading for that week! Just enjoy life! It doesn’t get better than that! Remember, you need to stick to your trading plan and your weekly goal. Do NOT enter into another trade once you’ve already achieved your weekly goal; the chance that your second trade may be a losing trade is too great, and you would be giving your money and profits back to the market. Overtrading and greediness are a trader’s downfall, so resist them and stick to your strategies.

How to Increase Your Winning Percentage I’ve just proven to you that you can achieve your weekly profit goal with a winning percentage of only 50%. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was possible for you to boost your winning percentage to 60% instead, or even 65%?

Well, it IS possible, and here’s how to do it:

Be picky. Seriously, when it comes to trading, being picky is actually a VERY good thing. Don’t take the first trade you see just because it looks decent. Analyze your possible trade. Make sure that it fits ALL of your entry conditions and parameters.

As I said previously: you should be watching six different markets. Let’s assume that you have a trading strategy which gives you one entry signal in the first two hours of trading. This would result in up to six entry signals per day, since you are watching six markets. Six entry signals per day add up to 30 entry signals per week.

Now, of course, there will be some days when you’ll only have 1-2 entry signals in the six markets; however, the chances are high – especially if you’re watching uncorrelated markets – that you’ll get at least two entry signals per day, or ten entry signals per week.

Pay attention to your entry signals, and rely on them. You already know that you’ll meet your weekly goal with just one winning trade, so be patient. If there are no good trades on Monday, then simply wait until Tuesday. The same goes for the whole week. Don’t push it! Wait until the market is ready to be traded. It WILL happen.

Waiting for YOUR trades on YOUR terms WILL increase your winning percentage. By skipping the trades with “so-so” entry signals, by taking only the best that the market has to offer, you’ll be on the right path to solid profits and success. That’s how it works.

Full Circle – How to Make $150,000 Per Year A quick recap: the first step towards financial success is to define your weekly profit target. Next, you need to find a reliable, straightforward trading strategy that will help you achieve your profit goal. When you enter into a trade and your trade hits either your profit target OR your stop loss, exit that trade immediately. Stick to your trading plans and strategies until you achieve your weekly profit goal, and then give yourself a rest until next week.

If you’ll think back to the case I gave at the beginning, in order to make $150,000 per year – assuming a 50-week year and two weeks of vacation – you’d need to make $3,000 per week. At a $300 profit per trade, this means that you would need to trade ten contracts. Of course, this illustration can be applied to various amounts. If you wanted to make $225,000 per year with a weekly profit target of $300 per contract, for example, then you would have to trade 15 contracts, and so on, and so on.

If you don’t have a trading account that let’s you trade the amount of contracts that I’m talking about yet, then now is the perfect time to start building it. Remember, be patient with your trading, be smart, slow, and steady. Trading success doesn’t happen overnight, but with the right strategies and structure, you can achieve profitable results in a much shorter time period than you may have thought possible.

Plan your trades and trade your plan. THAT’S how successful traders make money.

I rest my case. J

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