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Market Frustration: Stay Calm; It’s not Personal

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

For two months, rohan had been holding a long position in a stock. He anticipated a product announcement would result in a slight price increase, but nothing happened. The stock didn’t sell like hotcakes despite the product receiving excellent reviews and being in high demand. Although there was substantial support, the price had barely altered. Rohan made the decision to just give up, sell, and move on rather than wait another day. But the price rose four points the following day. Rohan  is currently irritated. He is enraged at both himself for losing patience and selling too soon and at the markets for defying his trading strategy. Ever have Rohan’s feelings?

 

Even if you had a good trading strategy, the markets weren’t on your side. Your viewpoint may play a big part in how you handle irritation. It’s critical to make sure you have cognitive techniques that will enable you to deal with setbacks gracefully.

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Some traders make the markets their own. They automatically perceive the markets as people, as opposed to seeing them as impersonal entities. They begin to believe that they are personally connected to the markets. They generally think they have a hostile relationship with the markets because the markets typically don’t cooperate with their trading strategies. Due to their frustration bias, some people are more prone to feeling frustrated than others. People who have a frustration bias sometimes believe that others are trying to harm them in real-life interpersonal interactions. They make the assumption that people are trying to harm them, as though they are experiencing a paranoid episode. They also apply this bias to markets.

 

It’s crucial to neutralise your frustration bias if you have one. Recognizing that you frequently perceive personal slights when none exist is the first step. Although there are different types of individuals at the marketplaces, they don’t know you. For instance, they aren’t doing maliciously when they refuse to purchase when you ask them to. It’s critical to keep in mind that it’s not personal. The second crucial action to take is to prepare for unfavourable circumstances and setbacks. When caught off surprise, people are very angry. Because Tom, for instance, didn’t anticipate the stock price to rise the day after he sold his position, he was extremely upset.

 

Allowing yourself to make errors is another tactic. Tom was frustrated because he put too much pressure on himself to trade flawlessly. But he would have felt lot better if he had acknowledged that both he and everyone else made errors. The distinction is between thinking, “I was stupid to sell too early,” and “I sold too early, but I fairly thought that I had waited long enough.” You are sometimes correct. Sometimes you are mistaken. I was mistaken. It was neither the first nor the last instance. I’ll simply put it behind me and go on.

 

You are human. The markets aren’t. Don’t personalize the markets. Look at them objectively. The market action won’t always match your expectations. That’s all right. Take setbacks in stride. If you dwell on them, view them as mistakes, and mull them over, you’ll feel frustrated. But if you expect them, and accept that no one is perfect, you’ll feel relaxed, free and creative. And trading in a cool and logical state of mind will help you trade profitably.

Organize your Workspace and Relieve Stress

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

Organize your Workspace and Relieve Stress

Trading the markets is a stressful occupation. The markets are unpredictable and chaotic. No outcome is a certainty, and many times, when it seems as if you know where the market is going, you discover you’re wrong. It can be extremely confusing and disorienting. And this confusion and disorientation can produce stress. Winning traders must do whatever they can to remove some of the confusion and reduce stress. One of the best ways to relieve some of the stress, and put order into a face-paced unpredictable environment, is to organize your workspace.

 

It’s a good idea to organise your office now that the new year will begin the following week. Make place for the new by getting rid of the old. Old documents and clutter can be distracting. You may feel as though the clutter is encroaching on you and limiting your options if you have piles of newspapers you’ll never read. It typically gives you more psychological space and renewed creative vigour to clear some of the clutter and make some space. You experience more breathing room. Some traders might be the Oscar Madisons of trading; they might love a disorganised workspace and believe that organising it would be more stressful than giving in to the chaos.

 

In contrast, a tidy desk is less distracting. It’s crucial to keep your attention on your screens when trading. Too much clutter in a single area or on a person’s desk can divert attention from keeping an eye on the current trade. Many people have a sense of empowerment while working in a setting that is neat, uncluttered, and organised. Even though they may not be able to influence the markets, at least they have mastered their environment and reduced any potential psychological effects it might have on their awareness and capacity to analyse market situations with objectivity.

 

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While organising your workstation does require some work, the peace of mind you’ll achieve makes the effort well worthwhile. Getting rid of outdated and useless information is the first step in any business. The hardest thing is this. We accumulate books and papers because we anticipate using them. However, we frequently amass so much things that its actual contribution is little. It will merely take up important workspace and we won’t have time to read it all. But discarding it is difficult. Throwing these things away discreetly implies that you wasted your time assembling them because it took time and effort. However, much of it can be thrown away.

