Alexander The R.I.C.H. Trader

Forexpreneur · September 5, 2026, 8:28pm

I’m a very curious person and love finding answers to things that interest me or I think can be useful in my life.

My having a “Matrix Ability” out of nowhere (which I really haven’t had since my soccer days (“football” for those outside the US) because this is something I’d like to further develop. This can have a HUGE positive effect in my trading, but of course in general life also.

So I went through (I’m going to call the sections in major title “modules” because that is often where the modules for customs comes from) all the modules in PEACE and there are a couple that really stood out as the potential cause.

Effortless Action : Helps you set down the strain you’ve always layered on top of your work, while the work itself stays exactly as capable. Act without striving; work without forcing — not an excuse to do less, but an instruction to do it without the war attached.

In your working life: the task still gets finished, often better, and it stops costing you the whole of yourself to finish it. [end of description]

This absolutely seems to fit, however, I’m convinced it’s a couple of things combined AND one of the things about Ascension Chamber is that you use it to consciously direct your stack. So I literally will repeat something that I’m striving for and I envision the outcome I want and try to include positive emotions with it, which you can’t always do, but most of the time.

So with Ascension Chamber the goal I set was to “be calm when I’m looking at my charts while trading in order to see what the markets are telling me”. Sure I could say “detach” which is the goal but it made more sense to say it the way I did.

The racing games aren’t charts, but the mind has to learn it and it’s often recommended in the Pro-tips section to take little actions steps. For example, if you want to instill calmness well go to a place that at least mildly makes you “un-calm” (not really a word but bear with me). It’s because you want to build that muscle so to speak.

So playing games has NOTHING to do with trading and I will play them often to unwind and have fun although some can outright piss me off at times but then when I get past a point they are fun and help me unwind.

One other module in PEACE that could have caused my “Matrix” ability (aka being In The Zone) is

The Water That Carves: Cultivates real potency from real stillness — the capacity to act decisively from a settled place instead of a spike of pressure. Nothing is softer than water, and nothing wears down stone the way it does.

In practice, the decision that used to take a full day of grinding starts arriving whole, and the largest thing on your list gets met directly, without the runway of dread. [end of description]

Plus I used DRReg for a few months; GLM for a round and a half or two (can’t remember now) and a couple of others. Things could have come up from my subconscious along with PEACE.

Ultimately I’m putting all my basic thoughts here because I want to cultivate this “Matrix Ability”. This is why PEACE really appealed to me in the first place. Not the “Matrix Ability” because I forgot about being in the zone, but the overall theme.

If you look at all the subs I’m using, I’m going after the same two things. Healing my general life due to the effects of child abuse (CPTSD and the other “growth opportunities” that comes with it) and getting my trading life together. I’m laser focused on that.

THEN, once those are in place, then and only then, will I move on and work on the romance part of my life. Plus I want to build a business and a non-profit charity eventually working with adult survivors of child abuse and eventually helping abused children.

None of that can happen if I don’t have a healed core (what I call my “Foundation”) and none of that can really happen if I don’t have a nice personal life with a decent amount of money. A nice house to call my own in a quiet area, etc.

Forexpreneur · September 6, 2026, 3:19am

Today was a very interesting revelation and change of reaction (within me personally) that I’m attributing to PEACE and a couple of SubClub subs from the past.

My Mom asked me to come over because she was having problems with her computer. She said she’d make dinner and I wasn’t going to argue. I love my Mom, she is the only direct family I have left. But there is all kinds of a past, which I WON’T go into much at all in this post except what’s directly related.

She’s making dinner and something simple happens and she flies off the handle and it’s this big commotion like a friking hurricane (cyclone), earthquake, tsunami, and tornado all go off at once (very typical growing up).

This wasn’t anything major that happened and understand it comes out of nowhere. I’ve mentioned briefly that she’s a survivor of domestic violence and I do know, which is typical, that there was all kinds of not good things that happened during her childhood.

Here’s the thing. Sure, I’m “used” to this and frankly expect it, and normally when something like this happens it triggers my PTSD and I react in different ways (I have had multiple reactions over the years, basically the whole fight, flight response). She said things directly to me, about me, etc, which was also very typical growing up.

