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When I began my career working as a performance coach for traders, the first poster I placed in my office was a signed photograph from a military sniper. It showed the sniper lying in the weeds, well camouflaged, and looking dead ahead with rifle poised. The absolute stillness and focus of the well-hidden figure was striking. What makes the best snipers special is that, when battle conditions heat up, they have trained themselves to slow down. It’s when multiple high-value targets come into view that they breathe slowest and become most still. Opportunity brings focus, not excitement.
The most common psychological issue I’m hearing from traders today is how to stay calm and focused during volatile market conditions. It’s natural that directional traders view lots of movement as lots of opportunity. The excitement that brings when markets start to move your way, the frustration that brings when markets reverse on you–all have the potential to disrupt our planning, our concentration, and ultimately our best trading.
This requires regular practice, but is amazingly successful in rewiring our emotional responses to situations. Our job is to climb the mountain of success, not carry mountains of fears and worries on our shoulders. It is indeed possible to rewire ourselves and reprogram our responses to challenging situations. When we are encountering volatile and choppy market conditions, this enables us to become like the sniper: more and more focused as opportunity presents itself.
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