Short aphorisms & market truths.
Life goes on in the search for what's to be searched. And it settles down in the realisation of the futility of all that was achieved.
There are two kinds of time in this life.
One is counted in minutes.
The other is counted in years.
The young don't have the minutes.
The elderly don't have the years.
The days keep growing longer.
The years keep falling short.
Using price levels as a stop loss is the core difference between a trader & an investor. If you use a stop loss to exit positions, you are a trader.
Just because a stock worked (or didn't work) is immaterial. What matters is whether it was your setup or not. Seek repeatability, sustainability & scalability.
Every unclenched grip makes room for a better next that was waiting just on the other side of letting go.
Good stock selection does 80% of the work, making trade management easy & risk management straightforward, but most traders spend 100% of their energy on the 20% that could have been avoided with better selection.
Changing your mindset from "will-this-stock-work" to "if-it's-a-leader-it'll-work" places the burden of performance on the stock & frees yourself.
If you can't earn money from the markets on your own, you won't be able to do it even with all the freebies distributed to you, & all the 'secrets' shouted to you from rooftops. It all comes down to execution & context. That's where the 'edge' is.
The "individuality" that majority of people have is mostly borrowed. They form groups & sub-groups & clusters(of nations, religions, professions, rituals, political affiliations) that appear different from each other from the outside, but the individuals constructing a particular group have no "individuality" within themselves.
When you strip away these imagined realities, what's left might appear similar on the surface, but will be individually unique, native & distinct on the inside. You'll then be what "you" are, not what you pretend/imagine yourself to be.
As of now, kafi sari cheezein next-to-impossible (improbable would be a better word) lagti hain mujhe. Mainly due to a lack of desire.
Jise kuchh chahiye hi nahin, wo kuchh karta bhi nahin hai, aur use kuchh milta bhi nahin hai.
If i look like this, then it seems that desire is the main driver for life. Then people want to reach a state where there are no desires left. Maybe reaching there too early, too fast is not good.
Koi nahin, dekhte hain zindagi kahan le kar jati hai humein…
At the end of the day, aap khud ko hi payenge.
You can give the credit to trading, to a sport, to your profession, to meditation. That such & such thing made you a better person. But, as you had a subconscious desire to improve, that was always your destiny.
Baki kuchh nahi hai zindagi, only this. An infinite game of improving yourself till you exist, but without failing to appreciate or enjoy what you are right now.
Thoda aaj ke liye jee lo, thoda kal ke liye.
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