Mental block due to trading Mentor passing away...unable to trade

yiehom said:
No need for names to be called, this is the best advice so far. Better yet, he should have his statue sit in the chair and converse with him as he trades. Yes, it works !
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OMG!, another damaged freakazoid from the trading field. Take your mental poison elsewhere, creep.
 
Gezunt said:
I weep for your children. You don't know the difference between a statue and a human being? Sicko.
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Really its nothing more than a simple mnemonic device. That fact that you can't recognize that or more likely chose to ignore it speaks volumes. You must have a very shallow understanding of how to cope with human emotions and situations.

I won't weep for you children i quite crying for other people along time ago.
 
There is no difference. Any being is but energy. It is what you do with it that counts. Some statues are worth many empty brains...

Gezunt said:
I weep for your children. You don't know the difference between a statue and a human being? Sicko.
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JBM said:
Hey gents and gals,

I need some help to see if anybody has experienced the same issue I am going through. For almost the past decade I had been trading with my godfather who taught me the basics, to forex, to etfs and options. We were able to produce very great return rates (+20%) and we would spend hours talking about technical vs. fundamentals and other financial stories. He had a library full of trading books and such from A-Z.

He passed due to a bout with cancer after about three years this August. We would talk about the markets instead of cancer and he really enjoyed that. He left his estate (+3.5M) into a Trust with me as a Trustee to continue trading/investing and I am still coming to grips with that.

To get to the point, I am finding myself being unable to trade how we used to. I have ID'd many trades and just can't pull the trigger for some reason. I had the trade sitting in the queue and just didn't execute it and I know he would have called me a fool because I was within our "rules/system" but don't know how to get over it.

Anybody experience something like this? Shall I try to find a new mentor?

TLDR: Trading Mentor has passed away, unable to trade mentally anymore.
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I really think you should ask yourself if you want to trade. Was your interest more about your relationship? Are you just thinking of going back in because you think he would want you to continue? Maybe you have other interests away from trading to use some of the $. I would think you godfather intended the money for your happiness and opportunity, not for pain, guilt, and suffering.
 
Sorry I have been away from the forum. I have been working my day job. To clarify he wasn't a coworker and I didn't interact with him on a daily basis, more like a weekly. Thanks for the support and understanding in the block and knocking the confidence. He did get me to a point that I can trade on my own (nothing too sexy) but did light the fire of making the trade. I have backtested my possible trades and noted I missed out on a lot of winning trades because pulling the trigger.

I will get through this and I think it is still a mourning process but the fact that there are a wide range of the response is funny and uplifting regardless of their content.
 
I believe you can do it but now is the time for the mourning.
BTW what did you people trade? Which time frame?

JBM said:
Sorry I have been away from the forum. I have been working my day job. To clarify he wasn't a coworker and I didn't interact with him on a daily basis, more like a weekly. Thanks for the support and understanding in the block and knocking the confidence. He did get me to a point that I can trade on my own (nothing too sexy) but did light the fire of making the trade. I have backtested my possible trades and noted I missed out on a lot of winning trades because pulling the trigger.

I will get through this and I think it is still a mourning process but the fact that there are a wide range of the response is funny and uplifting regardless of their content.
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