It is so easy to fall off track and start making
emotional mistakes as a trader, and you really need to consciously stop this from happening by having a daily routine that you go through every day.
Not exact matches
Emotional intelligence is commonly
mistaken as a synonym for «nice.»
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an
emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not
as important
as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't
mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
Understanding your comfort level with risk can help you avoid some
emotional investing
mistakes, such
as chasing performance.
Of course, he does not have to use Bitcoin's price
as his metric for its success, but if he celebrates it dropping
as a sign of its death, it is an embarrassingly
emotional and childish
mistake to not then step back and admit he was wrong when the price rebounds.
Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the
emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier
as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined
as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook
mistakes.
«The result should not be dismissed
as an
emotional spasm or a
mistake by the electors of Bradford, but
as a very clear repudiation of the local power structure and the way that national politics is conducted.»
It's all too easy to make
mistakes when you're
emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district
as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.
But equating vaccines, which have saved countless lives, with pharmaceutical companies
as a whole is a huge
mistake, he says; it's an
emotional response rather than one based on evidence.
But to
mistake Garland's succession of haunted - house - like spectacles
as Acid: The Place would be missing out on so much
emotional work that he's doing.
Your trading plan, daily trading routine, guide or whatever you want to call it, is essentially where every component of your trading is aggregated into a cohesive, comprehensive, yet concise and practical plan of action that should be thought of
as the first defense layer against
emotional trading
mistakes.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading
mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you
mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading
as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting
emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
The best time to make your trading decisions is when you are not in any trades, this is done by creating a logical Forex trading plan that acts
as your guide to the market, and this is really the only effective way to consciously make an effort at eliminating
emotional trading
mistakes.
As you'll see in this article, the performance of the SMI strategies, properly combined, has been such that any marginal benefit gained from timing isn't worth the significant
emotional toll, not to mention the high probability that a person will make some
mistakes identifying appropriate exit and re-entry points.
And the
mistakes that people make
as they adopt the Buffett methodology is they get thrown off course by the
emotional aspects of it.
Of course, he does not have to use Bitcoin's price
as his metric for its success, but if he celebrates it dropping
as a sign of its death, it is an embarrassingly
emotional and childish
mistake to not then step back and admit he was wrong when the price rebounds.
Arm yourself with facts and objective advice, such
as your list of wants and needs, to keep you from making any
emotional home buying
mistakes.
For one, take a look at your
emotional attachment to your home that Michelle goes over
as one of the worst
mistakes you can make.