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In a discussion, someone was talking about trust at the hard right edge and applying what one has back tested, forward tested, sim and even live traded successfully for some time... yet... "There's a very odd feeling putting on a trade where you know the odds are favorable, but it feels...

Because they are given firm instructions by the judge in such a way as to engender more lawsuits and business for the lawyers?

That was a great post

In chat today there was a recognition of emotions coming in and affecting judgement. The trading was with alert disinterest at first... then it wasn't. So cool and important to notice that and stop trading. Hearing that from others (Niko) helps me a lot. We also spoke of an 'elevator to...

Any progress here over the weekend?

We talked today about the scientific method. Why is it not applied more by those trying to learn to trade? You can't find your way with the scientific method if you can't control your variables. If you don't control the variables you will come to conclusions that seem factual that don't...

The market is telling me to wait as it has not shown it's hand yet. It could do anything from here. ...I guess you could look at this as a series of reversals.

This is the thing I've come back to over and over. The Plan that turns out not to be a plan. It was what NoD said she found also, that we thought we had a plan, but in hindsight and with experience realize we in fact did not. For me that is in spite of the countless books read and classes...

Kind of like the super bowl game. They suffered a loss, and could not get back on track during the game. It's very human.

Homework assignment for the weekend: Go through all my chat note's so far and pull out the 'best of Db'. See it, say it, hear it, write it physically out on 3 x 5 cards. Sort them into themes. See what happens. So I have about 50 note cards spread out on my desk, seeing how they fit together...

I re-read my journal so far. What it really is about is looking at my own successes, but then getting off track. LF talks about this in his trading career. NoDoji talks about it. There is only one local trader I know well. He took a $10,000 dollar account and ran it up to $600,000 in less...

I need to drill more this 'paying attention' thing. Will over this weekend. It is much harder than it looks. Almost feel sheepish about it. It's like I'm going back to work on something that has to happen before I'm even ready to start observing the market: observing my own inner dialog and...

Db has suggested drawing as part of the prep for each trading day. Makes sense. The last three trading days have been different. Day before yesterday I reached some level of paying attention consciously to specific things, and excluding others... I've done this at times before, but it was...

Learning ways to pay attention is at the core of cognitive rehab, and cognitive rehab is arguably what Db is offering us as damaged traders. So little of trading is dependent on logic. For example, in posts #2 & 3 a very logical and simple SLA thing is laid out. Yet when I press the button...

That's cool Db. Thanks. One big issue for me in trading is paying attention. It's part of having focus issues, which I certainly have. When I wrote in my plan to use SLA to 'surf' into trades, I traded worse. It sounds odd, but on reflection I was either trying to force SLA or I became to...

I went short at the same place. It's all gone to pot I guess.

Boru, you are making perfect sense to me. As to scratching, we all seem to have to find our own way to actually do it. Which doesn't sound like it requires intelligence or anything profound either, but if you are not in the habit of it, it is hard to do. I think scratching is one of the...

this was just pretty. Going from channel boundary thru the mean, retesting the mean and to the other side.

Waving your arms around in a fog looking for something. My insurance once paid for me to take biofeedback. Every week sessions where you are all wired up and they monitor your physiology. And every week a different try at attaining some level. Then one week they said "There... remember what...

And you spend your day working, exercising, maturing the habit/routine... not so much focused on profit or ego.