How a successful trader does face difficulties

A successful trader is, above all, a successful person.

Achieving success in life at a certain level is never due to fate.

And I’m not talking about being the first in sport or in a particular profession at world

level.

I’m simply talking about achieving results above the average or at an unusual level.

Average people get scared, feel fear, anxiety and frustration.

Successful people feel the same emotions, otherwise they would not be people.

The difference lies in the fact that facing the same feelings, successful people do

not give up.

Often people confuse enthusiasm for reaching a goal with a consciousness of the

result.

If I’m conscious of the result and of the goal I want to reach, I will remain focused on

it even in difficult moments when enthusiasm decreases.

If I live pushed by enthusiasm and not by determination and consciousness of the

result, a gust of wind coming from a failure or from any kind of problem will be

enough to shake my certainty together with my enthusiasm and everything that

follows.

Success is not 100% enthusiasm, and even successful people experience

discouragement but they do not give up disheartened in the face of an obstacle.

There are no obstacles that can stop successful people, and maybe this is the only

difference between a successful and an average person.

The approach of “start with a loss”

When I open an operation I do not expect to earn.

When I do open an operation I ask myself what I will feel if this operation loses and I

decide to accept this feeling from the beginning.

In this way I become conscious of the risk and I accept it.

The perception of risk is always higher than the real risk.

When a person is “risking”, he or she experiences feelings of “fear” that link the risk

to the conscious and unconscious memory.

For this reason, if I risk being knocked down by a car I experience a temporary

shock which, after the event, leaves me completely immobilized or makes me feel

sick with fear.

The “fear” remains and over time it will influence my future behaviour in relation to

similar situations, when it comes back to me or when I live through it again in the

future.

When you lose or risk losing, you also experience a “fear” that will go with you in

your conscious and, above all, unconscious memory.

You will live through this uncomfortable feeling again every time you risk losing

money and this quite heavy, unpleasant feeling could provoke a reaction of refusal

to trading, where every day and in every single operation you risk losing money.

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