Not really. Discipline is a mental state control which allows you to stick to your plan. Discipline won’t come by itself; you need to become disciplined. Learn to observe yourself from a disassociated position, as if you’re a passive observer watching yourself. For example, if you’re day trading and staring at charts for hours, you can experiment with setting an alarm for every 10 minutes or so as a reminder to stay detached and unemotional and to maintain your detachment, disassociation and objectivity. I do have some disabilities myself, and I’m in constant pain, and alarm reminders help to “wake” me up. Yes, it will be annoying having an alarm every few minutes, but it will start interrupting your emotions, and hopefully these frequent reminders to observe yourself will soon start creating anew habit. Since you’re daytrading with leverage, learning to disassociate is essential to objectively observe your mental states instead of fully experiencing the emotions as many traders do. Evry time your alarm rings just ask yourself “How am I doing?” or “Is my focus on process, or am I thinking about the P/L?” . . . etc. Basically regularly interupt your emotional patterns, and interject some logic into your brain before the brain has a chance to hijack your objectivity. Perhaps start a hand written journal into which you can write (with pen) some notes every half an hour or so how you’re feeling, and this way you can regularly remove your brain out of that abstract trading environment, and help the brain to refocus so it can help you stick to the plan. Basically become your own trading coach. Obviously, there is always the risk of falling into the old patterns, and if not following your plan is becomes a reoccurring theme, then it’s a self-sabotage which can be a can of worms. Good luck with your trading re-invention.
Thanks and I've done all of that already. From what I've found in my study on this is that stress is the #1 cause for my poor discipline so I've invented system focus on dealing with stress. And that's why I keep mentioning stress so much here. I've found you can't be a robot all them time because you're a human being. As human being you need food, sleep, energy, sometimes you're emotional, or have mood swings. Those problems robots don't have but as human beings you have them. For example, as a human being I have insomnia and most nights I don't sleep very good. I found out that when I don't sleep good then my stress control is very bad. And on days that I don't sleep good I tend to lose money because my stress is too much and it lead to poor discipline. So what did I try to do, try to figure out how to get better sleep but that was harder then I thought. But recently I found a good formula for sleep that works. It was thanks to experimenting around until you found something that works. Which was the same method I used to find my stock trading system. Just experiment until you discover something that works then try to figure out why it worked. Was how I discover my holy grail. Lesson learn from that You're not a robot so don't try to be a robot but work around being a human being. If you think you're a robot, more likely you're probably a sociopath.
Today was sim trading and testing new strategy. As far as I can tell the system works good. Today the YM rally very strongly I'm working on a strategy to time the rallies but one major breakthrough progress was never getting a signal to short while the market was going up. Before I might have try to guess a top and end up getting in a big major loss because I often guess wrong. But today the system kept me from shorting so I would have been safe. For that reason I'm happy with what the system is doing for me. Next step for the system is to work on how to time it for entry during a trend.