Keith The Cunt · @Trader_Dante
21st Mar 2017 from TwitLonger
How to go balls deep on your trading
If something isn't working, there's only one way to make sure it does. You need to take it completely apart and rebuild it piece by piece. If this is the case in your trading, one of the best places to start is your daily routine.
There are far too many people getting up in the morning half asleep, sitting down in front of their laptop in their boxer shorts and piling into trades with very little thought. Most of these people will spend an entire day trading but not a single second improving.
If this sounds like you, I presume you don't want to be a complete cunt forever so try following these basic steps:
Step 1: Get up early: 5AM is good. And don't be a fucking fairy. Set the alarm and when it goes off, get up with purpose. No bullshit about you're tired. No one gives a fuck. There is time to sleep when you're dead.
Step 2: Take a cold shower to wake up quicker and dress like a professional. Dress as you would if you were going into an office. How you look has a direct impact on how you feel and this directly affects how you act. If you think I'm kidding here, try it and see the difference. And here's a tip: if your partner doesn't see you and immediately accuse you of having a fucking affair, you did this step wrong.
Step 3: Stick a five minute timer on your phone and sit quietly in the dark before you check anything which includes charts/Twitter etc. In that five minutes, remind yourself what you have turned up to accomplish - you have come to win. If by any chance you have turned up for any other reason than to win, I suggest you change your fucking attitude. Next tell yourself how you are going to do it: By focusing by being disciplined, by trading your fucking plan.
Step 4: Speaking of a plan - make a decent plan ahead of the open. If you don't know what you want to see, where you want to see it and when you want to see it, you don't have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you're already dead.
Step 5: Ever feel like a laugh at the end of a long trading day? Just ask a newb what their plan was at the beginning of the day and then look at what they actually did. It's guaranteed to make you laugh. So, here is the hard part: That plan you just spent time working on? This is where you have to execute it. This is where you have to try your utmost not to be a cunt. To sit on your hands if there is nothing to do. To act without hesitation if there is. Be decisive. Be a fucking shark. There is nothing bad about making your best guess and being wrong. But there is something wrong with second guessing yourself and faffing around like a fucking fairy. Some of you guys see price going parabolic into a level and you act as nervous as US border control met with a Mexican Parkour convention. Step up and get balls deep or go home.
Step 6: Set aside 60 minutes each day at a minimum to do one thing to actively improve. Preferably in the post session routine. It might be to analyse your days performance. It might be to test a pattern. All that matters is you took the time to do one thing to make yourself a better trader than when you started the day. Incidentally, most people don't do this step which is the single biggest contributing reason why most people are cunts. They are too busy staring at charts, doing the same thing every day and hoping for a different outcome to take the time to improve. Don't be a cunt like them.