Trading is undeniably hard—not for the technical part but for the human part.

➡️Human biases
➡️Societal conditioning
➡️Even our physiology

All of these work against developing the Trader Mind.

Here are the 6 key perspective shifts every trader needs to make to succeed👇 1️⃣ Hard-Work Contrast

In life, more effort often equals more results. In trading, more effort can mean overtrading.

The best action is often no action.

Your strategy filters the noise—trading isn’t about doing more; it's about making quality decisions.

Most traders lack a self-control plan.

So when emotions take over, they default to autopilot and repeat the same mistakes.

Here’s a simple 7-step routine to self-manage in critical moments👇 Step 1: Recognition

You can’t fix what you don’t notice.

✅ Journal during the session.
✅ Set alarms to check in with yourself.
✅ Watch for triggers (e.g., after a loss, a mistake, or missed trade).

Self-awareness is your first line of defense.

Most traders want to succeed, but very few are willing to change.

And even fewer follow through.

Why?

Because lasting change doesn’t start with processes or outcomes—it starts with identity.

Let me explain 👇 1/ As James Clear says in Atomic Habits:

“Your current behaviors are a reflection of your current identity.”

If you don’t believe you’re capable of patience, discipline, or success, your actions will eventually reflect that belief—even if you know all the right methods.

The most common and dangerous limiting belief among traders is the one of Unworthiness.

This leads to:

- Overtrading: waiting for the winner that finally makes you feel worthy
- Hesitation: doubting the setup and your ability to perform
- Take profits too early: to quickly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… These steps are adapted from the book "The Myth of Normal" by Gabor Maté.

I added a final extra step to help you get started in your journey to healing.

Want to become a high-performing trader?

It's less about the right strategy and more about the quality with which you perform it.

Here are The 4 Hallmarks Of High-Performance Trading: To trade well we need to feel good emotionally.

But to feel good emotionally you need to trade well.

Traders often dismiss the second.

If you want to become a successful trader, these are the 4 qualities your trading needs:

Do you feel your results can’t get past a certain resistance level?

Every time you get close to it, your profits slip back down.

You've reached a Trading Plateau.

Here are 7 key methods to breaking through it: The first thing traders do when they plateau is:

- Increase targets
- Take more trades
- Change stuff about their strategies

None of these work.

Here's what you should do instead:

Has Your Overtrading Turned Into An Addiction?

Find out here: The following 10 questions are used by professionals to assess any kind of addiction:

6 Warning Signs You're About to Enter a Bad Trade (and how to act on them): #1 Overthinking

This is your brain working hard to give you an accurate answer in an uncertain environment

If you ever find yourself overthinking about entering a trade, remember that you cannot control its result. Overthinking won't determine if the trade is successful or not.

Fear dominates traders.

It’s responsible for all the toxic habits in the markets.

If you wanna stop fear from deciding for you, you need to understand its origin.

Here’s the truth uncovered and a step-by-step guide to defeating it: Fear comes from the ego.

Your ego is nothing more than your belief system, which helps you eradicate the uncertainty of life.

When your beliefs get challenged, your survival is put into question. This triggers fear of death.

So how can you overcome this human instinct?

The difference between traders who recover from drawdown and those who don't: In basketball, when there’s a player who’s not scored for a while it’s usually a confidence issue.

They are not taking the same risks as before because they’ve lost confidence in their ability.

The same happens in trading drawdowns.

Are you guilty of taking profits too early?

Here are 3 proven methods you can use to control this urge and maximize your returns: Does this happen to you often?

- Exiting a trade at break-even due to fear of loss
- Exiting before your target gets hit afraid the market reverses
- Taking a small loss before the stop loss is reached

In the last class, @mrkt_meditation gave a small huge advice to break the route that leads you to trading mistakes:

Have a piece of paper at your desk with the "logical thought" that's contrarian to the thought that traps you over and over again. Comparing your distorted thought with the corrected thought helps your brain readjust information and the underlying emotion.

Anger, frustration, anxiety.. they all come from fear of the uncertain.

Most of the traders’ mistakes can be traced back to a lack of journaling and preparation.

If you want real progress, start by improving the way you record information!

Here are the 5 most important things I keep in my trading journal: #1 Screenshots

One image is worth a thousand words.

Take a screenshot of all the timeframes you used for your analysis.

Take 2 extra screenshots of the trade execution.

Just like this:

Being aware of your trading mistakes is great!

... but not enough

If you want to solve them, you need to access the underlying limiting beliefs.

Here are the 7 major limiting beliefs you need to get rid of to achieve peak performance in trading: “I’m not good enough”

Your level of self-confidence is directly related to the quality of your performance.

Lack of it will make you:
- Overthink your trading decisions
- Hesitate when you should pull the trigger.

Start working on it.

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Overtrading is 95% of the traders' mistakes.

And the number one reason why they lose money.

Be in the 5%!

Here’s a simple method to control your overtrading: #1 Understand Your Triggers

It’s useless to generalize one solution for all the traders.

You're unique and so are your triggers.

Know the emotion that drives the response and you’ll arrive at the trigger.

How?