But overall I wasn’t triggered much. Sure, there was a little, but normally I’d be triggered and I’d have the elevated heart rate for a while, and would be pissed as can be, honestly sometimes for hours. Sure I was never stuck just in the anger and not able to do anything, but the anger would still be there inside and would just be boiling for hours after being triggered.

I wasn’t hit much by the CPTSD symptoms at all and my baseline was detaching from it, watching it and telling myself, yep, that’s Mom. But I just watched it. Let her say her shit and get all angry and do what she does. But I did not take an ounce of it personally.

The revelation part of it is how this added to CPTSD symptoms (sure I knew it, but never really looked at it). I’m not holding blame. It is what it is. It certainly didn’t help my life, that’s for sure. I don’t enjoy it. Normally it brings up all kinds of past trauma, etc.

But this time I just automatically detached and let it be and then let it go. But I don’t mean detached and “numbed out”. I’ve never done that. It just didn’t bother me because I knew it wasn’t anything I did or anything about me.

There is a “module” within PEACE titled The End of Contending
And here is the description:
Zhuangzi tells of a man crossing a river who flew into a rage when another boat struck his — until he saw the second boat was empty, and his anger vanished on the spot. This helps soften the thousand small collisions you didn’t notice you were braced for: the slow line, the careless remark, the way things simply are. Most of what provokes you is closer to an empty boat than you think.

In daily life, a pause opens in front of the old flare, and you find yourself choosing which collisions deserve you. Almost none do. Your boundaries hold without the armor. [End of description]

This is what is sounds like to me. Again, I always try to figure things out and “how they fit”. It’s just the way I’m wired and I’m at peace with it (no pun intended).

But here is another interesting thing since yesterday: I believe three “modules” have actuated potentially in order. I could be wrong. It could be a coincidence. But it may not be. I’m not aware of experiencing this with other titles so it’s kind of a mystery ATM.

However, to me, this was another major breakthrough with the subs. This is exactly the kinds of growth and healing that I’ve been striving for for DECADES. Years of therapy didn’t do. All the other things that I so desperately tried didn’t do it.

What is just incredible to me is that some of this healing stuff is major, and it IS a big deal to me, but I’m not having to remember to use this technique or that. Hell, I didn’t even have to remember to take a breath and exhale out longer than the inhale. I friking did that automatically (that’s a trigger from PEACE that brings inner peace).

This is getting fun.

Edit: cleaned up spelling, grammar.

Forexpreneur · September 7, 2026, 6:41am

The weather has been quite crappy this weekend with quite a bit of intermittent rain so I worked on integrating detachment into my daily, weekly and monthly preparation checklists. I’m also integrating it into my individual trade reviews.

I’m working out integrating detachment into my pre-trade checklist and am working on a spreadsheet that will track trades specifically on detachment, following my rules or not, and specifically breaking rules down that I violated.

So I’ll use two spreadsheets to track two different parts of my trades. The typical one for P&L and all those good metrics, but then I’ll have the second one that is specifically for the psychology part.

The “P&L” portion on the psychology spreadsheet will be “R&N” (Rules & Not). I’m still figuring out the different areas to track but I know this won’t be that difficult to figure out. Then I’ll fully integrate it all into the post-trade checklists.

I’m convinced I’ll be able to mentally integrate it into my trading fairly easy also. I have paper checklists for the trade tracker and then I’ll input the trades into the spreadsheet either at the end of the day, or at worse I’ll do it on Sunday as I’m preparing for the coming week. So integrating one extra step will become simple over a short period of time.

Forexpreneur · September 7, 2026, 9:20am

I had AI create a pic for my 1st upcoming custom sub that I’m calling The Sultan & Sage Trader sub which I’ll get either October or November.

So I had 4 pics combined to create the Sultan & Sage pic. It is from the official pics for Sultan; the previous True Sell pic (even though it’s not in my build I liked it much better than the pic for RICH Trader); Synergy: Wisdom of the Ages; and Financial Success Reality Shifter (a module from Synergy:The Golden One)

I like it a lot and I think it represents the essence of my upcoming custom.

