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I mention this because it’s one of my main weak points high vol markets make it harder to notice the state you’re operating from
i wanted to expand on this briefly
the most prevalent issue for me after a win is post-win money handling and that i become impulsive and overactive. my ego flares up, i take 50 bad trades in the process of trying to chase the high of that recent big win, and i end up sacrificing basic risk management trying to recreate that. so i need to put in place safeguards around my own personal weakness.
alot of people search for the perfect system, but the fact of the matter is that it does not exist. the edge of any trading system is the edge of the system, its the yin, it tells you where the money is. but the system around it, your hard rules, risk management, your discipline, your psyche, are the yang. they dictate whether you actually keep it. no yang and the value of yin becomes futile
i don't think the best traders in the world are masters of psychology. I think they use the market as a way to study themselves, they find/hone their edge and apply a system, see where it breaks, and build a remedy around that. in a way that is almost intimate.
the system becomes something that protects the trader from their own leaks and tells in a way that's personal - tuned to their temperament, their risk profile, every factor that affects them in the market. if there is a form of perfection in this game, i believe it is a trader who has refined a personal system to protect themselves from the exact points at which they are most likely to fail
the most prevalent issue for me after a win is post-win money handling and that i become impulsive and overactive. my ego flares up, i take 50 bad trades in the process of trying to chase the high of that recent big win, and i end up sacrificing basic risk management trying to recreate that. so i need to put in place safeguards around my own personal weakness.
alot of people search for the perfect system, but the fact of the matter is that it does not exist. the edge of any trading system is the edge of the system, its the yin, it tells you where the money is. but the system around it, your hard rules, risk management, your discipline, your psyche, are the yang. they dictate whether you actually keep it. no yang and the value of yin becomes futile
i don't think the best traders in the world are masters of psychology. I think they use the market as a way to study themselves, they find/hone their edge and apply a system, see where it breaks, and build a remedy around that. in a way that is almost intimate.
the system becomes something that protects the trader from their own leaks and tells in a way that's personal - tuned to their temperament, their risk profile, every factor that affects them in the market. if there is a form of perfection in this game, i believe it is a trader who has refined a personal system to protect themselves from the exact points at which they are most likely to fail
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and so, don’t fool yourself into thinking your edge, no matter how good, can outrun the absence of the yang
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I'm the most awesome blockchain genius in the entire universe, and I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely can do it!
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