Perper Trading
You must be profitable in paper trading everytime you started doing it.
When we do paper trading somewhere our mind knows that we will not lose real money and so we are free from any pain of losing money.
When our mind is free we can see market without being biased and so our decision can be rational.
We must be taking proper stop and Target when doing paper trade so will be profitable.
Does this happen in real life too?
How many times in real trading , have you gone against your ego/emotions/thinking/justification and taken stop Loss , perhaps Not even a single time.
When our stop loss trigger our own mind Dodge us to that extent that we try to justify ourselves and in doing justify we do averaging, overnight position and what not.
This type of problem does not come when doing paper trading.
Also when we do paper trading we take proper stop loss and keep waiting for next pattern to be made however in real life once our Stop Loss trigger we immediately take another entry or if not taking stop loss we do averaging and what to do cover Loss.
Actually when paper trading is just a tool not solution of trading psychology.
The trading is that simple that follow a pattern
Take entry based on pattern
decide Risk taking capacity
exit at target
No averaging
Follow only this perhaps you may be not profitable but you would not be loosing much but must learn something.
Trade with real emotions and learn from that and follow the rules one day profit will be yours