My best friend and I spoke last night. Come to find out, I somehow heard wrong but his cancer has not spread, no clue how I got that wrong. It is very advanced but is only in his prostate. He still doesn’t have a surgery date yet but they told him just the other day that it will be in about 2 weeks possibly earlier and that he will have at least a 3 day notice.
We spoke for about 2 hours and everything was very good. Remember, one of the titles I’m currently running in my stack is Summertime. We’ve never had any problems communicating with each other and have always enjoyed each other’s conversations. This morning he wrote me and thanked me for being there, caring and being such a good talker and listener. He let me know that I am his superpower during his healing process after surgery. I’m absolutely willing and wrote him back and let him know.
I forgot to update in my journal but honestly the last few days have kind of sucked because we’ve had a few fires around us here in the Pacific Northwest. The winds were blowing a ton of the smoke into our valley so the air quality levels have been in “extremely unhealthy” levels and it was recommended to not even go out unless you had to.
I get asthma and heavy fire smoke is quite bad for me and I’ve developed bronchitis from it in the past, so I’ve stayed in doors for health reasons. I HATE being cooped up, especially during our short summers. So I’ve been quite pissy to be honest and have had some recon because of it.
Well, my best friend said he didn’t notice one bit and actually felt that I was genuinely warm and sociable so that was very nice to hear. It reminded me that during our growth with these subs our baseline heals to a certain level and it doesn’t seem like much is happening when in fact it is. That is why they encourage us to journal. 
Summary
So besides that update I’m deep in studying (just sharpening my edge, not really learning anything new, but it is fun though) and tweaking and refining all my checklists, yet again. LOL. Honestly though, those checklists are incredibly important because they set the rules and create the base from which to trade from.
I have two new messages I wrote on sticky notes which I have at the bottom of my two monitors.
The first note says “I place a trade following my rules, then I release the outcome, which is out of my control.” This is to help me focus on the process NOT the results. It’s self explanatory but it is an area that I need to drastically heal.
The other note is similar, but different and it says “My job is to execute my trading plan, not attempt to predict market moves.” Again it’s about training my mind to focus on the process NOT the results. The results will be positive because I’ve been at this for 20 years this year and literally have THOUSANDS of hours of chart time, trading time, and studying the markets.
My homework has mostly been done, however that’s not to say that I stop learning. The markets have changed over time in certain areas. Some things that used to work no longer do but training “gurus” will still teach the same old things that used to work a couple of decades ago but don’t work anymore.
My favorite one that is still rehashed to this day is how you calculate weekly pivot points for Forex. They always tell you to take the New York open price on Monday and the NY close price on Friday and of course the high and low and do calculate that way. That hasn’t worked in Forex for about 15 years. I literally looked hour by hour and day by day and finally found out when the real numbers are taken and it’s not even close to NY Monday open and NY Close on Friday. Once I thought I figured out when to get the numbers I backtested big time and then tested in real time for months to make sure it was accurate. I’ve never seen anyone else mention this secret, and that was a few years ago I figured that out.
Anyway, I’ve been focusing on my personal trading psychology mostly. That is what will get me onto the road of consistent profitability. Come to find out my struggles are exactly what EVERYONE who has PTSD deals with. There is no other outcome until my core is calmed down. Dragon Reborn Regeneration has really helped with that area.
According to ChatGPT a very powerful and perfectly complementing stack to help with trading psychology if you struggle from PTSD, FOMO, etc is RICH Trader + Dragon Reborn Regen + Summertime. It got excited about the stack and it’s possible implications and here is an excerpt from our “conversation”:
… “Now compare that with Summertime
This is where it gets interesting.
When I read Summertime, I kept thinking:
“This is Regeneration after healing.”
Regeneration says:
Become safe.
Summertime says:
Now enjoy life.
Regeneration says:
Release vigilance.
Summertime says:
Replace vigilance with openness.
Regeneration says:
Heal.
Summertime says:
Flourish.
They’re related…
but they aren’t identical.” …
I will say this, ChatGPT and Claude are very negative against subliminals and they keep reminding you that there is no empirical evidence. I would have agreed with this until I found SubClub. I never had success with subliminals until SubClub, but I neither had success with hypnosis audios either. But here is the trick with AI, change “subliminals” with “hypnosis audios” and they get over their biasness against subliminals and will tell you all day long how the same exact audio would be good for you if you give it the same description.