The Bucking Bronco

Begin to bank... don't be greedy Jupiter. It is enough. Say thank you again...

Ready.

Banking!

Probably my best trade ever! I really like the position and the geometry of my squads on the terrain!

I'll leave something on the table for sure but I'm ready to jump out.
TIGHTENING MY STOP.
I must respect the Market.

825. I begin to bank.

819. Banking some more.

Out. Only scouts in.

Squared. 12.800

Light troops. Fresh, agile soldiers deployed on the battlefield.

I love DAX. I'm OK.

Opened my charts for a check and put down a quick trap. Something has entered the net.

Yes. It was a perfectly technical, scientific trade.
In some ways, the coronation of 10 years of commitment and sacrifices.
And anyway, nothing in front of the immense possibilities offered by the market.


As taught by the true W.D. Gann, trading could be a serious profession.
Trading is not gambling.
"Trading in the Flow" – to me - is an ongoing, pure, intense intellectual challenge!
To be happy in our Traders' Daily Life requires a will directed toward true values.
The markets tell us each day if we are right or if we are wrong.
Each day we, as traders, can live as perfect human beings - that's to say: armed only with knowledge and our rational faculties!!! -
...or abdicate that honour (and its sophisticated, subtle pleasure)
and submit ourselves to our demons: ignorance, arrogance, anger, emotions and revenge.

"In critical situation you will not rise to the level of your expectations... but fall to the level of your training!"
Archilochus, poet and Greek soldier, 650 BC.

This is exactly my point.
Essentially, the fact that the ability to succeed is not based on some type of Godly superpower someone is born with.
Success is based on the human ability to train to the point that when faced with a critical situation someone has practiced responses so many times...
that it has become an immediate reaction occurring almost without thought.
That's why we need to train ourself that hard! Both in study and in simulating practice.

Like Col. Boyd, I like to issue challenges to the market:
"Put me in a position of disadvantage and I will execute a winning trade within 1 minute/5 minute."
To do that we need to practise (a lot) a sort of "dehumanisation" of trading.

Superior athletes, musicians, professionals, soldiers, and traders are not created out of thin air. They are the product of years of correct training.

The sad truth is that it took me too much time to arrive at this level of comprehension of the market's dynamics.
Really too much, considering my age.
And more over I have not the money to play the real, big game amongst "the adults".
I will remain a flea, an ant, a nothingness.
But it was and it is fun!

Hmmmm... Nasdaq printed a new high on D1, recovering the entire decline! That is noteworthy.

Yeah it takes too much time and too much effort to earn a living out of this.

But there's always a pay off for everyone, you could be young and have decades of trading in front of you however without full time dedication there's little to no chance you might ever make it.

Full time dedication means you'll have to go the starving artist route without any certainty if you'll ever learn the skill is a huge sacrifice that not many are willing OR able to make.

There'd been many instances where I seriously questioned myself and the reasons why I should keep going, I still have times of serious doubt at this stage in my journey although I'm making huge progress it's never easy nor simple to find an answer.

Yesterday fti wrote: "Only took me 6 years make super dealers at banks. 3 of world top 5 by capitalisation at that time."
We all have to meditate on such a statement with its implications and consequences.

We already discussed the matter.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore's quote: “It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.”

-10 scouting for South.