[Jakew]

Excellent quatation from Linda Raschke experience, Dogpile. It dwarfs the classic saying about not repeating the same mistake twice. Certainly there are areas in life when one mistake teaches the whole lesson, but trading is not one of them. If only, because this is a probabilistic field where nothing works all the time, and therefore ... nothing fails all the time either. One needs a decent sample of his - suspected - mistakes to draw a conculsion

[namstrader]

Hey Walter,

Like Tin and his gardening, I write some silliness to feel closer to something in my loneliness of trading and life for that matter. I want to share something I have written while despaired and I am not looking for any kind of appreciation, just want to throw it out there in the Universe so you can view and cast away, or perhaps it strikes you like a comet. haha

Find and seek the FLOW. This is moving toward the imprints upon your heart. What if there seems to be no imprints? It is all part of the Learning Curve in life, swerving from guardrail to guardrail. Embrace what is attracted to you.

Everything is a datapoint and motion that can be Doc'ed and intel for a Solution Focused Mindset. The Abstract, Facing the Black, the Unknown, is the space and convass for us all. How I embrace what is before me, will determine how the brush will move upon the convass and co-create the unique masterpiece we all are given. Be open to it all. Take what is given and give back with forward motion. The takeaways from the present and past will serve one in the journey going forward. Takeaways are the lessons we must have. To become more complete, there must be many broken pieces to form the unbrokenness and strong buildout foundation of Being.

The buildout is in how we structure ourselves from the Abstract. It is built in each one of us, our uniqueness. The mind is the Viewfinder. The view of the horizon is yours to share. It is shared through our projections and interpretations of it. We are all running around placing meaning to it all. There is nothing to know, except that it is so. This is knowing nothing, for this is what we are limited to. The mind is a limitation, as well as the body and our senses.

The frog on a log, can know all to himself only. He can not explain reality to a sparrow. It is all different. All things Being so, jut find the Flow.

Below the Bottom Line, of profit and earnings of each one's buildout, is the Bottom Light of the Universe; found in the Flow of the imprints on our hearts. The Bottom Light is found from the broken pieces and takeaways from the experiences of all the Viewfinders. The limited Bottom line of each one's profits and earnings can be shared, for others to learn from.

The Bottom Light shines on all, and the solution focused Mindset will find answers here, not in the upper, one time earnings period, but in the
Recurring and Extraordinary Items found further down in the unreported earnings of the Bottom Light. The Bottom Light offers the truth in reported earnings, or our brokenness, that brings it all together, without the help of our viewfinders that are limited.

Net profit is in the Flow of imprints upon the heart that lead to be understood later. Once the brush upon the canvass, has been watered and allowed many different colors of broken pieces, it can now co-create a masterpiece, and the Bottom Light can illuminate for all of us to learn from other viewfinders. Learning from other viewfinders can be instructive, however, the Truth is found where the Bottom light exists beyond the net profits and common shares.

So just follow the flow of imprints upon the heart and for the Mind Aware, the rate of return will grow abundantly, from below the neck, rather than from the viewfinder. We all can be in "Awe of our Flaws" and brokenness because we trust it will all be put together wonderfully once the brush is put down.

Maybe I should take up gardening instead. Oh well, Be Peaceful and Powerful.

[walterw]

Namstrader : very nice piece of reflexion ¡ I encourage you to keep wrighting, quite poetic and filosofical at the same time...

So far since we are interacting here with Janice I had been experiencing some clear changes of actitudes on this issue... she bringed great inputs related to this acceptance of certain facts of life like you express above... and really its been encouraging to get more relaxed with oneself...

Thanks for this inputs Nam and you know its true the fact we are quite isolated as traders, thats why sometimes sharing like this in a comunity like TL its realy nice.. cheers Walter.

[Reaver]

One thing on a similar note I have noticed is that sometimes an idea will hit me and I will actually start trying to convince myself that "that was too easy" and I'm worried that one of these days I am going to miss out on something big that my mind is noticing but I talk myself out of it...If that makes sense.

I'll see something and be like a-ha! but then the other part of me will be like-oh that's just a trick to get noobs, that's not a pattern (or whatever it is I happen to have noticed).

Sometimes I look at currencies, and see an almost constantly recurring pattern each day-if I look at the 1-4 hour charts on certain currencies, 8 times out of 10 they actually follow the same pattern every day for a month or two. I always have a hard time exploiting that because I feel like I am dumb for thinking it could work...but by looking at the chart- I see that of course the observation could have made me money in hindsight....


Walter, I hope I didn't veer off topic, but your post got me thinking.