My own self-sabotage manifests itself as an addiction to pressure.
It's very hard for me to focus on anything unless I'm staring down the barrell of a gun. This has been both a help and a hinderance in terms of my trading.
I've only been trading full-time for 3 years. And only profitably the last year. I'm 25-years old.
My sole strategy is to trade retracements. This is largely because no strategies, to me, provided the sense of immediacy (?) required for me to focus. I would often get sloppy until I was facing a huge deficit for the day and only then would I scour the market hard enough to make a comeback - often in 1 or 2 solid trades.
This is also a constant in my life. My best performance in the workplace was always on interviews - I've never been unemployed longer than 1 week (and I live in NYC) - but the fact is that I was unemployed = pressure. But, once hired, I was a complete slackass and have always had utter cotempt for my co-workers (though I think this is healthy for one who desires to be self-employed).
In my personal relationships, I tend to treat people propely either in order to get them to know me or to stop them from not wanting to know me any longer. I tend to neglect them unless I'm at either extreme.
This is someting I've struggled with my entire life and I've reconciled the fact that it's who I am and that the only way to make it manageable is to devise strategies that play to its favor.
It's very hard for me to focus on anything unless I'm staring down the barrell of a gun. This has been both a help and a hinderance in terms of my trading.
I've only been trading full-time for 3 years. And only profitably the last year. I'm 25-years old.
My sole strategy is to trade retracements. This is largely because no strategies, to me, provided the sense of immediacy (?) required for me to focus. I would often get sloppy until I was facing a huge deficit for the day and only then would I scour the market hard enough to make a comeback - often in 1 or 2 solid trades.
This is also a constant in my life. My best performance in the workplace was always on interviews - I've never been unemployed longer than 1 week (and I live in NYC) - but the fact is that I was unemployed = pressure. But, once hired, I was a complete slackass and have always had utter cotempt for my co-workers (though I think this is healthy for one who desires to be self-employed).
In my personal relationships, I tend to treat people propely either in order to get them to know me or to stop them from not wanting to know me any longer. I tend to neglect them unless I'm at either extreme.
This is someting I've struggled with my entire life and I've reconciled the fact that it's who I am and that the only way to make it manageable is to devise strategies that play to its favor.
