Hello Rufus and welcome to Steemit. I'm kind of new here on Steemit to and I'm a part-time forex trader as well. I like it, but most of the time I don't succeed. I've been doing this for about half year and I'm still learning something new every day.
Hi @grov1, nice to meet you! Trading is never easy as our emotions usually get the better of us, causing us to react against our trading rules.
Whatever trading strategy you have chose, I hope you have backtested that strategy. Getting positive results from your own backtesting increases your confidence in using that strategy. Once you apply on your live account, you might want to begin with a smaller lot size and start a trading journal.
The trading journal will be your reference to what you did right/wrong for your winning/losing trades. You will gradually improve yourself from there.