Describe This Mental Issue

[MrN]

A few options

-The cultivation of courage is not automatic, it takes effort, and you are basically not getting the job done in this area

-You don't really know what you are doing and your subconscious is preventing you from damaging your financial situation (most common issue, imo)

A few ideas to move beyond this:

-Do something that is physically risky. Life is so safe today that it encourages cowardice and worry, which is very bad for the male psyche.

-Go to a gym with a heavy bag and beat the shit out of until you can't stand at least 3 times a week.

-Turn your shower on full cold and force yourself to stand in it until it no longer feels cold (assuming your tap water is cold).

-You are not getting laid enough or your woman is not attractive, which is dampening your mojo and testosterone levels.

-realize that by the nature of it trading must be hard, because to win you must win over others - and they are not charitable and don't want to give you their money. In fact they want to take yours. Stop drinking the cool aid and stop being naive.

 

[Turveyd]

A few options

-The cultivation of courage is not automatic, it takes effort, and you are basically not getting the job done in this area

-You don't really know what you are doing and your subconscious is preventing you from damaging your financial situation (most common issue, imo)

A few ideas to move beyond this:

-Do something that is physically risky. Life is so safe today that it encourages cowardice and worry, which is very bad for the male psyche.

-Go to a gym with a heavy bag and beat the shit out of until you can't stand at least 3 times a week.

-Turn your shower on full cold and force yourself to stand in it until it no longer feels cold (assuming your tap water is cold).

-You are not getting laid enough or your woman is not attractive, which is dampening your mojo and testosterone levels.

-realize that by the nature of it trading must be hard, because to win you must win over others - and they are not charitable and don't want to give you their money. In fact they want to take yours. Stop drinking the cool aid and stop being naive.

If that's aimed at me :-

I take risks all the time mountain biker, mountaineer getting in fights on the side of good.

Defo know what I'm doing

Krag Maga class later, they generally beat me up, will ask for extra later

Definitely need to get laid more, you have a good point there, blonde at class later yes pls


It's illogical and really holding me back, it's my only issue left major 1 anyway.

 

[convexx]

For the past few months, I've been experiencing what I consider to be a rather silly as it pertains to my trading. I find myself hesitating to put on trades, despite having done my homework and reached a solid conclusion on the probable direction of the market. What's really ironic about this whole thing is that I'm usually right, but nevertheless, I hesitate still to act on it. Then I watch as the market moves on without me. I've had this issue before and thought I had it worked out but it seems to have come back with a vengeance.

I'm racking my brain trying to get to the root cause. I've constructed a discretionary system with a high win rate. Not only that, all of my trades this year have been profitable yet I've been having this issue for the past few months. I would've thought that the successful trades this year would have given me the confidence needed to make each trade easier to take.

I'm entertaining the idea that there's a part of me that doesn't want to be successful and is pulling me back to my old comfort zone. I trade the futures market and my trades have been known to put a few thousand dollars in my pocket over the course of 1-3 days and I'm not used to that being that I come from a lower class background. I've constructed a system and plan that will get the results that I desire, but when I reach a certain point, there's hesitancy to pull the trigger.

I REALLY need to get past this and get the results I desire so I'm willing to hear any honest, unbiased critique. I'm also willing to do whatever it takes to resolve this issue. I haven't worked my butt off studying the markets, back and forward testing for all of this time only to not trade the system in most cases. Hold no punches in your critique.

No edge and being under-funded. Watching charts is not an edge. "Working" w/o an edge is wasted effort. Work on finding an edge. Stop BSing yourself about these backtests on discretionary "systems"

You have an ideological hangup as well. You're not owed success simply because you're wasting your time looking at 30 charts per screen. It's the definition of dilettante.

 

[AfterLOS]

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I find myself hesitating to put on trades,

I'm racking my brain trying to get to the root cause.

I'm entertaining the idea that there's a part of me that doesn't want to be successful

I come from a lower class background.

I REALLY need to get past this and get the results I desire .

Shopping for advice = increases choices = opens the door to more confusion = action killer


Step 1:
Recognition that the Problem distills down to, "blocked from action"



Step 2:
Separate yourself from the internal demon who considers himself to be lower class and undeserving of success. Its not YOU - the native being is NEVER saddled with such thoughts=feelings

Step 3:
Invoke the DEFLECTOR - make your "gut" (a seat of tremendous knowing) the scapegoat thereby protecting YOU (the analytical self) (cortex) from blame and prime it for triage, if required.

Step 4:
Action of a decisive and deliberate nature!

Cured! Game to Money Trust.

Poke head out the window and announce loudly, "I'm back"

 

[Money Trust]

No edge and being under-funded. Watching charts is not an edge. "Working" w/o an edge is wasted effort. Work on finding an edge. Stop BSing yourself about these backtests on discretionary "systems"

You have an ideological hangup as well. You're not owed success simply because you're wasting your time looking at 30 charts per screen. It's the definition of dilettante.

My system is one that I've tested with my own money. I have a high win rate when it comes to placing live trades but was at the time hesitant to proceed. I also didn't say anything about being owed anything. I don't know from where you got such an absurd idea.

 

[dbphoenix]

My system is one that I've tested with my own money. I have a high win rate when it comes to placing live trades but was at the time hesitant to proceed. I also didn't say anything about being owed anything. I don't know from where you got such an absurd idea.

Convexx/atticus/drownpruf/whatever is correct: you have no edge and you are under-funded. Your "high winrate" is irrelevant unless you have a minimally high P:L ratio to go along with it. Unless and until you develop a consistently-profitable and thoroughly-tested trading plan, you're wasting your time and your money.

 

[Eddiemorra]

Have more faith in your edge

 

[Money Trust]

Convexx/atticus/drownpruf/whatever is correct: you have no edge and you are under-funded. Your "high winrate" is irrelevant unless you have a minimally high P:L ratio to go along with it. Unless and until you develop a consistently-profitable and thoroughly-tested trading plan, you're wasting your time and your money.

I'm over this issue now. I was just being a pussy. End of story.

 

[Eddiemorra]

There is no 'edge'. How very presumptuous.