Trading In The Zone Flashcards

(52 cards)

1
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Lack of consistency come from ______

A

Attitude

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The winners have attained a mindset that allows them to remain __________, __________, and above all else ____________, in the face of adverse conditions

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Disciplined, focused, confident

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Most have not accepted what about a trade

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That is has a non guaranteed probable outcome

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4
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4 Primary Trading fears

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  1. Being wrong
  2. Losing Money
  3. Missing out
  4. Leaving money on the table
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5
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Confidence comes from?

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Trust in yourself

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6
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How to become unafraid?

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Truly accept the risks

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7
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____ not the _______ is responsible for my success or failure as a player

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Me, market

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8
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The degree to which our mind is focused on _______ _______________ is the degree by which we create the very experience we are trying to avoid

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Pain Avoidance

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The more one has to ____ (or ___ ____), the less tolerance one will have toward info that might indicate we are not getting what we want.

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Win, not lose

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10
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If you aren’t _________ _____________ for your results then you might believe you have nothing to learn

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Completely responsible

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I can’t _______ or ___ to _____ ______ from the market. Rather I will let the market unfold and take advantage of opportunities I see

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Expect, try to get stuff

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Do the best traders use courage to get through the fear?

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No, they don’t have fear because they have accepted emotionally all the risks and just act on +EV opportunities

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13
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It is your job to perceive ____________, not threats

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Opportunities

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14
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If you have a few losing hands in a row, your mind will perceive the next opportunity as ______ ______

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Overly risky

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15
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After winning a few hands in a row the next opportunity will be perceived as _____ _____

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Not as risky as it is

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16
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The best players believe, without a shred of a doubt, that _______ __ _________. This
Will prevent the mind from associating the now moment with the outcomes of the most recent past

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Anything is possible.

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17
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The markets most fundamental concept

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It can express itself in an almost infinite number of ways

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18
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Believing or assuming that ___ _____ will be the cause of virtually every error

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You know

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19
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Most effective and functional trading beleif

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Anything can happen

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20
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Every moment is ______ and ___

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Unique and new

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21
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Unless we train our mind to perceive the ___________ of each moment, that ___________ will automatically be filtered out of our perception

22
Q

Taking every ____ increases sample size and gives opportunity for the ____ to play out in their favor

23
Q

Unsuccessful traders are obsessed with _______ __________ because they crave the sense of certainty it appears to give them

A

Market analysis

24
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The typical trader desperately seeks __________ where it doesn’t exist. Ironically if he accepted the fact that _______ does not exist then he would create the __________ he craves: _______ that __________ does not exist

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Certainty, certainty, certainty, certain that certainty

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The wrong attitude before an investment vs the right attitude
Wrong: you convince yourself that your trade will work and you are essentially saying, you know everything about the market people how they react, which is absurd Right: we accept in advance of the event that we don’t know how it will turn out and this acceptance keep our expectations neutral, and open ended
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Any expectation about the markets behavior that is _______, ________, ______, instead of _______/__________ is unrealistic and potentially damaging
Specific, well defined, rigid….neutral/open ended
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What has the potential to create the most unhappiness and emotional misery
An unfulfilled expectation
28
If there is a difference between what we want or expect and what the market is offering then what happens
Our pain avoidance mechanisms kicked in, and to protect ourselves we rationalize justify make excuses and willfully, gather information that will neutralize the significance of the conflicting information
29
We need to be rigid in our ______ and flexible in our ___________
Rules, expectations
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What is the problem with our pain avoidance kicking in when the results differ from our expectations?
The pain avoidance can block, distort, or diminish info
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The more rigid, the expectation, the more we have to….
Bend, violate, or break our rules to accommodate our unwillingness to give up what we want in favor of what the Market is offering us
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5 Fundamental Truths of a Probabilistic Mindset
1. Anything can happen. 2. I don’t need to know what is going to happen next to make money. 3. There is a random distribution between wins and losses for any set of variable that define any edge. 4. And edge is nothing more than an indication of a higher probability of one thing happening over another. 5. Every moment in the market is unique.
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If you believe you know something then what happens
The moment is no longer unique and therefore known and you can’t perceive what the market is offering leading to errors
34
You can project and predict an edge while at the same time…
Not expect the market to do anything in any moment
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What do we distort info based on?
Our expectations
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What are expectations?
Beliefs projected into some future moment
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What is the only agenda you should be coming to the game with
To let the market unfold in any way It chooses and to be in the best state of mind to recognize the opportunities
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What is the universal response when the outside world expresses itself in a way that doesn’t reflect what we expect or believe to be true
Emotional pain
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Market info is only threatening if
You are expecting the market to do something for you
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If you don’t expect the market to make you a winner you have
No fear of losing
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The only evidence you need to make an investment
Whether the variables you use to define edge or present at any given moment
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Beliefs take on a life of their own and therefore
Resist any force that would alter their present form
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Best way to deal with beliefs
Gently draw down the energy of them so that it doesn’t have the potential to act as a force on our perception and behavior
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What is a creative experience?
When you encounter something that goes against previously held beliefs
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When you truly believe you don’t need to know, you are thinking in _________ and it won’t
Probabilities, block, distort, or discount or deny anything the market is offering to us about its potential to move in any particular direction
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Anything we feel guilty about can have an
Adverse effect on self-worth
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Subconscious self sabotaging beliefs can manifest in the form of
Lapses and focus attention, or allowing yourself to give into distracting thoughts
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The more you think you know the
Less successful, you will be
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What belief can act as a primary source of energy
The belief that I am a successful player
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What can cause momentary lapses and focus and concentration resulting in error?
Distracting thoughts
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What is self-discipline?
The mental technique to redirect our focus of attention to the object of our goal or desire
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What to do when a conflicting thought or thought that we don’t desire comes up
Redirect the energy to the objective belief and draw energy away from the other beliefs