Neuro Linguistic Program (NLP) and use in trading
Technical analysis is all about human emotions which reflects in price movement.
Most of the old sayings in markets like ride the trend, keep it simple etc. are easy to say but when we trade with real money in market and pressure is on at that time most of the traders make mistakes, our subconsious brain is responsible for this.
In stock market learning all technical analysis, various systems, methodologies is merely 1 years work, then sticking with what is profitable, what is comfortable is again takes few months to years and sometime eternity, then real quest starts, the inner quest with yourself and here professionals separates from the crowd, they exactly know how to manage mental balance which is must must in trading.
Never seen one successful trader who is very quick tempered, loud mouth etc..on contrary you will find them very mild, peaceful and in balance.
NLP is actually a clinical psychology subject and there r books devoted on nlp in psychiatry, so without getting in to medical terminology i will try my best to explain what is nlp in very short words...NLP as name suggests programs our brain to behave specifically under specific physical conditions simple ex. if one in grief then program the brain when in grief dont go into shell and lock into dark room instead go on walk, do exercise listen or play some music etc.Now before proceed lets look at the interesting aspect of life..when we wear something young like jinns, t-shirt we unconsciously behave like a young kid, in formal wears we act like matures.In drama schools they teach if you want to convince the audience get in to the character and feel the character and emotions automatically come appears on face ( so many times we hear actors saying at some time playing that role they actually cried ) ..in short point is externally we can change the inner graph of our brain, we can program the brain as per our needs.
Using NLP we can program our brain how to trade and what conditions u want and under what market condition what my brain by default should do...
..lil out of subject...cant help but remember the movie ghajini and the scene where amir khan wake up with empty brain then in his empty brain he start feeding data with the help of tattoos and all ( read- he programs his brain ), and after words he achieve which is unachievable ( well they suggests u can make those 8 packs as well.lol ) lets forget the exaggeration but point is programing the brain ( taking the clue from it i set my alarm tone to rocky's ' eye of the tiger ' which helps me do exercise.. lol ) coming to the NLP and trading ..to program our brain for right way of trading its also helpful to learn CBT cognitive behavior therapy which is very vast subject,
In US there r lots of institutes opened for using NLP in trading life, one reminds me of Charles Faulkner ( who is appeared in new market wizards book ), he runs such kind of institute and also author of the book NLP: The New Technology of Achievement and Success Mastery with NLP
If some one is interested i request him to google NLP & read more on it as its very big subject and very useful for trader as well.
p.s. while writing this long post one funny idea pops ... few years back i was doing some work on anti depressants ( more specific SSRI ) which i dump in halfway
in this section there is best seller medicine prozac which fight against the depression and some claims alter the personality, now what if some good trader kept under observation under that drug and follow his/her progress ? markets driving force is greed and fear and with the help of advance medical science if one cut down the fear factor ( in a healthy way, not like some one on drugs and in aggressive fashion ) what will happen...rofl
on this random note i better get to the bed
Alex