There are too many conflicting points in your post but I just picked out these two to dispute them with the hope that we can learn from the discussion.  These are not mistakes in trading, they are exactly what makes trading what it is and doing them is practicing the exact skill we call trading. A trader predicts the market using different techniques and tools and then apply timing to ensure he enters the market at the right session to avoid facing market manipulations. If you don't try to predict the market, then I wonder what you will be doing as a trader because everything a trader does is speculation. It's not a mistake, but "how" you do it could be a mistake. When you predict or time, you could be wrong, and there are a lot of newbies who mistime or fail to predict the market. Sure we need to predict and time the market perfectly, and if we do a good job then that is good, but if we do a bad job then it is a mistake. That is what I assume OP is talking about, and we need to be careful about it and if we are careful about it then we can do a very good job of it at the same time. None of us are perfect and make mistakes some or other times. It is important if we learn from those mistakes. If we do not learn from those mistakes than we can never actually learn anything from life. Mistakes are our best guru and if we do not learn from those mistakes than there is nothing greater than can ever teach us. It is okay to make mistakes at the start but rectifying those mistakes and making sure we won't do it again is what is most important. Humans are going to make mistakes because they can only learn from mistakes and let's not forget that. Predicting and timing the market might seem quite easy as stated by OP as well but in real, it is a challenge. It is not really that easy to predict the markets and we can only become an expert if we keep practicing while making mistakes.
There are too many conflicting points in your post but I just picked out these two to dispute them with the hope that we can learn from the discussion.  These are not mistakes in trading, they are exactly what makes trading what it is and doing them is practicing the exact skill we call trading. A trader predicts the market using different techniques and tools and then apply timing to ensure he enters the market at the right session to avoid facing market manipulations. If you don't try to predict the market, then I wonder what you will be doing as a trader because everything a trader does is speculation. It's not a mistake, but "how" you do it could be a mistake. When you predict or time, you could be wrong, and there are a lot of newbies who mistime or fail to predict the market. Sure we need to predict and time the market perfectly, and if we do a good job then that is good, but if we do a bad job then it is a mistake. That is what I assume OP is talking about, and we need to be careful about it and if we are careful about it then we can do a very good job of it at the same time. None of us are perfect and make mistakes some or other times. It is important if we learn from those mistakes. If we do not learn from those mistakes than we can never actually learn anything from life. Mistakes are our best guru and if we do not learn from those mistakes than there is nothing greater than can ever teach us. It is okay to make mistakes at the start but rectifying those mistakes and making sure we won't do it again is what is most important. Humans are going to make mistakes because they can only learn from mistakes and let's not forget that. Predicting and timing the market might seem quite easy as stated by OP as well but in real, it is a challenge. It is not really that easy to predict the markets and we can only become an expert if we keep practicing while making mistakes.

There are too many conflicting points in your post but I just picked out these two to dispute them with the hope that we can learn from the discussion.  These are not mistakes in trading, they are exactly what makes trading what it is and doing them is practicing the exact skill we call trading. A trader predicts the market using different techniques and tools and then apply timing to ensure he enters the market at the right session to avoid facing market manipulations. If you don't try to predict the market, then I wonder what you will be doing as a trader because everything a trader does is speculation. It's not a mistake, but "how" you do it could be a mistake. When you predict or time, you could be wrong, and there are a lot of newbies who mistime or fail to predict the market. Sure we need to predict and time the market perfectly, and if we do a good job then that is good, but if we do a bad job then it is a mistake. That is what I assume OP is talking about, and we need to be careful about it and if we are careful about it then we can do a very good job of it at the same time. None of us are perfect and make mistakes some or other times. It is important if we learn from those mistakes. If we do not learn from those mistakes than we can never actually learn anything from life. Mistakes are our best guru and if we do not learn from those mistakes than there is nothing greater than can ever teach us. It is okay to make mistakes at the start but rectifying those mistakes and making sure we won't do it again is what is most important. Humans are going to make mistakes because they can only learn from mistakes and let's not forget that. Predicting and timing the market might seem quite easy as stated by OP as well but in real, it is a challenge. It is not really that easy to predict the markets and we can only become an expert if we keep practicing while making mistakes.

There are too many conflicting points in your post but I just picked out these two to dispute them with the hope that we can learn from the discussion.  These are not mistakes in trading, they are exactly what makes trading what it is and doing them is practicing the exact skill we call trading. A trader predicts the market using different techniques and tools and then apply timing to ensure he enters the market at the right session to avoid facing market manipulations. If you don't try to predict the market, then I wonder what you will be doing as a trader because everything a trader does is speculation. It's not a mistake, but "how" you do it could be a mistake. When you predict or time, you could be wrong, and there are a lot of newbies who mistime or fail to predict the market. Sure we need to predict and time the market perfectly, and if we do a good job then that is good, but if we do a bad job then it is a mistake. That is what I assume OP is talking about, and we need to be careful about it and if we are careful about it then we can do a very good job of it at the same time. None of us are perfect and make mistakes some or other times. It is important if we learn from those mistakes. If we do not learn from those mistakes than we can never actually learn anything from life. Mistakes are our best guru and if we do not learn from those mistakes than there is nothing greater than can ever teach us. It is okay to make mistakes at the start but rectifying those mistakes and making sure we won't do it again is what is most important. Humans are going to make mistakes because they can only learn from mistakes and let's not forget that. Predicting and timing the market might seem quite easy as stated by OP as well but in real, it is a challenge. It is not really that easy to predict the markets and we can only become an expert if we keep practicing while making mistakes.