CONCLUSION

In trading, feelings are an essential element in the decision-making process; however, negative sensations will produce sabotaged actions and create losses. Negative feelings create negative conditioning. Unless you change the negative conditioning that prevents you from following your rules, that conditioning will only grow stronger. Only positive feelings and the positive conditioning they create will allow you to follow your trading rules consistently. By following the two strategies outlined in this article, you can begin to transform this old conditioning into positive feelings that support your trading, rather than sabotaging it.

In your mind’s eye, overlay a picture of what would be the ideal of a negative situation until the negative picture becomes unreal.

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