Just found this on Niki’s thread;
One of the first things I do religiously every morning regardless rain or shine is make myself a mug of steaming hot black coffee and have a cigarette with it. Even on mornings when I had not had an iota of sleep the night before.
I like to think of it as investing in ones own wants and needs.
You are spot on when you said I am onto a job. I am.
Unfortunately, its a price I have to pay to try to move out from Malaysia, into Singapore, permanently. That is part of the plan for the next two years, an investment for a much better future and opportunities for my two boys.
On top of that, its also about investing pure attention to trading also. Its about religiously putting in time and effort moving from profitability to professionalism. Again, this requires that I retreat into my personal space and re look at many aspects of what and how I do things when it comes to trading.
We have to remember, as we keep learning and practicing, we will come to a point where the biggest struggle or barrier that needs to be broken is the glass ceiling that is we, ourselves.
That is the hardest to break, better, and outperform.
It needs all our focus and attention. Looking at ourselves from outside the box is not something we are thought how to, trained to, or most never would have done before coming into trading.
Get to that point, and you will also retreat into your personal space in order to game up.
Maybe that is the real truth behind the statistic that 95% of people fail in this business. Maybe 95% of traders, probably myself included, simply just don’t take it seriously enough. Maybe there is, and should be, a lot of soul searching to be done.
La Fin