{"id":46750,"date":"2015-12-12T23:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T07:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brookstradingcourse.com\/?p=46750"},"modified":"2015-12-12T23:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T07:49:58","slug":"still-learning-getting-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookstradingcourse.com\/es\/ask-al\/still-learning-getting-emotional\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Al: Still learning—getting emotional"},"content":{"rendered":"

BPA trading room Q&A: May 13, 2015<\/h2>\n

When you were still learning and working on minimizing emotions, did you try to avoid excitement or feeling good about winning because, in turn, that may make you upset about losing? I\u2019ve noticed this and was curious about your take on it.
Audio duration: 1min 51secs<\/em><\/p>\n

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Starting out trading. Getting emotional?<\/h3>\n

\"AskI wish I could be more helpful with this. When I started out, for years there would be big swings emotionally up and down, and I was constantly in an intense state of feeling. So if I\u2019d win three weeks in a row every day, I would start feeling really good about myself. And I was hoping that it was me and not just the markets being good for the style of trading that I was doing. Invariably, if I won three weeks in a row, it was the market being good to me. I was using a style of trading that was appropriate for the market, and then when the market\u2019s activity changed, my style of trading no longer worked.<\/p>\n

And I used to worry about every trade — I\u2019d put a trade on and just worry. I don\u2019t know. But somewhere along the line, I just stopped caring, and that\u2019s when trading became a lot easier, and it just becomes very easy to stay objective if you really don\u2019t care<\/a>, win or lose — all you care about is doing what is appropriate, and trust it.<\/p>\n

It takes a long time to trust that it works. It takes a very long time to see that you can be consistent and that, yeah, even if something fails 40 percent of the time, if it wins 60 percent of the time and you manage correctly, you make money. Even if something fails 60 percent of the time, if you manage correctly, you make money on the 40 percent.<\/p>\n

But in general, if you\u2019re feeling any emotion, you\u2019re probably feeling a lot of emotion, good and bad, and I think all of that makes it difficult to do what you have to do.<\/p>\n

Other Ask Al emotional posts<\/h3>\n

Two early posts from the Ask Al vault on the trading emotions<\/em> theme for those wanting a break from technical topics.<\/p>\n

Beginners starting out—paralyzed<\/a>
\nTrading and Stress<\/a><\/p>\n

Al Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n

Information on Al’s Online day trading room<\/a><\/p>\n

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