Writing these weekly blog posts gives me great satisfaction. Often, they allow me to express my thinking, such as it is.
Sometimes I get my juices flowing by things I read, watch, or hear; other times it is things that I experience in my life – as is the case today.
This is an extremely short and straight to the point guide to becoming an emotionally stable trader.
I won’t bore you with the same old platitudes – control your risk, don’t overtrade, follow your plan…
Those are all very VERY important. But you all know that, right?
Ok, great… What else is new?
For a few years, I went through some tough financial times. First, I failed a lot at trading. It’s no secret. But even when my trading performance started getting more and more consistent, I was still struggling financially.
The reason was that I didn’t know how to manage my finances skilfully.
Ok, I get it, you don’t have time to set aside for a meditation practice.
Wow, really?
Ok, let’s assume it’s true.
No one ever said being a trader was going to be easy. Well, okay. Maybe the scammers…
But, whether you’re in the early stages, or barely breaking-even, there will be times when you will ask yourself if this whole trading thing is even worth it.
This is a guest post by Colibri Trader, www.colibritrader.com
This blog post will teach you how to face your fears. By the end of it, you will learn how exposure therapy can help you face the very situations you fear so that you can eventually desensitize yourself and get over your fears for a much smoother (and profitable) trading experience.
I’m increasingly liking Twitter as a platform to share ideas. Here are some of my top tweets for the month of September.
