Once triggered, it requires nano-seconds to activate the fight/flight response into crazy behavior (that’s faster than you can blink an eye). Instead, it bypasses thinking, and, through the force of survival emotions, it immediately reacts to stressors in the environment. This instinctual mind arises from the survival instincts of the emotional brain. The mind that wrecks your trading is instinctual and built for survival in the moment once it experiences threat or the excitement of the hunt.
#Some things crack under pressure code
This is the code that has to be re-programmed for a trader to produce consistent profitability. And that renegade mind has a completely different agenda than the rational mind. Instead of a mind governed by the rules of a rational mind, other emotions (fear, greed, lust) consume the trading mind. It is like a trip switch that triggers when the pressure builds up to a certain point. The problem occurs when the trader’s brain experiences the challenges of stress at a level that overwhelms the Thinking Brain (rational thinking). How many times have you thought, “If I could only follow my rules….”? Most experienced traders are consistently profitable in sim trading (as he or she has rules that work in the classroom – when the money doesn’t count). It's Not the Trading Strategy – It’s the Mind that Executes that Plan It’s almost like there is a code you don’t know about. Something is amiss in your calculation of the mind needed for trading success. It is clear after running into this brick wall again and again in your trading that the kind of disciplined mind you imagined would bring success to your trading is not the mind that can produce disciplined performance in the face of both stress and risk. Either way, the disciplined mind that you planned to trade with collapsed and got over-run by fear or aggression. You may move from the excitement of the hunt to the near panic of losing control of your trading mind. Or you may experience yourself being out of control as you try to manage the trade. In the moment, you may not even know that you have been emotionally hijacked – until the smoke clears. This is how 95% of all traders choke and then lose money. And in the flash of a neuro-synapse nano-second, the modern disciplined mind you brought to this encounter is swept away in a flash flood of ambushing emotions. This is the critical moment that defines a trader’s performance under pressure.
Then the money is real, the risk is palatable (and you can feel in your gut), and the outcome is uncertain – and out of your control. All you have to do is keep your act together – you can do that, right? Sure, until you are put to the test. It sounds so simple when you’re in the classroom, discussing trading strategy, or dreaming about your trading success and all that potential money. You know the drill –plan your trade trade your plan. There is a Hidden Code that Drives Your Trading
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