Hello Mr Charts, I have not done the above , but you ask four questions, which are very important for any serious trader to ask himself. Since you mention me, I am going to explain each of them about myself so that your curiosity is satisfied.The best way for me to explain this is to disconnect myself and explain it from the point of view of say an informed observer,
that is, a properly trained person able to explain it from a point of view of knowlege and understanding, and not from a superficial viewpoint.
Q 1. How would my trading personality differ from my non-trading one ?
Answer :~ The difference is like chalk and cheese. His non trading personality is his natural one. This is the Socrates known to his neighbours, his family, his friends, the postman, the newsagent and all civilians. In his natural personality he is patient, generous, kind, extrovert, and fun loving, easily contented with simple things, inquisitive, benevolent, open minded, a linguist, polyglot and quick to respond to stimuli, indeed very human and full of human frailties. As a consequence of having spent a lilfetime unravelling this riddle until recently not streetwise, naive about people and their real intents, trusting, but all this has changed, I kid you not.
The trading personality does not have a personality. Having a personality is not a luxury that any trader who has mastered his profession can afford to have. Personality is left out of trading. In trading there is no room for kindness, therefore there is no allowance for mercy of any kind. There is no generosity, because trading is an activity not unlike warfare, it is a question of killing or getting killed. There is no need to be extrovert , indeed there is a requirement to be the opposite, because inward reflection enriches for the purpose that this profession demands as you well know yourself,outward attention impoverishes and dilutes. There is an element of selfishness in the trading persona, it becomes me me instead of you me or me you, because it is a survival excercise in the middle of a war zone. There is no room for what is irrelevant or inconsequential, for example because whereas in ordinary life simple things satisfy in trading only the pursuit of excellence suffices. As all of this is done in isolation for the most part there is no speech, no chit chat, no discussions no telephone calls except for the purpose of trading. No visitors invited or tolerated. No music or news or commentary allowed, just the ticker...........All the attributes and frailties of the real him are put in a sort of "cardboard box" and not allowed to enter the domain of the trading him. Therefore there is no opinion, there is no emotion, there is no humanity, instead there is impartiality, calm, serenity, a cold calculating silent assassin replacement, deadly and ruthless.
Q2. And how do they interact and influence one another ?
Answer:~ |n the beginning when the trading persona was being created the natural persona had to do all the work in creating the trading persona because there was nothing there. When the creation of the trading persona became very advanced, the natural persona was excluded from the excercise and the task left to the trading persona to develop itself independently. For this reason they are not allowed to interact at all. There is no question of influence. They are totally separate entities. They operate in totally different theatres with different protocols and so on, therefore they have nothing in common and are kept separate, but the immediate differences are not discernible to anyone not in the know and therefore this tends to be very baffling to anyone not trained in this way as they see what appears to be the same person they know in ordianary life, the same things, but the conclusions they are forced to arrive at (limited by their own humanity) are different and perplexing both when they happen to be right or when they happen to be wrong because the whole mechanism of mind is different to each, indeed opposite, but invisible as it is not explained because it is not necessary for an outsider to know this.
Q3. Does one have to dominate the other and are any conflicts created ?
Answer:~ No not at all, the whole object of the excercise is the creation and operation of a separate entity free of the weaknesses inherent in the humanistic original.If either was allowed to dominate the other the whole excercise would have been pointless, futile. It would not then be possible to disengage and engage the other at will, on command, as and when required, in a nanosecond, and for the chosen mode to be empowered to "hold the attitude"for as long as is required without reverting to the former. Therefore there are and cannot be any conflilcts. They are two separate entities.
Q4. How are they managed and by what supra mechanism ?
Answer:~ The creation of the separate entity is subject to a clause included as part of its construction.This clause ensures one or the other is chosen, but not both at the same time, because their requirements are different, in many ways totallly opposite. It would be catastrophic to muddle them.It would be very cruel and inhuman to allow the trading entity to enter the normal everyday domain of living,loving, and interacting with other people. One would be left without any friends, acquaintances, relatives, spouses, or any sort of relationship based on humanistic values, because the trading entity does not recognise or respect humanistic values. Humanistic values would impair or destroy the impartiality of the trading entity and the trading entity in turn would dehumanise the original entity that helped to create it.Therefore they have to be segregated so they do not do damage to each other. Part of the mechanisminvolves on the humanistic side use of the human instinct to remain alive, and on the trading side a recognition that the removal of human drive includes the instinct to remain alive which has to be protectected at all costs in order to preserve and protect this dumbell arrangement/ agreement, othewise neither would function.
