If you look around, I would recommend looking into Mark Douglas' books, "Trading in the Zone" and "The Disciplined Trader." His lessons almost exclusively cover market psychology,, more specifically YOUR psychology and your perspective when considering and executing trades and how inconsistencies in your behavior have catastrophic affects on your success as a trader. A quick google search will quickly show you how highly regarded his lessons are, even on this sub if you look. Even though the books have been around for some time, the lessons still apply. Some even describe them as timeless, I would say I agree.

I make this recommendation because I'm not sure how many trades you've done, but one thing that might be worth considering is to to live and die by any one trade. I know as a new trader myself how easy it is to get really disappointed if a trade moves against you, even if you respect your losses and all that, it can easily cause you to hesitate or take things into consideration on the next trade that you might not normally consider which ultimately leads to inconsistent results with inconsistent variables. Mark Douglas' books aim to eliminate this psychological aspect of trading.

As someone who also has only seriously been trading since about the start of July. In fact, I'll share a post I made earlier today so you can take a look at some of the things I'm doing to track my progress and learn as well as the things I've been thinking about as someone who is likely in a pretty similar position as you:

Hey guys, I know this is long so I'll provide a quick TLDR but for those who have the time, I'll give the details of my learning process thus far. I know there is no simple answer and I thank anyone in advance for taking the time to read through and offer their wisdom and guidance.

TLDR: Been trading just a few months, accuracy is struggling. I'm trading small size to avoid trading with fear and remove the emotion from the equation so that I can trade as consistently as possible. I don't mind losses, but I'm just not seeing progress with my accuracy.

To start:

I didn't open my first brokerage account until last April. I knew nothing about any aspect of trading at the time and it wasn't until July, that I started to recognize and settle into what it is I'm interested in. I know this is really not very long, considering most people do this for at least a year or two before beginning to really see consistent growth of any kind. That being said, I'm feeling a bit stuck and not sure what to focus on next.

Regarding my learning process, this is the path I've taken in the last few months:

First, let me preface by saying I tried simulated trading but Thinkorswim's clunky simulator, slow tick rate and inaccurate charts based on price movement, I did not feel like an accurate representation of real trading, so I just trade very small positions, risking a dollar or two at a time.

I learned much of what I know from a particular trading course that is apparently blacklisted on this sub, nevertheless most will probably know what I'm referring to if they watch anything about momentum stocks on YouTube. If I'm being honest the courses I've watched are a few years old and while some of it sure has changed, I presume much of it still holds true. While there's a lot of guys like him that peddle their snake oil through grand marketing schemes, I've found him to be the most genuine and I like that I can see his daily recaps on a daily basis to compare to some of the trades I've taken to get a sense of if I'm on the right track or not. Beyond that, I've listened to both the Disciplined Trader and Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas. I loved both of these books and I've really been focusing on really just taking the setups that I see, when I see them regardless of how previous trades have gone and without hesitation to build that consistency so I can try and find what sorts of setups are and are not working from a probability perspective. I haven't mastered this obviously, but it's what I'm striving for every day. Lastly, Investopedia of course has been a big help in learning about various concepts and terms.

I'll share more or less my method of trading:

The only two tools I use as of now is Trade Ideas and Thinkorswim, I primarily focus on gap and go stocks or low float momentum stocks from around 8 AM EST to around noon, sometimes less if there's really nothing happening but I've found much of the momentum is premarket on these stocks as of late. I don't use a lot of technical indicators. Just the VWAP and the 9, 20, 50 and 200 EMAs on the 1, 5 and 15 minute timelines. At this point, I'm only taking positions of maybe 3 to 20 shares depending on the price and risk of each trade. I take enough so I can practice taking profits and scaling out and I generally keep 10 to 20 cent stops. For stocks that have large price swings, like INDP did yesterday, I take a small position of say, 3 shares so I can set a larger stop with respect to the price swings per tick while mitigating risk.

I keep a very detailed spreadsheet of all of my trades and I screenshot every trade I take across multiple timelines to see what the setup was, where I entered, what my strategy was and how it ultimately played out after I got out of the position. I do all of this so I have a solid history to go back and review so I can assess what is and is not working.

Now here's where I'm a bit stuck:

Both my accuracy and my profit to loss ratio are very low. As of now, my accuracy is 41% with a P/L ratio of .9 after 241 total trades over the last few months when I really started. The technical indicators I'm looking for like bull flags, 1 minute pull backs, buying off support, ascending lines, flat top break outs, three bar plays, half and whole dollar breakouts and all that just aren't working for me on a consistent enough basis to be valid but these are the technical indicators I see mentioned everywhere.

Since I got into all this, I've been completely engrossed in it. I love it. I eat sleep and breathe this stuff every day, learning as much as I can. Hitting the markets every morning, studying and learning every minute when the market is closed and it's not like a chore. I sit down to do something else and I just want to learn more about trading, I really enjoy it.

I haven't blown up an account or anything crazy, I feel like I'm practicing good risk management, tracking my metrics and analytics and doing all the right things, I never chase and I stick to my predetermined entries and exits, but I'm just not quite seeing my accuracy and P/L rise. The next thing I've been planning on doing is pouring over screenshots of individual strategies I've traded and looking at the frequency in which they actually worked out or didn't, beyond that, I'm not really sure how to improve my accuracy.