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Trader | Trading Psychology Coach | Meditation Teacher | I tweet on probabilistic thinking and emotional management in trading | 18+ years in the market

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My trading journey— How it started vs. how it's going...
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I'm an introvert. And one of the reasons why I became a trader is that, unlike most professions in life, you can do it completely alone. Success or failure depends entirely on yourself.
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A trader must reach a point of no return. It's a point beyond which they've invested so much financially, emotionally, personally that quitting isn't an option anymore. I feel this point has to be reached before the real learning begins and progress starts to accelerate.
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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Be patient.
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The hardest parts of trading: 1. Patiently waiting for the right setup 2. Boldly pulling the trigger on the right setup 3. Calmly accepting the final outcome of the right setup
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"Losing is not my enemy Fear of losing is my enemy." ~ Rafael Nadal
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Don't focus on making back your losses. Focus on trading well. Always.
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Trading is a waiting game. Waiting games are the hardest games you'll ever play. They go against our natural tendency to want things fast.
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If you followed your trading plan but still lost money... you still won. You won a psychological battle, and this should be celebrated. Over time, consistent actions beget consistent results.
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"Only the game, can teach you the game." ~Jesse Livermore
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Be patient with your process. Be patient with the market. And perhaps above all, be patient with yourself. This game is all patience.
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If you want to be trading 20-30 years from now, your primary job is to create consistency⁠—in strategy, process, and behavior.
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Overrated: Chart reading. Underrated: Risk and mindset management.
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One good trade at a time...
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Cutting your losses is an important life skill.
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Choose the discomfort of discipline over the pain of regret.
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The worst outcome, if you fail at trading, is that you'll have to save up again and/or go back to a regular job. The best outcome if you succeed is that you'll get to design the life of your dreams. It's an excellent asymmetric bet if you ask me. Fair downside; massive upside.
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Don't ever let winning trades go to your head, or losing trades to your heart.
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Execution = 1% Patience = 99% Trading in a nutshell.
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Great traders study great traders.
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Trading is very simple. The problem is the worrying, the expectations, the lack of patience. For those reasons, trading is anything but easy.
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Over the years, I have found that trading isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
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Over the years, I have found that trading isn't so much about what you know. It's more about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
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I don't know about you but in this day and age, I'd rather be rich and anonymous rather than rich and famous.
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If you haven't noticed, trading is mostly a waiting game. You’ve got to learn to relax and allow things to unfold of their own accord.
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Be obsessed with process and improvement, not results.
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All failed traders share a common story: their emotions, not the market, got the best of them.
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Many traders will pass the chart analysis test with flying colors, but fail the emotional management test thereafter.
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You become what you repeat. So repeat what you want to become.
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Getting rich methodically is a process. And there's no need to rush that process. Focus on getting rich slowly and you will get rich fast.
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Daytrading isn't a losing game. Daytrading is hard. It's an important nuance. The reason why it's hard is that it's a high-performance endeavor much like free solo climbing or pro golfing. The people that thrive as day traders are elite performers who've earned their mastery.
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Hunger is the first element of self-discipline. If you can control what you eat and drink, you can control everything else.” ~ Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
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Spent my 20s learning how to trade profitably while 'friends' were at clubs and bars living their best lives. I've been called many things—an outcast, a loser, uninteresting, weird, a recluse... The thing is, this was the best investment of my time and attention.
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The market will continue to press every emotional button you have until you realize that it is within your power to not react that way.
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Generally, emotions and money don't mix well. That's why trading is one of the hardest ways to make easy money.
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Your goal as a trader is to protect your money first.
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If we placed 100 traders in a room and had them trade a profitable strategy, the majority would still lose. You know why? At the most basic level, trading is a mental game —you are up against your insecurities, impulses, emotions, biases...
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Once upon a time, I came into trading strictly for the money. Then, my perspective evolved, and I ended up staying for the freedom.
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If you're a struggling trader, I can't preach enough about the importance of staying in the game. Behavioral changes don't happen overnight; they happen incrementally over a period of time. So, stay active in the market, trade small, and you'll slowly build expertise.
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Paradoxically, trading gets much (much!) easier when you don't need the money.
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Don't be a jack of all trades, master of none. Specialize. Understand your risk appetite, funnel your focus in one or two asset classes, determine your trading hours, stick with one or two set-ups, be patient... That's the money.
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"The traders who can make money consistently on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis approach trading from the perspective of a mental discipline." ~ Mark Douglas
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Trading is worth the effort. Stay with it long enough and it will change you.
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When a risk management parameter is triggered, bite the bullet, take the loss and move on. Don't hold on... don't get defensive... it's OK to be wrong... it's OK to lose small.
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Being a trader requires, dare I say, a touch of insanity.
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Trading is a game. Life itself is a game. And success is all about learning how to play the game well.
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It takes many trades to build a consistently positive trading performance. And all it takes is just one trade to ruin it all.
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“The minute you think you've found the key to trading, I promise you the markets will change the lock.” ~ Linda Raschke
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This week, 1. Don't focus on making money. 2. Don't focus on making back your losses. Just focus on trading well.
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Your confidence should reside in your strategy, not the market.
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Trading, done long enough, rewires your brain.
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One good trade at a time and 6 months from now you could be in a totally different place financially. One good trade at a time...
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Done the right way, trading gives you freedom. When you get a taste of that freedom, it's very VERY difficult to go back to a regular job―you become unemployable, and happily so.
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Most trading errors come from a lack of patience and a compulsion 'to do something' when nothing is needed to be done.
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I'm an introvert. And one of the reasons why I became a trader is that, unlike most professions in life, you can do it completely alone. Success or failure depends entirely on yourself.
