8 mental instillations for priming to trade.
These are 8 things I start my trading session with. They help me greatly, and hopefully some of them can be beneficial to you.
Once again, trading is mostly understanding yourself and what works for me and makes me tick may not transfer to you exactly the same way. But there are definitely some general ideas that can be gathered from different sources.
Mine were gathered from many different areas:
1. "Good. It can always get worse." - This mental priming ensures that I am grateful for whatever situation I am in at this moment in time. Losses the day before? Good. It can always get worse. Profits the day before? Good. It can always get worse. This mental model completely removes dwelling, and substitutes it with practical gratitude. Very helpful.
2. "I don't know what today will bring. But I do know what mind I bring to the moment of performance." - We cannot possibly control the market. Thus, we do not know what today's trading session. We absolutely cannot know that. Therefore trying to know puts us completely out of sync with the market. Instead, we do know what mind we bring to the moment of trading performance. Do we bring calm and poised mind? Or do we bring chaotic and anxious one?
3. "My goal is to trade well. To do that I must make good decisions. To make good decisions I must operate out of mindstate similar to that of a hunter."
4. "Mindstate of a hunter - state of being that is sharp and deliberate, calm but alert, ready to pounce yet patient, aware of risk on one hand and reward on the other. Hunter - is present, as the moment of performance requires to be in the Now. To be in Present - means to accept it for what it truly is, and not what is desired to be. The Pull from The Present is by definition The Pull from the Hunter mindstate.
5. "There are absolutely no limits to the performance. It can get as great as it can be. Everything solely depends on the decisions you bring to the moment of performance. If they get better, so does the performance. As there are no limits, the decisions in the Present must be made without the imposed limits or other benchmarks in Mind."
6. "Easy is Right. This process should not be hard. It should be easy. And light. This is Light Work. Life should be easy. Money and profits should come easy. When you know when there is a trade or there is no trade - trading becomes easy. You ride the wave, you ride the wave. Relationships should be easy. Easy is good. Easy is Right." - If it feels difficult then we are doing something wrong. Of course in the beginning when learning it can be difficult, but overall when trading well it should be easy. Almost effortless.
7. "There is an abundance of resources and opportunities. There is always a whale to hunt. We live in the Kingdom of Plenty." - This puts me into abundance state of mind and helps to see abundance in opportunities.
8. "The process of 'The Hunt' must be - once a Market Structure Point of Interest is broken - we are on waiting for that prey." - Similar to some predators who wait in bushes until their prey get into the most optimal state to get hunted, in that same fashion we are waiting for setups to brew properly. Effectively we are hunting other market participants. It's up to us to decide whether we are hunters or prey.
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After getting primed with these I feel much better to operate in the uncertainty of the markets. Meditate on these points, some of them will definitely be helpful.
Cheers.
Lightwork_
Once again, trading is mostly understanding yourself and what works for me and makes me tick may not transfer to you exactly the same way. But there are definitely some general ideas that can be gathered from different sources.
Mine were gathered from many different areas:
1. "Good. It can always get worse." - This mental priming ensures that I am grateful for whatever situation I am in at this moment in time. Losses the day before? Good. It can always get worse. Profits the day before? Good. It can always get worse. This mental model completely removes dwelling, and substitutes it with practical gratitude. Very helpful.
2. "I don't know what today will bring. But I do know what mind I bring to the moment of performance." - We cannot possibly control the market. Thus, we do not know what today's trading session. We absolutely cannot know that. Therefore trying to know puts us completely out of sync with the market. Instead, we do know what mind we bring to the moment of trading performance. Do we bring calm and poised mind? Or do we bring chaotic and anxious one?
3. "My goal is to trade well. To do that I must make good decisions. To make good decisions I must operate out of mindstate similar to that of a hunter."
4. "Mindstate of a hunter - state of being that is sharp and deliberate, calm but alert, ready to pounce yet patient, aware of risk on one hand and reward on the other. Hunter - is present, as the moment of performance requires to be in the Now. To be in Present - means to accept it for what it truly is, and not what is desired to be. The Pull from The Present is by definition The Pull from the Hunter mindstate.
5. "There are absolutely no limits to the performance. It can get as great as it can be. Everything solely depends on the decisions you bring to the moment of performance. If they get better, so does the performance. As there are no limits, the decisions in the Present must be made without the imposed limits or other benchmarks in Mind."
6. "Easy is Right. This process should not be hard. It should be easy. And light. This is Light Work. Life should be easy. Money and profits should come easy. When you know when there is a trade or there is no trade - trading becomes easy. You ride the wave, you ride the wave. Relationships should be easy. Easy is good. Easy is Right." - If it feels difficult then we are doing something wrong. Of course in the beginning when learning it can be difficult, but overall when trading well it should be easy. Almost effortless.
7. "There is an abundance of resources and opportunities. There is always a whale to hunt. We live in the Kingdom of Plenty." - This puts me into abundance state of mind and helps to see abundance in opportunities.
8. "The process of 'The Hunt' must be - once a Market Structure Point of Interest is broken - we are on waiting for that prey." - Similar to some predators who wait in bushes until their prey get into the most optimal state to get hunted, in that same fashion we are waiting for setups to brew properly. Effectively we are hunting other market participants. It's up to us to decide whether we are hunters or prey.
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After getting primed with these I feel much better to operate in the uncertainty of the markets. Meditate on these points, some of them will definitely be helpful.
Cheers.
Lightwork_
Lightwork Trading