Why Trading the markets is lot like love making?

Hi to all,

I know the analogy sounds weird, but love making is the best analogy to refer trading psychology. Let’s look at the similar elements…

  1. Attraction
  2. Depression
  3. Fantasy

Here I will post my insights over trading psychology and it’s connections with love making. I would like to start with a small paragraph below.

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Trading the markets is lot like love making, if overdone it can make you weak and sick or if you repress it you’ll end up being weird. As love making trading should be done in balance and in harmony with your inner chemistry.

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Article no 1: Why you feel a relief when you blow your account?

I will write the article on Monday, just the place holder post…

Just when I thought i’ve heard it all…

Because it takes time to spot an opportunitty and in most cases you screw up, the very few you get it you still can come out fast, it requires skills to make it last longer. Most guys just take the profit very early.

Each and every line can become an article, and perhaps will become an article. Thank you for your input Mr Gone, if you have more insights please don’t hesitate to post them.

Thanks again.

Welcome to the thread DRA :23: You should have added a smiley to your post :slight_smile:

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[B]Why Watching Trading Charts on Saturday & Sunday is like watching Porn Movies?[/B]

You’re in your lovely fantasy, making intense love, enjoying every possible pleasure from each moment you have.

[B]Aaahhaaa…… It is so enchanting. [/B]
Don’t you feel that’s the same situation when you’re making trades in your imagination at Sunday morning?
It’s Sunday morning, and now you’re again into your charts, analyzing and planning about how you’re going to cash the market on Monday. And you’re planning about all the possible movements market can take, and how you’ll act and cash them.

[B]You need to cash the trend this week[/B]
Have you ever lost 15% to 30% of your account on a single day, perhaps it may happened on Thursday and on Friday you were skeptical to take any trade. And you watched the market to make pretty obvious move, which could have balanced your losses.

Saturday morning and as you looked into the charts you have already started repenting over your wrong move and the missed opportunity. And the more you look at the Friday charts, the more you feel depressed.

[B]It’s not different in love making?[/B]
The situation is same when you’re fantasizing about love making; these fantasies are followed by depression. The depression is in exact proportion to the fantasies.

But what happen when you’re actually making love? It is a scientific fact that the more men will fanaticize about love making, the more it will prove impotent while making love. These men will feel the actual love-making as very mundane.
But Why do they feel Love-making so mundane?

They feel so mundane in actual love making because they’ve released most of their sexual energy in Fantasy, they have exhausted the nerves, nerves that sense the sense of pleasure.
And the more they have done it, the insensitive the nerves get, he may make love in real life, but it would be futile, pleasure less and mundane.

[B]And what it has to do with trading charts? [/B]
It has everything to do with your trading activity, in fact more than anything else. The more you analyze your charts on Saturday and Sunday, the more you’re fanaticizing about the moves you’ll make on Monday. Now you’re tiring your sense of Trading Design.

It’s still Sunday and you have preplanned you move and now on Monday the market may not indicate in your predetermined direction, but you’ll see it; you’ll act as per your predetermined analysis.

Your sense of Market analysis is so tired that it is not in position to make a new analysis. So it supplies you the results from the analysis made on Saturdays and Sundays.

[B]Your Poor Spouse[/B]
The situation is same when you’re for love-making after a fantasy session, you’re mind is looking for the same experience as you had in your fantasy. But you poor spouse cannot compete with you fictitious fairy, and you feel mundane and just want to finish the thing anyway.

[B]I am finally coming back to trading…[/B]
After a solid dose of over analysis, you seem to have no action in market on Monday and Tuesday, so you enter the Trades anyway, and you know what happens next, you lose again. At this point you’re more confused than ever before and enter into more mundane trades, which lead you to a sequence of losses. And up to the point where you’re afraid to enter into any trade.

[B]And it’s Saturday again…[/B]
I am not going to say anything about Saturdays and Sundays now, but may be you would like to re- read the article and you should because you need to get this point right away. Then and then only you can expect to make any profits from trading the markets.

[B]How to avoid it? [/B]

[B]Hardware[/B]
Don’t ever watch charts on Saturday and Sundays. If you cannot control it, uninstall the Trading on Fridays or delete the passwords or ask your wife to lock your computer. And if you have the application on your mobile devices you can simply uninstall them on Friday and reinstall on Monday. It would take you 5 Minutes to do it, but it will save your account.

[B]Forums…[/B]
Perhaps Forex is the niche where you have the most active forums, even in the most silent corners of a forum; you can see nice discussions happening. But everything which looks nice, don’t end up so nicely.
Many, who suffer from this analysis issue, will dump their brain on forums. Even if they have been good at market analysis, you don’t have to allow them to infect your mind. Forums may trigger a series of fantasy in your mind.

[B]Your habits…[/B]
This is the most problematic thing to deal with, when you have done something for more than three months in a row. It’s hard to change it. Sue above things and it will help you to change you habits.

Summery—Pending
Grammar Edit – pending

Any comments are welcomed, you may also add your own insights.

I dunno if this is the best analogy…

An analogy is worth using if it gets your point across. Have a look at the forth coming articles…

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The Fatal Beauty of Famous Trading Instruments (EUR/USD/GBP and others)

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How Different Time Frames of the Trading Charts are lot like Women in Different Outfits.

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Why Entering into a trade is like proposing your Girl Friend?

Really? Because I’ve never heard eur/usd say, “ok, that’s enough of that”…

Hi LuvTheSnappe,

Welcome to the thread. I think your reply was about this headline- The Fatal Beauty of Famous Trading Instruments (EUR/USD/GBP and others)

I hate to say and write any thing theoretical, soon you’ll have this article on the thread and I would like to invite you to test what I will say. As a trader you should have a open attitude.

Your prejudging the headline is a indicator that USD/EUR is your primary instrument. Of course you don’t have to agree with me, but at least you should read my article.

With due respect I have to say that your response was such, as if I have said anything offensive about your girl friend.

You obviously missed the joke. If I was attacking anyone, it was myself.

Perhaps I did :60: and still missing

Hey cheetu,

This made me laugh. Thanks.

My mrs would like to point out that she prefers a bullish engulfing candle rather than a pin bar and she always likes to go long rather than short.

Am I getting the right idea?.

Also Do you know a man called Swiss tony? :stuck_out_tongue:

Always long :-):-):-):-):slight_smile:

I got the catch :59:

Hahaha

Please search Swiss tony on YouTube. He’s like your long lost bro. :wink:

Trading should be “boring”. Make the same trades over and over in a disciplined manner, make consistent profits. The bedroom should be “exciting”

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Now it’s turning up… welcome wise :slight_smile:

Good grief…