âTrading has taught me different things about myself at different times according to how the situation has gone. It has taught me that I can be very disciplined, that I donât have to have external constraints imposed on me. Itâs taught me that Iâm very self-reliant. Often I can put together the jigsaw puzzle, even though some pieces are missing and will have an insight into a trade that other traders donât perceive. Sometimes I realize Iâve been arrogant in the way Iâve done something... Itâs interesting how trading teaches us something about ourselves that we donât necessarily want to know but the information is always very instructive.â Soloman Cohen -- Quoted from an interview given in The Tao of Trading by Robert Koppel
âOne of the best ways to increase profits is to do goal setting and visualizations in order to align the conscious and subconscious with making profits. I have worked with a number of traders in order to examine their priorities and align their goals. I use a combination of hypnosis, breathing, pacing, visualization, gestalt, massage, and so forth. The traders usually either (1) get much more successful, or (2) realize they didnât really want to be traders in the first place.â Ed Seykota -- Market Wizards
Do people actualy get any use from me posting these things??? I just compile them in a database and i figured i would just cut and paste them here, so are they of any use??? If so just send me pm to let me know and i wll continue
"The eye of the will is impure and makes for distortion. Only when we want nothing, only when our gaze becomes pure contenplation, does the soul of things..the beauty..open to us.." Hermann Hesse mbt3
"Goals and contingencies, as I've said are important. But they exist only in the past and the future, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life." George Leonard -- Mastery
Commisso, Please don't misinterpret my previous post. It wasn't to suggest that you stop as I enjoy many of your maxims, but as you said in another post: It's obvious to me that you have a tremendous amount to offer other than simply copy/pasting from a large quotes database. I look forward to more of your "actual" posts and commentary.
"There is one important caveat to the notion that we live in a new economy, and that is human psychology...which appears essentially immutable." Alan Greenspan