Adrian Reid (speaker) addresses traders about normalizing the market's emotional swings: there are periods of easy gains and periods of poor performance. He advises averaging feelings over a longer timeframe and trusting a consistent trading process, arguing that the process "grinds out money over time."
We just have to accept as traders, any type of traders, this period where we do really well. And there's periods where it's not so great. When it's doing really well, it feels like easy money. It feels like, wow, it's almost criminal. You can make money so easily, but then when you're out of sync and you're not doing so well, it feels like really badly paid work. Just need to average our feelings about the market over a longer time frame and just know that we're following a process and it's the process that grinds out money over time.
