Anxiety is a future oriented emotion. You never will get anxious about events that have already occurred. Suppose we had been anxious about a trade but now it’s over with profit hit or stopped out. We no longer feel anxiety – only feel nothing, or satisfaction, or remorse, or disappointment, or sorrow, or some other past oriented emotion.

Anxiety communicate a message that there’s something in our future for which we need to prepare. This is a vital, a self-protection message. (more…)