This is a tough one. I got impatient, took off my risk controls, and blew up this week. I really believe honesty & transparency is the only way that I will get what I want in life. If I cannot look myself in the mirror and tell myself the truth about my flaws, my inadequacies, and my errors, then I cannot set out to address them. I was mulling over my errors while laying in…
This week began with intentions. To trade sharply and with presence. Today I lived up to that. I traded 21 symbols and made only a few substantive errors. I netted 25% of my max position size after trading 30,000 shares. I am immensely proud of this. All I want to do is wake up tomorrow and have another day of progressively more competent executions. And then wake up the next day and the next and…
I’ve been reflecting on discipline and obsession. I heard an interesting quote which was that discipline isn’t useful for the people at the very top. The most competitive/successful individuals don’t use discipline to wake up and do a long work day. Elite athletes don’t go and do their training because they have good discipline. They have a purpose that they are chasing and that gives them the drive they need to do the training or…
What a wonderful feeling, to look at yourself in the mirror and feel self love.Over the last couple years that was not a common occurrence for me.To feel like my Shadow isn’t far behind me or watching me with disdain, but that I am living the way I ought to.Sobriety looks and feels good on me. Between that, finding a purpose to dedicate myself to, working on getting into peak physical shape, and connecting consistently…
Recently each morning I’ve had an intense feeling of gratitude for having this challenge to dedicate my soul to. I was remarking to a friend of mine that the immense difficulty of learning how to profitably trade is actually a positive rather than a negative. Not only does it provide a moat to your earning potential, but it is sufficiently hard enough that it requires me to focus my entire life around making it work.…