Most of you know how to be profitable traders
You just keep getting in your own way
•Revenge trading
•Taking setups you know aren’t A+
•Being greedy and not following your rules
Most of you can probably already read price action fairly well
You just need to stop getting in your own way and making dumb mistakes over and over again
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【What the Legendary Mark Douglas Wanted to Convey】
Few books are read by as many traders as "Trading in the Zone", and few are as widely read yet so rarely truly understood.
I will explain the crucial core of this book—the part that is most often misunderstood.
■ He Never Once Says "Control Your Emotions"
Social media is full of copy-and-paste lines like "emotional control is key".
And in the same breath, they say "Trading in the Zone" is great.
But Mark Douglas makes one thing explicit in that book.
"Great traders do not control their emotions".
Even though it is written that directly, many traders skim right past this critical part.
This book is about trading through probabilistic thinking.
Because many traders see trading as a "win-or-lose game", if you carry that preconception you cannot read it accurately.
This book lets you get a feel for probabilistic thinking, so many traders who used to think of trading as a "win-or-lose game" are impressed.
But because of that mistaken belief, few can read through to his true intent.
■ "The Difference Between the Best Traders and Other Traders Is 'Not Being Afraid'.
I Cannot Find Any Difference Other Than That".
He states decisively that the difference between the best traders and everyone else is not a superior system or chart analysis, but nothing other than "not being afraid".
Great traders are not afraid to begin with.
They are not using some remarkable form of emotional control; they simply are not afraid from the start.
He states explicitly that the theme of this book is "how to create a state of mind without fear".
■ "Great Traders Do Not Even Perceive Market Information as Pain".
They see market information as nothing more than information.
What generates pain from that information is each trader’s beliefs and thought process.
By unconsciously continuing to label that information as "good" or "bad", you trigger the corresponding emotional reactions.
Great traders have built a different way of looking at the information the market sends.
■ "Great Traders Do Not Control Their Emotions, and Because There Is No Fear to Begin With, There Is Nothing to Deal With"
They do not believe market information can be predicted.
They understand, without the slightest doubt, that individual outcomes are random.
Something you do not know from the start, and are not trying to predict, cannot be wrong.
Because they are not playing a game of predicting the future and getting it right, they are not affected by trade outcomes, and they do not fear the result.
Because there is no fear, there is nothing to deal with from the outset.
■ "Most Traders Assume That the Best Traders, Like Them, Fear Being Wrong, Losses, Missed Opportunities, and Failing to Take Profits.
And They Assume That the Best Traders Use Tremendous Courage, Mental Strength, and Self-Control to Somehow Eliminate Their Fear.
But That Is Not the Case".
Great traders are not overcoming fear by training self-discipline or emotional control.
Just because you have not yet overcome emotional issues does not mean everyone else is the same.
Great traders solve these problems through a completely different approach.
Their beliefs and thought processes differ from those of traders who feel a lot of fear, so they simply perceive information as something different.
It is the same as a person who fears flying not assuming that someone who boards a plane without fear is a master of emotional control.
Mark Douglas explains this using the story of his daughter, who is not afraid of snakes.
■ "Consistency Is a State of Mind.
Once You Achieve It, You Can No Longer 'Be' Any Other Way.
At That Point, You Will No Longer Need to Try to Be Consistent".
Consistency is not something that forces you to keep doing something by sheer will.
To gain consistency, you need every form of correct understanding and thought process a trader should have: a deep understanding of trading, an understanding of probabilistic thinking, trust in your system, and more.
Beliefs are not knowledge; they transform through deep understanding gained from experience.
Because of this, once you gain consistency, you become unable to act in any other way.
Because if you have transformed from the mistaken belief that "winning and losing matter" to beliefs rooted in probabilistic thinking, the emotions that show up in you change, and you come to feel a strong aversion to breaking your rules, making it difficult to stray from them.
Just as it is difficult for you right now to follow your rules, it becomes just as difficult to break them, and you become unable to take any action that prevents you from using probability.
Conversely, people who end up breaking their rules, or whose emotions become a problem around the win or loss in front of them, have not yet truly gained the necessary understanding of trading.
You still hold the belief that "the win or loss in front of you has value" more than you hold to rules or probabilistic thinking.
■ Summary
As you can see, even though Mark Douglas argues repeatedly in this book that great traders do not control their emotions and do not need to, many traders skim past these direct statements because of their fixed idea that "emotional control is necessary".
I have also said many times that I do not control my emotions, and I have also said many times that this does not mean becoming a robot.
In trading, no emotions show up for me, but in daily life I am still emotional.
It is simply a difference in perception caused by a transformation in beliefs and thought processes.
I also share here the importance of practicing every day to transform your beliefs.
I have been profoundly influenced by his book.
As he once said, I now feel no fear at all toward trading.
I simply keep repeating what needs to be done, at the times it needs to be done.
Many people treat Mark Douglas’s book as "a psychology book", read it, understand it, and stop there.
But it is a book for truly acquiring probabilistic thinking by transforming your beliefs through experience, and a book that urges you to practice.
And what I share every day is also something that urges you to practice.
To understand knowledge deeply through experience, and to "embody" probabilistic thinking, is what it means to become a trader.
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You don’t become a trader by looking at charts.
You become a trader…
After blowing your last $100.
After losing sleep over 10 straight losses.
