I will bring up in this post several people that you can picture as I scope and bound what I want to convey regarding traders realizing their potential.
Teachers and coaches connect to their students and players by being on the same wavelength. for about two years I have been doing posts to get results for others who want to and do make money.
The three wavelenghts that coaches and teachers use are related to auditory memory, visual memory and kinesthetic memory.
Tex Winter knew John Paxton was an X and O player. He knew horace grant was primarily kinesthetic. Players can use more than one means. We all know who used all three. That is self evident. Acheiving elevated cognitive powers as Michael Jordan does results in extraordinary abilities.
In the Rain Man we see an acutely active kinesthetic memory. This is a shortcut way to operate.
For trading, I use all the possibilities to get across to people. One repetition gives a person a memory trace for the subject. If I do 5 reps or suggest you do 5 charts in hindsight, you get 20 memory traces. 5 gets you 20.
Many people see or hear me trade. What they see is "skill memory". Athletes that are like Michael Jordan play in a mental zone. Hitting a 96 mph baseball is "skill memory" oriented, also. I listen to music. From Greenwich I would go to Lincoln Center and listen. I would, of course, check out the settings of the sound buffers, since I "memorized" them and their possible settings. Today the top mentally peforming current high school has a 25% music course load, The top private school in Connecticut for maths competition is owned, run, and taught by a Japanese staff. It used to be Rosemary Hall, now it is a day school for Japanese children of affuent Japenese employees in the metropolitan NY area. The school has never not won a competition.
Excellence comes from using your potential well completely and wisely. Two things are created by the mind: intelletual excellence and emotional wisdom.
To trade well you need to hit baseballs. We will use any means to understand and attain memory. Then with that memory we will make it redundant if necessary and be sure that one place of redundancy is outside of reflective neocortical thought and in the location where baseballs are batted and basketball is played. We will come to use the cerebellum for trading instead of the usual paths. Mostly we all have the trading information in our cerebrums, etc. We want to switch to the cerebellum as a time saver and be trading in the "zone".
There are some other issues, biochemically speaking. Doing 5 repetitions gives you traces in parallel as well as the initial serial trace paths. Also the paths are "faster" and smoother. That is because we are doing depositions regarding neuro transmitters.
So in learning, you work hard and all the work pays off with memory and the memory is "greased".
There are times when you mess up the works. I will spell out the details in a while. I have written in ET about "fight or flee response". Here it will be called out as "the stress response".
We are going to trade with excellence and be in the zone using "skill memory". Today you see it beginning with the YM Gaussians and channels and traverses as leading indicators of the ES. It is a B2R, B2R, R2R, R2B, R2B, B2B, etc. every letter causes an action these days and the transitions are "read" from the market; the market "speaks" to you or you "play" it.
Any approach can be done by being in the zone.
The "stress response" happens to be the common denominator of ET traders. we intentionally move away from the stress responce in many ways. All will be introduced and discussed. KISS is the way trading that works happens.
Biochemically the stress response is a a "poisoning" process to the brain. Repeated stress response (think many times a day) is doing permenant cell anihilation damage. Traces do not work is the series is disrupted.
The focal point of all of this is taking care of your body, and your brain. Traces are series of brain cells. They almost touch each other but they do not quite touch. The gaps are bridged biochemically and in many different ways. We have to keep the chemistry working well and to not let it damage anything.
Here is the place where the ways to get the job done will be presented and discussed. The gaps are bridged by neurotransmitters. The hype created by the stress response, causes surpluses and derivatives of these biochemicals to do permenant damage if the stress response gets to be habitual.
The classic example is edge trading with singular signal indicators for entry and then not knowing how to handle exits because of fear of losses. Data sweeping and then analysis and then deciding in the zone all individually and collectively keep your biochemistry in a trace building, reinforcing and streamlining (for increasing speed) mode. The languaging transitions of participants demonstrates their progress away from "the Stress response" having not started there as a modus.
There are thousands of posts in ET on the topic of toxicity build up. There is no direct biochemical mention or even a consciousness but there is the instinctive demonstration of having to "flee" and stop incurring the poisoning process.
So, in a nutshell, we will see how it works, how to optimize getting in the zone, and how to do all the preventive maintenance in support of raising the capability of the mind to operate at a Michael Jordan level.
