Nice post. It's when you plan your trades and can do it without emotion or fear or greed that you will become, gradually, a better trader, better in terms of success. Try to start planning maybe the night before or first thing in the morning if that's better what you want to do next time you trade. Having this plan, along with your escape hatches identified, will allow you to just relax and trade. I've personally been working on this real hard and it's amazing the difference it makes in trading. I'm not feeling like I missed someting or HAVE TO GET IN OR OUT, etc. If you are a good technical trader, then set up the mechanicals with x percent and go about doing technical trades with more. Gradually you will be sufficiently trading enough money in a manageable number of positions to be happy. Make a plan, stick with it, and you can be successful.