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Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

The best performers in any discipline will set process goals instead of outcome goals.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Strategy For Today, Tomorrow , Forever.... 1. A Small Win 2. A Small Loss 3. A Big Win 4. Break even

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

"If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom. Yet how easily you hand over your mind to anyone who insults you. When you dwell on their words and let them dominate your thoughts, you make them your ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Winning traders perform well under uncertainty because oftentimes they know exactly what they’re going to do. They have a plan, and they’ve taken the time to understand why that plan works, and why following it is the best course of action for them.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

If there's a discord between your opinion and your plan, drop the opinion and stick with the plan. You're only allowed to go with your instincts every now and then when you have a certain amount of experience under your belt ―usually a few years.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

In trading, since real money is involved, it's very easy to let raw, instinctual responses take over rational, strategic thinking. Hence, being a good trader is anything but easy. It really requires a superior mode of thinking and being.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Often, people do pretty well in paper trading. But in live trading, all hell breaks loose. This is proof that the predicament is fundamentally a mindset one.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

When you develop self-control, self-discipline and accountability, and when you take responsibility for writing rules, making plans and holding yourself accountable, you separate yourself from the crowd. Then you can observe it from the outside. You ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

If you’re a beginner, understand that you won’t be a beginner forever. Your years as a beginner are the most formative ones. The experiences you’re going through will stay with you and shape up the expert you’ll eventually become. So, embrace the ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Every action you perform as a trader is a vote for that type of identity. So what identity do you want to take, that of a struggling trader or that of a disciplined trader?

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Many issues that you'll face in trading have a simple solution: Be less in your head and more with your plan.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

First rule of trading: everything is your fault! Accept this. The sooner you do, the sooner you can begin working on improving the quality of YOUR decisions.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

When you're finally able to look at the market and deal with your trades in a dispassionate way, you have adopted the quality of a professional money-making trader. That's when the fun begins.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

As a trader, your troubles are fear-based. If you can understand that fear ―how it manifests itself, what it incites you to do/not do, what triggers it― and if you vow to learn to work with it, you're at a mature stage in your development. Good ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

If you have a genuine desire to understand yourself, the market, and the endeavor of trading, you will generally do well. On the other hand, if you're guided by a desire to get rich quick, you will generally look for short-cuts that will, very ...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

At the core of this journey is the goal of transforming your life. But then, why don't you start with your own mind? Everything begins and ends there...

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

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Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

A very good interview on trading: Mark Douglas Discussed Trading Psychology, Risk and much more video

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade

Compete against yourself, not others. With each trade, try to set a personal record, not for profits but for how well you manage your trade(s) and yourself.

Ratios & Harmonics: a Different Way to Trade