There's an old Buddhist saying, As within, So without.
You may think its all about the charts, the fundamentals, your system and the unprecedented world economy, but haven't there been times when you sensed there was something more to it?
Me too. Being tuned in to all that is what separates the super traders from the guys who are second mortgaging their home hoping to make a come back.
Aside from the obvious, not putting too great a percentage of your overall nugget in any one trade, how does one keep the emotional element out of decision-making? Is this emotional element the same thing as your gut feeling? It's easy to confuse the two and it's well worth learning to discern the difference.
Keeping notes is critical, but not just about the numbers. Taking time to notice your own patterns is invaluable in the long run if there is to be a long run.
Over-confidence can be just as deadly as under-confidence. And playing when you really don't have the juice to, but feel like you need to can also have its consequences,
There really aren't a lot of women out there trading, not relatively, so for a long time I thought it was only because I had focused on my inner work for so long that I was naturally using my trades as way of flushing out my deeper issues---resistance to having more than enough or the compulsion to keep trading when I had already done well enough for the time being.
But then I attended one of those weekend workshops with the best of the best. And on the very first day my trading coach said, the market is mirror---a stark mirror.
That, to me, was worth the price of admission!