Losing All Your Possesions

I am trading for a living and I just lost all my gains 41% .

This shows that I still have a lot to learn. I am extremely materialistic and money very very very important to me, losing all my gains makes me feel really dumb.

BUT...I still have all my trading capital and I know that if I take the right steps it is only a matter of time before I make it all back.

Losing it all ? I can't even think what I would do, it would be horrible.

I failed at everything I did in my life, trading is all I have and I will do my best to learn from my mistakes and get it right.

Good Luck to all
 
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I failed at everything I did in my life, trading is all I have and I will do my best to learn from my mistakes and get it right.

Good Luck to all
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Everything in life is a learning experience ... hell, I failed at my marriage, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
 
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I am extremely materialistic and money very very very important to me, losing all my gains makes me feel really dumb.


Good Luck to all
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This is not a good combination. If these losses have occured
recently you might want to take the next week off and just
relax.
 
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there's a really long answer for that short question but i'll try to give you the abstract. i was very young and was dealing with a life that was issued to me that was very destructive. somewhat a product of my environment, my ambition and lack of positive perception lead me to do what ever i felt was necessary to be 'successful' or at least to fulfill what my perception of success was. until reality hit and i self-destructed and it changed my life.
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Allow me to add a wider scope of perspective relative to cause and effect. The experience of total loss is an effect of the belief in total loss. It is a belief because what is real cannot be lost. The belief in total loss comes first, and the circumstances that prove that total loss is possible come after. The belief in total loss was established before the foundation of a world where loss seems possible. The world arises to prove the belief is true. The circumstances of the world are symbolic of pre-world beliefs. The symbols and their circumstances merely replay the feelings, over and over again, in various ways, of the dreadful moment, before the foundation of the world, when it was first believed that total loss was possible and true. In other words, "the world" and its circumstances are thematic effects. Nothing in the world actually causes anything, but it does masquerade as a cause. I repeat: all circumstances, symbols, and the appearance of cause are thematic effects of pre-world beliefs. All the world is a stage for pre-scripted storylines, made "real" and "true", yet merely arising to prove that a belief in total loss is a fact and not fancy.


"The world" is a nightmarish dream which begins with the belief it is possible to lose your "soul", and that you have lost it. Soul is another word for Self which is the totality of paradise, the whole of everything that is true and real. Soul is reality, which is the "Love of God". Therefore, the world is the idea of a loveless place, unlike your soul, which cannot be limited to place, or limited in any way. A body is a symbol which proves that love can be limited. Limited, it is "lost". Love's meaning is lost if the symbols of the world are "true". And if they are true, then there has been a total loss of your soul.

The storylines that make up the circumstances of the world are all about strife...striving to regain paradise lost. All "doing" is an effort to regain what was lost, as if to gain it back by striving. Yet, in all the doing, what was lost is forgotten. What was lost does not "do" anything...does not strive. What does not strive has everything, owns everything, contains everything...IS everything. Striving reinforces the belief that loss is possible, and induces amnesia. The world then proves that loss is possible because you believe in what you want. It's a kind of catch-22...a trap. You are damned if you "do" and damned of you don't "do".

Why would you "want" total loss? Total loss is the effect of the idea that there is something beyond everything, which already belongs to you. The world is the idea that there is something to gain beyond everything. The world is the idea that you want more than everything. It is an ancient wish, long since dissociated. It is the "yield" of what you wanted [think: past, or passing wish]. "Greed", properly understood, is the idea that you can have everything and also what is beyond everything. Beyond everything there is only nothing. So it is the idea that you can have everything and nothing at the same time. So greed is a kind of insanity. Nevertheless, the world is built upon it, yielding the experience of nothing. The world is the experience of nothing because it is impossible to know everything and nothing simultaneously. Nothing cannot be "known". Nothing can only be percieved. So the world is a perception of nothing which is thematically symbolized by the phenomenon called "blind".

The idea that the world can add to everything, and therefore is something to be desired for gain blinds the mind's "eye" to reality. Again, reality is your soul. If you see the world, you cannot be seeing your soul since nothing and everything cannot be seen together. If you withdraw the desire to have nothing, it can dawn upon your mind that you have everything. The mind must be singular in purpose in order to make this "trade". As it is, the world is something you yet desire. But your experience of nothing has begun to awaken you to the truth about everything. And your desire for nothing is beginning to wane. As a kind of divine broker [think: Series 777], I advise that you "sell" all interest in nothing, and invest all you have in everything.

"I" am everything. But...so are "you". And "we" are reality, as one. This is the truth. God speed your journey back to paradise "lost". Yet, you can never lose what you have. You still have it. Step carefully, aware of your purpose.

Jesus
 
Many people are sophisticated and, excepting the crass, understand that material gains or the show of material gains are not the core of life. You don't have to be religious to know this. All that material stuff is just fun as I noted earlier in this thread.

Refer to evolutionary humankind and know that purpose is the key. If you pursue purpose you make yourself contended or happy. That is why you can choose to be happy; its an incidental outcome of purpose. You can then have, keep, lose or regain material progress in your life without doing other than being reminded that the material in life by itself is hollow.

I admit that in my mind (and this is commonplace in success patterns) my motivation is ambition to succeed, drive, purpose and continual application and particularly in trading, accumulating big gains in net points as a scoreboard, which means highly skilled technical trading to maximise my use of trading markets.
:)
 
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Oh heck yea, typically the class starts with the final test!
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"Life's a song you don't get to rehearse,"

From the song 'Something to sing about'

Two things that might help:

Don't trade and at the same time think that:

"If I only get X dollars more I will be able to buy this car."
(or house or boat or whatever) This will cloud one's judgement.

Don't have a high standard of living with it's associated
high financial commitments.
This will cause undo stress and fear as one tries to maintain
what one has as trading goes through it's less profitable
(or even losing) days/weeks. This will cloud one's judgement.

The market has (essentially) infinite financial resources,
while we have finite financial resources. One has to remember
that the market is going the way it's going to go, regardless
of your position.

-Stephen
 
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