The Market Is a Mirror

laptop1 said:

People tend to make trading more complicated than it is.....All you need is a plan, but one must stick to their plan.

Baiscs of trading is, "buy strength sell weakness", don't look for bargains.

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grantx said:

CJIA,

Dealing with physical short-comings, eg overweight, lack of exercise, bad diet is straightforward. But where/how do you start with the psychological? Without divulging anything personal, perhaps you could give a few pointers or examples.

Thank you.

Grant.

My own experience in trading has led me to discover how my mind works and how it conflicted with making certain conscious that would sabotage my trading.
In order to resolve these conflict i set out to understand how my mind worked.
My investigation took me down various paths but most were a dead end.
The main problem was that my mind had built up a lot of defense systems that threw me off the path and i found myself back were i started.

My breakthrough came when i activated the observer in my mind or witness as some call it.This gave me the opportunity to observe the conflicts as they arose between both parts and how they played out.
The next step was to disidentify from the conflict,but this did not resolve the conflict but gave me the breathing space to investigate.

To resolve the conflicts i had to examine parts of my mind that i did not know existed,this part is the shadow.The shadow part of your mind is the powerhouse of your subconscious and is also the repressed part of your personality basically what we don't like about ourselves.
So to resolve the the conflict ,i had to examine my shadow or start owning and integrating this part of my mind in to my everyday workings.

This is what i meant with my first post of having a good relationship with myself.
I'm not totally there yet but find myself still making good progress.

The following have helped me in this investigation.
First and foremost is Mindfulness Meditation and Psychosynthesis.
Recommended Books are Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante H. Gunaratana
Emotional Clearing,John Ruskan,What We May Be: The Vision and Techniques of Psychosynthesis ,Piero Ferrucci

Hope this helps.

Good Trading

CJIA

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