Muldenson

trader, this is my personal trading journal. Not Financial Advice.

[Muldenson @Muldenson]

I placed a bet on myself and tried out futures trading for over the last two and a half years.  It was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my life, but it has taken an emotional toll on me.  Trading teaches you to master yourself; auditing internal signals, governing energy and emotion, systems and will power, and the most important part of it all – stillness and perspective.

There are no direct reports, there are no customers, there aren’t any talking heads to sway your conviction.  You learn extremely quick decision making in the futures market, because if you are not quick you will get bagged into a losing position.  There are absolutely no excuses for your actions, and it is complete radical accountability.

I made a lot of money; I lost money.  I have seen winning trades go from 0 to $100k in the matter of minutes and then go back all the way to 0.  I’ve seen money whipsaw so fast that if you don’t have emotional control, it would leave you curled up next to a toilet wanting to vomit.  Why is this important?  RISK MANAGEMENT.  Yes, trading teaches you risk management to the highest degree.  There is no passive income.  It’s your money on the line and it’s up to you to protect your capital.

There’s an aspect to trading that teaches you self-awareness and self-control.  When you see your capital moving in different directions it teaches you discipline and intention to what your outcomes are in the market.  There’s the aspect of fear/greed that puts you in an emotional state that you MUST be diligent in.  How about the ego?  It whips your ego in the rear end.  If you come into the futures market with a big ego, get ready for big losses.

In trading you become the ultimate money manager.  You don’t know what the market is going to bring to you each day.

I am now looking forward to my next chapter and moving back into the corporate world in either manufacturing, costing, or supply chain.

I am looking for a new role that really challenges my experience to deliver new processes and strategies that channel creativity, engineering, and financial skills.

@TicTocTick Thank you for teaching me.

[Muldenson @Muldenson]

The Psychology of Wealth

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@SJosephBurns For some, over reading can teach you multiple ways to trade and make it even more difficult to stick to one strategy/system.

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@MapleStax Learned that money actually buys you time.

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@paxtrader777 "what you take with you when you are done" - there's so much more to it than just money is what people fail to realize.

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@paxtrader777 You must crush your ego to trade.

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@TicTocTick Its either scratch balls or get your balls chopped out.

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There's nothing harder than recovering from a bad trading loss. Always manage risk.

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@VClouette Never quit your day job to do it.

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@wannabechamp Sleep

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@TheH0n3stTrader @Aguwamba32 That's when you know you've made it.

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@fredtrades Orderbook

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@iamdisplacement The psychological toll is overwhelming.

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Short term bullish, but long term bearish. Let's see what this election cycle brings.

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@wholemars No, the deeper you search/create; the more engaged in a subject - the deeper the brainwash from free thinking.

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Never do this.

[Displacement Trades @iamdisplacement]

NOBODY IS MORE STRESSED THAN A 25-35 YEAR OLD WHO QUIT HIS JOB TO TRADE FULL TIME

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@SJosephBurns Not having the capital they thought they needed to protect their lifestyle and not knowing how to manage time and usage of it.

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@StrizziJ 8k single, 15k married (wifeys are expensive), 20k family

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The time element in trading is the most important thing to me. It's knowing that you have capital and when to use it. You can value your capital as time as opposed to just using it as a day to day trade. Knowing when and when not to trade is apart of this, the patience factor.

[Muldenson @Muldenson]

Greed in trading can cause you to be overleveraged which will lead you to lose your gains during a winning trade on volatility spikes/declines.