FINDING PAIN
For a trader to find comfort in pain is equivalent to sticking his own hand into the beehive. He is certain to get stung. The quickest way for him to go to that place is to create his own losses. A trader may feel that he simply goes to that comforting place whenever he feels pain or experiences a loss. However, unconsciously he is actually drawn to that place and will, therefore, create losses in order to experience the pain that brings him comfort.
Another way for a trader to enter the pain comfort zone is through the people, places, or times that he misses from his past. If those people who are the most dear to us are also tied to extreme pain and loss, we are likely to find a way to create trading losses in order to be close to those people we miss.
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