"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February." (Mark Twain?)
It's probably the right way to trade-- calm, detached, dispassionate. I should aim to be like that as a trader... But is it the right way to live? Though I agree 100% that absolute rationality is necessary in trading, I could not help but feel a tinge of sadness reading that post. No sadness...