The GREAT Secret Remedy to Get Rid of FEAR

I share with you a technique that I have been using for a while but only recently found words for it to be explained and shared with others . 

Its been part of my unconscious self now I have found it on the conscious plane so that I can share it with you. 

(perhaps this was not necessary to mention, but anyway) 

The way to get in to the zone is to "create" conditions "Deliberately if possible" that allow you to enter and/or remain in the zone. 

The Four Conditions:

1. Enjoyment: If you enjoy trading then you won't need anything but we all know if you enjoyed it you won't be scared or if you were not scared you'd enjoy it anyway. if you cannot find ways to enjoy trading on its own yet then do something that puts you into that mood e.g. a song of your choice or a picture or whatever (wank? hmmm may be) The T20 Principle can effectively divert bring the focus of your attention from avoiding losing trades or hitting winning trades to "being disciplined" and following your rules. If you do this exercise enough times you will find "Gratification" in following your rules instead of the "result" of the individual trades. TRY IT. 

2. Focus: This is something you can deliberately enforce on yourself. Focus on the objectives. Focus on the chart, and focus on the indicators and information that is in the now. Don't allow your thoughts to go back in the past or jump into the future. Don't make associations and try to fill the "uncertain" future with anything from your thought process. Just be in the now and stay there. 

3. Relaxation: Use any of the techniques discussed in our ebook AIMS - Activating the Zone eBook to help you to relax. There are techniques we need to apply out of trading hours (these will keep you generally calm and relaxed in normal life) as well as techniques for instant effects during trading hours on spot (these technique will help you relax during a trade or a session). 
One easy one is this

>>>>>>>>>>TAKE A DEEP BREATH. focus on your breathing. ahhhhhhh feel better. <<<<<<<<<<<<<

4. Self Trust: How do you trust yourself, you ask. Well its a process. You have to "consciously" and deliberately "force" yourself to take signals and follow your plan numerous times and that will gradually build this "confidence" in self step by step. Its akin to driving. You have to watch every thing carefully and try to do it as perfectly as possible. Repetition is the Mother of all SKILLS It may be uncomfortable at first but it will only get better with practice. 

Perhaps, most of you know the above already if you've read my other stuff but why am I repeating it? 
Because after bringing the above into conscious awareness right now, we are ready to know the next bit. 

The GREAT Secret Remedy to Get Rid of FEAR

If you experience FEAR you have a great information at your disposal. Don't resent it just accept that you are in the state of fear and acknowledge its existence. As soon as that happens you gain the upper hand. Because now you are AWARE, you are CONSCIOUS. 

You know you ARE scared. Here is what you do next 

Be GRATEFUL. Yes, start with being grateful for "being scared" Say Thank You, say thank you to yourself for feeling scared and experience the fear or stress because your mind is doing you a favour and "protecting" you for what it "perceives" as a "threat", something that may harm you. 
Lets acknowledge that your mind is 2 million years old designed to protect you from those dangerous animals from EATING YOU alive or tearing you apart. 
(The CROODS)
  

Contrary to the false perception of your mind the things in the market are NOT THREATS or DANGERS. 
You've got everything in control. 
1. You have a mechanism to LIMIT YOUR LOSSES. You put a limit on your loss and 
2. You have a mechanism to INCREASE YOUR WINS, 
3. You have employed a formula that gives you an advantage in the markets and helps you CREATE profits. You have a statistical advantage, an edge and
4. you have mathematical formula that would help you grow your account at an exponential rate. Yes, Compounding. 
Remind yourself of the power of "Compounding" and Asymmetric risk rewards. 

"Eat Like an Elephant and shit like a bird" hehe 

Now, after being Grateful for this SIGNAL of Fear and swiftly move to being grateful for other things in your life. Anything that you can think of, anything that you acn see. How about the eye that you are seeing this with? be grateful for tiny little things and the big major things in life. 
In a few moments you will find that there is no more FEAR. FEAR cannot exist if your are GRATEFUL. Being GRATEFUL and being scared cannot co-exist. 

Do not FIGHT Fear, simply shift the FOCUS of your ATTENTION to GRATITUDE 

Try it you will thank me later!

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Get Rid of Poverty and Scarcity Mentality

How do you break off the scarcity mentality when everyone around you is stuck in it including yourself?

You can totally change your personal belief system, totally breakout of your scarcity mentality.

The only person you can change is yourself. Like Michael Jackson sings in his song,

"I'm gonna make a change for once in my life,
Its gonna feel real good,
gonna make a difference 
gonna make it right .... 

......

