On Being Remembered
"Everything lasts for a day, the one who remembers and the remembered."
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Today's meditation is very true. I certainly haven't heard of any of those luminaries and philanthropists mentioned; even though their names are carved in stone!
As traders, we should be more interested in remembering, than being remembered!
Remembering to stick solely to the rules/criteria for our strategies.
Remembering to research every trade, using the historical stats/data that we have available to us, before we even consider executing a trade.
Remembering that as soon as a trade goes in play, we adopt a neutral mindset, because we are well aware that anything can happen during a trade and we must be fully focused and "in the zone," to ensure that we react to what is happening, rather than what we expect/hope will happen.
Remembering that rest and recuperation, when nothing fully meets the rules/criteria for our strategies, is vital to ensure that we are trading at our optimum levels of fully focused concentration, during every session.
Remembering to practice as often as we can, so that we get to know our strategies inside out and back to front. This means we become consistent in our decision making and confident that we can fully manage every trade that we execute, to completion, should the need arise when trades are going against us. We should be that familiar with our strategies, that we will know exactly what to do, at any point during a trade; regardless of what the markets throw at us!
If you can remember to do all of this every time that you trade, they will become second nature and great habits to acquire.
This won't be in your trading mind for just one day; this will be in your trading mind for a lifetime, once that you become accustomed to putting these actions into place, every day that you trade.
You've got this, so why not start practising doing this, the next time that you trade? You can do it for sure!