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Linda Bradford Raschke: Day Type, Taylor Trading, Trade Location

Ms. Rashcke’s 2 hour presentation of her trading style with question and answer period at the end of the presentation.

Several key things to take home from her presentation:

1. You cannot just watch a presentation and assume that you have learned the method,

"You have to make it your own."

2. Working out the statistics of a method yourself is important because that makes you understand the intricate details when the method works and when it doesn’t

3. On switching strategy based on different trading environments

There is no such thing as a universal method to be applied to all market conditions.

You have to be flexible like Ms. Raschke or stay out of the market environment where your mindset and method do not work well.

What Ms. Raschke says in the presentation is not something new. It is pretty much the same presentation she has done at major trading conferences and various exchanges for many years. If you are a newcomer in trading, it is a great introduction with many good ideas and tips to take home.

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Dan Gilbert: Why We Make Bad Decisions

Mr. Gilbert tells us how we keep making bad decisions even though we know clearly how not to. It is one of the original Ted Talks that really drive home the difficulties of making sound decisions that involve both time and money.

Note: Be reminded that it is a long talk at 34 minutes.

Perception matters.

Most of the time, it is our worse enemy in trading.

It takes practice to hammer into our mind making rational decisions only in trading.

It takes more than just practice to be patient in trading. Not an easy task at all.

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Kelly McGonigal: How To Make Stress Your Friend

Ms. McGonigal talks about stress and how new findings in human response to stress leading to overhaul of our understanding of stress.

Ms. Gonigal mentioned courage which is really the main theme of the video.

Courage is known to be a born with characteristics. Some prefer calling it a potential only because it still takes effort to bring out the courage. What Ms. Gonigal says is that courage can be developed through the willingness to connect with other people and the willingness to feel what others feel.

I am bringing this up because traders are often facing adverse scenarios. Many people simply paralyzed when they are facing sudden change in the market environment that their logical self just couldn’t keep up. Courageous people, however, has the advantage of accepting the situation and move on.

I am not saying that trading with so much emotional swings is a good thing. I am saying that if the market can inflict emotional swings on you so badly, you need courage to overcome the adversities. What Ms. McGonigal says is a way out to reprogram our mind so that we can handle stressful environment better without the innate advantage.

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