[Szymon]

Hi All,

In my opinion I think it’s just another way to Enlightenment.

What is Enlightenment? It’s a state of total consciousness being one with the planet, humanity and all kingdoms. You really cannot explain what it is, there are no words that will describe it, you have to go through the experience to understand it, I do not even know if I have felt it or understood it.

I think that trading is just another way to Enlightenment; it’s a way to understanding your inner-self especially the two most important emotions that are constantly present in our society. FEAR and GREED are the main emotions that are ruling this world. All you have to do is watch the television or read the newspaper, its all based on Fear.

When you first start to trade it feels like a 1000 Watt projector is always on you, every trade you take either winner or loser, you feel like on top of the world and can accomplish anything until you get a loser and it feels like you miserably failed and are not worthy of anything, and you feel depressed.

Gradually and slowly by coming to terms with your emotions and skeletons in the closet you success rate increases for some people this takes a long time and for some others they learn it very quickly, everyone is different.

I think Persistence is the key; you must persist and continue looking at your inner-self until you understand yourself. Hence the saying “Man Know thyself".

A lot of successful traders that I have been in contact over the past few years had one thing in common they understood how fear and greed works and they could exploit that by trading in the markets. Some of these traders had such esoteric trading systems that there are no words to describe it and they knew far more because they had this drive to search and continue searching for the truth even after they made their money. Most of them now do Yoga, Meditate and other forms of new age stuff on a daily basis to be balanced and be in control of those two primary emotions.

When you trade you are always learning new things it's a never ending school room just the same way in real life, new situations and challenges arise in your life’s everyday and you have a choice on how to act out that situation either good or bad, remember those cartoons in the olden days where you had a angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other telling you what to do in a situation, the person in the cartoon most of the time took the devils advice and had to pay later for that action. I guess what goes around comes around.

Just a few of my thoughts about the psychology of trading.

Thanks for reading.

Happy Trading

Regards

Simon