What is Trading Mindset

Our Natural-Programming Makes Us All Bad Traders at the Beginning: As humans, our brains are naturally wired in certain ways in order to protect us. When we encounter a physical threat (like a tiger running at us), for example, we go into fight-or-flight mode. Both our minds and bodies immediately…

Values Are Your Priorities - Principles Are the Rules You Choose to Live By: Values and principles are essentially what you stand for. They're the rules and priorities that you've generated in your mind - consciously or not - that guide every decision you make. So take some time to…

A Trade Log is Not the Same as a Mindset Journal - Numbers Aren't Enough: When it comes to tracking trade data, most people only think about the figures and statistics - things like entry prices, exit prices, stop losses, profit targets, risk-reward ratios, percentage of winning/losing trades, gains, losses,…

We're Hardwired to Think, Feel, and Act in Alignment With Our Identity: Becoming a consistently profitable trader requires that you become a new version of yourself - there's no way around it. But due to your current conditioning/programming, change can be difficult. When patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting have…

The Mirror Concept in Trading - There's No Cheating Cause and Effect: The market is a mirror - meaning your overall experience within it reflects exactly who you are. Your individual results are a manifestation of your thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, values, attributes, and emotions - which all ultimately lead to your…

Develop a Mental Framework That Harmonizes With Market Characteristics: When it comes to trading, I reference "effective mindset/psychology" quite a bit. So I often get asked questions like: What do you mean by a paradigm shift? Can you explain in detail the mental framework required for long-lasting, sustainable trading success? These are…

Why is Day Trading So Stressful? Because Your Approach is Overloaded With Fear: The simple answer to why day trading is so stressful is that there's something about the activity that you fear. And when I say "something" - I actually mean many things. Because in reality, you probably have…

The Importance of Proper Expectation-Setting When You Get Started Trading: There's no doubt that most traders get involved in the markets with the wrong expectations. They view trading as some sort of easy cash-grab or get-rich-quick opportunity - and essentially just use the markets as a platform to gamble (for…

Best Trading Paradigm (@MattThomasTP) Tweets From February to December 2021: When I created the @MattThomasTP Twitter handle back in February - I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. But my main intention for the account was simple - to share the best possible insights into the topic of trading mindset/psychology…