What Comes To Us All
"Both Alexander the Great and his mule-keeper were both brought to the same place by death — they were either received into the all-generative reason, or scattered among the atoms."
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Quite a heavy and morbid meditation today and a struggle to try and compare this one to trading!
We don't get high and mighty or low and inferior as quoted in the meditation.
What we are trying to do is improve, even by the tiniest bit and we are building a solid foundation for our trading journey by sticking to the rules/criteria for our strategies and nothing else!
It is tough going at times and it can be tedious and repetitively boring, practicing the same thing over and over again, day in, day out! But this is what makes us stronger and resilient as traders and our long term results should show steady improvement, which gives us the confidence to crack on with the master plan and we are rewarded for our endeavours too!
With that persistent, never give up attitude, when it gets tough, we will ensure that we continue to work as hard as ever, to achieve our end result which is long term profitability of course.
So try and be as positive as you can and stick with it. Find yourself a trading buddy, who shares the same sporting interests as you and this way you can bounce ideas off each other and also give each other the support and encouragement, as and when needed. I know my trading buddy @Mark Cooper works very similar to me and I can pretty much guarantee that the majority of the time, if I am on a certain trade, he will have been on the same one!
Trading can be a lonely business and this is why being part of the TTM family can help you massively, if you get involved and interact with others in the various groups that are available to everyone.
You can always reach out for help and support and you will find that people as genuinely extremely helpful, because as TTM say in the videos; "Together, we are all trading the market"
Hopefully in our case, "what comes to us all" is evolving and developing into profitable traders over a period of time!