Trading Tips: the REAL reason why you're frustrated with your trading

Hi, Brian McAvoy here with Inside Out Trading. Today we're going to talk about the real reason that you're frustrated with your trading. Believe it or not, it's probably not what you think, at least not consciously. You're not frustrated because you can't find a decent trading system. You're not frustrated because you know your emotions are coming up and you know you make mistakes. You're not frustrated because you're having a hard time making money. I mean, those are the. Those are the results of the real thing that's going on here. But those are just symptoms. They really are. There's one very simple thing that really is at the root of it all. Oh, and I might as well go and throw it in here about, you know, psychology. It's, you know, not about the psychology of trading. That's not the reason you're frustrated. You know that you lack emotional control or discipline or anything like that. That's not the reason either. The reason that you're so frustrated with your trading and why it continues month after month, seemingly, no matter what you try. It's not because you're missing a good system or there's something with the psychology, at least not psychology itself, what the real reason that you're frustrated does affect your psychology. The real reason you're frustrated is because trading looks very simple and you know that it shouldn't be this difficult. That's why you're frustrated. Now, there's more to this, of course, and you're right when you think that though your frustration is very valid, it shouldn't be this difficult. You're a capable person. You're smarter than average. Most traders are. Most traders are above average. Not to sound snobbish or anything, but it's a simple fact. Most traders are professionals making a decent living, able to save, you know, enough money to trade with and, you know, funny, and doing financially well enough to be in a position to trade. So, you know that by itself tells you that, okay, maybe all this stuff that, you know you got something wrong with your relationship with money or, you know, there's something, you know that you're screwed up somehow or you feel you're not worthy. No, you've been able to achieve a reasonable amount of success. So that's not really it. It's not like there's something specific to trading that happened in your childhood. No, here's what's going on again. You're frustrated because you know it shouldn't be this difficult. You know that you're capable. You know that yes. This is pretty straightforward. You're frustrated because you're trying to do a job that you haven't been properly prepared for. I mean, think about it. You've probably had jobs or, you know, gotten involved with activities that were much more complicated and, you know, complex than trading. I mean, most of us, you know, in our profession and what we do for our regular day job, you know, it's, it's much more sophisticated than trading. Trading is pretty straightforward. But the thing is, it's frustrating because there's a skill set that you've been lacking. There's a piece to that puzzle that you've been lacking. It's not some personal asset. It's not something psychological. It's not the availability of, you know, decent trading systems. There are tons of trading systems been around for decades, proven out, they work and people use them every day and make money. Tons through surgeon, literally. There are dozens of freely available strategies for you to use anytime you want. And they work. They do. There are people making money with them. Okay, so what's the catch? Right. Well, the training that you've been missing really is how to take a strategy and take it to the markets in a proper manner so that you know when you go to the markets that you're solid, that you have that confidence that you're okay and that confidence is solid enough in your system and in you trading it that you can relax. And it's no more difficult than any other job that you've ever had. I mean, think again, think about it. You've had challenging jobs that required a certain level of skill and knowledge and you've been able to handle them just fine. You didn't, you know, you weren't an emotional wreck. You weren't all filled at work, you know, with fear, greed, hope and despair and all these other emotions messing with you, you know, you know, doing things that are of interest. No, you just went to work and you did your job. Some days are better than others. And at the end of the day, you clock out and you go home. You live your life trading. When you're properly trained on all the skills that you need is the exact same way. We get up, we trade. Some days are better than others, we enjoy some wins, losses. Eh, it could have been better, but nothing wrecking the day, ruining life, making us feel like losers. No, that's the difference. So there is no magic strategy. You just need to have a good strategy that you believe in and you're solid enough with it and solid enough trading it. Yes. At the end of the month you're making money, you're profitable. That's the whole key to it, really. And so the skill set, and that's why I focus on this and I try to help people understand this. You don't have psychological issues. You have lack of training issues, how to do certain things that you need to do to be a successful trader and to trade with confidence and competence where, yeah, you're solid. You're not going to the day, you know, your trading day, you know, all anxious and nervous and, you know, you enter a trade, you know, oh, my God, you know, is the market going to move against me? No. You can trade in a relaxed manner knowing that you're okay. Knowing that, yes, at the end of the day, end of the week, end of the month, you're okay, you're fine. And that's really how it should be. So, again, that frustration that, yes, you know, it shouldn't be this fricking difficult to make money even after all these months, you know, maybe even years that you've invested. Yeah, it's. It's still frustrating because you've been missing some of the skill sets that you need to make it easy. And the cool thing about it is it's a skill set. It's not something wrong up here that, you know, may take five years to figure out what it is. No, this is a skill set that you can learn in a matter of weeks. Seriously, weeks we're talking about, you know, a month or two or three from now, you can have be enjoying an entirely different trading experience. So if you'd like to find out More, swing by InsideOut Trading.com first thing we got to do is really stop reinforcing the past. So swing by Inside Out Trading.com, pick up a copy of Break the Cycle. If you haven't already gotten it. That's 10 things that you can do within the next 19 minutes to start interrupting the patterns of the past. Because that's really where we got to start. You know, we got to stop doing what hasn't been working. And that clears the space for the right stuff to come in. And if you'd like to go ahead and book a call with me, you can do that at the site inside out trading.com down at the bottom or at the top, you know, this is book a call with Brian. Go and book a call with me. We can talk about your trading. See what's got you stuck right now. What it is, that's, you know, the gaps in your training to do this job so that you can get trained up. Because seriously, when you get skilled up, when you level up with your skills to where it matches this job, things get easy. So long as the requirements of the job are here and you're here, it's going to be rough. And it will continue to be rough indefinitely until you level up. Once you level up and you get like this, things get easy. And that's why it is so freaking cool. Like I said, this doesn't take months or years. No, we're talking about a matter of weeks. Six to eight weeks. You will be enjoying an entirely different perspective on trading. And again, you'll see that it's not. It's not as tough as it's been and it is as straightforward as you been thinking all along it should be. That's the cool thing. Anyway, swing by InsideOutTrading.com, pick up a copy, break the cycle, book a call with me. In the meantime, if you enjoyed this video, if you found it helpful, give me a, you know, a thumbs up down below. Subscribe to the channel. I publish videos at least once a week and you know, share this with your friends. If you have friends who are trading and they've been kind of, kind of frustrated as well, share this with them. So anyway, again, I hope this been helpful. Talk to you soon. Cheers.