Doing paper trade before and after you become a trader is completely different. Before you become a trader, you dont know about fear, greed and maximum draw down for your trading strategy( Draw down is the loss of your capital after a series of losing trades). You have a trade set up and you test it by paper trading. After becoming a trader you know how you feel...
"Always follow your trading plan". Every trader have trading plan. When to enter a trade, when to exit, target and stoploss. And also everybody have their own analysis skills. We can discuss with our trading friends about a script. We can discuss whether the price is going up or going down. But when entering a trade it should be based on our analysis, our trading...