Focus. Detachment from outcomes brings the ability to focus on what is important. Not focus on where you think price will go. Or where you fear...
Nutmeg, thank you for the kind words. Scaling in to reinforce patience, huh? I like it!
Mschey, thanks for sharing your views. I had hopes that cool trading would facilitate scaling up, haha! As I said at the outset, this is a...
Detachment. Open-Mindedness makes possible all-important detachment. When you are not hoping or expecting the market will do something, you...
Great stuff here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=83604 And search on and read everything by Jack Hershey. A pure...
Open-Mindedness. How easy it is to be open minded when we aren't geniuses! I should know. I used to be a trading genius. I put yesterday's...
Humility. By now you know the drill. Why should patience lead to humility? Because after practicing patience for long enough, you realize that...
Patience. Comes from where, haha? Why, confidence, of course! And what does patience do for us? Helps us wait to commit until the market...
Confidence. Again, I want to minimize negative terms. I could have said lack of fear. From whence cometh confidence? It's precursor is...
Calm. The beneficial trading states build on each other. Sobriety facilitates health. Health allows you to experience and enjoy satisfaction....
Uh, Spectra, don't make me start a poll on whether or not you are a guru. Psych hospitals are full of Jesuses, and ET of gurus.
Alertness. By this I think I mean the ability to maintain situational awareness. For example, I have a bad habit of drilling into what has been...
Thanks, Fearless. You're not missing much, the market is in Take-the-Profits-Back mode. Also known as...
Oh! Either some of you are deleting your stupid posts, or we are being moderated to protect ET from excessive obscenity, whatever that might be by...
Oh, man, that is SO different from what I do. I am so ashamed that my methods reek of the "Conventional Orthodoxy". Could you possibly post a...
I didn't mention that he suffers from MPD, as freunden und feinden already know that. So yes, the core personality is unworthy. That is why he...
Well of course at my age it is "wake up alive and with a hard-on", and preferably not from the need to piss. So all you do is figure "up" from...
Satisfaction. When I trade, I don't want to be aware of any distracting needs. Not being hungry is number one. So I eat a moderately...
Fearless, I am with you. By preparation I didn't mean study, only taking mental inventory. The list I posted is my checklist, accomplished in...
Aeliodon, Hypo is heavily sedated and cannot reply, but I do want to thank you for your opinion of his progressive dementia. He suffered from...
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