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Stress is with us ever step of the way through our lives good stress / bad stress and really difficult to address as its part of who we are and how we identify ours selves to others.

That's before we get to the environment that we operate in relationships, work, health, money and here as traders.

Its also the "everyone is different" to some extent as well different triggers set different people off.

But it is some thing we can change finding the way is the tricky bit I stumbled on to the path for myself.

One of the things I did as a trader 15 - 20 years ago was go on the mental training journey to deal with all the sins a trader faces "trading psychology" to improve my results.

Read more than 30 plus books on the matter both for trading and psychology attended countless seminars, read a lot of research papers etc, I also had some problem employees doing stuff I just couldn't understand so that was also an area of study that crossed over, most of this I have now forgotten until now as I write this post.

It actually had a bigger impact on my over all thinking rather than trading (the answer for trading was far simpler) along the way BTW a Frenchman taught me how to laugh that was pretty big.

The process taught me how to think, why my brain made the decisions it did and how I could start to try making the decisions based on logic more so than emotional.

I don't think I could achieve a Spock type level but it has dropped the stress levels dramatically at least for me also watching others than remain calm not getting engaged in angry situations etc also was inspiring.

I am still the same person still same beliefs values etc but smile before getting upset or stressed (Balinese taught me that) laugh instead of getting angry (that Frenchman) speak nicely to all and above all enjoy be positive and be happy ( Dalai lama)

Short life, long death

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<blockquote data-quote="IFocus" data-source="post: 1043548" data-attributes="member: 4891">Stress is with us ever step of the way through our lives good stress / bad stress and really difficult to address as its part of who we are and how we identify ours selves to others.That&#039;s before we get to the environment that we operate in relationships, work, health, money and here as traders.Its also the &quot;everyone is different&quot; to some extent as well different triggers set different people off.But it is some thing we can change finding the way is the tricky bit I stumbled on to the path for myself.One of the things I did as a trader 15 - 20 years ago was go on the mental training journey to deal with all the sins a trader faces &quot;trading psychology&quot; to improve my results. Read more than 30 plus books on the matter both for trading and psychology attended countless seminars, read a lot of research papers etc, I also had some problem employees doing stuff I just couldn&#039;t understand so that was also an area of study that crossed over, most of this I have now forgotten until now as I write this post.It actually had a bigger impact on my over all thinking rather than trading (the answer for trading was far simpler) along the way BTW a Frenchman taught me how to laugh <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> that was pretty big.The process taught me how to think, why my brain made the decisions it did and how I could start to try making the decisions based on logic more so than emotional. I don&#039;t think I could achieve a Spock type level but it has dropped the stress levels dramatically at least for me also watching others than remain calm not getting engaged in angry situations etc also was inspiring.I am still the same person still same beliefs values etc but smile before getting upset or stressed (Balinese taught me that) laugh instead of getting angry (that Frenchman) speak nicely to all and above all enjoy be positive and be happy ( Dalai lama) Short life, long deathEnd of spiel&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="IFocus, post: 1043548, member: 4891"] Stress is with us ever step of the way through our lives good stress / bad stress and really difficult to address as its part of who we are and how we identify ours selves to others. That's before we get to the environment that we operate in relationships, work, health, money and here as traders. Its also the "everyone is different" to some extent as well different triggers set different people off. But it is some thing we can change finding the way is the tricky bit I stumbled on to the path for myself. One of the things I did as a trader 15 - 20 years ago was go on the mental training journey to deal with all the sins a trader faces "trading psychology" to improve my results. Read more than 30 plus books on the matter both for trading and psychology attended countless seminars, read a lot of research papers etc, I also had some problem employees doing stuff I just couldn't understand so that was also an area of study that crossed over, most of this I have now forgotten until now as I write this post. It actually had a bigger impact on my over all thinking rather than trading (the answer for trading was far simpler) along the way BTW a Frenchman taught me how to laugh :) that was pretty big. The process taught me how to think, why my brain made the decisions it did and how I could start to try making the decisions based on logic more so than emotional. I don't think I could achieve a Spock type level but it has dropped the stress levels dramatically at least for me also watching others than remain calm not getting engaged in angry situations etc also was inspiring. I am still the same person still same beliefs values etc but smile before getting upset or stressed (Balinese taught me that) laugh instead of getting angry (that Frenchman) speak nicely to all and above all enjoy be positive and be happy ( Dalai lama) Short life, long death End of spiel :D:D [/QUOTE]

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