One of the most important yet underrated and unknown aspects of improving your trading performance is "Inward reflection"
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90% of the trading happens inside your head, only 10% on the terminal.
As a trader looking to improve or maintain performance, it is essential to constantly introspect on how you feel before, during and after market hours on days of various performances.
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Asking a generic question like "How to improve my trading psychology" is like walking into a garment store and asking " I want a shirt."
Sideways price action or consolidation is a phase where institutional players are silently building their positions transacting in smaller quantities.
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What we need to understand is that big players have huge amounts of money and one major disadvantage of having such large cap is that they cannot transact in big quantities without being spotted (aka volumes)
In order to minimize this disadvantage to an extent, they will begin building their positions with many smaller blocks of orders to look like multiple small players and to not alert other market participants much.
Yesterday, I met with a trader who wanted to make it in the markets. Advised on the following psychological pointers from my own exp:
Time:
1. You cannot become a successful trader overnight. 2. How long it takes depends on a person, the time they can dedicate everyday, their level of emotional control and balance etc.
Expectations:
1. There is no magic setup to turn 1L into 10L in a week or month. 2. Compared to other professions, trading can make you rich faster but not UNREALISTICALLY faster. If you have a golden goose, take one golden egg per day, don't cut its stomach in greed.