I See The Future And The Successful Trader Is Me!

[nhallett 10]

Believe it or not, it's true what they say … visualizing your

future the way you want it, is much more likely to make that future

a reality. I'm a “doubter” by nature and this notion of visualizing

didn't really make much sense to me when I heard about it the first

hundred times. I mean, come on! Sit in a quiet place and wish

and hope and pray and all your dreams will come true? I think

not. That's what my mathematician brain told me (University

of Cincinnati, 1973, BA Mathematics).

 

Then I met a subconscious trainer (whom I later married), who

sat me down and stated, “Thoughts are things.” OK, what kind

of things? I've seen Kreskin and other guys bending spoons

with their thoughts… it that what she means? Rather than give

you the entire exchange of words (I don't know that I remember

all of them, as I was falling in love while I was listening), I'll

give you the capsule.

 

According to her, there is this stream of consciousness somewhere

up there that if you plug into, and by directing your thoughts, you can

harness this consciousness somehow to get what you want (as long

as what you want is positive… you can't wish someone a losing

trade!). This combined with the notion that time, as we know it,

is not linear, we can affect the future from the present through

this universal consciousness.

 

That's all I'll say about that. Excuse me while I hug a tree. I'm back.

 

I don't know that I understand all of this, let alone believe it, but

I'll tell you one thing I DO KNOW… If you get your brain into

an alpha brain wave state and you tell yourself (of have someone else

suggest to you) what you'd like to happen in the future, say, the picture

of you as a successful trader… you will head in the direction of that

picture you've created in your head. At least that's what happened

to me, and just about every successful trader I know.

 

There are different ways to visualize. During a quiet time (I know you

can't imagine any quiet time.. so start while seated in the bathroom),

just see yourself living the Life of Riley (am I showing my age) and

having people around you recognize you as that successful trader that

everybody is talking about. You can move up the effectiveness ladder

(get off the pot?) as you get used to the notion of visualization and get

more and more affective with your thinking, but the idea is to get

started.

 

Once you start creating pictures of the money-bulging-pocketed-

successful-trader-you, you will actually become less likely to allow

your emotions to lead you to trading mistakes… because “doing the

wrong thing”, like pulling your stops when the market comes close,

or not taking your profit when your system tells you to, becomes

inconsistent with your picture of who you are. Eventually, if you

keep up your visualizations, you become that picture.

 

Now THAT makes sense!

 

 

My best,

 

Norman Hallett

[Ingot54 13]

Norm, I once received one of your newsletter series' courtesy of another subscription I had. I found your ideas interesting and now, reading this post, I wish I had paid more attention to those, back then.

 

I look forward to more of your writing - you have an ability to conjure a picture that makes sense, and boost one's self-image as easily as visualising that outcome.

 

Cheers

 

Ingot

[Tradewinds 12]

I think that making the effort to visualize and imagine positive possibilities has merit, in that it trains your mind, and our mind has great influence on us. I know that I'm to negative. There needs to be a balance. I'm not going to visualize my self flying, and then climb up on the roof and jump off. :rofl: I'm just using that as an extreme example to make a point.