Incredible how much erroneous crap is posted on this site followed by the words "good post" as one sheep follows another aimlessly in circles. The best way to learn about the "power" and influence of the subconcious is to do your own research (certainly not to ask anyone here). One known authority on the subconcious is Milton Erickson MD now deceased. He was the premier practitioner of medical hypnosis in the United States for decades. His list of published work will keep you busy as long as you continue to have an interest in the subject. I like his text titled "Creative Choice in Hypnosis" edited by Earnest Rossi (a student of his) and published by Irrvington. The NLP work is mostly derivative meaning that John Grinder, Judith DeLozier and Richard Bandler studied Milton Erickson and tried to model what he was doing. You can find other texts by those authors by googling those authors. One such text is "Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson MD" published by Meta. Good luck with your search Stevesbg
The Bible says to thank God for breath. I take that literally, I thank God for breath and take a deep breath and let the good energy permeate my body.. it tends to quell the inner chatter...
Widen your time frames of trading until you change your expectations. In order to trade intraday you have got to have discipline like a rock. Lack of discipline is formed by unrealistic expectations when it comes to the potential of intraday trading. Almost all under capitalized traders think they can make more then they really can. Oh they might get lucky sometimes but the bottom line at the end of the month is almost always negative. Traders with this problem "think" they see more opportunities but really they are just road blocks that cause the trader to break their rules. This is how traders betray themselves. Their expectations are not properly aligned with reality. If you are trying to live off a trading account with only 10-30k then forget it. Get a job and save for a few years. A trader who thinks they can make a living off an account with only 30k has unrealistic expectations. If you really thought you could beat Tiger Woods in golf and then lost you would be pissed. However if you are dumb enough to think you can beat Tiger then is your current thought process really ideal when it comes to guaging the reality of your situation? If you can't guage reality then you can't even begin to find success.
The root of your problem is pretty much what every other unsuccessful trader's problem is. They do not have a real edge and they have inferior money and trade management skills Psychology means little. You can feel on top of the world, go into a casino and still lose your money. Until you have an edge and the management skills, everything else is relatively useless
You may be right. I have traded for over 50 years and I have a perspective. The financial industry has always been a combo of the noblese oblige and the slick ivy league sales fluff. It was excusable for many generations of ingrowth and decay. I observed the "public" becoming involved and later the geeks getting onboard. Today we have a succession of major failures emerging from the pipeline built on this lack of integrity. Yesteday's AIG, today's GM and tomorrow's Boeing. Flashboy is a symptom just like the 4 out of 10 drop out rate of high schoolers. For me, I have held off publishing the "trader story" for many generations. Now the way learning works and well as how the mind works has been documented. It is no longer cutting edge and people are what they decided to be. Personal integrity went away in many ways. ET has a lot of bling (Trader's Monthly and Profolio) and it has a lot of superficiality. the world has finally reached a significant turning point where the integrity issues are going to count a lot as the old wyas are shut down and the reigns of money, power and information will be changing hands as those reigning lose their interwoven power to control. I envision the pools of capital simply being extracted from those who now control it by those who are "outsiders" and who do not even wish to join the morass that was running the show up to about JUN06; that era is over and its demise is manifesting. Several references have been posted in ET that prove those who caused the problem cannot solve it. they are correct and they do not offer solutions. The solution is to drain the swamp. there is no way moving capital around in the swamp will make the swamp anything else than a swamp. Flashboy is stuck with his decisions. So is the Conventional Wisdom. I posted a PnL top 50 fund's organisation chart scaled to the cash flow of the organizational structure and its purposes. The position based ownership is 100 percent churned through every 8 months. People will not stand for this much longer. the real making of money is based on price change of instruments in market capital pools. Getting operational to do this is counter intuitive. Anyone with a messed up mind or a lack of integrity is not going to succeed as times get very very harsh. A lot of wealth is simply evaporating and most capitalized organizations are failing to report their reality by being honest and forthright. For me, as a parasite, I make money as instrument price changes. From my point of view, I use profits to fund "integrity" and that means I do NOT invest in the power structure. Instead I work to create the NEW and FUTURE institutions that will be based on integrity and service to mankind. Harsh is a very light wieght word for describing what is impinging on everyone. This is the first year I refuse to make public what is ahead. There is little point in being criptic. I can remember past administrations where documenting the energy/economic relationship at EOP was verboten. Today we see people in the media ill equipped to ask the questions and those they interview walk all over them orchestrating the news. Its really crummy these days. It is much more than harsh the way the unsuspecting man in the street is going to wind up as a consequence of his personal poor decisions.
subconscious. That is your problem. Your "sleeping", pluged into the MATRIX, not awake. Subconscious is reacting without knowing why. It took me a while to "AWAKE". To be consious using all 5 senses. I still have to work at it. 90% of the population 'sleepwalks" through life. I have become conscious and have taken control of my subconscious. Of course, I fall into the old ways, patterns of allowing your Subconscious to bring FEAR ...but once you learn to AWAKEN with in...FEAR is not an option, it no longer exists in your world. But you have to have Spirituality as a base when you awaken or you will never fully be free from the Subconscious. As I become more aware, using my 5 senses...it has helped me in my Private Equity Field...Negotations and over coming serious objections. When your awake, you can make things happen beyond your wildest dreams. My advice, start to study NLP. Google it. Learn it and use it everyday. It will help all aspects of your life....you will learn to LIVE not just exist.