A trade can only be profitable or not profitable. You'll soon discover that for a losing trade the only thing to brag about is how small you kept the loss, how quickly you stopped the bleeding. If your Ego has any pride at all, bragging will develop an inner voice urging you to get out of losing trades. It will replace the voice keeping you in losing trades. The market is uncaring.
Every trade has two aspects, time and market direction.
As an individual trader, you're competing against guys with PhD.s in math and physics, against giant super-computers, against ruthless pit traders who have the advantage of being on the floor. The PhD.s are probably smarter than you. Your computer is no match for the competing computers. Always know where the escape hatch is for each and every trade. Motorcycle drivers who stay afraid of their machines die of old age.