Forexpreneur · September 7, 2026, 7:53pm

Woo hoo. I received my response from support on details of my build and if I was making rookie mistakes, overdoing it, adding the kitchen sink (hard not to do) and I was much better off than I thought.

I mean, how would I truly know, this is my first build. One thing that the person said is that “This is a more carefully reasoned first custom than most people’s third.”. LOL. That made me feel really good.

It was cautioned that it is heavy on the healing, which was the way I was leaning, so take it slow, meaning start out with 15 seconds (less if need be) and SLOWLY work up over time. I do plan to run this for two years. I need these areas healed to be a consistently profitable trader.

There was one module they recommended to pull, so I did, and there were two that were fine but if I needed or wanted to, to save money they said those could be pulled but not necessary.

All I have to say is I love support and appreciate all they do. I also appreciate @MAkh and his help and guidance also. I will write the next post separately and reveal the final build. I will be starting this literally in the New Year (actually December 31 because that fits in with the new listening schedule I’ve switched to with is:
Monday Thursday Saturday listening days and then two days off in a row, which I picked Tuesday and Wednesday so there are less trading days to be affected by potential recon.

Forexpreneur · September 7, 2026, 8:26pm

So here is the final build for my first custom, which I will be ordering in the next month or so.

Alexander The Sultan & Sage Trader custom Sub.

RICH Trader (Wealth Core)
Roots of Scarcity (Wealth Healing)
The Worthiness Recalibration (Wealth Healing)
Synergy: The Golden One (Wealth Enhancement)
Subconscious Flow (Skills) thank you @MAkh
Synergy: Wisdom of the Ages (Enhancement)
It Always Rises (Healing)
The Beauty of Failure (Enhancement)
Courage Reclaimed (Healing)
Synergy: Winner Overdrive (Focus)
Total Nonchalance (Focus)
Essence: A Perfect Unyielding (GLM condensed)
Negative Energy Transmutation (Healing)
Virtue Series: Patience (Enhancement)
Endgame Drive (Productivity)
The Lazy Genius (Productivity)

I will say this. When I sat down, of course my main goal is to be a “Consistently Profitable Trader” and yes RICH Trader does go in and heal stuff. So do EOG, especially EOG 1. I needed elements from both RICH Trader and EOG 1 (later the other stages will help but I need to core first).

This is why it seemed as though I was flopping back and forth and couldn’t make up my mind.

Anyway, I’ll wrap this up fairly quickly. If you heal something you are leaving a gaping hole. It is NOT all taken by the healed self, contrary to what some people claim. So you have to fill that in. If you look at my build, I heal this and become this. I heal this way of thinking and then replace it with this way of thinking.

Yep, it’s heavy on the healing. This is a healing sub. But there are also skills, focus, and productivity in there also.

I’m 11 days into this round and will finish it out with the 30 listening days. I plan to do a short 2 week round and then I think it was nearly a 3 week washout to end the year. It might be 2 but somewhere around there.

This is my first year of using the subs so I wanted a really good washout since I changed the way I listen to subs, and of course the official recommendations of how we listen has changed this last year also.

But there it is my 1st build which I loving call “The Sultan & Sage Trader” build. I’ll probably rename it “Recon’ville” LOL. I know it will be work, but therapy was also. I’m looking forward to this. And …

This is getting fun.

MAkh · September 8, 2026, 9:33am

Dude, this is a really good custom

Forexpreneur · September 8, 2026, 3:41pm

Thank you. I was able to add some modules. Even though I researched I’m still new so wasn’t 100% sure. I was cautioned to take it slow. I’ll actually share the response from Support if you’re interested.

Response from support

Hello,

This is a more carefully reasoned first custom than most people’s third. Taking your questions in order.

WHERE THE BUILD IS GENUINELY STRONG

Your two central picks for Goal 1 are exactly right, and better targeted than you may realize. Roots of Scarcity is drawn from Ecstasy of Gold and is specifically about deeply ingrained scarcity beliefs passed down through generations - which is precisely the situation you described across your grandparents, your fathers and yourself. The Worthiness Recalibration, from the newest Ecstasy of Gold update, addresses the unseen worthiness question that limits your capacity to receive, and releases beliefs tying wealth to struggle or validation. Given a stepfather who repeatedly told you it was a pipe dream, that’s the module for it.

