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InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade Jun 15, 2009 - 07:53 AM GMT

By: Dr_Janice_Dorn

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting… Benjamin Franklin

A man had constant dizzy spells and searched everywhere to find a cure.


He told a close female friend about it, who advised, “Walk around the block four times on Sunday afternoon.”

The man followed the advice, and then complained to his friend, “I did what you said, but still feel dizzy. In fact, I feel even more dizzy than before!”

She replied.  “ Interesting.  The same thing happened to me.”

In trading and in life, it is critical to ask yourself:  What sources of information are guiding my actions?  Have I checked the facts, or am I simply relying on the word of this or that person? Have I applied common sense and my own study to this situation, or am I acting impulsively or instinctually?  Is my primitive rat brain really out to get me this time, or am I taking the higher road and using my frontal  brain areas to overcome fear and greed?  This is a recurring theme in the writings at www.thetradingdoctor.com where we show you how your brain sees and reacts to trading signals and setups and what to do to put the odds of winning in your favour.

Among the most important questions for you to ask is:  What do I believe that is not true?   This must become a mantra for you if you are to succeed in trading because you are trading your beliefs against the beliefs of others. Constantly question your own belief system.  This leads you to question what others are saying. It forces you to turn down the noise and focus on the signal in the here and now.

Lazy thinking leads to lazy trading that leads to losses.  The incessant drumbeat of self-deception is magnified by the unending amount of misinformation and disinformation that bombards your senses during the trading day.  Be vigilant.  Question everything and everyone, including me.  There are no gurus except for you.   You, more than anyone else in the world, know your risk tolerance.  If a position is not working, it is not a good position. Get out. Cut losses.  If you see another opportunity in the same stock, have the courage to get right back in.  Don’t allow your rat brain to “dope-amine” you to the point where you deceive yourself by holding and hoping as losses mount--- or are frozen in fear from taking even a small loss.  

On Monday, we got into a trade at www.thetradingdoctor.com.  It went against us almost immediately, and we stopped out for a loss of .19 or -1.59%.  Within the next hour, we re-entered the same position and took profits of $1.08 or 9.38% the following morning.  Our theory on the first try was proven by the market to be incorrect; on the second entry we were on the right side of the market fluctuations and the trade was profitable.   No matter how much or what type of analysis you do prior to entering a trade, the final arbiter is the markets.  All that is real and true is if you are (or are not) in synch with the flow of orders in the markets at that time.

The financial markets are saturated with hype and deception.  Learn to see past these, and become alert to anything that sounds just too good to be true.  If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.  The tragedy of trading is that that even the most alert and rational among us can be fooled.  This is one reason why the search for trading truth is a lifetime journey that no one ever fully completes.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper… Francis Bacon

Until Next Time,
Good Trading and Brain On!

By Dr. Janice Dorn, MD, PhD
Prescriptions for Profits
www.thetradingdoctor.com

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Dr. Janice Dorn is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she received her Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy. She did her postdoctoral work in Neurophysiology at the New York Medical College. She received her M.D. from La Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, did one year of clinical clerkships in Phoenix, Arizona. and then completed a Neurology Internship at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. For the past twelve years, Dr. Dorn has focused her attention on trading, mentoring and commentary in the financial markets, with emphasis on Behavioral NeuroFinance, Mass NeuroPsychology, Trading NeuroPsychology, Futurism and Life Extension. A graduate of Coach University, she is a full time futures trader and trading coach.  Dr. Dorn is the author of over 300 publications, relating to Trading and Investing Neurouropsychology, Market Mass Neuropsychology, Behavioral Neurofinance, and Holistic Wellness and Longevity. 

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Comments

TraderJoe
15 Jun 09, 09:13
Failed Traders

Janice, you talk the talk but you don't walk the walk.

You fit my definition of a failed trader that has to resort to charging newbies $150 a MONTH for your worthless trading signals, rather than making monety trading on your own account.

readers beware ! Don't get sucked !


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