Why I'm Limiting Myself To A Single Trade A Week In 2025

Here’s my biggest problem, I take too many trades. I lose money because I’m too eager to pull the trigger, especially when I’ve got some profit to lean on.

It’s like I’m at the range with an unlimited supply of bullets, just blasting away, hoping I hit something.

My grandfather was one of the best markmen in the US Army during WWII. After the war he won multiple US Army marksman competitions for his skills with a rifle. Later he trained thousands of recruits that were headed off to the war in Korea in how to be accurate shots with their rifles.

Becoming great with a rifle wasn’t an accident. He told me stories about growing up poor on a farm in Kansas, and how they couldn’t afford to buy many bullets to shoot their dinner with.

So he’d get one, literally one bullet for his rifle, and if he missed his target he’d have no meat to bring back to his mother for dinner that night.

He got good with his rifle because he literally had no choice. He had to wait for the right prey, the right moment, the right I don’t even know what else because I’ve never hunted an animal in my life.

But what I do hunt are stocks. And my gun is loaded with bullets because online trading makes buying and selling stocks so cheap and easy. It’s become a problem and problems need solutions.

I’m putting a trading rule in place to keep me from over trading and I’m going to make it hard on myself. I’m only going to allow myself to open one new position a week, unless that the new position has moved enough to allow me to move my stops to break even. Then and only then can I take on a second new position and open myself up to additional risk.

This doesn’t apply to adding to current positions where I’m able to reduce risk. It applies strictly to opening new positions. This rule will prevent me from taking on too much risk too quickly and it will force me to pick only the best set-ups, which should also increase my batting average.

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