It’s the little things you notice at first. Every Uber driver was born in Croatia, was passionate about his homeland, spoke English and keen to show the sights on the way. Then there were the school children skipping home in the afternoons through the streets. Laughing with their friends as they went. I then noticed there was no graffiti. Not one single letter anywhere. There were no cyclists on electric bikes doing a thousand miles an hour through the pedestrian streets, their faces fully covered. There were no Muslims. Not one. No burqas. I relaxed walking around in a t shirt with my watch showing in the street. Dubrovnik was like stepping into one of those films of England from the 1950s. I then arrived back in London. Almost no words of English. Almost nobody that gave a shit about England. Graffiti. Burqas. The call to prayer blasting out across the streets. It was irrelevant to these people which country they were in. They’re here because they were given a house and money and allowed to do nothing to integrate. Ever. England has given up thousands of years of culture. Of enlightenment and is now a third world shithole populated by people who hate us and are paid to be here by our hard work. We’ve sacrificed everything for ‘diversity’ and gained nothing. Heartbreaking.
When I was young, I realized that everyone I knew rarely had meaningful memories or could remember most things in their life.
I saw the power in journaling, scrapbooking, taking photos and making recordings, even cassette tape, as a way of creating time capsules to allow me to always be able to return to that very moment and tap into the emotion and experience vividly.
Life passes by at a very quick pace and if you don't take time to capture the moments, you lose them forever.
What a waste of life that would be. Count the number of your days... how many sunrises can you experience?
Not nearly enough... I'd say.
I have been watching this OPTO Trading Psychology event and the speech from @TomHougaard.
Isn't it interesting how the ammount of views from the first video to the last was falling on each video and at the end we got from 3.4M to 281k.
Those 281k are your competition.
@LovroBudisin If you do a wildcard you can’t use a triple captian on Haland. So many people will triple captian, you might miss out on a lot of points.
As a man, there are only 2 paths towards leveling up.
Increase your sacrifices.
Or
Decrease your desires.
If you can do both, you will become a master of self with unmatched discipline and unshakable virtue.
Nothing will be able to stop you.
Some trading concepts I learned back in 2012. Like the engulfing candle…My second year trading.
So simple, and repeats all the time… since the advent of markets and candlestick charts.
Yet it took me almost a DECADE to make it work.
That’s when I realized that trading has very little to do with having a winning strategy and everything to do with human behavior.
My darkest demons had nothing to do with markets.
My mother passed from cancer a week before my high school graduation.
My father was smoking two packs a day to cope, and I just knew it was a matter of time before he would battle the same fate.
I was depressed, looking for an escape. That escape was trading. I poured everything into it (it used to be video games, not healthy).
But I didn’t realize the baggage I was carrying was why I was a terrible trader.
I had so many bottled up emotions that I just couldn’t think straight.
Your trading is a reflection of character and poise. No matter who your teacher or mentor is.. the only teacher that matters is the one you see when you look into a mirror.
I, like many of you, was searching for the right person to help fix me. Traders with results. Traders who were professionals. Traders who could show me the way. That path only led me down the road of using someone else as a scapegoat for my failures.
In this game, you need to learn how to fix yourself and own your shit.
Stop looking for excuses. Stop blaming others when things aren’t working out.
The lessons you learn inside and out of the markets will change who you are as a person. How you think, your decision making, and your calculation of risk will NEVER be the same after trading.
You start out on this journey alone, and climb the mountain alone. There’s help along the way, but ultimately it’s you putting one foot in front of another.
It’s a true test of will and determination.
You have to want to change badly enough to make this work. No intervention is successful unless the person who needs help wants to actually fix themselves.
If you want to FIX what’s broken, it starts and ends with YOU.
STUCK IN GOLD (XAUUSD) SELLS ?
• If you are continuously selling Gold or you are stuck in sells , let me tell you something ;
LEARN ECONOMICS.
ICT , SMC , TRENDLINES , SnR and whatever concepts you have , THEY DON'T MOVE THE MARKETS.
You know why Gold has been continuously flying ?
It's not because of some drawings on a chart , it's because of :
• Rate cuts pricing
• Threat to FED independence
• Weak Jobs
• Weak economy
And yes , a ton of demand from countries and central banks.
If you want to be ahead of the curve , learn economics or remain stuck.
Thank you @JustinWerlein
The amount of value I have taken from this book trully changed my view on life. Even if the title doesn’t show, this relates to trading sooo much. If you are a trader I must reccomend this book to you. I bring it and read eveywhere I go.🌊🌴