YOUNG MONK: “Do not try and bend the spoon—that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.”
NEO: “What truth?”
YOUNG MONK: “There is no spoon.”

This is one of the key ideas in the Matrix: that what our eyes or senses perceive is not necessarily reality.  By stepping into the trader’s chart, we only know so much about the reality we are anticipating and perceiving.  Whilst we can stack the odds in our favour by plugging in the appropriate programs, using the right indicators, reading the news, we are nevertheless trading probabilities, as opposed to fixed, quantifiable outcomes.  We can set our parameters for action within this hyper-reality and hone our knowledge and experience as we take the trades, but we cannot know outcomes. As the young Buddhist monk tells Neo, we must bend our minds to the task, we cannot bend the markets…