Listened to 3 minutes this morning, and I get this sadness in me.
Winning mindset, what is success in trading? Is it about money?
I make 50% profits, lose it. I make 30% profit, lose it again. I make 100%! Lose it again. How is that? There is no end to it. When do I achieve success? Is financial freedom when I win?
No. And this is where the sadness comes from. I’m attached to winning, to making a profit, looking to figure out indicators of success, of when I’ll be able to quit my job, make my wife quit her job, etc.
But if I can make 100% of my account in cash, and lose it all over the course of three months, what does it mean? Is making 100% a good measure of success? Absolutely not, because nothing changed in my life.
3 years and a half, nothing to show for in external value. Only skills and experience. I could definitly had done more, under different circumstances and making different decisions.
Anyway, processing all of this this morning makes me sad. But I have to go through this to realise that sucess in trading comes from habit and what you do on a regular basis rather than the result in your bank account.