Chapter 5
Seeing Trading as Personality Development
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the meaning and purpose of trading journals
Linking market analysis with self-analysis
Tracing psychological patterns
Focusing on solutions and rules
Developing a trader personality
Trading as part of a team
Keeping a well-structured trading journal is a useful way to get the learning process rolling as you develop your trader personality. The journal can work to focus your market analysis (as well as your self-analysis) at the end of the trading day. The aim is to uncover your trading patterns and, if necessary, change them. By keeping a journal, you get to put your thought and behavior patterns to the test. You self-critically ask yourself why you think and act the way you do when trading.
In other words, keeping a journal structures the self-observation process.
In this chapter, you learn how to lay ...
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