Trading Psychology: Growing Your Trading Business (Dr. Steenbarger and Mike Bellafiore)

Trading Psychology is vital aspect of trading you should be working on everyday. In this video, Dr. Steenbarger and Mike Bellafiore discuss the psychology of growing your trading business.
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These are my pieces of advice on the trench warfare of trading; PSYCHOLOGY tips and tricks: A. The way to overcome "woulda coulda shoulda" is to TAKE the pain in the moment {the same way that body builders ABSORB and even LOVE the pain of lifting a weight, it becomes an ally, it makes you more alert and stronger} {alternative}: if you don’t want to take the pain, encourage yourself with positive thoughts that your account WILL grow large in time, despite this missed opportunity. Don’t take your eye off the larger goal. Don’t let this weaken your momentum. B. ACCEPT that you WILL miss FUTURE opportunities on a CONSISTENT basis for the rest of your trading career! YOU WILL!! If that is already psychologically factored in, YOU WON’T CRY ABOUT IT WHEN IT INEVITABLY HAPPENS AGAIN. Fail to do this, and you will be in agony regularly for the rest of your trading career and that is not healthy. Also the universe creates an opposite reaction to what you project, so if you project, “I will miss opportunities naturally and regularly, I accept,” then the universe will be like, “Wait a sec bro! Deep inside you are harboring the desire to CAPTURE as many available opportunities as possible, so we will honor that!” If you think, “Damn! Fuck! Shit! Motherfucking miss! I HAVE TO GET THE NEXT OOOONE!!” then it is only a matter of time before you dissapoint yourself twice, which feels worse than having dissapointed yourself once. C. Will good opportunities, which you missed, never arise ever again? “Of course they will, you foolish fuck!!” CHILL and BE HAPPY, PREPARE FOR THE NEXT UPCOMING WINNER. IT’S GONNA BE A GOOD ONE. TRUST THAT THEY WILL CERTAINLY COME. FOMO is irrelevant if the set up does not properly arise anyways. JUST DON’T OVERTRADE. FOMO is for amateurs. Losing trade pain: “LOSING TRADES ARE PRODUCT INVENTORY PURCHASING ONLY!!!!” {Like a business, you have costs, don’t you?} Pat yourself on the back when you reduced your losers, rather than cry over the loss {it could have been worse but you excercised good risk control} If losers are inevitable, then THAT loser that just happened is simply one of those! Chill! Anyways that’s my wisdom so far from 6 years in the trenches. Good luck to those who deserve to win

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One of the best videos going through step by step how to be an elite trader. For the next videos, it could be interesting to see how did you review a trade with loss. For example It could be good how did you review the 200 K loss swing trade and the actions you have decided to improve after . Thank you for your big contribution to the community.

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I've been trading for 2 years, with mixed results. Recently I've gone back to the simulator, dabbling with new setups. At the same time honing my edge. I trade with the same size as I plan to when I start trading with capital again. When I lose money on the simulator it still stings, but not enough to effect me the next days. I'm a truck driver by trade and my job grants me 2 hours in the morning to trade the open. The funny thing is I still enjoy simulated trading alot, trading is a passion of mine and always will be. Ironically I'm also attracted to the game of golf, very similar from a risk reward stand point. I shoot in the 80-90 currently, but I have the desire to get better at it because I enjoy it. I feel exactly the same way about trading. It is the intrinsic reward of it. I'm not just copying Mike when I say that. I'm genuinely jazzed to get up at 6am Pacific time and prepare for the trading day.

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This is an amazing video.... I am a low accuracy trader 30% right and it was taken me many many years to accept that and PLAN RISK around that.... Now I let my winners run and control risk alot better....it has also taken me many many years to HOLD on to my winners since I am a low accuracy trader .... I struggled with this due to anxiety...and FAITH and confidence in my trading methodology.. Now I am a break even trader... Looking to become profitable very very soon 😍🏋️‍♂️🚀

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If I profited 200% the first 5 months of only day trading, what stage am I in??? Day trading seems easy if your not using , let say, more than 20% of your account with a daily 5-7% stop loss. Scale in n scale out . Hold onto your last 25-30% of the position with a stop or trail. Execute the trade carefree n with focus. Forget about the money n the P/L. Wait for it. Scale in slowly.1st buy point is the smallest amount. No stress. Then 3x, 2x, size up/ scale out.

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Honestly speaking, how intelligent does one need to be to build a successful trading career? I consider myself to be toward the bottom end of the intelligence spectrum, am i wasting my time?

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Most people believe you need to be very intelligent to be a good trader or have gone to an ivy league school but that's not necessarily the case from what we have seen. The guys who are most dedicated and work on their game are the ones who stand the best chance

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The level of intelligence required to become a successful trader ( from an IQ perspective is the ability to add , subtract , divide , multiply and calculate the percentage increase / decrease .. which is really third grade math ... However , you need tremendous self- discipline , intuition , focus , curious mind , self-awareness , ability to hold yourself accountable, simple life style , and a masterful skill to control and manage your emotions when the shit hits the fan and incredible drive ..

[@Alexander-vu6fw]

Smart .. extremely well educated people actually FAIL miserable because they have a major ego and believe they are right about their trades and makes it extremely hard for them to exit trades at respected losses and take huge losses....same for profits.... Trading has to do more with controlling emotions and anything else you will learn

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@@Alexander-vu6fw Well educated does not necessarily mean smart ;-)