Have you ever played games with a rule bender?
We all go through periods where we feel our trading is getting out of control.
Like our own children, stock trading has the uncanny ability of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character.
We trade the current market conditions as they unfold with a plan to trade one way or the other. To do otherwise would be to fight an undefeated foe.
As you read the following, please note: I am not a male chauvinist, a pig, or a combination of the two.
We think differently when in a winning trade versus when in a losing one or after we close a winner versus a loser.