Tools and tips to stay relax during your trading session, even during the most stressing situations
Trading can be a very stressing activity. But hopefully, stress is something you can learn to eliminate and I would say that it is crucial for your trading. Being stressed during your trading session can be very toxic for your profitability. It can lead you to make stupid decisions, to lose your normal behavior and lose your focus.
So here are tools used that will allow you to stay relax during your trading session and when you are exposed to market.
Teach your body to be relax
It is very easy to do. All you need is to be regular in your training. The training only consists in watching a video. The video is about
Cardiac Coherence. It consists in a breathing exercise that enable you to relax and only focusing on your breathing. On your screen you will see a ball going up and down. To succeed in the exercise, simply inspire with your belly when the ball goes up and just expire when it goes down. That is as simple.
The exercise should be done 3 times a day, once the morning after waking up, once before lunch and once before dinner. Please note that it is better to do it before eating.
Move yourself and practice a sport !
It is very important to have a physical activity when you spend several hours behind your screen for trading. Your body must be exercised and it is great for your mind too ! You maintain your body into good conditions and the most important : you forget trading for a time. So go to the gym and make a trading break the more frequently possible !
Trade only when you your mind and your body are able to trade.
If you woke up in a bad mood, then don't open any chart for the day and wait until the next day. If you have personal problems, then forget trading again and just focus on one thing : getting better.
Also if you are sick or if you had a terrible party the day before, be aware that the smartest decision you can do is not the direction to trade, but to do nothing. Doing nothing is definitely a decision and it would avoid you big losses and very stressing situations.
Reprogram your brain to think like a winner !
Subliminal messages are very powerful. This is text that appears for a few milliseconds (usually about 30ms). So you don't have time to read it but your unconscious will read it and store it in you giant brain's data base. We are made of beleifs and we act on these beleifs. So the tip will be to use a subliminal software (you can find some for computers and for smartphones) to tell your unconscious how to think and how to feel during a specific situation.
For example, if you are stressed or euphoric during trading, then you can write a message like this : "I am always feeling relax, neutral and disciplined when trading".
You might see quick results but you should keep running your subliminal messages as long as possible. Also, this is a brain stimulus and it won't make deep change into you, but be careful, we are humans and not robots so you better should use it for realistic things.
