I want to be a pilot - Learn for 5 years
I want to be a Lawyer - Get a degree then learn for 5 years
I want to be boxer - Practice for 4/5 years.
I want to be an athlete - Practice for many years.
I want to be a Trader - Start tomorrow.
Any guesses why so many fail??🤔🤔🤔🤔
So many #tradingpsychology problems for developing traders are the result of not understanding and following the right steps toward mastery: tinyurl.com/3wty6p7t
“When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.” ~James Hollis
Perhaps the most important #tradingpsychology perspective of all: solution-focused trading and the recognition that, in some measure, we are already the traders we seek to become: tinyurl.com/3b3f4p3m
"Silence is golden. Silence is the great key to advancement; retain power within thyself in silence. Make not yourself great for all have potentially the same power." - Thoth
“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.”
—David Sivers
There’s a POWERFUL indicator that exists which you already have, one that makes sense of chaos but hinges on a critical component: Performance.
I need to explain this and then I’ll reveal the indicator.
If you do not perform near your optimal level, then it will not matter.
I’ve been in this game for 7 years.
Here is a list of 33 things I wish I knew on Day 1:
1) the next trade won’t change your life. the next one thousand trades will.
2) master price sensitivity -> master prop firms. prop firms are a game of precision.
3) prop firms are heaven