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666, I had to sedate Hypo. He had delusions that he did not deserve his profits this morning. He thinks that his voudoun will want to possess his soul if he makes money with it. I heard him cry "I'm going to give it all back during mid-day!" So naturally I whacked him. I myself am having a...

Minmike, would you kindly comment more on trading hung over? If you could teach me to do that, I would be most grateful. Unfortunately, what I do is reach for hair of the dog. Can't keep away from the sauce. Being a trading therapist is such depressing work. So many seekers after gurus! And they...

Thank you, Wave. The best trading system is one that studies what THEY do, and gracefully jiu-jitsu's it! When you know what MUST happen, you can trade with confidence. And I agree with you so strongly that trading is a video game that all my audibles are pinball and slot machine sounds.

What a glorious morning! I made enough money to satisfy my modest needs, so I am off the clock, and can tend to my flock. Spinner, isn't it paradoxical that you are confident but humble? That you've read your Douglas? That you realize that "Anything can happen."? You've heard Mark D. Cook...

Thank you, Infolode. Kindly do continue to contribute your own observations. I would not go to the trouble to create this thread if I did not feel so strongly about the issue of impairment.

Health. Remember what it was like to trade with a cold? The flu? Intestinal problems? Even a general low level malaise? Not good. Anything that slows your mental processes or reduces your concentration is bad. Sobriety (pursued in moderation, of course) is a good first step to health. My...

Thank you for posting, TM. I couldn't have said it better! Let me note some key words in your post: undisciplined, mistakes, impatient. I wanted to author this thread in a positive tone, but the simple fact is that we are talking about impairments. Trading well is incredibly difficult without...

As an aside, Warbird is not me, although Warbird in various current and previous incarnations and I often find ourselves on the same side of trading issues. So thanks, Birdie, for that one. I had briefly considered Cleanliness (but not Godliness), and discarded it because often I will not...

Sobriety. Perhaps not your issue, but surely some here resonate. My experience is that even moderate alcohol consumption the night before trading inhibits achievement of the other desired states. I have no doubt that recreational drug use is as bad, if not worse, but I fried my brain so hard...

A few weeks ago I was having trouble getting in tune with the market in early going. So I started listing all the factors which seemed to be inhibiting my optimal performance. I realize that those factors are probably highly specific to me, but I offer a discussion of them for whatever good it...

Old brains need all the help they can get. That's why EasySignal created helpers and audibles.

Spleens vented, bile spewed, spittle drying, I think it is time for an overview. Taking it from the top, the Hershey Futures Method seeks to pick tops and bottoms. As such it satisfies Justin Mamis' definition of good trading: minimum risk at the time of maximum uncertainty. It thereby avoids...

Yet another way in which Basic is like ET. As we say in the industry in which I work: Q: "What do you call a beautiful woman you see in the hall here?" A: "A visitor." "Beautiful trader" would most often be an oxymoron, Ruth Barrons Roosevelt in her prime (LONG before yours, I might...

Michael, thank you for your insights. Two thoughts. What would it have been like in a room with half men and half women (also a situation we lack)? And, from the perspective of my age, there must be a behavioral reversion breakpoint past 30, because some of the biggest jerks here are over 60.

An analysis of the peculiar zeitgeist of ET sprang to mind at the end of compulsively and voyeuristically reading the two leading current Jacktractor threads, only one of which started being about that august gentleman. As they spun further and further out of control, spawning new aliases and...

Thank you for your thoughtful post, Maxpi. I think that the cause is suffering, as well. Somehow suffering doesn't build character in a trader the way it supposedly does in other arenas of life. Perhaps because it is so easy to blame outside influences and not see the fault in ourselves. I pay...

One thing that struck me yesterday was the intensified and extreme level of hostility exhibited by some posters. Free floating hostility by free floating posters. One presumes that everyone here is connected to trading in some way or another, else why come here? So what is it about being...

That's funny. YOUR name doesn't LOOK like an anagram. Get back to trading! The market wants your money!

Shakespeare would cringe! Very good! Did Richard the Third spring to mind in this context? My lament, unrelated to trading and ET, is the hastening demise of the classical education. And the lack of historical perspective, particularly WRT trading Messiahs. But I must off to prepare for the...

Roberk and Fadentrade, you will just have to make do with me. Who was Mr. Subliminal? Surely he was subluminal. Kindly stay on topic. Or is distractability one of our discontents? Masturbation, anger, tension, disbelief, inability to focus, nostalgia...I think we're getting somewhere.