To make money as a trader/investor, you have to know what the market is going to do next.  

Sometimes I find myself thinking that there must be a way to trade without taking a loss.

Making money as a trader is primarily a function of analysis.

Losses are an unavoidable component of trading.

My risk is always defined before I enter a trade.

In my mind, there is always a cost to finding out what the market will do next.

I wouldn't even bother putting on the next trade if I wasn't sure that it was going to be a winner.

The more the trader learns about the markets and how they behave, the easier it will be for him or her to execute trades.

My methodology tells me exactly under what market conditions to either enter or exit a trade.

Even when I have a clear signal to reverse my position, I find it extremely difficult to do.

I have sustained periods of consistent success usually followed by fairly drastic draw-downs in my equity.

When I first started trading I would describe my trading methodology as haphazard, meaning some success in between a lot of pain.

I often find myself feeling that the markets are against me personally.

As much as I try to "let go," I find it very difficult to put past emotional wounds behind me.

I have a money management philosophy that is founded in the principle of  always taking some money out of the market when the market makes it available.

A trader's/investor's job is to identify patterns in the market's behavior that represent an opportunity and then determine the risk of finding out if these patterns will play themselves out as they have in the past.

Sometimes I just can't help feeling that I am a victim of the market.

When I trade, I usually try to stay focused in one time frame.

Trading/Investing successfully requires a degree of mental flexibility for beyond the scope of most people.

There are times I can definitely feel the flow of the market; however, I often have difficulty acting on those feelings.  

There are many times when I am in a profitable trade and I know the move is basically over, but I still won't take my profits.  

No matter how much money I make on a trade, I am rarely ever satisfied and I feel I could have made more.

The most important component in a trader's/investor's ability to accumulate money over time is having a belief in his or her own consistency.

If you were granted a wish to be able to instantaneously acquire one trading skill, what skill would you choose?

If you were granted a wish to be able to instantaneously acquire one trading skill, what skill would you choose?

I often spend sleepless nights about the market.

Do you ever feel compelled to make a trade because you are afraid you might miss out?

Do you ever find yourself planning trades you never execute, and executing trades you never planned?

In a few sentences, please explain why most traders/investors either don't make money or aren't able to keep what they make.