My rules for controlling emotions

Hi guys, recently I have had trouble controlling my emotions while trading and lost all of my profits due to error in judgement. I become overconfident or trade higher volumes to cover my losses so I made myself a set of rules to control my emotions. I would like to know what you think about them, and would appreciate any advice you can give. I have read the other topics concerning this on this forum and think I learned abit from it. Keep in mind that I do scalping.


1. When I start trading I decide on how much I want to win and how much I am willing to loose in terms of pips. When I reach my goal or I loose too much I will stop trading for at least a couple of hours.


2. I will make all my trades with the same lot size, regardless of how strong I feel the signal is. Instead I will keep the trade open longer if I feel I can win more.


3. I will alway put a top loss 5 pips under my entry point.


4. After 3 of my trades in a row result in losses I will stop trading for at least 4 bars on the 15min chart (1h) and just keep on watching the market and try to figure out why I predicted it wrong.


5. I will keep track of how long I trade and won't continue to trade more than 2 hours without taking at least a 15min break.


6. When I can't concentrate enough to just watch market movement for 5 minutes and not do anything else I will close the terminal and return at another time when I will be concentrated only on trading.