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"Happiness is a warm gun, shoot, shoot." ---ohn Lennon

Ok. Great. Coolness under fire. I get it. They're trained to be that way. Yep. Advance with coolness, retreat with coolness. Never panic. Got it.

I think they studied some of the guns after the American civil war. They found that some of the guns had been loaded five or six times without being fired. I think it's a myth that soldiers are cool under pressure. It's what we want to believe. Some are, some arent. That's ok with me. There's...

I mean, you're dealing with constant uncertainty, then saying people(traders) shouldn't get emotional about it. A simple set of questions might be, okay, what am feeling now, what's my risk, is the trade still valid? Usually it's the latter two. Too much risk or the market has changed.

FOMO is a common theme in the markets. If you want to tell me you never have that feeling, better to not have that feeling, I say isn't it better to recognize the feeling when it inevitably occurs, so you're less likely to act out on it?

You can look at a bull market and see that what people say and what they do are two different things. During a long bull run there will be lots of negative news, lots of reasons not to buy stocks. Yet stocks seem to keep slowly going up. This was my first awakening to the difference between...

Once I started to pick up the emotional cues the market was giving me, it became a different market. My favorite trades are based on panic, on traders being trapped. Beliefs being overturned. Sometimes they are my own. The intellectual part of me just tries to analyze the backdrop so I know what...

At the level of intuition, it's hard to know if it's a feeling or thought, and where it manifests in the body. Decision making is thought, intuition comes from somewhere else. During hypnosis or meditation you're going to have thought come through, but there are differences in what you do with...

Ok it was Milton Erickson, the American. Reading now. Erikson was German, different theories. It's kind of like Economics. You don't like this theory, we have another one for you.

It's been awhile since I was exposed to NLP. Sometimes I'll still notice that, for instance, I get angry at very shrill sounds or people. Noise. Or that I'm storing information about the market visually. Also I'll notice that before a market is about to fall or if there is confusion I'll sense...

Sorry it's Erikson. Erickson is a boat.

I was taught by a guy that was a big fan of the psychologist Erickson. He told me there were four personality types, Rational, Sensing, Emotional, and Intuitive. Now it's just a theory. But he- they separate Intuitive and Emotional. Rational he said was about 70 percent of the population. Less...

Well, I met him when he was 80 at a certain 12 step program. One of the steps asks members to list their fears on a piece of paper. He looked me straight in the eye and said that he didn't have any. He said everyone kept telling him he had to have some, but he didn't. When I asked him about why...

I did meet an old colonel who said he had no fear in combat. It was weird because he talked about being ambushed and cut off in Vietnam like it was a good football game he played in. Actually he volounteered for combat after being in Korea. So there's an example of a natural.

That obviously should say manipulate. I don't know why the spell check does that.

The easiest way to manumanipu someone is to threaten to make them feel something they don't want to feel. The advertising industry wouldn't exist without this. See Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders. Old book but still relevant.

It isn't the emotions you experience that cause the problem. It's the ones you don't want to or can't. If you have trouble with loss or greif you're probably going to set up dramas where you keep experiencing loss. The floor traders I knew in Chicago used to say "You have to learn to love to...

I didn't say that you should throw the computer at the clock. Maybe you confuse feelings with actions? Children don't like what they are feeling and act out.

Some people have the ability to feel their feelings. This may appear to the outsider as counteracting an emotion. I can find lots of examples, in ET and in the physical world, of people trying to deny, control or otherwise manipulate emotions. I have a sense that it is better to just experience...

I think we need to hear of some bank blowing up or country having a currency crisis to really get things going. I guess Indonesia is weak. You want to hear the sound of money going back to King dollar, the yen. That means some kind of panic, something blowing up. Or not. Doesn't matter to me...