Great posts Rick, thanks for that.
I think every trader makes bad trades every now and then, we're human after all.. the trick is keeping them to a minimum. I had a 2 month winning streak with no losses (out of 10 trades) until last week where I made an absolutely ignorant trade and took a full stop on AU. The important thing is I still finished up 7.8% in October and now 6.7% in November - would've been over 8% had I not made that stupid, STUPID trade..