You also diagnosed yourself correctly. You went back to EOG because you realized scarcity was the entrenched problem, and then pulled the two EOG modules that address it directly into the custom. That’s the right move.

Courage Reclaimed for victim mentality and Endgame Drive for perfectionism are similarly direct hits. Endgame Drive specifically works on releasing perfection’s paralysis in favor of finishing.

And Natural Winner with Overdrive is a documented pairing - Natural Winner is described as the pillar of success scripting, while Overdrive intertwines with all success-related programming and drives the whole custom forward. Your instinct to list Overdrive under both success and result enhancers is correct; it genuinely functions as both.

ON YOUR THIRD GOAL - AND THE MODULE YOU DOUBTED

The trading psychology goal is largely handled by your core. R.I.C.H. Trader works on emotional equilibrium under pressure, resetting cleanly after a loss, disciplined adherence to your plan, and - most relevant to you - outcome detachment, meaning executing your strategy regardless of what any individual trade does.

Your described failure mode is taking a small profit out of fear and watching the pair run to your original target. That is outcome dependency, and it’s what outcome detachment is built for.

Which brings me to Virtue Series: Patience. You asked whether it was overreaching. It isn’t - it may be the single most targeted module in the build for that specific problem. Its description covers the wisdom to delay short-term gratification to achieve great things, and tempering your expectation of things to come. Closing early for a small win is a failure of delayed gratification. Keep it.

ON TOTAL NONCHALANCE

Not redundant with PEACE or Summertime. There’s overlap in that all three produce calm, but they operate differently: PEACE and Summertime develop foundational states of presence and ease, while Total Nonchalance is a demeanor - staying cool under pressure, going with the flow, wit arriving naturally.

Two further reasons to keep it. Staying cool under pressure is directly a trading trait. And because you’re rotating your major titles, the nonchalance lives permanently in the custom, whereas PEACE’s contribution comes and goes with the rotation.

ON YOUR THREE ADDITIONS

ESSENCE: A Perfect Unyielding fits and doesn’t clash. It’s about rootedness - no longer asking the world for permission, no longer carrying weight that was never yours. Given you loved GLM and don’t want the core, this carries that quality in module form, and it serves your second goal well.

It Always Rises also fits, with one note: it sits adjacent to The Beauty of Failure. Beauty of Failure mines past failures for the wisdom in them; It Always Rises builds certainty that you always come back. Related but distinct, and for a trader who must tolerate drawdowns, both are defensible. If you ever need a slot, that’s the pair to look at.

So no, this isn’t the kitchen sink. All three earn their places.

THE ONE I’D CUT

Treasure Finder. You’ve filed it under wealth and financial healing, but it isn’t a wealth-mindset module - it’s about finding the key insight or nugget of knowledge that makes something click. It’s a fine module; it just isn’t doing the job you assigned it, and it’s the only real mismatch in the build.

Removing it puts you at sixteen, well inside the twenty-slot limit.

TWO PRACTICAL NOTES

The healing weight in this build is substantial - Roots of Scarcity, Worthiness Recalibration, Courage Reclaimed, Negative Energy Transmutation and The Beauty of Failure all work on material with real emotional charge. You’ve been clear about your history and your capacity, and I’m taking you at your word. The relevant guidance is simply that this is a lot of processing to introduce at once, so start at fifteen seconds rather than thirty and work up through the intervals slowly. There’s no advantage to moving faster, and with a build you intend to run for two years there’s no hurry at all.

Your plan is otherwise sound: one listening day, one rest day, thirty listening days, then a washout of at least five. Pairing it with PEACE first is a good call - a settling title alongside a demanding custom is the right order.

Best regards,

Support Team

I’m looking forward to it.

MAkh · September 8, 2026, 7:43pm

Thank you for posting this!

I needed to find a moment to read through all of it

All I can say is wow, it seems like such a well thought out custom for trading and the mindset for it

I just feel like each module is doing something and adding depth to a different part of it

Damn good

Forexpreneur · September 8, 2026, 9:31pm

Thank you my man. I have a personal belief that seems to be backed up, and this particular belief is that if you heal something you have to actually replace it with something or there is a gaping hole.

