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Originally posted by skeew
The simple answer is that it will happen when you are absolutely convinced that you MUST, than anything else is just a joy ride out of control and undisciplined.
If you really WANT to trade like a corpse, then it must mean that you KNOW that trading on emotion and reacting with emotion ain't the way to go.
Break it all down; everything. Break down and analyse how you feel about losers and winners, and contemplate WHY you feel that way. Think about how irrational and illogical emotion is, and why trying to 'get out even' or thinking 'it surely must come back so I can get out' is dangerous. Sometimes it just WON'T do what you hope for. And trading like a corpse with low r/r and the numbers on your side is THE ONLY way to really fight this dangerous aspect of trading and risk speculation. One must HANDLE risk. One must LIMIT the downside. One must ACT in the face of emotion, and REACT despite it. Emotion is the constant enemy, and the more you fight it the more experienced you become. This is why 'looking back' with regret and feeling sick that you did the wrong thing, even though you KNOW you did the right thing, is so unhelpful and destructive to discipline. That is what I was talking about with tokyo. That one must NOT look back with ANY regret, and one must JUST DO IT, move on, and have an unwavering faith in the whole r/r argument. If you don't BELIEVE in stops and targets, and their undeniable power, and wholesome goodness, then you will never trade like a corpse. For trading without emotion very much embodies the principles of CONTROL; controlling everything, limiting everything, and being happy with those limits. Limit downside, limit upside, limit reason to ENTER, limit reason to exit, limit how you express yourself, the words you choose to type, the emotion you put behind those words, limit the way you joke about your trades, limit the way you analyse it, everything. It's got to get into your bones. You cannot allow yourself to think ANYTHING negative about your discipline, save for when you break a rule and let emotion guide you. You will be a master when you CAN and DO master. Like everything in life, the more you do it, and the wiser you get, the 'doing' of things become second nature and habitual.
He must be down at the bank counting his cash from those BMHC calls he sold hehe We miss you NB! Post some charting brilliance for us will ya.
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