TLDR: Self sabotage isn't what you thought. It's your mind's legitimate way to solve bigger, more pressing issues than trading success.
Self sabotage is one of the most talked about, and yet most misunderstood, concepts of trading psychology.
The term itself - "self sabotage" - is a...
What's the hidden need that drives YOUR discipline struggles?
Is it the desire for action? The impatience to succeed? The aspiration to feel like a master trader?
Or is it something else?
Hi,
Thumbs up for the openness. This is a problem many traders struggle with.
The "simplest" solution is NOT to ask the broker to be in charge of your mindset.
It is to figure out how to be able to walk away on your own.
No sugar-coating here: you are self sabotaging. It's a perfectly normal...
As a trading mindset coach I deal with this "Removing emotion" fallacy very often.
Most of my clients tell me the want to remove emotion.
I ask - do you REALLY want that?? 100% of them answer - No, not really. They've simply heard that mantra all over the media, so figured it is what they...