They actually teach this in serious in-depth therapy, Twelve Step programs, etc. If YOU don’t consciously replace it then your subconscious will and then who knows what new problem you just rooted.

So I refer to this type of sub as a Healing and Becoming sub. Sure it’s focused on trading but all of this is good for a nice happy life also. It all kind of goes hand in hand. That’s what I’m striving to accomplish with this.

I actually think all those years in therapy will shine now because I’ll be rooting up some charged things, but frankly even if anything is new, it still isn’t because I’ve brought up something similar in therapy. But with the subs I’m finally getting to the real root of things.

Hopefully I don’t write too much in my posts. Part of this is for me in the future, part of the point of the journals, but I’m truly hoping someone in the future, who is struggling reads something similar they’re going through and it provides hope for them too.

MAkh · September 8, 2026, 9:48pm

What really

You just summed up what happened to me on Regeneration

Things were getting excavated and I felt like things needed to go in their place

Hence why I built another custom

Very cool, I didn’t even know this was a thing

Yeah, for sure. I actually enjoy when you explain how you came to your conclusions, I feel like we have quite similar journal styles

Forexpreneur · September 8, 2026, 9:58pm

Absolutely. Man I love Regeneration. That is like an “old friend” to me (funny because I’m only coming up on my 1st anni with SubClub).

That would be why you felt the need for the new sub. You intuitively felt the need to fill in the vacancy of what was being healed.

BTW, once I get this portion truly healed, man I’ll be moving on to romance/dating subs. And, I will also be moving on to business subs also. I used to be a low level upper manager but got burned out with the corporate lifestyle.

With my own company, it’s my own rules. My own corporate culture. There is a very clear business need that isn’t being fulfilled at all. But I don’t want to give control over to investors, so I need the trading to provide seed money.

Forexpreneur · September 8, 2026, 10:23pm

Dream entry Yesterday was a listening day (Day 11 for this round). I was woken up in the middle of a dream because I was too cold (forgot and left my bedroom window cracked) and this was a heavy healing dream where I caught my brain literally recategorizing a certain type of drama healing dream.

When I was coming to my brain essentially froze and it felt like “oh crap. He’s waking up. Did he catch us?” I’ve only had this kind of dream twice in my life previously. This was a full on healing dream though. Funny thing is though I don’t recall what it was about, just that I caught my brain in action with healing.

It took me what felt like 15 minutes or so to get back to sleep. Something that is incredibly rare now. I usually fall asleep within a minute or two, even if I get woken up from a dream. But I was excited to catch what I saw and wanted to catch it again.

I know it wasn’t a dream in a dream because I had to close my window.

Forexpreneur · September 9, 2026, 5:03am

*09 08 26 (rest day)
Went for a walk to the park today and around my neighborhood. It was an absolutely gorgeous and mild sunny day. I started around 5:30 pm.

Some people were coming home from work. Some people were just out and about. A younger couple were playing frisbee in the park. A middle age teen and what appeared to be his father were throwing baseball with each other in the park. People were walking their dogs. Squirrels were busy getting nuts to store for winter. Crows were … WTF do Crows do? Seriously though, the crows were doing their thing which is squawking off and on and getting food.

The park has nice tall fir trees which give a wonderful smell but also provides a lot of shade. Wasn’t needed today because it wasn’t all that hot, but it was still nice. There was a nice breeze which kicked up more of the pine smell also.

What was interesting about this experience is that this is something I have tried countless times over the years. Just watching. No judgement (even though I joked about the crows, I actually admire them). Detached and watched.

This may sound odd but the thing that stood out the most is that all these people were just living their lives. They were doing their thing. Just being people. I can’t really claim they were being themselves but what I’m ultimately getting at is that they were just being.

I wasn’t irritated by accidently stepping in dog excrement. Never fun and difficult as can be to get it out of the treads of my boots, but whatever. It wasn’t done against me. One dog was going nuts pulling at its leash to go after another dog. Didn’t annoy me. It was just doing what it most likely always does.

I just observed. Detached. Didn’t judge. It is a Buddhist exercise. A mindful exercise. But damn if I’ve ever been able to do it before. I tried on many occasions. Today I was just able to do it and it was nice.

