In this post we will look at the main reason why people
are in the market, why this is so important for trading success,
and what separates the winners from the losers.
I encourage you to ask yourself the following questions:
Why are you trading?
Are you genuinely trading to make money?
Are you trading to distract yourself from unwanted feelings,
or to change your emotional state?
Are you actually trading to lose . . . because deep down you do not feel worthy enough to win?
Do you even know?
The answers to these questions will define your generated trading outcomes.
I can safely state that if you are currently
not experiencing consistent profits in your trading account,
you are either using the market for emotional distraction purposes,
or you have no clear intention to win and are subconsciously focused on losing.
Here is the best predictor of your results . . . in life and in trading:
Your results over time = what you subconsciously focus on.
I am not afraid to admit that in my own trading
for the first 18 years of my trading career I wasn’t playing to win;
frankly, I was (unconsciously) using the market
to distract myself from feelings I was unwilling to feel.
Needless to say my results were poor. Even after reading hundreds
of trading books, trying out a variety of different methodologies, trading professionally
for financial firms as well as personally,
I had very little to show for it in actual results.
Sure, I had gained a wealth of information and experience in the process,
but somehow I was unable to turn this into consistent profits.
Subconsciously I wasn’t focused on making profits, and I
was not yet aware enough to see this.
Of course, we all believe that we are trading to make money,
because that is our conscious intention.
It is when we are not aware of what is going
on beneath the surface that we may get into trouble.
Becoming aware of and changing your subconscious focus is simple,
yet it is not an easy task and it require tools to increase your awareness.
If you can become aware of why you are in the market,
and change your focus such that it aligns
on all levels with profitable trading, you will start
noticing an immense improvement in your trading results.
How this process works, and how you can break free
from the ways that you unconsciously sabotage yourself,
is something we will look at in upcoming posts.
Futures trading involves substantial risk and may not be suitable for everyone.
are in the market, why this is so important for trading success,
and what separates the winners from the losers.
I encourage you to ask yourself the following questions:
Why are you trading?
Are you genuinely trading to make money?
Are you trading to distract yourself from unwanted feelings,
or to change your emotional state?
Are you actually trading to lose . . . because deep down you do not feel worthy enough to win?
Do you even know?
The answers to these questions will define your generated trading outcomes.
I can safely state that if you are currently
not experiencing consistent profits in your trading account,
you are either using the market for emotional distraction purposes,
or you have no clear intention to win and are subconsciously focused on losing.
Here is the best predictor of your results . . . in life and in trading:
Your results over time = what you subconsciously focus on.
I am not afraid to admit that in my own trading
for the first 18 years of my trading career I wasn’t playing to win;
frankly, I was (unconsciously) using the market
to distract myself from feelings I was unwilling to feel.
Needless to say my results were poor. Even after reading hundreds
of trading books, trying out a variety of different methodologies, trading professionally
for financial firms as well as personally,
I had very little to show for it in actual results.
Sure, I had gained a wealth of information and experience in the process,
but somehow I was unable to turn this into consistent profits.
Subconsciously I wasn’t focused on making profits, and I
was not yet aware enough to see this.
Of course, we all believe that we are trading to make money,
because that is our conscious intention.
It is when we are not aware of what is going
on beneath the surface that we may get into trouble.
Becoming aware of and changing your subconscious focus is simple,
yet it is not an easy task and it require tools to increase your awareness.
If you can become aware of why you are in the market,
and change your focus such that it aligns
on all levels with profitable trading, you will start
noticing an immense improvement in your trading results.
How this process works, and how you can break free
from the ways that you unconsciously sabotage yourself,
is something we will look at in upcoming posts.
Futures trading involves substantial risk and may not be suitable for everyone.
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