After watching your friends party while you’re backtesting alone.
After doubting yourself 1,000 times a day.
After missing family events to protect your routine.
After feeling like you’ve wasted the best of you.
After turning down “safe” jobs because you believe in this vision…
And still showing up the next day.
Whenever you feel like quitting, remember the potential trading has for you,
The freedom trading can give you,
And the efforts you have put in so far
Keep pushing. Never give up.
sat next to a 20 year old guy on a plane who casually mentioned he made $4.5 million last year
didn't look rich
t-shirt
jeans
beat up backpack
i asked what he did
"i trade futures"
"full time?"
"yeah, about 3 hours a day"
"$4.5 million in 3 hours a day?"
"well, it's not really about hours, it's about decisions. i probably make 10-15 decisions per month that matter. the rest is just waiting"
"what do you mean?"
"most people think trading is constant action. it's not. it's 99% waiting for your setup, 1% executing. that's why most people fail. they can't handle doing nothing"
he pulled out his laptop
showed me his calendar
90% of trading days marked: "NO TRADE"
"this is march, see? 31 days. i traded 7 times. made $380k that month"
"7 trades made $380k?"
"yeah, because they were the RIGHT 7 trades. everyone else took 200 trades that month and lost money because they were WRONG trades. quality over quantity"
"how do you know which 7 to take?"
"i don't trade unless i'd bet my house on it"
"what?"
"every trade, i ask myself: would i bet my house on this setup? if the answer is no, i don't trade. most setups? the answer is no. but 7 times this month, the answer was YES"
he kept talking:
"the biggest mistake retail traders make is thinking they need to trade every day. you don't. you need to trade WHEN YOUR SETUP APPEARS. some months that's 15 times. some months that's 3 times"
"what about consistency?"
"consistency isn't daily trading. consistency is ONLY taking your setup. if your setup appears once a week, you trade once a week. if it appears 5 times in a day, you trade 5 times that day. the market doesn't care about your need for action"
"but i feel like i'm wasting time if i'm not trading"
"that's employee mindset. you think time = money. it doesn't. correct decisions = money. i make more doing nothing 24 days a month than you make forcing trades every single day"
he was right
i was trading out of BOREDOM
not opportunity
i tested this for 90 days:
BEFORE "house bet" filter:
- 156 trades
- 41% win rate
- -$3,800
AFTER "house bet" filter:
- 11 trades
- 73% win rate
- +$14,200
11 trades in 90 days
because i stopped trading
and started WAITING
the plane guy was right:
"most traders are addicted to action. they need to DO something. that's why they lose. the real money is in doing NOTHING until the perfect setup appears. but doing nothing feels like you're not working, so people force trades"
"how do you handle the boredom?"
"i have a life outside trading. i go to the gym. i read. i travel. trading is 3 hours a day MAX. the other 21 hours i'm living. you guys are staring at charts 12 hours a day hoping something happens. that's not trading. that's gambling addiction"
he closed his laptop
"here's the secret: the less you trade, the more you make. i know guys trading 500 times a month making $0. i trade 15 times a month making $400k. the difference? i'm SELECTIVE. they're ACTIVE. market rewards selectivity, punishes activity"
flight landed
he gave me his card
"if you want to make real money trading, stop trying to trade every day. start waiting for YOUR setup only. 90% of trading is waiting. 10% is executing. master the waiting and you'll make more money doing nothing than everyone else makes doing everything"
i never saw him again
but i think about that conversation every single day
the math is simple:
you're not paid by the trade
you're paid by the CORRECT trade
taking 200 trades with 40% accuracy = -$5k
taking 20 trades with 70% accuracy = +$50k
same account
different approach
completely different outcome
most of you are over-trading
thinking activity = profit
it doesn't
selectivity = profit
the traders making $500k+/year
they trade LESS than you
not more
they're better at WAITING
not better at TRADING
master the wait
make the money
Everyone has their purpose in trading…
Not only that, everyone has their ‘level’ in trading.
Weather your a beginner, novice, expert, etc..
I would consider myself still a beginner in this trading journey.
As a trading community, let’s uplift eachother in this trading journey.
Trading in itself is already hard as it is.
It’s lonely, and hard..
We should support each other time times of needs especially during the dark times.
Trading can give you anxiety, depression, stress during the ugly side of trading.
It’s already hard enough, so as a community let’s uplift each-other, instead of putting others in the wringer…
If you are ever that situation, my DMs are always open, and I will try to respond to you.
But also, as a community let’s also celebrate the damn wins!
Your first payout?
Hell yeah!
Your first max payout?
Damn baby!! Let me hold a dollar!!!
Anyways back to my purpose of trading.
My purpose of trading is for financial freedom.
I don’t care about the fancy cars, new watches, or the materialistic things.
For heaven sakes, I’m still driving a 2011 Corolla that parents gave to me in highschool as a junior.
I care about freedom.
I want to be there for my son, and future daughter at ever milestone of their age.
And I hope I will when I become successful at this.
Not only that, but I want to travel the world and see what it has to offer.
To pay back my parents that paid for my car outright, and put me in through great education.
To donate, and help out others that are struggling out there as well.
Your purpose may different from mines.
And that’s totally okay.
Whatever your purpose is, stick to it, and go after the damn thing.
Stay resilient, and never give up.
Anyways, peace out!
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