A guy that I am working with (geriatric MD and psychiatrist) has been doing a lot of tapes for my partner and I.
He works primarily, as his goal, to enhance alternative and wholistic medicine. He is a cherekee shawman as well and I do sweat lodge stuff with him as a ringer.
He runs Dr. Weil's psychiatric team and the "engineering" studies team at UMC (UA) where they are advancing engineering thinking to solve meds problem "process" thinking.
Specifically with me, we are working through intraday trading precepts. I am avoiding using a particular mental loop that is "conventionally used for problem solving based upon monitoring and analyzing data for decision making. This is all in the context of IB 0.7sec snapshots and the rep rates of Qcharts on cable feeds.
The long conventional loop or "processing cycle" does have a high rep rate but by substituting another "loop" you get a higher rep rate and you operate on asubconscious foundation.
If there ever were a word to describe the "feeling" it certainly is "intuition". I feel like I am a cucumber when I am on the "right" side of themarket. If I am not , having the feeling, I know to immediately peruse the monitoring sweeps to "find out why " the "hard" conventional way.
So we have agreed that he will make 6 tapes along the line of relaxation tapes for the topics that we mutually deem to be an array that will surround the intraday trading problems I have been gleening from the screw up threads on ET.
As background, long ago, we worked out with a third party (an immunologist) the pervasive degradation path followed mentally and psychologically vis a vis "repeated failure" and "shoot the messenger anger" stuff. There is no "fix" for that as they see it. Ari Kiev is suggesting relaxation and trading breaks as a "recovery mechanism".
If you want to examine the sequences towards failure, collect the expressions used in ET. After you arrange a 100 or so carefully it is not difficult to get to provision "cut off" places for various ranges of remedial types of considrations.
The original stochastics thread (192 pages over 6 months of continuous play by repeated failure victims and very angry "shoot the messenger" types) is a profound source for words.
"intuition" comments are made by people who are allowing themselves to have very light levels of emotions at play (during a profitable day is a likely time) whereby they start to bypass the conventional loop and ease into the shortcut loop. It is important to try to debrief on how you are "set up" for "doing" intuition.
Give particular thought to the fact that when you are engaging your subconscious, that you are in that excellent place that resembles the "Jimminy Cricket" of the Pinochio movie.
Letting your conscience be you guide is a great idea. Your conscience is more derived from success and being upfront with yourself. Allowing it to "intuitively" replace a conventional loop where monitoring is coupled to emotion primarily is a good idea. You monitor a lot less (only go there where your intuition dictates "bad") and thus play down most all unexpected emotions from welling up to defeat you.
Generating a set of hypnotic relaxation tapes for 6 major facets of trading to make money will probably be very helpful, we believe. I scrapped out most of my planned projects to relieve things. This stuff is just a fun thing that can be carried out with the people I am seeing as time goes by.
. regardless, thanks for adding to the discussion.