1. Remember becoming expert trader takes time and one has to learn to take lossess in stride.
2. Initially paper trade to get acquainted with the market.
3. Be fearless and trade without any emotion as fear of losing results in losses.
4. Applying the stop loss is a must to keep the losses small.
5. Each trade has an opportunity to teach you something and thus maintain a diary and learn from each trade.
6. Make sure that profit do not become loss.
7. Get out of the market if the trend is not in your favour.
8. Avoid the tendency of averaging in loss making trades.
9. One can not accurately enter at the tops or the bottoms.
10. If trend of market is not clear than avoid day trading.