Thursday, November 05, 2009

Trading and Mood

Special thanks to reader Adam for pointing out this excellent article on mood and its effect on leadership.

Why is this important? Because you are the leader of your own trading business.

As the article indicates, how we think affects how we feel--and that helps to shape our actions. Moods are contagious: we are less productive when we are mired in frustration and powerlessness.

Trader 1 loses money and doubles down on efforts to take away lessons for learning and improving trading. Trader 2 loses the same amount of money and uses the occasion to vent disgust with himself and unseen others that "manipulate markets". Who is more likely to trade well the next day?

If you are your own employee, how well are you managing yourself? What kind of morale do you maintain in *your* trading business?

Adam says it much better than I do: "Markets are mirrors that show us to ourselves the way the world sees us."

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