The prescription for Posiposi illness is one trade per day
Are you troubled by the Positive-Posi disease?
What is the Positive-Posi disease?
If you are not trading, you feel unsettled and dissatisfied, showing symptoms. In other words, you’re always creating positions and can’t stand watching with no positions.
In trading styles, this disease tends to occur when you are doing scalping. The reason for this mental state is action driven by the anxiety that you might miss a chance unless you hold a position.
In other words, you are in a state where filtering is not happening at all.Reasons why 62.5% of the market shouldn’t be tradedAs written, the most important thing in scalping is filtering, but before that, you must overcome the Positive-Posi disease; if you don’t, it’s a problem before filtering.
So, how do you overcome it?
It is to create a rule of “only one trade per day.”
You might think, “If I can follow that rule, it’s not that hard!” But for people who have previously mass-produced positions with no restrictions, it should be effective.
And I don’t think that the Positive-Posi disease will suddenly disappear the day you make this rule. At first, you may fail to follow the rule and trade four times, five times, or more… Butif you trade with the mindset that you can only trade once a day, the first trade of that day becomes quite cautious, and the total number of trades for the day should decrease from what it was before.
The tip for the thinking when entering an entryis not to enter because you think “I can win” or “I can go.” Where you see the entry point as “this could go,” it’s weak. Only when you strongly feel, “I can win! I can go! If I lose at this entry point, so be it,” do you enter.
For someone who has traded dozens of times a day, suddenly limiting to once a day is difficult. However, if you fail to keep the once-a-day rule but your total number of trades has decreased compared to when you had Positive-Posi disease, that is meaningful. The purpose of this prescription isto reduce the total number of trades per dayand at the same time practice filtering, achieving a two-in-one benefit.
Suddenly reducing the number of trades is mentally unreasonable.
There is no need to rush. Gradually, slowly reduce them little by little.
Even Mahatma Gandhi said as follows.
“Good things progress slowly like a snail.”
