Distractions! Most tools in this business are distractions. The simple fact is few of us have been taught by genuine trading masters. But then most of our life teachers serve up rubbish. 5000 hours of deliberate right practise will give a new trader an edge. The result of that edge will produce Winning Trades and Nice Profits. The inner emotional body needs to believe this. The gap is the NOW moment where all trading/life happens. The gap is where NO FEAR exists. All else is past/future anxieties. Change the phrase to suit. The Now moment will serve continually a fearless state.
I love the state of trading in the now moment. My day becomes filled with a sweet consciousness of bliss. Otherwise those who trade with a pistol at their head (fear based) will one day take the bullet and lose all.
I have only two thoughts for my mind in trading. Winning Trades/Nice profits. The skill needed to pull this off is patience to wait for the nice trade to appear and patience to let the winning profits run, scaling all the way. When losses appear I have no patience beyond my EXIT level. So Nice Trades/Winning Profits...Winning Trades/Nice Profits...Be Here Now...you get the drift! By having only these two thoughts my higher consciousness takes over and reads the charts and then gives me intuitive signals of sweet trade setups. I give the lower mind the job of focusing on those two thoughts and ONLY those two and that keeps it out of mischief. :sarcastic: