Kardec Trader argues you can't control trading outcomes, only the mind you bring to it. An Olympic hurdler uses a simple performance cue to stay present instead of chasing results. Focus on observation and patience in the moment, and the money follows.
Hello.
You know, in trading.
You'Re always trying to win. You're always trying to conquer. You're trying to. You're trying to sit there and you're trying to make things happen. You're trying to control the outcome.
And yet at the same time, what traders discover over time is the one thing they cannot control in trading is outcome.
Most of their lives have been built around how do you control outcome, how do you produce certainty? And yet in trading, you're forced to accept this amazing, amazing new concept is that you cannot control the outcome, your actions.
We've always been taught that if we control the actions, then we control the outcome. We're going to make things happen. Yet in trading, when you make things happen, when you force things happen, when you produce business, when you say, you know, I'm going to trade, you have to be trading to be trading.
That's when you lose. Because ultimately, what happens is trading is a paradox.
Trading is where patience and observation, clearness of mind prevail over action, over taking action is that ultimately you take action after you've been able to observe and say, this is where I need to take action. This is what I need to do. And you realize that future goals.
Like your trading account saying, I need to be making my trading account happen. No, that's not what you need to be doing. What you need to be doing is focusing on the moment and performing. There's a wonderful story of a sprinter, a hurdler, as a matter of fact, where he's running an Olympic. He's running an Olympic race, and everybody's talking about how well he's going to do and how he's going to conquer the gold and make world records and all this kind of stuff. And sure enough, he gets in the blocks and he just bolts out of his box.
He flies down the hurdles, which is, by the way, an incredibly complicated race. And at the end, he's finished, he's getting his wind back. And all these people come to him, all these reporters come to him, and they say, what was it like? What was it like? Gosh, how did you know? What did it feel like? And you look at this guy and he's looking at him going, what in the world? And again they say, what was it like? What were you thinking while you were racing? When did you know that you'd want it? When did you know? What was it like? And he said, do you really want to know what I was thinking?
And they said, the world wants to know. He says, I'll tell you. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, four. 1, 2, 3, Four.
The reporters looked at him like, what? But think about it. From performance.
There'S no doubt that his coaches had set goals about him winning gold, had all this stuff. But to get to gold, they had to perform.
Not out there in the future sometime, but the here and now, right now.
And what they did.
Is a track coach coached him into 1234, where it meant in all those numbers meant body coordination to action, mind coordination to action.
I have no doubt that his sports psychologists did the same thing that 1234, 1234. I have no doubt that they organized it into performance, thought.
And emotion. What I want you to notice is the athlete was focused on the moment of performance. He was not out there in the future or the past. He was not looking at his trading account. He was not looking at the world record. He was here now, in the moment, in performance. 1234. 1234. Ultimately, the ones who win in trading move.
From an orientation to the future where they think they can control it, to an orientation of the present moment, where they control the mind they bring to trading.
When they do that.
And they're powerfully able to do that.
Over time, the numbers game.
Gives them victory.
But it does not give them victory in certainty. It gives them victory in the numbers. It gives them victory in probabilities. This is what they know. They know that the one thing they can control is the mind they bring to trading.
Not the goal of what they want to achieve in trading. This is the performance goal. The mind that I bring to trading is what generates the results. The money you make in trading or lose is a byproduct of the mind that you bring to trading. This is the quest, my friends. This is what you have to achieve to become a great trader.
