Trading Psychology & Discipline

Trading Psychology & Discipline

Learning Outcomes

Answer This Question First First First

Make a group of 10 people having same characteristics e.g. Age, Gender, Intelligence, Education & Common Sense. Teach them a business & give them $1 Million each. Now ask them to go out & start the business.

Check & compare all of them after 5 – 10 years. Do you think every one would have same amount of money or everyone would be equally successful? If not then why not?

Now apply the same question in Trading:

Make of group of 10 people (who don’t know anything about trading) having same characteristics e.g. Age, Gender, Intelligence, Education & Common Sense. Teach them how to trade with same techniques, provide them same tools & give them $1 Million each. Now ask them to go out & start trading.

Check & compare all of them with each other. Would they all be profitable? If not why not?

So what is important for Success?

  • Software?
  • Tools?
  • Knowledge
  • Mind-Set (Psychology)

Answer This Question First First First

Make a group of 10 people having same characteristics e.g. Age, Gender, Intelligence, Education & Common Sense. Teach them a business & give them $1 Million each. Now ask them to go out & start the business.

Check & compare all of them after 5 – 10 years. Do you think every one would have same amount of money or everyone would be equally successful? If not then why not?

Now apply the same question in Trading:

Make of group of 10 people (who don’t know anything about trading) having same characteristics e.g. Age, Gender, Intelligence, Education & Common Sense. Teach them how to trade with same techniques, provide them same tools & give them $1 Million each. Now ask them to go out & start trading.

Check & compare all of them with each other. Would they all be profitable? If not why not?

So what is important for Success?

  • Software?
  • Tools?
  • Knowledge
  • Mind-Set (Psychology)

Trading Success Formula Success Formula Success Formula

  • Psychology 50%
  • Money Management 30%
  • Method / Techniques 20%

100%

Trading Success Formula Success Formula Success Formula

  • Psychology 50%
  • Money Management 30%
  • Method / Techniques 20%

100%

Now Answer Another Question

Now ask another question to yourself & I need an honest answer to this question.

Do you think you can ever be as rich as Bill Gates is OR more than him?

Yes or No

Now Answer Another Question

Now ask another question to yourself & I need an honest answer to this question.

Do you think you can ever be as rich as Bill Gates is OR more than him?

Yes or No

Elephant Training  Elephant Training  Elephant Training  In Thailand

Elephants are used to transportations of heavy good/stuff in Thailand. These elephants always obeys their master orders. The most amazing fact is that once they finish their day job, they are tied with a chain or rope which is relatively many times weaker than the size & strength of that elephant.

Now another question … how come that weak chain or rope makes that elephant tied all the night?

The answer is Psychology. How? Let me explain.

When they want to train an elephant, they get a baby elephant. They tie him with a chain which is relatively stronger than this little baby. This baby elephant tries to break the chain over & over again for many days until his little mind tells him that this chain is much stronger than his strength so he would not be able to break that chain. With this frame of mind this baby elephant gives up one day.

Even after few years (when he grow up & become a much stronger giant) he still has same thinking that this chain is much stronger than me so he never tries to break that chain. So what makes him to remain tied with that weaker chain? It’s the way he think. Not the chain.

“If you born poor, it’s not your mistake but if you die poor then it’s your mistake”.

“Before leaving university my teachers told me that you only can be a truck driver, and then I started a company & employed my University Toppers”.

Bill Gates

The moral of his quotes is:

“Never let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. If someone tells you that you can’t do it, it actually mean he/she is telling you that he/she himself/herself can’t do it NOT you”.

Elephant Training  Elephant Training  Elephant Training  In Thailand

Elephants are used to transportations of heavy good/stuff in Thailand. These elephants always obeys their master orders. The most amazing fact is that once they finish their day job, they are tied with a chain or rope which is relatively many times weaker than the size & strength of that elephant.

Now another question … how come that weak chain or rope makes that elephant tied all the night?

The answer is Psychology. How? Let me explain.

When they want to train an elephant, they get a baby elephant. They tie him with a chain which is relatively stronger than this little baby. This baby elephant tries to break the chain over & over again for many days until his little mind tells him that this chain is much stronger than his strength so he would not be able to break that chain. With this frame of mind this baby elephant gives up one day.

Even after few years (when he grow up & become a much stronger giant) he still has same thinking that this chain is much stronger than me so he never tries to break that chain. So what makes him to remain tied with that weaker chain? It’s the way he think. Not the chain.

“If you born poor, it’s not your mistake but if you die poor then it’s your mistake”.

“Before leaving university my teachers told me that you only can be a truck driver, and then I started a company & employed my University Toppers”.