 

Creating a loose filing system can be beneficial. It is not necessary to have folders for each topic and labels for each folder with specific categories put on them. Sometimes all you need to do is place the documents you need for a specific work or project in a sizable, appealing box. The boxes can then be arranged in a corner of your workplace or, if they continue to be a distraction, in the garage. But it’s crucial to remove it from your desk so that it doesn’t obstruct your workspace or, more crucially, your thinking.

 

Getting rid of clutter and maintaining a minimalist workstation can significantly reduce stress. The markets are out of your control, but by keeping your workspace structured, you can manage it. Therefore, get rid of everything old that is taking up room as the new year begins. You’ll be pumped up and prepared to take on the challenges the coming year brings.

Free Up Psychological Energy

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

The amount of psychological energy you can dedicate to trading has a cap. And when you let too many problems to linger in the back of your mind unsolved, you lose some of this finite energy. The more problems you put off dealing with, the more they pile up and the less mental energy you’ll have left over for trading. These conflicts are likely to erupt unexpectedly if they are allowed to build up and go unresolved. You can experience some conscious disagreements throughout the course of the day. Other conflicts may not often cross your mind since they are unconscious. But psychological problems are almost always present, whether they are conscious or not.

 

It’s crucial to recognise tensions and conflicts and put in a lot of effort to settle them in order to free up psychological energy and resources. By avoiding stress, you can liberate up psychological energy. Stressful feelings can accumulate, and if they are not sometimes discharged, one may become overwhelmed by stress. Although you cannot entirely eliminate stress from the trading environment, you can stop yourself from being unduly worried and afraid by creating and adhering to a stress management plan. Avoiding caffeine, exercising frequently, limiting daily inconveniences, and seeking out social support are some helpful methods to handle stress.

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It’s not helpful to pre-elevate your nervous system and have a greater sensation of tension when trading because it’s already stressful enough. Exercise on a regular basis might also help to lower tension. A regular workout routine ensures that pent-up frustration and anxiety are released and do not accumulate to suddenly influence subsequent trading decisions. Tension builds up during the trading day. Reducing stressors in your environment is also crucial.

 

Daily problems like being pressed for time, stuck in traffic, or having too much on your plate can cause psychological tension and linger in the back of your mind. Reduce these inconveniences as much as you can to release the strain. Whatever method you use to deal with daily annoyances, don’t ignore them and don’t pretend they aren’t significant enough to address right away. Over time, they can add up and put a lot of burden on you.

 

A good technique to deal with stress is to ask friends and family for social support. Individuals who are under a lot of stress who have someone or several people to vent to are better able to handle the pressures. Sometimes all it takes to release stressful emotions like anger, fear, and frustration is to feel hopeful, in control, and prepared to take on new stressors with renewed enthusiasm. However, it’s crucial to keep in mind that relationships have two sharp edges.

Although caffeine typically elevates your nervous system to the point of having you hyper-alert to the smallest type of stress, it also helps many individuals wake up in the morning.

 

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A good technique to deal with stress is to ask friends and family for social support. Individuals who are under a lot of stress who have someone or several people to vent to are better able to handle the pressures. Sometimes all it takes to release stressful emotions like anger, fear, and frustration is to feel hopeful, in control, and prepared to take on new stressors with renewed enthusiasm. However, it’s crucial to keep in mind that relationships have two sharp edges.

 

Under the correct circumstances, they can aid in stress reduction, but they can also be a significant source of tension. It takes special people to be an important part of someone’s social support system. A person’s social support network should ideally consist of good listeners who genuinely want to learn about their particular issues, validate their emotions, and assist them in de-stressing. While some relationships invigorate us, others make us feel anxious and frustrated. Since not everyone in a trader’s social support network is familiar with or supportive of trading, this might be especially true for traders.

 

Consider the following scenario: A loved one may not be supportive of trading and may constantly cause worry by asking, “How much did you lose today?” or “When are you going back to your regular employment after giving up trading?” Similar to this, a conservative, risk-averse friend would not want to hear about trading activities that are quite dangerous. In these situations, these partnerships are at best unsupportive and at worst extremely stressful. Finding the appropriate social support is so crucial for your psychological well-being.

