Successful trading is composed of 80% suffering and 20% pleasure. By suffering I mean the time spent:
- Addressing your weaknesses.
- Recognizing the times when you are wrong with zero ego involved.
- Having the patience to not overtrade during your losing periods.
- Sticking to your plan through good and bad and especially through bad.
These are only four of the boxes that a successful trader ticks daily. If I had to condense all of that into one short sentence, I would go for A small ego can equal huge returns.