I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change waysand no message could have been any clearer

If you wanna make the world, a better place,
take a look at yourself and then make a change, 

Step 1. You Make Yourself a Big Fat Check 

There are millions of poor people in the world. If you look at your personal worth and compare yourself with the poor people in the world, almost half the human population i.e. 3 Billion people live on less than $2.5 a day. You've gotta be grateful for what you have, specially if you're anywhere in the west. You gotta get the fact that if you want to get out of scarcity mentality you've got to start appreciating everything that you have. Even the tiny little things.

"Be Thankful for what you have;
You'll End up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never,
ever have enough." ............................. Oprah Winfrey 

Step 2.  Use this Automatic Money Machine Mantra

Every time you spend money say this,
"there is always more where that came from".
This is powerful. Super simple  way to retrain yourself in the "TRUTH" about money.
This can work as your own personal ATM, (Automated Cash Machine)

Step 3.  Have a Fun  Fund

Have some fun once a week or a month at least.
Have a piggy bank or a saving account and start putting small amounts into it regularly. Use that money to have fun over the weekend of once a month .You don't know how powerful this on is. It will help with your creativity and increase your vibration to abundance.

Step 4. Increase your Knowledge

Read self help books, investment books and blogs (like this one hehe). Read books about money. Yes, absolutely, you have to get your mind right, keep reading. Go to seminars, attend webinars and listen to books. Whatever works for you, increase you understanding and truth about money.

Step 5. Give to Get More  [The Most Important one]

The richest people in the world are the biggest philanthropists, charity givers. If you want to increase you wealth a little bit start with giving away 1% of your income per week or per month. But if you really want to make money and increase your wealth start giving away 10% every month. This is the secret of making tons and tons of money.


Thanks to Marie Forleo,  The sweet lady who came up with these brilliant steps. I totally believe in this and am a big proponent of Step 5. Totally go for it and experience the magic first hand. Go on what's stopping ya? 

Do You Feel Betrayed?

Has your trading strategy been not working up to your expectations recently?
Has the market been unfair to you lately?
Do you feel Betrayed by the market or your trading system?

If you do, and I know most of us experience those feelings, let me ask you a question. Do You feel the same way when you toss a coin? You called heads but its tails,do you feel betrayed by the coin? If you are playing a slot machine and time and time again you don't get what you want do you feel betrayed by the machine? I'm sure your answer is absolutely not.

When the pattern shows up, e.g. S1 Setup, you have to take it just like you're willing to flip a coin. "trading a technical pattern like ours has nothing to do with being right and wrong, this is not a right or wrong game" its just an odds game. Trading a technical pattern is exactly that. It gives you odds in your favour but not per "attempt" or "trade".

Odds in your favour, what does it mean?

And the odds in your favour are not per trade. You have to understand this, that you have odds in your favour over a series of trades not per trade.

A Setup is a Setup is a Setup

Traders often mistakenly think that when the "pattern" e.g. The Setup 1 presents itself that they get odds in their favour which means "I will win the next trade because its a GOOD Setup". The reality is that Setup 1 or any other pattern, The Fruit or Seed, Trend lines or whatever repetitive pattern you've found in the market is just that, a pattern that repeats itself. A pattern is a pattern. It does not give you an edge in terms of your ability to win this particular trade or your next one. However it does give you a edge , it gives you odds in your favour in terms of your total winnings be more than your total losses. It means that at the end of a series of trades your overall balance will be positive. But this largely depends on your ability to stick to the plan. You cannot count trading mistakes, which means not following your rules, in this series of trades.

How sure am I if I will win my next trade?

Traders often mistakenly believe that their method is telling them that the next trade will be a winner that their method is telling them what's going to happen next? I cannot guarantee that, i cannot even have any idea so that I could tell at all, whether my next trade will be a winner or a loser. I can say with certainty that if you follow this pattern at the end of 20 or 50 trades your overall winnings will be more than you've lost. This is Trading. Trading is a pattern recognition numbers game.

Its Easy to Trade, Its easy even to find a good winner, everyone finds a winner every now and then, however its not easy to make consistent gains unless you've addressed the mind issue which is "Fear of Trading". Unless you've understood the fundamental fact about trading. Trading is an odds game and you have to play by the rules. Unfortunately our fears in our minds always block our way towards consistent success.

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3 Power Points of Choosing a Trading Strategy

When it comes to getting yourself into Forex trading, one thing you may be wondering about is
the Forex trading systems that are out there.

There are plenty of options to select from and even more opinions on if you should use them, how you should use them and which ones to use.

