[thetradingdoctor]

Thank you all so much for your comments on my article. I am thrilled that you like it and find it helpful! In reponse to the questions posed, if you learn one trading system and trade it repeatedly ( and assumedly with success) your synaptic connections will become what is called "entrained." This is a fancy way for saying that your brain learns that a certain system works and makes money. If you change systems, you must relearn and re-entrain those new pathways. In terms of making money, this is a bit more complicated because of the "old brain" pathways ( amygdala and other areas) which produce dopamine and are activated by the thought of monetary reward. If possible ( and this is not always easy) one is advised to develop a system which is backtested and shown to be profitable more than it loses. For the best traders, money is really a byproduct of trading properly. This is a concept which is not highly appreciated but is critical to understand. It is difficult to divorce the dopamine high of making money from the actual trading of the system, but it can be done and I think it is done, by and large, by experienced traders.

By the way, the article printed in SFO was only part of the original manuscript, so if anyone is interested in the full manuscript, please let me know?

Thanks Again!

Janice