 

It’s crucial to trade with the right attitude. When your mind is frantically consumed with conflict and tension, you’ll find that a significant portion of your psychological energy is spent, making it difficult for you to focus and concentrate when you turn your attention to trading. However, when you reduce stress, you free up psychological resources and can get rid of the disputes and stressors that are lingering in the back of your mind. The high performance attitude will help your trading.

Free and Easy Trading

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

You make routine judgments throughout the day that don’t really matter to you. Choosing which route to take, where to turn, and when to stop for gas are just a few of the choices you must make when you transport your children to school. Each choice is made without much consideration. You might opt to visit the grocery store at a later time. You select the dinner menu and determine your budget. Do you fret over these routine choices? Most likely, you don’t. Just why would you? Why all the fuss? The decisions’ effects are essentially nonexistent. But don’t say that to a person who suffers from OCD.

 

They view the importance of these choices from a different angle. For those with this condition, even seemingly unimportant daily choices have a tremendous impact. Don’t you feel relieved that you do not suffer from OCD? However, if you are a novice trader who struggles to make trading judgments, an experienced trader might assume you suffer from an obsessive-compulsive disease of some sort. Because you are impatient or frustrated, you sell early or forsake your trading plan, yet experienced traders have no trouble making what they view as routine decisions. To them, it’s just a decision that needs to be taken; it’s not a huge thing. Isn’t it lovely to trade in such a liberated and simple manner?

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It is far preferable to adopt a more impartial, objective stance. How do you manage it? First of all, resist the need to dwell on or become fixated on a single trade’s outcome. Consider the big picture. If you have a trading technique that has a high probability of success, even if you might lose one transaction, over the course of several deals, you will come out ahead. Instead of making a small number of important trades, successful traders prepare to execute many smaller trades. They are aware that not every trade must be profitable in order to raise the equity in their accounts as they trade.

 

Your total achievement is what matters. It relieves some of the pressure to remember this. Second, effective risk management is crucial. Only a small portion of a trader’s trading money is at risk in a successful trade. Limiting the risk on a single trade also eliminates some of the feeling that each trade must be successful, which lessens some of the significance for the trader.

 

It’s not necessary to give a trade a lot of personal value. What’s the big deal if you only risk a certain amount of money on a trade, limiting the actual repercussions of the trade as a result? Trading should be simple and free.

Trading offers Freedom

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

Making money is a constant goal when trading the markets. There is always too much to do and never enough time to get it all done. The majority of traders share your fear of passing up possibilities. You are aware that it is challenging to withdraw money from the markets and that in order to maintain your position, you must continuously improve. Why do people in this line of business put in such long hours? Most people would claim it’s for financial gain. Is it not done for financial gain? Many traders assert that there are additional factors. Feeling that you have attained success in a field where few people last a lifetime is among the key causes.

 

A strong motivation might be a feeling of independence. Don, for instance, stated in an interview with Innerworth employees, “When I made the decision to trade full time, I did it for a few reasons. One was for independence and freedom… Although there were some financial benefits to trading, I wasn’t in it for the money. I took action for my freedom.

 

The independence that trading gives is taken for granted by many traders. There is a strong drive to keep up with the person next door in a competitive environment where most people determine their self-worth based on how they compare to others. One asks, “How well am I doing?” repeatedly out of habit, and that inquiry generally prompts, “How well’should’ I be doing?” The desire to succeed is difficult to ignore. The media constantly bombards us with images of success: “Buy a sporty, brand-new sports car and wow the neighbours. Put on the newest luxury clothing and watch as people stare as you pass.

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The idea that you must have more than your friends and neighbours in order to be valuable as a person is implied in all of these statements. However, the pressure to succeed can make you feel confined. You will feel the strain and it may erode any freedom you may be experiencing if you are under pressure to earn enormous profits. Instead, aiming for moderate goals is considerably more beneficial. It supports your ability to handle the strains and stains of trade.

 

When you look at it that way, you can really get perspective because you understand that you don’t have to make everything in one day or one trade. ” When you organise your daily tasks, everything will look rational and you’ll feel liberated. So don’t put yourself through stress by attempting to accomplish seemingly unreachable ambitions. In the end, you’ll find that you can trade profitably and take advantage of the freedom trading gives if you think modestly and create realistic strategies for accomplishing them.

