Being YOU Is Key For Consistent Trading Success

In my career as a trader I had to overcome many a hurdle. Looking back on the journey, and believe me it is still an ongoing one, I found that by far the biggest challenge was to get to know the real me.

Every successful trader who is returning consistent trading profits will tell you that being honest with oneself is a huge challenge and one that must be mastered on the path to trading success. Once you decide to go deeper to find your true, authentic self you will discover huge benefits way beyond helping you improve trading performance.

Immersion stops consistent trading success

I have talked ad nauseam about our conditioning. Yet, it is hard to grasp just how much we are acting from our conditioned selves, instead of acting from our authentic selves. We are so immersed in our "reality", or rather what we believe our reality to be that we fail to see the true nature of what's right in front of us.

Immersion stops us from moving forward. Immersion stops us from seeing that we are a holographic expression of the universe and as such have access to everything we chose to. Instead we are entrenched in the belief that our thoughts, feelings and emotions are real and are part of our character which is solid and difficult to change.

We have a flawed and partial view of our reality.Yet we believe that what we see is the complete and true picture. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just imagine looking at a canvas close up and only seeing one colour, red. If you were to step back you would observe a myriad of colours on the canvas.

Our conditioning keeps us immersed in believing in our limitations which comes from only seeing a tiny part of ourselves instead of seeing our complete selves and how we seamlessly fit into the overall space, the universe.

We have failed to notice that our body and mind functions as a continuous exchange mechanism that interacts at every given moment with everything in our environment. Consequently most of us employ tools that are not working very well or use downright incorrect ways to improve their lives and their trading performance leading to much unnecessary hardship and many an unnecessary trading failure.

You are continually processing other people's thoughts feelings and emotions as if they were your own without your knowledge. Can you imagine how becoming aware of this single aspect of your being could vastly improve your trading results?

Scientific research is coming up with evidence that as much as 98% of what you are thinking and feeling is not your own stuff. Far from being independent, separate units our thoughts, feelings emotions are part of an intricate interconnected web which is part of the energy soup which we know as the universe.

I could also say that we act like psychic sponges. This is how we can access information and our intuition if we allow it. Far from being new age mumbo jumbo these realisations are at the cutting edge of science and are also basic quantum physics.

Learn to distinguish between your true thoughts and feelings and those of other traders and analysts

Once you begin to notice just how much you are literally suckered into market action without your conscious awareness a very different perspective of your true nature can begin to emerge. As you become more and more aware of this phenomenon your will automatically open up to receiving more of your true nature. Independent traders have an advantage here as they are not subject to the additional pressures from superiors or the need to uphold corporate identities.

The pressure placed on institutional traders to reach trading targets prevents them to go inside and develop self awareness, instead greed, the need to meet trading targets, over trading, fear of missing out on a good move and peer group pressure drive externally driven trading performance models which only set traders up for much unnecessary internal pressure. These models do not assist you to develop a trading mind set conducive to making trading profits come easy.

A tool to assist you in connecting to YOU

I want to give you a simple tool you can start using right now. ASsking the right questions is immensely powerful. It increases your cognitive awareness and is one of the quickest ways to create mental calm which allows you to receive your true authentic self dormant underneath all that conditioning. .

Make it a habit for a week to ask this simple question: "Is this thought ,feeling, emotion mine or is it someone elses thought. feeling, emotion?"

Keep asking this question persistently every time you have an emotion pop up, or a strong opinion, or judgement and you will be amazed by the answers. You will discover for yourself that most of what you think of as your personal thoughts actually is about you tuning into someone elses thoughts and processing them as if they were yours.

When you realise that everything is one and separation is an illusion that makes it appear like everything is separate and not interconnected then you will know that what I am saying makes sense.

Everybody has so called psychic abilities

It is the way in which we are wired to pick up on other people's feelings. You willingly do this when you want to please your spouse, but you do not realise that you are doing it all the time. The universe is simply a continuous exchange mechanism.

Understanding how this basic universal law operates and plays out in our daily trading decisions is of enormous value. It is also the very first thing you must master on the path of self discovery and increased cognitive awareness.

Once you step out of the immersion that kept you imprisoned in a totally false view of your true self you have new choices available to you and this is immensely liberating, creates peace of mind and invites lasting trading success.

When you are comfortable with yourself and experience inner balance that comes from knowing yourself you will know what system or strategy is right for you. You will know what time frames to trade.

Nobody can advise you on what is best for you to trade but you. You are with you 24 hours every day and yet you don't know you. because you have been taught from the moment you were born to look in the wrong place. You have been looking outside all your life not realising who YOU really are.

Finding YOU is the biggest gift you can give yourself and to your family, friends and colleagues. Immense joy and happiness, which are the basis of all success and of course trading success derive from experiencing synergy within yourself and with your environment.

This is what I facilitate in coaching lessons. It goes way beyond trading psychology, it assists you to establishing a place within you where there is harmony and peace no matter what you do.

Being YOU is key to consistent trading success, it is the way of The Buddhist Trader...