It is true that if you do not have an accurate and reliable methodology to deploy then any psychological ingredients that assist or hinder successful trading are irrelevant. Hence it follows that where the pyschology forum is inhabited, as it almost always is, by those who have psychological barriers in trading, these are those that do not have the necessary certainty in their trading modus operandi to allay or to remove the pyschological problems that apparently bedevil them.
So in short the extent to which there is uncertainty in your trading MO is the extent to which you can or will suffer psychological problems. Your mind is thus reflecting the doubt your MO warrants.
If you devise or adopt a methodology where you can depend on its reliability and accuracy for successful trading then you should not have any psychological gremlins plaguing you. When I use the description reliable and accurate I mean very high probability; this is where your signalling system has very very few false 'reads' and if false you have the next set of signals to correct you. So in effect you don't actually have any false signalling; you merely have signalling which on a very few occasions is quickly overtaken by counter signalling. For example a buy signal is superseded by a sell signal.
Then take the above and deploy it, where it belongs, in a liquid and usually volatile market (eg ES,YM,CL) where you are buying the upmoves and selling the downmoves sequentially.
So in short the extent to which there is uncertainty in your trading MO is the extent to which you can or will suffer psychological problems. Your mind is thus reflecting the doubt your MO warrants.
If you devise or adopt a methodology where you can depend on its reliability and accuracy for successful trading then you should not have any psychological gremlins plaguing you. When I use the description reliable and accurate I mean very high probability; this is where your signalling system has very very few false 'reads' and if false you have the next set of signals to correct you. So in effect you don't actually have any false signalling; you merely have signalling which on a very few occasions is quickly overtaken by counter signalling. For example a buy signal is superseded by a sell signal.
Then take the above and deploy it, where it belongs, in a liquid and usually volatile market (eg ES,YM,CL) where you are buying the upmoves and selling the downmoves sequentially.
