The Hidden Force Controlling Your Trading Success
Did you know you make thousands of decisions every day, but most of them happen automatically without conscious thought? As FM Alexander wisely noted, “People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits, and their habits decide their futures.”
This truth is especially powerful for us as traders.
Why Your Small Decisions Matter More Than The Big Ones
Trading is fundamentally a decision-making process. We evaluate information, draw conclusions, and take action. But here’s what many don’t realize:
- The big trading decisions matter, but the thousands of tiny, habitual decisions you make throughout your day have a greater cumulative impact
- Your pre-trading preparation routine dramatically influences your performance
- Your evening routine affects your sleep quality, which affects your mental clarity the next day
- The information sources you habitually consume may be creating harmful biases
Are Your Unconscious Habits Sabotaging Your Results?
Consider these common trading habit traps:
- Habitually seeking confirmation before every trade (leading to missed opportunities)
- Automatically checking irrelevant timeframes that bias your decisions
- Responding emotionally to market moves in predictable, counterproductive ways
- Following inconsistent routines that prevent you from establishing effective patterns
The First Step To Breaking Through
The most powerful habit you can develop is self-awareness. By observing your own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors during trading sessions, you’ll begin to identify which habits are serving you and which are holding you back.
This heightened awareness allows you to:
- Recognize counterproductive patterns that were previously invisible
- Make conscious decisions rather than automatic ones
- Create intentional routines that support profitable trading
- Replace negative habits with positive ones that compound over time
Discover the truths about consistent profits that you wish someone would have told you before now
- How your struggles have NOT been due to a lack of “Discipline” or Emotional Control
- How your struggles have NOT been due to “psychological issues” like your beliefs, your “relationship with money” or some deep “Mommy-Daddy” issues
- Discover the 3 TRUE obstacles that have made it so difficult for you to profit consistently
- The FOUR things every trader needs to get consistently profitable in a reasonable period of time
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To your trading success,
Brian McAboy Inside Out Trading
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