"A professional athlete before a top game more often than not will say, 'If you're not nervous there is something wrong.' One has to have self-doubts. Maybe some are less likely than others to admit them to others or to themselves. Others are more self-reflective. ...
"When you go through a losing streak, all the self-doubts come out and you do get very reluctant to pull the trigger. There is nothing you can do that is right. Just every single thing you do is wrong. That is something you just have to learn to control. You really have to learn how to control that fear. You have to feel the pain of a bad trade or a wrong trade. If you don't, and are numb to it, then it's over. So you have to know what it's like to feel pain, but you can't be afraid of it ."
-Alpesh B. Patel, Financial Times columnist and author: The Mind of a Trader
"When you go through a losing streak, all the self-doubts come out and you do get very reluctant to pull the trigger. There is nothing you can do that is right. Just every single thing you do is wrong. That is something you just have to learn to control. You really have to learn how to control that fear. You have to feel the pain of a bad trade or a wrong trade. If you don't, and are numb to it, then it's over. So you have to know what it's like to feel pain, but you can't be afraid of it ."
-Alpesh B. Patel, Financial Times columnist and author: The Mind of a Trader
