Quote from ptunic:
That is amazing stuff. My wife spent a few years learning T'ai Chi and actually got to a place that her and one other student had to ask the instructor how they could turn chi off
She was telling me T'ai Chi is learning how to take energy, and rather than oppose it, to move with it and use it as part as yourself. Instead of an opposing force that you try to stand in the way of, you rather understand that the energy will get to where it wants to go, and so you step aside, or you piggyback onto it if you want to move with it. This sounds incredibly relevant to trading psychology to me. In trading, many people experience the fight/flight increased heart rate etc when profits or losses are high, when they have some skin in a trade. It seems the same philosophy of alert detachment that you can master from T'ai Chi is very much relevant. The market becomes not something you can control or need outcome x to happen when you are in the trade; you fully come to terms that it will do what it will do, and your goal is to step aside or ride the energy. In this fashion you can detach yourself from the negative mental state outcomes that are frequently the result of fight/flight (big profits and losses), allowing you to trade more alertly and logically. Personally, I'm planning on taking my first T'ai Chi class in about 3 weeks (I'm out of town for a few weeks), I'm looking forward to it.
Congratulations.
Thank you so much for your comments and how you artfully connected a trader to the market. The partnership is an immense and beautiful harmonious thing.
I have to weed for a while. The weeds had a good time and I need to divde and relocate our bulbs.
Log the remaining bars and deal bar by bar with the partnership beginners have with the market.
Monday is coming up and having closure on Friday is good t'ia Chi.
