Posted in trader training on Nov 11th, 2008
In the kids’ movie “Over The Hedge”, there are several
good lessons for kids, but also for traders.
R.J. was a raccoon that in his hunger, made the near-
fatal mistake of stealing the hibernating bear’s food
stash.
He snuck into the cave of a hibernating bear to get
his food-stash. Had it all loaded up on the wagon
the bear had […]
Posted in trader training on Sep 30th, 2008
Today’s message can be extremely valuable, if you’ll take just a few minutes for a very simple exercise.
The purpose here is to simply raise your awareness, so that you can take action to improve matters if you find that it would turn things in a more desirable direction.
Do NOT be offended - that is not […]
Posted in The Personal Side of Trading on Sep 22nd, 2008
It is so easy as a trader to get consumed.
Consumed by wanting to hit the big winners.
Consumed by the fear of losing money.
Consumed by wanting to beat the markets.
Consumed by wanting to be validated by being right in our choices.
It is so easy to become so consumed that we become owned by our trading, instead […]
Posted in trader training on Sep 16th, 2008
The common wisdom is to treat your trading as a business.
Why should you?
Before you chose to become a trader, you were a person with money to invest.
You could have chosen to invest your money in quite a few different businesses.
Would you have fared any better in any of those?
Would you have had better chances of […]
Posted in The Personal Side of Trading on Sep 8th, 2008
Self-sabotage is often experienced in trading and it can be very difficult to keep it from happening, especially if you don’t understand why.
Most times when you think of self-sabotage, what comes to mind are those lottery winners where they lose all their winnings and wind up broke in a relatively short period of time following […]
