Trading Psychology: How to Bounce Back from Losses Without Giving Up

Hello, fellow forex traders!
According to statistics, on average 95% of people are losers. Fortunately, you have a choice: to be like the majority, or not. You are not born happy, you become happy. Traders often suffer from many bad habits that seriously undermine their well-being and drain their energy. If you have developed any of the habits listed below, your prospects will be bleak.

Successful people never whine. Yes, they are always under pressure, however, if you are always in some kind of hyper-dramatized state, or anything else that makes you unhappy, you will begin to distance yourself from the people around you. In addition, you will create a vicious circle that will become an obstacle to achieving your happiness in the future. If you have problems with trading that cause negative emotions in you, then take action. Find yourself a mentor who will help solve your problems! Perhaps a virtual one (our forum will help with that). If you constantly complain, your friends will turn away from you, and you will remain in the shadow of failures.

You may really want to buy the latest gadget. The feeling of the purchase will, of course, ease your desire for a while, but in the end you will become an ordinary gray little person who will merely have a new gadget. This feeling of satisfaction is temporary. Plus, you have spent your trading capital on things that in fact do not matter at all. You can get by with far fewer things than you think. Be proud of your modesty.

"Sometimes we gain not what we expected."

Fear is anxiety about the future. Worrying about what will happen to your profession, how you will explain the loss of money to your spouse, or fear of getting an incurable disease. Focus on what you are doing now; this will give you a feeling of calm, security, and satisfaction.

We live in a virtual world and cannot give up technology. This means that we do not have time to shut ourselves away from everyone and relax.

Communication on the Internet has led many people to believe that it is not necessary at all to communicate through personal contact. Reducing the amount of live communication, especially if you are a forex trader trading full time, may lead to you becoming withdrawn and feeling very lonely. Yes, even introverts periodically need live communication in the company of other people.

Go out and meet people, and by doing so you will save yourself from this creeping social isolation, which takes away your energy, does not support you, and makes you unhappy.

The way you talk to yourself about money may be reflected in your well-being. If you are always short of it, or if you think that you will be happy when you reach a certain level of income, then by that you are only setting yourself up for disappointment.

Research results show that emotional well-being affects your happiness only up to a certain point. However, if your income is more than 2-3 million rubles a year, and you continue to say that the reason for your unhappiness lies in the lack of money, then it is time for a reassessment. In this situation, more money will probably not make you much happier.

That is why I believe that the search for personal meaning affects my level of happiness much more than earning money. Whenever money is my only goal, I understand that I have a problem that I will not have the strength to cope with. Besides this one, I should also have other goals.

"If you are on the verge of exhaustion, acknowledge it and step back. In that case, you will not only live to trade another day, but you will also enjoy it much more".

Intraday traders sometimes, in the end, feel the same way, because everything happens within compressed timeframes. This can drive you crazy. That is why it wears you out so quickly.

Most people today have two speeds: "devilishly fast" and "destructive." If you also have only these two speeds, then your activity is not productive, and you will not achieve well-being. If you are on the verge of exhaustion, acknowledge it and step back. In that case, you will not only live to trade another day, but you will also enjoy it much more.

You have the right to happiness. It is normal to feel joy in your life. If you feel that you do not deserve happiness, or discover that your thoughts are overflowing with fear, acknowledge it.

Fear itself is not going to leave you, but the way you deal with your fear can change over time. If you do not feel fear, you are probably not growing either. Do not think that the great explorers of the world did not feel fear.

Great leaders, great traders, and world reformers realized that somewhere deep inside them there was fear; nevertheless, they moved forward anyway. They stood firmly on their feet and said: "It is very important for me to achieve this! And whatever happens, I am going to do it!"

Esli net, znachit, tem samym vy govorite, chto otnosites k tem lyudyam, kotorye provodyat 21 protsent svoego vremeni v godu v stradaniyakh. Stydno!

My zhivem v virtualnom mire i ne mozhem otkazatsya ot tekhnologiy. Eto oznachaet, chto u nas net vremeni zakrytsya ot vsekh i rasslabitsya.

Obshchenie po Internetu privelo k tomu, chto mnogie lyudi schitayut, chto vovse ne obyazatelno obshchatsya posredstvom lichnogo kontakta. Sokrashchenie vremeni zhivogo obshcheniya, osobenno esli vy yavlyaetes foreks treyderom, torguyushchim polnyy rabochiy den, mozhet privesti k tomu, chto vy zamknetes v sebe i budete chuvstvovat sebya ochen odinoko. Da, dazhe introvertam periodicheski neobkhodimo zhivoe obshchenie v kompanii s drugimi lyudmi.