The Right Frame of Reference

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

The Right Frame of Reference

 

When they first begin trading, many new traders experience frustration. It’s normal to hear a new trader lament, “I have no idea what’s wrong. Every chance I have, I research the markets. Even when I place transactions when the market is ideal, I consistently fail to turn a profit. However, one can question whether enough time and effort is put into trading. How much actual time is invested? How many transactions actually take place? These questions have very individualised answers. Some inexperienced traders may only have a few hours a day to spare.

 

They must then keep an eye on the markets, search for excellent stocks to trade, and actually carry out trades under perfect circumstances. Is this sufficient time? It varies. It will be adequate if you have a sizable account and don’t require a sizable profit. However, what if you just have a tiny trading account and little free time but still want to make a sizable profit? In that situation, you might be being overly optimistic. Successful traders operate within a grounded reality. They don’t attempt the impossibly difficult.

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As with any difficult undertaking, success depends on investing the time and effort required. The amount of time and effort victors invest is typically what separates them from losers. According to studies, unsuccessful people have two key flaws: they lack an appropriate frame of reference and are frightened to precisely evaluate how much time and effort they put into a project. In other words, individuals mistakenly believe it to be simpler to accomplish a goal than it actually is. Despite the fact that they are far from doing enough, they mistakenly believe they are investing enough time and effort.

 

Trading coaches describe a similar phenomenon among novice traders. Many novice traders treat trading as a hobby rather than a serious business. That’s fine if you view trading as merely recreational gambling, but if you expect to make reasonable profits from your efforts, it is necessary to take things a little more seriously. Trading is a skill, just like a skill that professionals, such as doctors or lawyers, develop. Developing a high level of skill takes time and a heroic effort. It often takes several years to develop the skills of a seasoned professional, and that is also true of trading.

 

You must get experience with all of those factors in order to earn in a variety of market circumstances. Furthermore, no trading plan is totally infallible. You must consistently create fresh tactics and plans, then test them in various situations. To trade skillfully, flexibly, and effortlessly requires experience. To develop such talents, a hobbyist approach will fall short.

You need to have a realistic frame of reference if you want to advance from the position of an amateur hobbyist to that of a master trader.

 

You must be willing to approach the growth of your trading talents in the same way that other professionals do. Consider your life as working your way through undergraduate and graduate studies if you must work a normal job to cover your expenses. It entails rearranging your priorities and committing firmly to improving your talents. It will need numerous hours of research and instruction from reliable sources. Additionally, being realistic is crucial. The “graduation rate” of new traders to seasoned traders is low, so if you want to be one of the select few who succeed, you must accumulate as much experience as you can and make whatever sacrifices are necessary.

 

So don’t let anything stand in your way of being a master trader. Spend the required time and effort. Long-term trading success will be your reward in the end.

Forward Thinking

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

Forward Thinking

 

According to a great psychoanalyst named Fritz Perls, when people dwell on and consider their past transgressions or worry about the future, they experience anxiety and terror. When someone has a peak performance mindset, they concentrate on the ongoing action and the present moment. The more present-focused you can be and the less you focus on the past or the future, the more successful your trading will be.

The sensible person takes lessons from their errors. We’ve repeatedly heard this wise counsel. There is some validity to it.

 

It would be stupid to repeatedly touch a hot stove or to not study for your driver’s exam and end up failing. It is also sage to plan your trades thoroughly and control your risk when trading. There are some general rules of thumb that are wise to abide by; if you must learn them for yourself, do so only a few times, and then do as is advised. In fact, there are times in life when it is beneficial to take a lesson from a mistake or from the faults of others. But sometimes there isn’t a lesson to be learned, and we over-analyze the situation and keep thinking about it endlessly, trying to figure out what it all means.

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If every situation we encountered were exactly the same, it would be good to analyse all previous occurrences in-depth and determine what went wrong in order to prevent making the same error in the future. However, two events are rarely alike. There is no one right method to ask a possible romantic partner out on a date, for instance. Due to individual differences, what works for one person may not be effective for another. There is no ideal approach, thus there is no point in looking for one.

 

The same holds true for trading. The state of the market is never the same. The most you can do is try to guess what is happening, put a trading plan in place, and see whether it works. You’ll benefit if the correct circumstances just so happen to exist. If the prerequisites weren’t met, there was nothing you could have done to change the situation. Simply acknowledge that nothing is certain, accept the result, and go on. But if you think about it, you won’t learn much. Simply put, you’ll feel horrible about yourself and can begin to develop inhibitions and self-doubt, which will ultimately undermine your efforts.