As I was walking back home, the long way, I kept smelling flowers and pine trees. It smelled like spring. But this is the tail end of our summer literally turning in to fall (aka autumn) very soon. This is when it starts to get colder. We get more rain. More clouds. Shorter sunlight hours.

And I often hate it because I know a long winter is around the corner (The Pacific Northwest is notorious for long dark and wet winters. Although it’s not as bad as it used to be). But today it didn’t matter. Today was today and I let myself enjoy it.

I can’t say I didn’t judge at all because I did judge it as beautiful. I soaked up the sun and loved it.

I went out for a walk last night. Honestly, close to the same weather. But NOT the walk that I had today. I wasn’t able to just observe and let it be what it would be. It was a holiday yesterday and oddly not as many people out, but there was a multigenerational family picnicking. Grandparents and grandkids ages. But the walk didn’t hit like it did today.

I’m 99% certain this is PEACE doing its magic. l loved it.

Here’s the thing, I want and need this same level of mind with my trading. I want to see those charts and just see what the market is telling me. No interpretation. No projections. What are the charts telling me?

It will come. I have faith. I think I’m most likely closer than I’m aware of.

Forexpreneur · September 9, 2026, 4:18pm

9 09 26 (Rest day 2)
I’ve lightly mentioned this before but wanted a separate entry for it, I don’t wake up groggy anymore.

Today should have been a day I woke up groggy. I have a daytime appointment (have switched over to mostly my typical graveyard hours since I’m going to be trading live soon) and I didn’t get the best of sleep last night, which is very typical when I have daytime appointments, since I’m not a young buck anymore.

Sure, I feel I can use more sleep, and would if I could, but I’m just not groggy. Even though I didn’t sleep all that well, I still got some deep sleep. The type of deep sleep that I’ve not had in ages, but is common now since I’ve started using PEACE.

It’s nice not being groggy when I wake up.

Ramblings about my upcoming custom

I’m also using RICH Trader and growth is happening there. I keep mentioning PEACE (sometime I’m not 100% sure it’s PEACE but it feels like it) because PEACE is an incredible sub especially for things I’m healing (CPTSD, etc). But the same growth automatically applies to my trading life, so it’s a win win.

The goal is to use PEACE with my upcoming custom sub for about half the year and then I’ll switch with Summertime for a round, then back to PEACE. My custom sub will be a heavy one and it was heavily suggested that I run it with a settling sub like PEACE, Summertime, Dragon Regeneration, etc and start out with 15 seconds ONLY. Less if need be.

That was the feeling I got when I put in the healing modules I did. They dig deep and it’s emotionally charged areas. My attitude is “Bring it on”! It needs to heal. I’ve been through extreme trauma and I had a sudden traumatic event that brought up the other stuff and I had no choice. I learned how to handle it because I had to. This is actually where all that therapy comes in.

Forexpreneur · September 9, 2026, 10:06pm

9 09 26 (Rest day 2) Part Deux
Revelation about how I’ve been struggling with detachment in my trading post a traumatic personal event and how I dealt with my CPTSD previously compared to after the event.

This hasn’t dawned on me before, even though it’s incredibly simple and doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out. Sure, I had ups and down with my trading. Frankly that’s trading life and economic events happen, your systems stops being effective for a while, etc.

When I started trading I had money. Heck, I don’t remember how much you needed to open up a Forex account back in 2005 (I actually started real trading in January of 2006) but it was in the neighborhood of $ 15,000+. It might have even been $ 20,000 minimum. I don’t recall. I deposited much more than the minimum.

These days it doesn’t take much. Plus the Forex market prices moved in whole PIPS not fractions like they do now. Plus there wasn’t any mini or micro accounts. We were trading full lots, that’s partly why you needed a heck of a lot more money.

The bottom line is I WASN’T DEPENDENT on being good at the currency trading. I had money saved up. If worse came to worse I could have fairly quickly gotten another management job with another company.

I still have some money saved up but it won’t last forever AND I’ve been out of the job market for quite a while. Plus I was lower upper level management and most places will view me as “overqualified” for a lower level management job.