Vyydite i poznakomtes s lyudmi, i tem samym vy spasete sebya ot etoy polzuchey sotsialnoy izolyatsii, kotoraya otbiraet vashu energiyu, ne podderzhivaet vas i delaet vas neschastnym.

My vyuchnye zhivotnye. My tratim mnogo vremeni, pytayas vpisatsya v stado, chtoby ne podvergatsya goneniyu i otverzheniyu. Eshche v peshchernye vremena eto oznachalo by vernuyu smert. Neudivitelno, chto my tak bespokoimsya o tom, chto o nas dumayut drugie. My pozvolyaem chuzhim lyudyam vliyat na nashe nastroenie. Po signalu podnyatoy brovi my ponimaem, chto my imeem pravo vyskazatsya.

Esli vy ne mozhete byt samim soboy s lyudmi, kotorye obychno okruzhayut vas, naydite sebe novoe okruzhenie.

To, kak vy govorite sami s soboy o dengakh, mozhet otrazhatsya na vashem blagosostoyanii. Esli vam vsegda ne khvataet, ili, esli vy dumaete, chto vy budete schastlivy, kogda dostignete opredelennogo urovnya dokhodov, to tem samym vy tolko nastroite sebya na razocharovanie.

Rezultaty issledovaniy pokazyvayut, chto emotsionalnoe blagopoluchie vliyaet na vashe schaste tolko do opredelennogo momenta. Odnako esli vash dokhod sostavlyaet bolee 2-3 mln rubley v god, i vy prodolzhaete zayavlyat, chto prichina vashego neschastya zaklyuchaetsya v otsutstvii deneg, znachit, nastalo vremya dlya pereotsenki. V etoy situatsii bolshee kolichestvo deneg, veroyatno, ne sdelaet vas gorazdo schastlivee.

Imenno poetomu ya schitayu, chto poisk lichnostnogo smysla gorazdo bolshe skazyvaetsya na moem urovne schastya, chem zarabotok deneg. Vsyakiy raz, kogda moey edinstvennoy tselyu yavlyayutsya dengi, ya ponimayu, chto u menya voznikla problema, s kotoroy u menya ne budet sil spravitsya. Pomimo etoy u menya eshche dolzhny byt i drugie tseli.

«Esli vy nakhodites na grani izmatyvaniya, priznayte eto i otstupite. V etom sluchae vy ne tolko prozhivete eshche odin den, chtoby torgovat, no vy takzhe budete namnogo bolshe naslazhdatsya im».

Vnutridnevnye treydery inogda, v konechnom itoge, chuvstvuyut to zhe samoe, potomu chto vse proiskhodit v predelakh szhatykh taymfreymov. Eto mozhet svesti vas s uma. Vot pochemu eto nastolko bystro Vas iznuryaet.

Bolshinstvo lyudey na segodnyashniy den imeyut dve skorosti – «dyavolski bystruyu» i «razrushitelnuyu». Esli vy takzhe imeete tolko eti dve skorosti, to vasha deyatelnost ne yavlyaetsya produktivnoy, i vy ne dostignite blagopoluchiya. Esli vy nakhodites na grani izmatyvaniya, priznayte eto i otstupite. V etom sluchae vy ne tolko prozhivete eshche odin den, chtoby torgovat, no vy takzhe budete namnogo bolshe naslazhdatsya im.

Vy imeete pravo na schaste. Eto normalno - oshchushchat radost v svoey zhizni. Esli vy chuvstvuete, chto vy ne zasluzhivaete schastya, ili obnaruzhivaete, chto vashi mysli perepolnyayutsya strakhom, priznayte eto.

Strakh sam po sebe ne sobiraetsya pokidat vas, no to, kak vy spravlyaetes so svoim strakhom, mozhet menyatsya so vremenem. Esli vy ne oshchushchaete strakha, vy, veroyatno, i ne rastete. Ne dumayte, chto velikie issledovateli mira ne oshchushchali strakha.

Velikie lidery, velikie treydery i mirovye reformatory osoznavali, chto gde-to gluboko v nikh prisutstvoval strakh, tem ne menee, oni v lyubom sluchae dvigalis vpered. Oni tverdo stoyali na nogakh i govorili: «Mne ochen vazhno dostich etogo! I chto by ni sluchilos, ya sobirayus sdelat eto!»

S uvazheniem, Pavel Vlasov TradeLikeaPro.ru