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So, how do you keep a positive, resourceful attitude from one day to the next? It's more than having a trading plan or wanting to do well or having good intentions. It's an expectation of success. It's a willingness to open oneself to what opportunities are out there. It's an ability to see each trade as a discreet action without influence of previous trades, PnL, or prior signals taken/not taken. |
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You've hit it right on the nail! Consistency is the biggest hurdle for everyone to overcome, it takes a long time to get it and keep it. For us humans, no day is the same (cat shit on your shoe one day, then you get big promotion the next day). Staying with the same mentality day after day is no easy feat.
The only recommendation is the work it into a routine one day at a time, like the dunkin' donuts guy "time to make the donuts" without thought, without emotion (remember him just getting out of bed without a moan or smile or nothing, just those 5 words all the way to work. If you don't know it, youtube it). Routine is the key to make it mechanical. Write down the plan, 10-, 20- or 30-min to memorize it and internalize it. Then meditate or go over charts, whatever, make sure it becomes a routine for days, then weeks, then months, time precision routine before the market rolls in. Once you have that down, it's like... well, making donuts, no thoughts into it. That's how my mentor taught me and it's how i started out. This is the reason why money and winning should not be a part of the scenery, just carrying out the strategy perfectly. Once the routine is in and the strategy perfected, then sizing up position is just a matter of adding another number in.