Ultimately my realization happened because I’ve been trying to figure out how am I attaching myself to my trading? I feel dependent on it. I’m putting too much effort and emotional investment into each and every trade, when in fact I need to just do what I know what to do and just let the odds play out like I did in my earlier years of trading.

Sure I had goals, dreams ambitions and quite a few of them came to fruition. But I didn’t place the markets on this pedestal like I’ve done since I started having problems.

I also came to the realization that I’ve been in shock since losing my long-term partner in an instant and I actually used the markets as a way to deal with things and let trading problems replace the real pain.

The brunt of the pain I’ve worked out in my head and through therapy, but of course not the root of it, nor my childhood wounds. That’s where the subliminals will help, but I kept myself stuck in this hole of “trading issues”.

I’m not saying all this was a shock. What I am saying is I never really put it all together and looked myself in the mirror. Or completely owned it.

Well, that stops today and I’m looking it right in the eyes, saying hello to it and am taking full ownership of it.

So how is this going to help with detachment from market trades? A work in process. First off, I will add it to my Pre-trading Day Psychology Checklist. I just need to break it down to figure out how to write it for a short & sweet checkbox.

I actually need to figure it out and put it in my checklist before I start demo-trading during the live markets. I’m still using backtesting software to solidify some things, but I’m very close to the live demo trading.

Forexpreneur · September 9, 2026, 11:18pm

9 09 26 (Rest day 2) Part Three Amigos
Damn, I’m making this harder than it needs to be. This detachment thing is friking simple.

I know this damn stuff too. If I tell you to focus and notice everything that is red around you, what are you going to see? Your mind is no different.

So if my job is to detach and focus on the process, how would I make sure I’m doing this in a checklist?

Is my mind on anything other than my trade process?

If it is, what can I do to focus strictly on the trading process?

If I can’t get my mind to focus strictly on the trading process than I’m done for the day. It’s not a punishment, it’s CAPITAL PRESERVATION.

Seriously, it’s that simple. I somehow got out of the mode of being my own damn manager. That was actually my superpower in my earlier days of trading. I could route out my problems like I would with an employee (in my career days it was individual managers having problems with employees in their departments).

Honestly, this is the problem when trauma happens and you have a history of it; you fall back into the default until things truly get healed. It’s hard to see the forest from the trees when your in the damn forest and it’s on fire. Somehow I got into a submissive way of thinking. I don’t really need to know why, I just need to focus on something different. Something more positive and powerful.

Frankly, I need to actually be a manager to myself again. It’s amazing I forgot how to do this. LOL. And amazing how friking simple this actually was.

Forexpreneur · September 10, 2026, 4:26pm

*9 10 26 (Listening Day 12)
PEACE (2 Minutes)
RICH TRADER (2 Minutes) I switched from EOG1 because I’m getting my trading routine back.

I’m loving this new modified schedule. I had two days off in a row and it felt like a mini-washout with some bloom. Plus having set days it really nice also.

So my sleep was about what I expected. I got tired and went to bed around 9pm. There was no more staying up and studying, I was nodding off. The kind where you almost need a helmet. LOL. So I went to sleep and woke up 4 hours later.

I stayed up for two, took some melatonin and slept for almost 5 and woke up early.

Boy, my dreams were working. I’m not sure what they were about but they were busy. I was woken up by some noise outside but went right back to sleep. I live in a neighborhood with 4 restaurants and 3 bars so sometimes a truck park right in front of my place and those big sliding truck cargo doors will wake me up. Not sure if that’s what it was but I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’m going to start to have to wear earplugs again since I’ll be working graveyard again for trading. I’m surprised I have run into this yet, but I will say, PEACE does make me sleep deeper and I’m consistently getting that REM sleep.

Edit: Added my Listening Day Number (I’m developing a system so I document things better on here)

Forexpreneur · September 10, 2026, 5:39pm

@MAkh Woo hoo. I just received my Initiate title/designation. Thank you very much Brother for letting me know about the different levels and that I needed to ask for it.

Forexpreneur · September 10, 2026, 6:04pm

Oh no I suck again. LOL. It was dropped to Aspirant. I think it’s because I didn’t have it and instantly bumped up to Initiate. I’ll ask Support in a couple of days and get it sorted out, but literally I saw Initiate for a brief moment.