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When you completely accept the psychological realities of the market, you will correspondingly accept
the risks of trading. When you accept the risks of trading, you eliminate the potential to define market
information in painful ways. When you stop defining and interpreting market information in painful
ways, there is nothing for your mind to avoid, nothing to protect against.
When there's nothing to protect against, you will have access to all that you know about the nature of
market movement. Nothing will get blocked, which means you will perceive all the possibilities you
have learned about (objectively), and since your mind is open to a true exchange of energy, you will
quite naturally start discovering other possibilities (edges) that you formerly couldn't perceive. For your
mind to be open to a true exchange of energy, you can't be in a state of knowing or believing that you
already know what's going to happen next. When you are at peace with not knowing what's going to
happen next, you can interact with the market from a perspective where you will be making yourself
available to let the market tell you, from its perspective, what is likely to happen next. At that point,
you will be in the best state of mind to spontaneously enter "the zone," where you are tapped into the
"now moment opportunity flow."
Thought I'd expound on the MD quote from DB in another thread.
Many many years ago I took delivery of a computer called a Commodore Amiga, it was a really sweet machine for the money and had a really good graphics chip. The machine came with a suite of games as they did back then and one of them was a car one, a rallying game where you dorve the car over a series of obstacles.
I have never been much good at video games but for some reason I really took to this game and played it for hour after hour. I remember getting blocked for like weeks over a narrow ravine where you got totalled if you didn't get through. Eventually I mastered that but the final third was laced with treacherous sections and it became very hard to put everything together. Day after day I would get closer and closer yet something would always wipe me out.
Around this time I was getting to the point where I could play without thinking. It was getting so difficult I couldn't really take in what was happening but instead of fighting it I went with it. Eventually one night I put it all together and reached nirvana. Well the guys who coded it clearly had a sense of humour because all I got to see was a brief screenie of 'congratulations you have finished' before the game self destructed leaving me unable to ever play again. It remains the only PC game I have ever finished too.
Forgetting the self destruct part for the moment, is trading in the zone like this? You know the software and the ladder so well that you reach a point of reacting without thought. I imagine the lack of thought is the crucial bit. You reach a point where you're reacting almost before stuff has happened. It's a weird feeling. It's just you, the ladder and the flow of it all.
It must be a fantastic feeling, having put all the hours in, being able to trust yourself to act in an unconscious manner and just 'go with it'.
the risks of trading. When you accept the risks of trading, you eliminate the potential to define market
information in painful ways. When you stop defining and interpreting market information in painful
ways, there is nothing for your mind to avoid, nothing to protect against.
When there's nothing to protect against, you will have access to all that you know about the nature of
market movement. Nothing will get blocked, which means you will perceive all the possibilities you
have learned about (objectively), and since your mind is open to a true exchange of energy, you will
quite naturally start discovering other possibilities (edges) that you formerly couldn't perceive. For your
mind to be open to a true exchange of energy, you can't be in a state of knowing or believing that you
already know what's going to happen next. When you are at peace with not knowing what's going to
happen next, you can interact with the market from a perspective where you will be making yourself
available to let the market tell you, from its perspective, what is likely to happen next. At that point,
you will be in the best state of mind to spontaneously enter "the zone," where you are tapped into the
"now moment opportunity flow."
Thought I'd expound on the MD quote from DB in another thread.
Many many years ago I took delivery of a computer called a Commodore Amiga, it was a really sweet machine for the money and had a really good graphics chip. The machine came with a suite of games as they did back then and one of them was a car one, a rallying game where you dorve the car over a series of obstacles.
I have never been much good at video games but for some reason I really took to this game and played it for hour after hour. I remember getting blocked for like weeks over a narrow ravine where you got totalled if you didn't get through. Eventually I mastered that but the final third was laced with treacherous sections and it became very hard to put everything together. Day after day I would get closer and closer yet something would always wipe me out.
Around this time I was getting to the point where I could play without thinking. It was getting so difficult I couldn't really take in what was happening but instead of fighting it I went with it. Eventually one night I put it all together and reached nirvana. Well the guys who coded it clearly had a sense of humour because all I got to see was a brief screenie of 'congratulations you have finished' before the game self destructed leaving me unable to ever play again. It remains the only PC game I have ever finished too.
Forgetting the self destruct part for the moment, is trading in the zone like this? You know the software and the ladder so well that you reach a point of reacting without thought. I imagine the lack of thought is the crucial bit. You reach a point where you're reacting almost before stuff has happened. It's a weird feeling. It's just you, the ladder and the flow of it all.
It must be a fantastic feeling, having put all the hours in, being able to trust yourself to act in an unconscious manner and just 'go with it'.
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