 

It is preferable to consider the future when trading. Think kindly, pick up as much experience as you can, and advance. Avoid dwelling on the past and searching for mistakes. Worrying will only waste your time when you could be trading and developing the abilities you need to regularly and profitably trade.

Following your Passion

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

Following your Passion

 

People who are successful are passionate about what they do. They are more interested in the method involved in reaching the goal than the final result. It would be lovely to not worry about results, but not many of us have the privilege. I suppose it’s a little too optimistic. Unfortunately, the majority of us must work to support our families, thus the possibility of losing a lot of money when trading is constantly on our minds. Unless one is independently affluent, making money or losing it is always on our minds and influences our behaviour, whether we trade full-time or part-time. This worry drains mental resources. Every trade we make causes us a little amount of anxiety.

 

But if we could simply temporarily, even occasionally, forget about the money, we would be liberated and inventive. For its own reason, we would appreciate what we were doing. Even if it could be challenging, it is worthwhile to strive to develop such a viewpoint. You may trade in an ideal, peak performance mentality to a greater extent the more you can concentrate on the trading procedure.

 

Expert traders claim that they think of trading as a game or a competition. Like in any game, you falter under pressure when you concentrate on the result rather than the play. The same is true of trading. You’ll feel more satisfaction and trade more successfully if you can just concentrate on the delightful and fun parts of trading. Therefore, keep in mind what you find enjoyable about trading whenever you feel bored or frustrated when trading. For instance, some traders take pleasure in creating trading techniques.

 

 

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They see creating a trading strategy as a difficult intellectual task. These traders view a trade’s outcome only as a measure of how effectively their strategy is performing. When things don’t go exactly like they expect, they don’t get upset or frustrated. Whether a deal is doing well or poorly has no bearing. In fact, many traders are content to close out their position and further analyse their strategy when a trade is performing poorly. They put a lot of effort into figuring out what is going wrong and how to adjust their plans to make them more successful. Not the prize, but the intellectual challenge is what counts.

 

Others who trade take pleasure in the thrill and excitement it provides. Some traders enjoy the rush of placing a transaction, notwithstanding the benefits of trading with an objective, unemotional perspective. They have an explorer’s temperament. They eagerly anticipate what will happen after a trade is completed. It excites them and provides them a buzz. They do enjoy this stimulating aspect of trading, but they are not necessarily pathological gamblers in the sense that they seek thrills merely to increase their adrenaline levels. They are motivated to work toward mastery because they are aware that the act of trading itself will soon be profitable.

 

Investing is entertaining and fun whether you are a long-term investor or a day trader. The more you can concentrate on the process and its underlying benefits, the more content you will feel over time. So, try to concentrate on the aspects of trading that you enjoy the most. Regardless of the outcome, you will find trading to be lucrative and pleasant.

Knowing when to Fold

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

The most challenging aspect of trading is finding a trading strategy that will work reliably. The possible strategies are endless. Some traders carefully backtest historical data and try to find a strategy that worked in the past, and bet that it will work in the future. Other traders intuitively feel that there are some points during the trading day that the markets are overbought and try to capitalize on a reversal. Regardless of the strategy, one uses, though, one must have faith in the strategy when it comes time to execute the trade. There’s only so much that can be done before a trade is executed, but once you’ve done all the preparation you can do, you must decisively put on the trade and trade your plan.

 

Often, it is simpler to say than to do. When a tactic consistently produces positive results, it is simple to put your belief in it. A approach, though, occasionally seems to work more intermittently. One may begin to question the plan at these points. So what do you do? It is tempting to just give up on the plan and try something fresh. But if one switches back and forth between approaches, one cannot trade consistently. It is vital to persist with a strategy for long enough to see if it works in order for the law of averages to operate in one’s favour.

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Make sure you profit from a successful plan when you find one. There are times when you experience a run of favourable circumstances. The probabilities are definitely in your favour, but to take advantage of chance, you must force yourself to make trade after trade. Such a move may appear random and haphazard to the investor with a scientific bent, but studies of probability show that there are instances in which heads appears repeatedly in a long string in a hypothetical coin toss. A run of successes might happen similarly in the markets. It would be prudent to capitalise on a winning streak if you found one.

