Hi everybody!
As I mentioned in some of my journal posts, I use for mental development and relaxation a technique called "Autogenic Training".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenic_training
http://www.guidetopsychology.com/autogen.htm
I have learnt it many years ago as a teenager because I suffered from heavy migraine and there was no good migraine pain therapy available 30 years ago and now I can use it to face the mental and psychological challanges of trading. The longer I'm trading the more I understand that trading successfully consists of high amount of mental/psychological and only small amount of theoretical/technical aspects.
Basicly Autogenic Training is a technique based on autosuggestion and relaxation. For most purposes the so called lower stage and the middle stage are substential.
The lower stage consists of six autosuggestive formulars to relax the body as preperation for the middle stage. It takes a few weeks of consequent exercising to master this stage and then you're ready for the middle stage.
In the middle stage you use formula-like statements in which the wanted behaviours, actions or feelings are boxed in. As I am still fighting with those fundamental issues while trading:
- feeling tense and nervous while being in a trade
- fear of losing
- fear of missing an opportunity
- uncertainty of decissions
- greed at winnig trades
I have created the following statement for my requirements according to the mentioned issues above:
"
While trading I'm always calm and relaxed but also fully focused and attentive.
I take good entries and good exits with full confidence and with ease.
Fear, uncertainty and hasitation are completely irrelevant.
Wins and losses of single trades are completely irrelevant.
I accept losing trades entirely as part of my success.
I love trading.
"
I practice this 1x before sleeping when I'm already in bed and 1x after waking up or before trading session. It takes about 10 minutes per excercise.
Recently I've got the feeling that I'm already calmer and more relaxed during trading sessions and I can take decissions more easily than a few weeks ago. Together with increasing experience I'm pretty sure to get more and more into a stress-free state while trading.
Cheers
Michael
Autogenic Training
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zlabis
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Autogenic Training
"Want what the market wants", Bill M. Williams in "Trading Chaos - Second edition"
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immy
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Re: Autogenic Training
Best Contribution to AIMS by Any AIMSter EVER!
Thank YOU! \m/ :-bd ^:)^
Thank YOU! \m/ :-bd ^:)^
What is the Secret of Successful Trading?
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1
The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".
I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.
My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".
Yo, banana boy!
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1
The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".
I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.
My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".
Yo, banana boy!
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azadar
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Re: Autogenic Training
great stuff zlabis, thanks for sharing. Success as a trader is definately psychological as massive amounts of pips seems to flow easily in my account when I have my mind right. Unfortunately I got a bad habbit of self sabotaging my accounts from time to time.
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arjanbg
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Hey there I saw your post on autogenic traning underneath is the course
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Trading is a pattern recognition game. As traders we make decisions in an uncertain environment. Anything can happen. We trade the setups with the highest probility and reflect on our trades in samplesizes of 20. It is our job to keep our mind(s) focused, relaxed, enjoyed and to trust ourself in the proces of staying diciplined to our trading plan. We plan our trade and then trade our plan.
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\/____/ \/____/ \/____/ \|___| \/____/What is the Secret of Successful Trading?
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1
The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".
I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.
My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".
Yo, banana boy!
The Consistent Pursuit of DS1
The thing that makes me money in trading is when I "Objectively Follow my Trading Plan".
I understand that I can't catch all the moves or all the signals but my objective is to catch THE VALID SIGNALS & ONLY the Valid Signals.
My Deathbed Advice "5:1 Reward to Risk Ratio".
Yo, banana boy!