The Mental Side of Trading

24 08 2007

Trading Commodities Futures Contracts for profit places an extra-ordinary responsibility on the shoulders of the speculator.

All results are entirely up to you.  Failure or Success, they say, is “In you hands.”

However, it is vital in trading to realize that your success is based on something much deeper.  Your hands do the action, but your actions are an extention of your thoughts – and your thoughts are DIRECTLY limitted and linked to your self-image. 

The highly-leaveraged futures markets provide a trader with very strong negetive feedback if you are trading wrong, much like a golfer will miss a shot by many yards just with fractions of millimeters mistake in contacting the ball.  The effect of one’s emotions on the success of your trades are very much like those described in the book Inner Golf. 

Check out www.futures-trading-primer.com for a growing collection of articles on the Mental Side of Trading 

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