walking on wind dancing on water invisible matrix –Terry Chitwood During our lives, we are supported by an invisible force. Some people call it the universe; some people call it God. But call on it we must if we want to survive our journey through this world. An underlying invisible foundation permeates our lives, supporting […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Clear Lake
sand dunes shaped by wind clear lake –Terry Chitwood Sand, dried-up trading ideas burnt by the sun, blows through traders’ minds every day. Tiny particles seep into trading ideas, causing them to become brittle and break. Then the wind comes whisking the fragments away. Traders’ minds go blank, conceptions turned to dust. Creativity Contrasted with […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Green Eyes
the ocean sprays my eyes coloring them green –Terry Chitwood Green eyes convey mystery like the song “Green-Eyed Lady” by The Guess Who. The following are some applicable lyrics: Green-eyed lady, wind-swept lady Rules the night, the waves, the sand Green-eyed lady, ocean lady Child of nature, friend of man Night-Sea Journey The lyrics describe […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Looking Deeper
snow falls on the boulder making it disappear –Terry Chitwood As a trader, you generally trade from your intellect, artificially severing your connection with your emotions, and blotting out your relationship to your soul. Covering your soul (the boulder) with cold intellectual concepts (snow) may seem to make your soul disappear, but the snow melts […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Sun and Shadow
a cloud blocks the sun shadow on the mountain path –Terry Chitwood Sometimes the light is too bright to see clearly, blinding our eyes to the next step on the path. Shade cools the piercing brilliance of the sun, allowing the next bend on the trail to be discerned. Sun and shadow play with our […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Entwined Light
a strand of moonlight entwined with a strand of sunlight yellow-white glow –Terry Chitwood Moonlight illumines the night, a pale light with a soft glow that takes the hard edge off a losing trading day . . . a losing trading week. Losing brings us into the night where we still need a light to […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Only for an Instant
a raindrop rides the butterfly only for an instant –Terry Chitwood We are in this world only for an instant. Viewing our trading from this perspective, we must ask ourselves, “How much time should we devote to trading?” This question’s answer depends upon if trading is a part of our sacred path, if it’s our […]
Zen Kernels, Insights for Traders: Liquid Sunlight
drops of water slip through my fingers capturing sunlight as they fall a golden rain seeding the earth with liquid sunlight –Terry Chitwood Wash your mind with liquid sunlight, letting it penetrate every crevice, cleaning the cobwebs while infusing your thoughts with golden light, filling your words with a healing nectar that runs like a […]
The Christian Trader: Deliver Us from Evil
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen (Matthew 6:13, KJV). Evil is woven into the fabric of the universe, a black thread weaving its way through our lives, an earthquake destroying the old and the new alike. […]
The Christian Trader: Seeking God
“And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (Hebrews 11:6, RSV). Paradox Seeking God through trading is a paradoxical concept. On one hand, trading seems to be a mechanized business devoid of spirituality. On […]
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