Bill Gates

The moral of his quotes is:

“Never let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. If someone tells you that you can’t do it, it actually mean he/she is telling you that he/she himself/herself can’t do it NOT you”.

Success & Failure  Success & Failure  Success & Failure  Cycle

Success & Failure  Success & Failure  Success & Failure  Cycle

Unplanned & Sudden Actions / Decisions In Life Decisions In Life Decisions In Life

Have you ever realized that our lives are full of decisions & actions which we never planned but some how we managed to do?

Imagine:

  • You are sleeping & a mosquito bites on one of our leg, you scratch it while you are sleeping. What makes you do it while you are not able to think while sleeping ?
  • You are walking down the street & a dog barks just behind you back, it triggers the tremors in your body. Did you planned to do it? If not then how did It took place?
  • You want to change our soap or toothpaste because you are not happy with it. You go out by the brand you have seen in television or billboard advertisements without knowing that its worth testing?

Unplanned & Sudden Actions / Decisions In Life Decisions In Life Decisions In Life

Have you ever realized that our lives are full of decisions & actions which we never planned but some how we managed to do?

Imagine:

  • You are sleeping & a mosquito bites on one of our leg, you scratch it while you are sleeping. What makes you do it while you are not able to think while sleeping ?
  • You are walking down the street & a dog barks just behind you back, it triggers the tremors in your body. Did you planned to do it? If not then how did It took place?
  • You want to change our soap or toothpaste because you are not happy with it. You go out by the brand you have seen in television or billboard advertisements without knowing that its worth testing?

Sub-Conscious Sub-Conscious Sub-Conscious Mind and Greed & Fear

Sub-conscious mind is a part of brain which is responsible for these unplanned & sudden actions/activities. Its basic function is storing memories which often comes as dream while we are sleeping.

Our sub-conscious mind never sleeps so it remains active while we are sleeping. In day time when our conscious mind is more active than sub-conscious mind, our sub-conscious mind overrides the conscious mind to perform these unplanned & sudden action/activities.

GREED & FEAR are two state of our mind which drives out all the logics from our brain. These conditions are the main reasons why trader loose money in trading. Large players makes lots of money by creating these two states in retail traders. Even in real life using these two state once can manipulate others in a way he/she wants to them to react. These states are performed by our Sub-Conscious mind.

Surprisingly, this part of brain can be programmed to root out the GREED & FEAR to achieve an ideal mental state from trading.

Sub-Conscious Sub-Conscious Sub-Conscious Mind and Greed & Fear

Sub-conscious mind is a part of brain which is responsible for these unplanned & sudden actions/activities. Its basic function is storing memories which often comes as dream while we are sleeping.

Our sub-conscious mind never sleeps so it remains active while we are sleeping. In day time when our conscious mind is more active than sub-conscious mind, our sub-conscious mind overrides the conscious mind to perform these unplanned & sudden action/activities.

GREED & FEAR are two state of our mind which drives out all the logics from our brain. These conditions are the main reasons why trader loose money in trading. Large players makes lots of money by creating these two states in retail traders. Even in real life using these two state once can manipulate others in a way he/she wants to them to react. These states are performed by our Sub-Conscious mind.

Surprisingly, this part of brain can be programmed to root out the GREED & FEAR to achieve an ideal mental state from trading.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s.

Self-hypnosis is a NLP technique to program our subconscious mind in a way we want it to react. Meditation & Self-suggestion using a mirror are more effective ways to perform it.

You can try it out & experience its magic. When you are on your bed just before you fall in sleep, speak to your self three times by calling your name that “ (your name) please awake me up at 6 O clock in the morning”. In morning around 6 O clock, you would feel that somebody awoke you up, who was it? It was your sub-conscious mind who did as you instructed him.

How does it benefit us in trading?

Using self-hypnosis we can program our sub-conscious mind to take out GREED & FEAR and acting with the mentality professionals trader have.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s.

Self-hypnosis is a NLP technique to program our subconscious mind in a way we want it to react. Meditation & Self-suggestion using a mirror are more effective ways to perform it.

You can try it out & experience its magic. When you are on your bed just before you fall in sleep, speak to your self three times by calling your name that “ (your name) please awake me up at 6 O clock in the morning”. In morning around 6 O clock, you would feel that somebody awoke you up, who was it? It was your sub-conscious mind who did as you instructed him.

How does it benefit us in trading?

Using self-hypnosis we can program our sub-conscious mind to take out GREED & FEAR and acting with the mentality professionals trader have.

Sub-Conscious Mind Programming

By standing in front of mirror, looking in your own eyes, assuming the reflection as your sub-conscious mind. You should repeat following facts three times daily. This will start programming your sub-conscious mind.

