Trading Holiday During Toxic Times

This is the third in a series of articles that began with the article entitled “Are You Fit To Trade?” dated February 26, 2007.

Part of self-examination includes noticing environmental factors that impact your trading.

There’s a series of articles in this blog starting July 11, 2006 entitled “Profit By Skipping Out” that address this.

It’s better to skip out on trading than to continue trading when any of the following events occur in your life:

 Divorce
 Marriage
 Birth of a child
 Death of a family member
 Selling your house
 Buying your house
 Moving from your old house (or office) into your new house (or office)
 Quitting (or getting fired from) a job
 Starting a new job
 Getting sued
 Suing someone else

Also, it’s better to skip out on trading than to continue trading when you are stressed out by toxic people such as the following:

 A spouse who keeps nagging you to give up trading and get a “real” job
 A parent mother who browbeats you about your love life or lack thereof
 A flaky cousin who thinks trading e-Mini’s on the CME is some sort of scam
 A dumb brother-in-law who keeps saying trading is so easy a monkey could do it
 A stressed out financial partner who phones every day to pressure you to make him rich
 Kids who won’t listen to you about whatever

continued tomorrow ...

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