Before you can make a decision about this, you should consider what the trading system can actually offer to you and why it may or may not be the best option for your particular needs. Some systems are no doubt better than others.

There are many systems out there and some of them are definitely going to be a better option than others are. The key here is not to buy a system or use a free one, based solely on that factor but to know what to look for.

3 Things you need to consider before Buying a Forex Trading System
Before you give the thumbs up to a system please check if it gives you the following 3 things.

Match The System with Your Style of Play

1. The first thing you need to consider is that the trading system needs to work with your own style of play. In other words, no matter if you are a long term swing trader or if you are a short term day trader, the system needs to work for your particular goals and your particular needs as such. But the question is do you really know what is your "style of play"?

2. Next, consider how the Forex trading system addresses clear entry and exit signals. No matter which system you invest in, it is critical that you know that the system has these types of signals and that they work perfectly.

If this is in place, this means there is no chance for your emotions to come into your trading. You want there to be 100 percent mechanical rules in place to protect you so that you do not make bad decisions at the wrong moment. Well not 100% because that is not realistic when it comes to trading with you need to have a set of parameters "objectively" define for each situation in the market. e.g. What would you do if the market moves in an upward of downward trend but the trend is either too fast or too slow? What would happen if the market suddenly spiked 100 pips in your favour? etc

3. There should be some set of defined rules on stop loss size and placement. Money Management is KEY. Many trading systems you will find out there do promise to provide you with high returns. They may or may not be able to deliver on this promise. If they are going to deliver they need to have good money management rules in place.

You want there to be a stop loss placement so that you can avoid seeing your trading capital erased too fast based on just a few trades.

No matter what you chose, you have to have a Trading System because without it you'll be lost. Trading requires you to treat it like a proper business because it is a proper business and business planning is key to any successful business.

You select the right one to use in your trading. A trader without a plan is heading towards disaster. Trading is a pattern recognition numbers game. You need an edge and that edge is provided by AIMS Stress Free Trading. 

AIMS Stress Free Trading System Offers you answers to all of the above

AN OBJECTIVE ENTRY SYSTEM

• AIMS gives you a crystal-clear entry mechanism with a simple and easily understandable entry setup.
• AIMS Stress Free Trading takes the anxiety out of trading by applying three simple rules to create two clear entry setups. 
• We know our entry level within a second.  

A CLEAR EXIT MECHANISM

• AIMS Stress Free Trading exit setup offers two options of exiting with profit. One exit technique is for normal moving markets; the other is for fast moving markets.  

SOUND MONEY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

• The success of the AIMS strategy is based on its sound money management techniques. Our money management and risk control helps us increase our return on investment. 
• AIMS money management and risk control take into account the market conditions. The AIMS strategy allows you to increase profitability when you have winning trades and give little away when you have a negative trade. 
• AIMS techniques allow you to control your risk to a bare minimum and provide a potentially higher risk-reward ratio.

THE MIND

• We believe that trading is at least 80% mental. The ultimate goal of a trader is to achieve the state of
• “Knowing without Knowing how You Know”. It is that mental state that we call “The Zone”. 
• The correct mind-set and attitude is the key to trading success. We have two simple techniques to help you remain calm and stress free during trading. 

Self Sabotage - Traders often face this problem

A problem that might haunt you at some stage of your trading

There is a certain human mental pattern of behaviour that might occur to you when you start live trading or in some stage of your trading. It may even happen to some people while demo trading.

When you are having a losing day you will be more prone to take more trades and suddenly you will find that taking a trade would become so easy. This is because you want to either recover your losses by trading more or you are engaging in "Revenge trading".

But on the day you have your first few trades as winners you will, all of a sudden find it hard to take more trades. This is because you are protecting your profits for the day

The former case would usually be a choppy day and the later usually a moving trending day.

When you find yourself doing this your losing days will often be double or even more of your usual winning days. In some peoples case that losing day often wipes the profit of the entire week if not month.

This is a trait/habit that is not found in consistently successful traders', its not one of their habits or they have learnt to overcome it.

Suggested Actions

So keep an eye on this. keep a max loss for the day limit and don't keep a max win limit. but if you want to keep a limit on the winning day then keep a max loss lets say 50 pips or 3% then put a max win limit of 5 or 6%. something along these lines. Moreover work on integrating the 5 fundamental beliefs about trading found in the first post of my journal.
(Journal is available to AIMS Members Only) 

AIMS Stress Free Trading - Activating The Zone This book may help you Understand and Resolve Your Psychological Issues pertaining to Successful Trading