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Place your trade. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. You'll never know until it happens. Be fearless in the face of uncertainty. This is your ticket to success.
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I'm a REAL trader with a PROVEN track record. Here's something I wish I understood earlier:
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“The minute you think you've found the key to trading, I promise you the markets will change the lock.” ~ Linda Raschke
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Trading is a waiting game. Waiting games are the hardest games you'll ever play. They go against our natural tendency to want things fast.
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Losses are proof that you're trying. Now, wait for your signal and try again. Keep exposing yourself to the market. Success is a function of that.
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In a bull market, buy the dips and the breakouts. In a bear market, sell the rallies and the breakdowns. And cut your losses when things aren't going your way. Don't overthink this, it's really that simple.
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A little bit of transparency: Over a span of just 11 years, I grew 14k into well over 7M. (my own personal money) I rarely withdraw from my trading accounts. Profits stay in the accounts and are methodically reinvested.
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The hardest parts of trading: 1. Patiently waiting for the right setup 2. Boldly pulling the trigger on the right setup 3. Calmly accepting the final outcome of the right setup
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Trading will change your financial life when done right.
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At the end of the trading day, congratulate yourself if you traded your plan. Even if you lost money.
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1st rule of trading: Wait for the right opportunity. 2nd rule of trading: Accept what the market gives. 3rd rule of trading: Understand what you're risking. 4th rule of trading: Accept what the market takes. 5th rule of trading: Make your trading process your whole world.
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You've decided to be a trader. Know that a trader is not an expert predictor, a trader is an expert risk manager. Get comfortable with failure and minimize the extent to which you are wrong. That's your number one job.
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“Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.” – Jason Zweig
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"The traders who can make money consistently on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis approach trading from the perspective of a mental discipline." ~ Mark Douglas
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I'm an introvert. And one of the reasons why I became a trader is that, unlike most professions in life, you can do it completely alone. Success or failure depends entirely on you.
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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Be patient.
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You could do everything right and still lose money. Trading is all probability. The sooner you accept this, the better.
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The hardest parts of trading: 1. Patiently waiting for the right setup 2. Boldly pulling the trigger on the right setup 3. Calmly accepting the final outcome of the right setup
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Don't focus on making money. Focus on trading well. If you can do that, the world is your oyster.
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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Be patient.
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The hardest parts of trading: 1. Patiently waiting for the right setup 2. Boldly pulling the trigger on the right setup 3. Calmly accepting the final outcome of the right setup
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The longer you stay in the game, the more you'll realize that there are no real expert market predictors. Instead, there are: 1. Expert risk managers 2. Expert mindset and emotional managers
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Serious traders will eventually learn to isolate themselves and their process from the opinions of others.
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Execution = 1% Patience = 99%
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Place your trade. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. You'll never know until it happens. Be fearless in the face of uncertainty. This is your ticket to success.
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Trading ―if you're in it for the long haul, it will force you to fix your life. • Get better sleep • Eat healthier • Stress and worry less • Exercise more • Develop a growth mindset
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Trading is not only about money; money is simply a by-product. Trading is a way of life. Once concepts like uncertainty, risk management, probability, and asymmetric bets get fully integrated, they become the way you look at life.
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Getting rich is a game. It involves knowledge, strategy, foresight, patience, and discipline. Get good at playing that game.
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The hardest parts of trading: 1. Patiently waiting for the right setup 2. Boldly pulling the trigger on the right setup 3. Calmly accepting the final outcome of the right setup
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Your job is to be here tomorrow. And the day after. And so on... This means three things: 1. Discipline 2. Patience 3. Capital preservation
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1st rule of trading: Wait for the right opportunity. 2nd rule of trading: Accept what the market gives. 3rd rule of trading: Understand what you're risking. 4th rule of trading: Accept what the market takes. 5th rule of trading: Make your trading process your whole world.
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You're not bad at trading. You're just in the process of earning your mastery. And you can make that process difficult—by trading big sizes (invites a lot of emotions) Or you can make that process easier—by trading small sizes (creates a more detached mindset) Your call...
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The name of the game in trading is survival, not profits. And as you get good at survival, then the profits come. Few understand this...
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Don't take trading too seriously. Nothing ever happens the way we expect. Overthinking is a waste of time and energy. Just stick to a process.
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You're not bad at trading. You're just in the process of earning your mastery. And you can make that process difficult—by trading big sizes (invites a lot of emotions) Or you can make that process easier—by trading small sizes (creates a more detached mindset) Your call...
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You are learning a set of skills that will grant you financial freedom. Don't rush it. This isn't easy, nor is it supposed to be.
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When the market is about to hit your stop loss, take a deep breath, switch off your ego, and let it happen. Don't fight the market. Accept its lessons and move to the next opportunity.
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Don't focus on making money. Focus on trading well. If you can do that, the world is your oyster.
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To excel in a field like trading, you need to unlearn a lot of what society has taught you about failure, happiness, perfection, and the meaning of hard work.
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Losses. Expect them. Embrace them. Minimize them. Learn from them.
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The name of the game in trading is survival, not profits. And as you get good at survival, then the profits come. Few understand this...
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The gap between where you are and where you want to be is called discipline, focus, and consistency.
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The market will do everything to shake your confidence. Stay solid, stick with your plan, and don't fold.
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10 Rules of Trading 1: Know your edge 2: Know yourself 3: Forget $$, focus on trading well 4: Play the long game 5: Be intransigent with risk control 6: Tune out the noise 7: Set achievable goals 8: Let your profits run (as much as possible) 9: Stay humble 10: Relax What else?
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