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Trading Bitterness, Trading Wisdom (Part 2)

June 29, 2010 by Terry Chitwood Leave a Comment

How will the trader be transformed? In important ways. The trader will see his failed trading experiences from a larger perspective, through the eyes of God. The trader wasn’t being punished by his losses; he was being asked to expand his consciousness, to live beyond his ego. A Higher, Larger Perspective I am paraphrasing Carl […]

Filed Under: Trading Alchemy, Trading Losses Tagged With: Carl Jung, Self, trader, Trading Alchemy, trading bitterness, Trading Losses, trading wisdom

Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market (Book Review)

June 24, 2010 by Terry Chitwood Leave a Comment

Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market: Technical and Fundamental Strategies to Profit from Market Moves By Kathy Lien 304 pp. Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market by Kathy Lien thoroughly discusses the salient parts of currency trading.  I consider this book number one currently in the intermediate-level […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: currency market, day trading, Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market, forex, Kathy Lien, swing trading

Trading Bitterness, Trading Wisdom (Part 1)

June 22, 2010 by Terry Chitwood Leave a Comment

In my article “How to Save a Trader’s Life,“ I talked about a trader being “lost in the bitterness.” Then I briefly explained how transformation of the bitterness is possible. Bitterness or Wisdom In alchemy, salt symbolizes bitterness or wisdom. Carl Jung writes: “Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, but wisdom is the comforter in […]

Filed Under: Trading Losses Tagged With: bitterness, Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionus, Self, trader, trading, Trading Losses, wisdom

Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies from the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology (Book Review)

June 17, 2010 by Terry Chitwood 2 Comments

Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies from the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology By Brett N. Steenbarger 284 pp.  Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated Enhancing Trader Performance: Proven Strategies from the Cutting Edge of Trading Psychology by Brett Steenbarger is an enlightening book. I consider it the best book on trading psychology to date. The reason […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Brett Steenbarger, Enhancing Trader Performance, Tale of Two Traders, trader, trading, trading psychology

How to Save a Trader’s Life

June 15, 2010 by Terry Chitwood 2 Comments

In the song “How to Save a Life” by The Fray, the lyrics of the chorus are the following: Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life If the song is […]

Filed Under: Trading Alchemy, Trading Losses Tagged With: alchemical nigredo, dark night of the soul, How to Save a Life, The Fray, trader, trading

Why Do Traders Lose?

June 8, 2010 by Terry Chitwood 2 Comments

In previous articles I’ve discussed that trading losses can be internally orchestrated by the Self. These losses help transform traders’ emotional states, attitudes, and worldviews. The losses are good for character development, but not the pocket book. The Vocational Trader If trading is an individual’s vocation, then the vocational trader may resist his calling by […]

Filed Under: Trading Losses Tagged With: competent trader, Dr. Brett Steenbarger, expert trader, novice trader, Self, trader, Trading Losses

Into the Burning Cauldron: Trader Transformation

June 2, 2010 by Terry Chitwood Leave a Comment

My last article “Is Trading My Vocation or a Money-Driven Obsession?” ended with the neophyte trader symbolically sitting in the alchemical cooking pot.  The aliens who come from the trader’s unconscious (symbolized as outer space) do the bidding of the Self by cooking the ego, thus purifying it and making it ready for transformation. Alchemy […]

Filed Under: Trading Alchemy Tagged With: alchemy, calcinatio, Carl Jung, Edward Edinger, trader, trading

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