I am egotistical - Although i know its a bad thing; especially in trading... Its hard to remove behaviours that have existed so long...
My main psychological barrier has always been a fear of failure because i've always felt that 'i'm right' and for anything else to tell me different would be a criticism i couldn't take - This is something i really had to face in trading and it was really difficult to analysis myself and look at my weaknesses - When i was 5 i considered myself the fastest runner to the extent that i was too afraid to run a 60m race @ school incase the results told me i was wrong
Another example would be not trying in my coursework - I knew that what i deserved and i knew how good i was @ my subjects... I didn't want to hear the teachers opinion and i wasn't interested in their interpretation; Because i knew mine was better...
I realised later that all this is my greatest fault and that i would really have to face my problems and try get over them to trade.