 

However, if you make trading mistakes or your confidence is low, you won’t be able to profit from it. This is when having developed trading abilities is beneficial. The more abilities you possess, the easier it will be for you to execute trades correctly and profit from market circumstances that will help your approach produce a winning streak.

Similar to winning streaks that occur when a strategy consistently works, poor luck runs can also occur. Even though it makes sense, a plan doesn’t actually work. There isn’t much you can do in these circumstances.

 

The psychological challenge is in knowing when to change course and when to continue with a course of action. There isn’t a straightforward answer. On the one hand, you don’t want to stick with it and blow out your account, but you also don’t want to give up on it too soon. Choosing how much of your account you will allocate to a specific strategy in advance is one option.

Let’s take an example where your technique is predicted to be successful 80% of the time based on previous data analysis. You might choose to use the method for a dozen trades and risk around 25% of your capital. In other words, you would be willing to lose 25% of your capital in the worst-case situation.

 

Unfortunately, there isn’t a secure, guaranteed technique to choose whether to continue with or abandon a strategy. Ultimately, you must make a decision, and it can just be a matter of making an educated guess based on your prior experiences. Because of this, trading is primarily psychological in nature. Being a successful trader ultimately comes down to having the capacity to make the proper choice when it matters most.

Concentrate On the Trade

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Psychology and Risk Management

• What to expect
• Risks
• Position sizing
• illusion of control
• Accepting critisism
• Paralyzed by fear
• Loss is a feedback, not a failure
• The flexible trader
• Focusing on the positive
• Short straddle
• The dynamics of greed
• The herd mentality
• Notes

Concentrate On the Trade

It’s important to focus on the trade when you’re trading the markets. You cannot allow your focus to waver. You cannot act rashly and make a mistake. But we frequently become sidetracked, and when we do, we behave hastily and make mistakes.

Studies have demonstrated that people struggle to resist temptation when their psychological resources are fully strained. When playing games of chance, for instance, individuals are more inclined to choose an immediate, smaller payoff than waiting for a larger one. It’s as if your subconscious mind is telling you to hurry up, take what you can get, and avoid waiting.

It’s crucial to pay attention right now rather than allowing oneself to become sidetracked. Keep your attention on the trading procedure right now. Your chances of achieving “the zone,” a high performance mental state when everything seems to come together smoothly, rise when you are fully immersed in trading and focused on your ongoing experience. You are not preoccupied with past blunders or projected gains when you are in this top performance mental state. Your whole focus and effort are on the current trade. Your instincts are more in tune with you. You have a clearer view of the markets and are acutely conscious of your emotions, sensibilities, and judgments.

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Throughout the trading day, you may not always need to be fully concentrated on your transactions, but there are some moments when it is crucial. It’s critical to trade effectively and make quick decisions during these moments. You cannot flinch. You are not allowed to think twice or make a mistake. For instance, you must be prepared to focus all of your mental concentration on the trade at the time you enter or quit it. Don’t disregard it. It’s simple to become sidetracked and make a trading mistake.

 

How can you enhance the likelihood that you will adopt a focused, peak performance mindset? First, increase the likelihood that you’ll be awake and focused. Don’t trade while you’re famished or worn out. Although it might not be apparent, you could feel a little on edge and find it harder to focus when you are sleepy or hungry. There are limitations to the mind; no one has a limitless amount of psychic resources. You don’t have many resources left when you’re hungry or exhausted to completely focus.

 

Don’t undervalue the impact of background stress, second. Family issues, unfinished chores, and other tensions that lurk in the background of your mind may sap psychological reserves without you even realising it. Reduce your stress levels as much as you can. Third, trading modestly can be beneficial. As you silently fret about what you will do if you lose money that you just cannot afford to lose, it becomes easier to lose focus the more you risk. In sometimes subtle ways, risk management frees up psychological resources. It’s just one more approach to ease mental stress and enable more creative and unrestricted trading.

 

It’s important to maintain your attention on the trade you have placed. You must be ready to quickly take action to protect yourself when you can clearly see the signals that the market is moving against you. However, you could become distracted if you’re exhausted or under stress. You can struggle to manage your trades, carry out your trading plan with ease, or leave at the ideal moment. Make sure your head is in peak mental form by taking measures. Your chances of trading successfully rise when you are well-rested, unburdened, and prepared for the market action.