Posted in trader training on Nov 4th, 2008
In your trading, are you playing to your strengths, or are you simply being an “opportunity seeker”? There is a huge difference between the two and if you’re just an opportunity seeker, then you are leaving yourself open to frustration and losses.
There are many parallels between trading, business and gambling, and your ultimate success long-term […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Posted in The Personal Side of Trading on Aug 13th, 2008
Visit any forum or chat room and you’ll find three things
that are stopping most people from achieving the success
they desire in trading.
Worry, doubt and fear are Trading Vampires that can suck
all the good things right out of your trading!
Your energy
Your attention
Your confidence
Your ability to act without hesitation
Your enjoyment of trading
Your profitability
But, think about this for […]
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