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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 discove ..

There are limits to the psychological energy you have available to devote to trading. And this limited energy is diminished when you let too many issues remain unresolved, lingering in the back of you ..

Throughout the day you make everyday decisions that mean little to you. You drive your kids to school and along the way, you make a host of decisions about which route to take, where to turn, or when ..

When trading the markets, there’s a constant need to make profits. You can easily start feeling that there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it. If you’re like most traders, ..

Many novice traders are frustrated when they start trading. It’s common to hear a novice trader complain, “I don’t know what’s going wrong. I study the markets every chance I g ..

The famous psychotherapist Fritz Perls once noted that people feel anxious and fearful when they worry about, and mull over, their past mistakes or worry about the future. A peak performance mindset i ..

Successful people are passionate about what they do. They aren’t concerned with the outcome, but with the process of achieving the outcome. That said, it would be nice to avoid worrying about ou ..

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 str ..

When trying to meet the challenges of trading, it is often easy to obsess about what you are doing wrong until you start to feel that you’ll never master the markets. Rather than focus on what y ..

When you’re trading the markets it’s necessary to concentrate on the trade. You cannot let your attention sway. You can’t impulsively make a mistake. We are often distracted, however ..