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Forum: Psychology and Money Management May 24th, 2016, 09:41 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
My Significant Change

I feel improved. If it wasn't for the challenge to my psychology, I would have quit trading a long time ago, or remained out after the time(s) (lol) that I did quit.

This is gonna be hard to...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management April 26th, 2016, 05:09 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
I still haven't had my unauthorized data charge...

I still haven't had my unauthorized data charge issue resolved at my broker, so I'm not trading at the moment and have time to add to this. (subsequently corrected)

Another significant change I...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management April 26th, 2016, 12:08 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
up late since i can't trade any way feeling this much emo

So one of the most recent psych things that helped was realizing that I have already covered some subjects in some chapters in Trading On Target deeper than Adrienne T. wrote about them.

I hadn't...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management April 25th, 2016, 01:28 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
I'm still trading. It's been 2 years since my...

I'm still trading. It's been 2 years since my last post and it wasn't easy to re-read the entire thread.

I continued to repeat my loop of small success and larger failure many more times, which...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 11th, 2014, 09:49 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
There is no "should" only what is. When I looked...

There is no "should" only what is. When I looked at my P&L, it made me think about money, and for me, I know that a thought about money is really a feeling. Feeling while nice, removes my focus on...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 10th, 2014, 01:21 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
I'm hanging out here because I had a decent scalp...

I'm hanging out here because I had a decent scalp pre market today in TF at the 18 hour pullback point, (long) and since then there's been a ton of overlap.... but also, that trade put me over my...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 10th, 2014, 12:18 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
An issue I had was frustration. I was working...

An issue I had was frustration. I was working hard, trading well, having gains like every day is positive for weeks, but the money was really insignificant. Then on top of that, i had a small...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management May 20th, 2014, 06:29 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
another revelation

...another psych revelation, maybe one of the final ones, ...but I always say that...

For a while, I started to be consistent in my approach and it caused consistent gains and kept losses small.
...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management February 7th, 2014, 07:24 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
I am so not used to having gains of any...

I am so not used to having gains of any significance that when I finally am in the green, I am in a different psychological situation.

A few things change, enough things so that my psych when I...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management January 31st, 2014, 06:01 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
today's lesson for me on psych is that i need to...

today's lesson for me on psych is that i need to drop the requirement for perfection in my trading patterns. Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, it was a good test of my ability to be disciplined enough to wait for...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management January 18th, 2014, 09:09 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
latest revelation - grit is not obsession

the Ted short lecture on grit and determination being the most reliable indicator of success, was very helpful.

it got me to become aware of another subtle idea that is very powerful. They tend...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management January 15th, 2014, 08:09 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
any feeling at all, besides confidence, is energy...

any feeling at all, besides confidence, is energy in the limbic brain area.

I'm hungry - a feeling placing some energy in limbic area of my brain

I'm tired - a feeling placing some energy in...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management January 13th, 2014, 10:24 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
Yes, you got it. There is something else about...

Yes, you got it. There is something else about that point tho. I'm pretty sure that whatever I got into in my life, when it was new, I'm sure that I was obsessed with it all day and night and I was...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management January 8th, 2014, 08:13 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
great comments, the ironic thing about this...

great comments, the ironic thing about this journey for me, is that I thought I was just doing this for the money.

All the other things I ever did were not for the money, art, music, even some...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management January 7th, 2014, 03:46 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
It's been a long time, all that stuff I did go...

It's been a long time, all that stuff I did go thru and I don't think I could do it again... like the great quote that says, "if anyone knew what they were getting into, no one would do anything."
...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management August 20th, 2012, 08:39 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
Thanks. No priority but that bunch is just the...

Thanks. No priority but that bunch is just the most recent, which did move me into following my trading plan, so they are just the most significant recently, but all the prior ones all add up and...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management August 18th, 2012, 11:03 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 7,674
Posted By jaytrades
My Significant Change

Some of my personal psychological topics related to my trading are:
1. Habits that are typical and normal in my life, but counter productive to trading
2. Thoughts that are habitual and needed to...
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