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THE TWELVE HABITUDES

  
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A successful trader:

  1. Has a commitment to trading and comes prepared to trade.
  2. Is detached from the results. He thinks in terms of process and believes in the validity of the process.
  3. Is willing to accept loss.
  4. Is at ease with controlled risk.
  5. Thinks in terms of probabilities.
  6. Is comfortable with uncertainty.
  7. Takes the long term view.
  8. Has an attitude of abundance.
  9. Is optimistic.
  10. Has an attitude of open-mindedness and clarity of thought and perception.
  11. Has an attitude of courage. She is willing to act in the face of uncertainty and possible loss.
  12. Is disciplined. Discipline is putting into action those behaviors which need to be done to get you to your goals.

Habitude 1: Preparedness

  • A successful trader trains his mind for high power trading. If he needs a coach or mentor, he gets one. He takes the time for meditation, self-suggestion and positive visualization. He learns helpful questions to ask himself. He does whatever it takes to prepare himself mentally to trade.
  • Set goals
    • Put your goal into words. Form a sentence that is specific, simple, short, positive, in the present tense, and achievable.
    • Make a mental movie of yourself with the goal achieved.
    • Step into the movie and live it and feel it as if it is already true.
    • Design the steps necessary to take to get to the goal.
    • Commit yourself to doing the steps and make a timetable to do them. (more…)

5 Quotes From Market Wizard Steve Clark

  
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I was so inexperienced that I didn’t have the fear – the fear that cripples people who have been in the business too long. I have seen that so many times. Very few people maintain their ability to take risk throughout their career. Most don’t Most can’t. They have had too many bad things happen to them, too many fat tails, and it damages people – Steve Clark

What Clark is talking about here sounds like the opposite of beginner’s luck. I have seen a number of examples of this in the business world. People who work their whole lives to build something by taking risks suddenly don’t want to take risks anymore. They realize at some point that they now have things that they are no longer willing to lose. They have too much experience watching others fail.

It was a terrible shock to me ego. I began to doubt my ability. It was a very depressing time. It lasted for several months. I’ve seen this happen to many traders, and I have gone through it sever times myself. When you find that you can’t make any money, smaller and smaller losses take on greater and greater emotional significance, and you lose all perspective. – Steve Clark

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The 7 rules of Managing Risk

  
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1.)Overcome fearRisk Management

2.) Remain flexible – When you don’t know what’s going to happen, the best strategy is to be ready for anything.

3.) Take reasoned risks – reasonable exposure and positive edges only.

A Reasoned risk is more like an educated guess rather than a roll of the dice.  A Reasoned risk limits exposure so that one or a few trades will not affect the trader’s account too adversely should the trades turn out badly.  Great traders aren’t gamblers.

4.) Prepare to be wrong

5.) Actively seek reality

6.) Respond quickly to change – When a trader determined a place to get out of the trade, a competent trader will respond quickly and get out, thereby reducing his exposure to continued uncertainty to zero.

7.) Focus on decisions, not outcomes.

The power of fear

  
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Fear is the emotion of survival.

Before every game or before the first trade of the day there is always that little bit of uncertainty. That feeling in your stomach. For me it always went away as soon as the first hit or the dink of my first order getting filled. Same is true with my fear of public speaking.

It was not always that way. I had to do the work, be prepared, and convince myself whatever the outcome I would work to achieve a better outcome the next time. Eventually the fear of not doing became worse than the fear of doing.

Like I always say, do it once, the good habits that is. (more…)

7 Points To Follow If You Are A Trader

  
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  1.  Expect long hours of study and research. Assume you will lose money in the beginning.
  2. A person interested in becoming a trader must have the mindset of an entrepreneur. Risk, irregular income, and spending money to make money, are all part of the business.
  3. You must trade like a business person and not a gambler. Gamblers need not apply; go to Vegas instead.
  4. Risk management will be your priority. Too much risk exposure will eventually lead you to be an unemployed trader with no trading capital.
  5. You are your own human resource department. Be prepared to manage your own greed and fear.
  6. To keep your morale up, you must keep all your losses small, and allow your winning trades to be as large as possible.
  7. Jesse Livermore’s quote for potential candidates: “The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.”
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