Trading, in any timeframe, requires patience

 Traders use charts to find good patterns. When a good setup appears, any experienced trader can recognize it, and can profit from it. If you trade the market, you've experienced these good trades. You just want to capture more of them, and even more importantly, stay out of more bad trades.  How are so many traders able to win on their first few trades?  Because we all recognize a trend.  It's simple.  The problem starts when we distort our views when we're in a position.  So when we're long, we see an uptrend that isn't there.  Or see a bottom reversal that's just wishful thinking.  Even when we're flat, we desperately want to get involved.  The difficulty with trading is that good patterns are rare and infrequent. So we often lose patience, see patterns that really aren't there and over-trade. In choppy markets, it takes super-human discipline to stay out of the markets.  How do you become more consistent? One way is to use a computerize scanning service, like TradeScalper.com. TradeScalper.com scans the Index and Forex markets, to provide daytrading signals.