Technical Analysis Fallacy
very sad.
try a demo account.
no analysis.
and try lose whole account a few times.
then you will begin understand what you must not do.
then reread thread.
regards
after 4 years of demo , you should be master of trading by now.
so the problem is not in the trading.
could be mostly mindset or lifestyle.
From your little amounts of posting, what i can detect is you have very high tendency want analysis.
And your analysis impeed into your actual trades, if not totally control your trades.
I believe is your weakness. Also seems much frustration.
Try also find ways step out of your feelings. see things from an outside you perspective.
Then you will tend feel more.
regards
, I try to think about my thoughts as waves that come and go and try to let them be, but I get caught up in those thoughts really easily, hence I can't simply not trade or do pretty much anything else to keep myself busy... if I don't trade, I have nothing but my thoughts to contend with and then I just spiral out of control.
ai ya so sensitive.
I know, was telling fana.
flip is a decision process.
flip 3 times means a trader is pig.
pig means he probably totally disorientated and out of sync.
sometimes could be due to biorythms.
no comments ever? ai ya amongst friends?
live let live la.
Disorientation is a big problem.
Had a rotor friend, he got disorientated in a fog.
Ran into a hill and made big crator.
I sometimes becomes pig too in markets.
Those days i thank God just come out breakeven.
If pigs days, i can recover and come out ahead.
Is even...
Yep I understand that, I've got the same problem with everything else in my life, tennis, guitar... I played tennis for years, have a great technique yet am unable to win matches, have great
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Trying to step out of my own feelings... I'm pretty sure I know what you are talking about, but easier said than done
Sorry, I was getting confused with the posts.
On the upside, I lost money yesterday in the nightclub conditions you described and made it all up on cable today. A year ago I would have gone mad yesterday and tried to make my money back immediately, so maybe I have a little more control over my ego these days (even if am a sensitive big girl's blouse)
@ atomic sheep - I'd like to comment on your post but it's a bit too long for me. However, some of the things you said struck a chord with me (we seem to have the same hobbies / pastimes by the...
ANGER.
yes the ego.
anger management is difficult and is different to manage.
When i angry, i mostly just go sleep. These days i get cranky a lot.
thats why i sleep more.
regards
I have a colossal ego. The markets and your guidance have helped me a lot in trying to tame it. (I even used to get angry with your guidance if I didn't understand it on the first reading - that's how stupid I am!)
ok seeing the picture.
You have perfectionist complex.
easy fix, look in the mirror and smile at yourself.
When you begin think how and whys.
go to a dance club and make a fool of yourself.
Remember , only God is perfect.
Everyone else is just trying their very best live with their impecfections.
Even the champion is mostly shitty.
Only once a while they'll shine.
Have a good self image of yourself.
You are imperfect, thats you. In fact , we are all like that.
For trading, demo again.
This time you are a dummy.
no analysis, only...
Sorry, I was getting confused with the posts.
@ atomic sheep - I'd like to comment on your post but it's a bit too long for me. However, some of the things you said struck a chord with me (we seem to have the same hobbies / pastimes by the way). I always put my lack of progress after a certain point down to having no staying power but after reading what you wrote, maybe it is something else.
I was very good at tennis but I stopped playing. I was good at the guitar up to a certain point, then plateaued and put it down for years. Learned to speak Thai quite well in the first 2 or 3 years here then stopped dead. Most things that I tackle I seem to make great progress then just stop. Either I am afraid of succeeding or I'm mentally ill! I personally think you have to work through such problems....Maybe if you played the guitar for 3 hours every day you could get past your problems and start to retain things better....or maybe you have completely different problems to me..I don't know.
EDIT: I used to get really angry with the markets when they went against me too
EDIT2: The "struck a chord with me" comment was not supposed to be a pun about guitar playing
, but at the end of the day, it's just the way we have learned to cope with day to day psychological pain. The challenge is to become aware of this, accept it, find the cause for it and change our lives in such a way that we no longer see the things we find problematic as problems. Something like that at least.
ok try listen to this recording.over and over until you get fedup of it.
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Example, if your scout is 1000 units and your MM is 1,1,2, your next position should be 1001 then you can close 1001 before 1000.
Remember with Oanda you can vary your position by 1 unit and circumvent First In First Out.
Rgs,