  • MUST “DROP FILL MY BUCKET” & let the POWER OF COMPOUNDING take over. It’s a race in which turtles are winners & rabbits are looser.
  • NOT TRADING IS WINNING = CAPITAL PRESERVATION
    I MUST NOT trade for the sake of Trading. I must wait & select only high probable opportunities; it is like waiting & selecting the right bus which has got my route number on it. No matter how long does it take & how many buses (low probable opportunities) I leave at the bus stop, I have to choose the right bus. Selecting other buses than the right bus will never get me to my destination (Trading Success). TRADE LESS TO EARN MORE.
  • Trading is like “Catching a Snake”, without planning, skills & high probable opportunity I am more likely to be bitten by it.
  • TRADING IS A GAME OF PROBABILITIES. Any high probable trade opportunity is just an excellent opportunity, not a certain opportunity.
  • I MUST risk the amount which I am ready to loose. Trading is not about how much I can earn; it’s about how much I can afford to lose.
  • Risking higher amount on one single trade & thinking I am doing it only once, works in a destructive way. It leads to the Habit of Gambling. It’s my damn serious BUSINESS not a casino or a laboratory for experiments as one big win cannot make me but certainly one BIG LOSS can break me.
  • DEFINED SMALLER RISKS leads to COMPOUNDING.
  • Each trade is a separate & independent trade; DON’T have fear by relating it with past losing or DON’T be overconfident by relating it with past series of winners.
  • Every loss is an excellent learning & self-improvement opportunity for me, putting it under the carpet is wasting that excellent learning & self-improvement opportunity.
  • I MUST never do the Revenge Trading. What I earned is mine now & what I lost is no longer mine so where is Revenge?
  • There are lot of successful traders in the world; if they can do it I can do it. I just need to be disciplined, follow the path set by most successful trader in the history & having perseverance to be a successful trader.

Sub-Conscious Mind Programming

By standing in front of mirror, looking in your own eyes, assuming the reflection as your sub-conscious mind. You should repeat following facts three times daily. This will start programming your sub-conscious mind.

  • MUST “DROP FILL MY BUCKET” & let the POWER OF COMPOUNDING take over. It’s a race in which turtles are winners & rabbits are looser.
  • NOT TRADING IS WINNING = CAPITAL PRESERVATION
    I MUST NOT trade for the sake of Trading. I must wait & select only high probable opportunities; it is like waiting & selecting the right bus which has got my route number on it. No matter how long does it take & how many buses (low probable opportunities) I leave at the bus stop, I have to choose the right bus. Selecting other buses than the right bus will never get me to my destination (Trading Success). TRADE LESS TO EARN MORE.
  • Trading is like “Catching a Snake”, without planning, skills & high probable opportunity I am more likely to be bitten by it.
  • TRADING IS A GAME OF PROBABILITIES. Any high probable trade opportunity is just an excellent opportunity, not a certain opportunity.
  • I MUST risk the amount which I am ready to loose. Trading is not about how much I can earn; it’s about how much I can afford to lose.
  • Risking higher amount on one single trade & thinking I am doing it only once, works in a destructive way. It leads to the Habit of Gambling. It’s my damn serious BUSINESS not a casino or a laboratory for experiments as one big win cannot make me but certainly one BIG LOSS can break me.
  • DEFINED SMALLER RISKS leads to COMPOUNDING.
  • Each trade is a separate & independent trade; DON’T have fear by relating it with past losing or DON’T be overconfident by relating it with past series of winners.
  • Every loss is an excellent learning & self-improvement opportunity for me, putting it under the carpet is wasting that excellent learning & self-improvement opportunity.
  • I MUST never do the Revenge Trading. What I earned is mine now & what I lost is no longer mine so where is Revenge?
  • There are lot of successful traders in the world; if they can do it I can do it. I just need to be disciplined, follow the path set by most successful trader in the history & having perseverance to be a successful trader.

Recommended Books

  • The Disciplined Trader – by Mark Douglas
  • Trading in the Zone – by Mark Douglas
  • Market Wizards (1989) – by Jack D Schwager
  • The New Market Wizards (1992) – by Jack D Schwager
  • Stock Market Wizards (2001) – by Jack D Schwager
  • Hedge Fund Market Wizards (2012) – by Jack D Schwager
  • The Little Book of Market Wizards (2014) – by Jack D Schwager

Recommended Books

  • The Disciplined Trader – by Mark Douglas
  • Trading in the Zone – by Mark Douglas
  • Market Wizards (1989) – by Jack D Schwager
  • The New Market Wizards (1992) – by Jack D Schwager
  • Stock Market Wizards (2001) – by Jack D Schwager
  • Hedge Fund Market Wizards (2012) – by Jack D Schwager
  • The Little Book of Market Wizards (2014) – by Jack D Schwager