I have thought over and over again why people say 70% trading success depends on psychology ... it is such a
straightforward thing to make a trade ... but now my thought goes such ==>.
A trade <== A trading decision <== strong mental thought/emotional impulse <== way to look at/make a meaning of things happening in front of you <== mental conditioning <== belief,trusts,habits,fear,gread, etc. etc.
My case is really a funny one ... well I accept that it really feels bad to lose money ... it feels sad to lose your energy everyday ... I am losing money consistently for one month now!!...So finally I have got some major reasons behind this outcome... One of them is
my mental conditioning ...
...
Please read following very carefully who are new in this field like me ...This may be happening with you too!...and knowing this may give you a control over it & may help you
a huge to fix if something is going wrong
consistently in your trading!.
I tell you/accept honestly that I / my brain does not accept any price that is falling continuously ... This is a gift of media/news/books...So
The only price-time behaviour that has
occupied my brain or that
I believe is this ...
1. Figure 1: - Belief
... IT is really funny and strange but
I only believe in this action!!!...Any other price-time behaviour I see, immediately make a
meaning that something like a temporary illness is happening right now and final end is surely going to be "figure 1"!!!
2. Fugure 2: - Reality
The moment I see above picture in fig.no. 2 my brain quickly projects the sweet end as below...as if a villians sure end in a typical bollywood movie...
3. Figure 3: - Projected future from reality
... So funnily
taking things granted as per my mental projection ... I immediately buy the stock and
feel happy for my timely decision!!!
... But alassss
it goes down further as per
"Newtons first law of motion" and my brain
keeps on modifying the projection by reattaching the figure 1 to the end of the falling price!!!!!
... So I am
always sure about the price rebound throughout the day and suddenly day ends ,,,
and i am in loss!!!... Again for so many days my brain was NOT ready to accept anything wrong with its belief structure ,,, it always blames on the
illness of market for falling down the stock price!!!!
4. Figure 4: - And What when price is rising: -
... So when above price action happens I immediately get sad saying
ohh I missed this lottery ... I was attending so many stocks so I missed this NORMAL Price-Time BEHAVIOUR ...I was so worried about
illness of other stocks that I missed this normal and
supposed behaviour of a price!!! ... So I interprete this incidence as "
Unfortunate"!!! and never dare to buy that stock because it may faaaaaaaaall anytime!!!!.
hahaha...hohoho.....
......Ohh this is so funny but this IS THE TRUTH of my day trading so far ...
So you see...our action decides our trades ... our mental decision decide our action ... our mental makeup (belief, trusts,greed,fear etc.) decide our mental decision ... and a "
consistant REAL experience" against our belief structure destroys it!! ..
and then only we get WISE! ... If we are honest, this destruction of our "belief structure" will happen in less time ... and we will quickly
learn to mold our mindset like a rubber with the trend we are seeing on the screen and make our mental image colinear/parallel with it... and will
start taking decisions in the direction of trend, and not against it!!
... I have just posted this to
make aware my collgues who are making consistent loss for quite some time!!
Because peoples say "Making consistant profit in stocks is not a joke" ... and priyanvada says in turn "
making consistent loss in stocks is also not a joke!!!" ...
Just think
while day trading had you taken your decisions exactly against your feelings you might have been making consistent profits!!
...although you may have felt
really awakward for taking such decisions...So I think/hope you got my point here!
... Only thing is please
remain AWARE all the time while taking a trading decision to WHAT EXCATLY is making you take that decision ... and you will know the SECRET!!
My God I write so much...So sorry for that...Please do correct me if I am wrong anywhere / everywhere because I am also same human being like you who makes consistent mistakes!!
regards,
priyanvada