Because over-trading – apart from being unprofessional – saps my energy and wastes my time. It is a sign that I am desperate and fighting the markets. I do not want this to become a habit so it’s necessary to take a break and go through what happened so that the energy of this experience is gone by the time I next sit down to trade.
Apart from the bad results it yields, this behaviour is completely at odds with my primary trading objective which is freedom from the concept of ‘me’, rather than freedom/success/winning for the concept of ‘me’. The for me motivation re-inforces feelings of separation, scarcity and the need to be against the markets/world rather than coherent with them.
10:38 – make a nice Imp-Corr structure trade but scratch it for good reason – no levels to trade against and TLs up ahead. The trade goes on to win … what’s the betting that my next trade is a loser? High. Next trade after that too? High
After I did this, I went on to make a sequence of loser, loser, BE, BE, loser – total cost 3R.
