tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043933292721968695.post8559287686644828156..comments2023-05-24T19:28:32.180+08:00Comments on jules in jumbles: Trades 7/28 and 7/29Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043933292721968695.post-65324713986244920122014-08-22T18:17:02.467+08:002014-08-22T18:17:02.467+08:00You look great in those pics!
Didn't know you...You look great in those pics!<br /><br />Didn't know you went vegan for awhile, I went mostly vegan the last 3 years. It's tough to plan and eat right, and may need supplementing on vitamin d, b12, and omega 3s. So instead of going too extreme, I think it's better to focus on the nutritarian diet, about 90% plant-based:<br />http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/what-is-a-nutritarian-diet.aspxEdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03900432013968866466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043933292721968695.post-89915074446566890882014-08-03T09:18:09.155+08:002014-08-03T09:18:09.155+08:00Thanks for replying!... Yeah it seems that hunting...Thanks for replying!... Yeah it seems that hunting in multiple contracts is essential to success; while focusing on one contract and forcing trades in it every day is the hard way. I've gradually added CL and JY to my daily watch/trade list, while watching but rarely trading ES.<br /><br />I've considered psyche origins of "self-sabotage", and all sorts of other psychologizing, to explain my behavior of apparently intentionally letting go of profits; but I think it comes down to physiology in the end: like a drug, boosting serotonin (for example), the "high" of several winning trades is naturally followed by a behavioral "low", which is basically the brain being depleted of (or downregulating receptors for) something that's needed for behavior regulation... Impulse control is reduced, and I feel overcome by a demand that the market just go the way I trade--analysis is forgotten, the brain just doesn't work right. The purpose becomes "I just have be right" rather than "I want to make money". Sort of how anger or blind stubbornness are a natural response to feeling helpless or frustrated.<br /><br />For me, I think a generally healthy diet, and also supplements like pregnenolone, iodine, selenium, lithium orotate, and even nootropics, have helped reduce this problem, and established contrasting behavior that shows the problem for what it is (physiological in nature, rather than primarily and elusively psychological), by feeling more detached from trades--my brain's analytical state becoming more dependable... But it's still *the* challenge.<br /><br />Do you think that's what's usually responsible when a trader feels like "his own worst enemy"?<br /><br />THANKS :)Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245118798931217585noreply@blogger.com