This thread is funny Here is a trading related story i have to share about that whole neo new age ''affirmative thinking'' stuff. When i started tradind a few years ago, i kinda formed a partnership with a friend of mine who had just enrolled in the Traders international course and we agreed to rent a office together and trade together. It was fun at first. We are now going our separate ways and here why. This person had a very strong belief in the bible, every time something bad happened in his life, he would turn to the bible for answers. Every time he had hopes, he would pull out a passage backing up his dreams. And theres nothing wrong with that, so far. As days were passing, and of course our trading was terrible and we were losing tons of money. I knew it was part of the process. But according to my partner, the reason was that somehow in our unconscious minds we had ''barriers'' and we were preventing our own success. He then started providing me with copies of movies like ''what the bleep do we know'', ''the secret'', a book called ''spiritual marketing'', a bunch of CD's called ''paraliminals'', these cd appear to be some kind of new age ambiant music, but they allegedly contain special magic frequencies that will unlock certain part of your brain and make you better at everything. The best one was when he bought a ''kit'' called ''GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT AND LIVE A EFFORT FREE LIFE'' (gold edition), a 4000$ buy, including a free voucher to have a one hour phone conversation with the guy who sells it. If it doesn't bring immediate results, its b ecause youre doing it wrong. So here when we parted ways. For months when he would take losses (that means everyday), he would say something like ''i haven't done enough positive thinking this morning, i have to see myself as the perfect trader, then the market will do what i want''. He was somehow convinced that working hard to become a trader was for losers, he would make millions just by wishing very hard for it. According to him, the markets are a reflection of your inner thinking. While he was ''thinking positively'' i was learning Javascript and C# to be able to code stuff for esignal and ninja trader. I programmed a couple strategies, when one of them was really good (and its the one I'm still trading today), but without him. we are still talking. today i make money, he lost more than 150 000$ in 2007.
ugh! I would say he doesn't know how to read the bible the right way. Here is a small sample; "Robert decided to console himself by reading the Bible. He read Job, and realized that he, too, would have patience to wait until his time should come." Tunnel Thru the Air By WD Gann p.152
The bible is a bunch of rediculous crazy strories only able to be born in this hell we call earth. More so, jumbled up and rewritten in the most absolute vain sense. Yes, terrribly vain. Anyone who can trade, profitably, obviously can see the contradictory frames in it, and will not and never ever take it as absolute truth. To be true is to be perfect. Something the bible is on that other far side of the spectrum. All of you will not find what you are looking for if you feel you can have this at a price. This "pricey" knowledge you look for is worthless. For something like 80 bucks you can have something like 30,000 of the most influential books ever written which I doubt anyone of you will have time to read in a lifetime. Getting "the secret" is the same as subcribing to "forex made easy". You all look to pull 8M pips a month when this is just not possible by subscribing to some losers idea of how to trade currencies. What I am saying is you will only ever learn to live by living life yourselves. Larry King endorses "the secret"!!!!! LARRY KING!!!!! have you all gone completely mad!!!!???? Larry King is a reptilian humanoid. He is not even human. Next time you see him on tv, look at his face. You will see what I am talking about.
Those who lack the mental discipline to employ the secret are generally the ones that think it doesn't work
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