You know Mikey, the market isn't going anywhere. Another solution is to take a little vacation and walk away altogether. Take some time to totally clean out the "emotional cobwebs." Then after about 3 months or so start to paper trade as you spoke of. As you build a little confidence back, get back to using real money......
Just an approach I decided to take about 2 months ago..... lol
it all comes down to we make our own decisions in trading even if your following someone or taking his/her trading ideas and we gotta treat it as a business not like goiing to the casino ;-) theres always Wins (Profits) & Losses (Expenses).
what Mikey says in his post is True with NO BS & papertrading is highly recommended and always good especially when your in a new market playing field.
1. You shouldn't feel like you need to force a trade. If it's not fitting into your strategy 100% then it can't hurt to just not enter the trade in the first place.