Focus On Your Being Not On Your Doing

Many measure their trading success by the state of their trading bank. Their confidence and self-worth is correlated to the dollar profits they make.

The thing is, this is how we have been conditioned by society. You get judged by the results that your environment can see, such as good grades at school, finishing top in your university, driving a nice car, living in a nice house, being dressed for success. All of those are considered as a measure of success.

Although profits are a typical measure of success in the trading industry, and undeniably important if you have to pay the rent from trading, an outcome-focused mindset can ultimately destroy your trading career.

The Vicious Cycle

With that outcome-focused mindset, as you lose money, you lose confidence, your self-worth becomes threatened, you start making irrational trades based on impulse and desperation, you lose more money in the attempt to recover your self-worth, and so the vicious cycle of self-sabotage has been set in motion.

Have you ever asked yourself why it is that even though we live in a world with great resources at our fingertips, traders continue to struggle? There is so much information freely available on the internet, anything a trader needs to know in order to succeed, and yet the statistics still show that over 90% of traders have no trading results to show for. When profits do appear, it is exhilarating, but never long lasting.

Why Knowledge Is Not Enough

Because you can write the most sophisticated trading plans, follow the best traders in the world, and accumulate extraordinary knowledge about markets, but until you are clear about your unconscious sabotaging behavioral patterns, and until you acknowledge that this is running your trading and learn how to transform them, you will not move forward.

Let's be real here. Anytime you want to get to a place that is better than where you currently are, there are blocks inside of you. Otherwise you would already be there.

Being vs. Doing

Most traders live entirely in the Doing. They tweak strategies, change timeframes, buy courses, read more books. The Being state is different. It is who you are when the charts are blank. It is the emotional experience underneath every decision you make.

In the euphoria of winning, most traders quickly lose their discipline and overtrade, which results in a significant drawdown. It is a devastating experience to win big only to give it all back to the market. Most traders know that there is something wrong, but they do not know how to fix it.

Uncovering the Hidden Blocks

The real root cause of why you are not doing what you planned to do is not a knowledge gap. It is an emotional experience that is running below the surface of your conscious awareness. It is the part of you that knows the rules, sees the setup, understands the risk, and then does the opposite anyway.

That emotional experience, that real root cause, lives in your Being. And until you address it there, no strategy, system, seminar, or mentor will produce lasting results.

The good news is that those blocks can be found, understood, and transformed. The journey inward is not separate from the journey toward trading success. For most traders, it is the only path that has never been taken, and therefore the only path that has never failed.