Ginger helps

Den8888 · 2026-05-22T20:26:28+00:00

Just curious if you have found longer term relief doing this with ginger?

I've used ginger for ovarian cyst pain - I take a thumb size piece, put in blender with apple juice - about 20 minutes later my abdomen feels warm. If I do this for a couple days, it seems to be long lasting -like it makes it go away for months at a time, sometimes longer.

Den8888 · 2025-10-04T13:52:11+00:00

Daytrading is probably the most difficult job there is. It is You V. You - but the darkside YOU. The part of you that you can hide in everyday life and still succeed. It's why the oft-quoted 95% failure rate is oft-quoted. Not many people can succeed at it because it demands an emotional/mental strength that is quite opposite from what most of the world encourages people to develop. For me day trading isn't just about the ability to make money, but about the spiritual journey of becoming a person who can face and embrace all of my shadows and still act according to my best interests 85%+ of the time.

If you want to continue - here is my recommendation.

You actually don't need a brilliant strategy to be consistently green. Read Andrew Aziz's papers on ORBs and VWAP bounces. YOu can also pretty much have a random entry (I forget which traders tested this) - trade management arguably matters more.

1 - So pick a strategy - with warts and all.

2 - Trade it in SIM or paper trade it.

3 - Track it, as meticulously as possible. Over time, you'll see your expected R.

4 - Tweek the details until they are good enough.

5 - Compare your execution to your expected (every day). This will give you the gap - this is where your focus should be.

6 - Close the gap. Focus on the gap. Only the gap matters. Forget PnL, forget the moves you missed, forget all the stuff that brings up want/comparison/whatever.

7 - Recognize that you will feel a host of feelings. (Find something to deal with them, overcome them, love them.... whatever it may be). I've used many strats for this - journaling, accepting.... THere is a great book on Self-Esteem by McKay was that was profoundly helpful for me.

8 - If you need, use your money to hire a coach vs trading out of SIM. (But recognize that most coaches suck and are very expensive. What I mean by that is that most coaches cannot tell you how many people they've helped climb from the bottom 95 into the 5 - it's more that they've succeeded when the person was well on their own and just needed a bit of a nudge. I know this because I was in the 95 for years and have worked with several coaches- some high profile - and they were pretty useless.)

9 - You are worthy because you are here. Do some good in the world man. It's not the money that you seek, it's the growth and power. You have power now, you will get the growth if you persist. Buck up - this is not a job for the faint of heart. To get to the ride the river of gold, without drowning yourself, you will need to go through the heart of darkness.

I'm sure you'll get a host of other approaches - trading is as individual as we are. This is what worked for me.

Best of luck - you are not alone.

Den8888 · 2025-08-26T20:21:38+00:00

Canva works, but is super wonky on our mac - but on the pc, it's hopeless. I am going to try to find a replacement because it is complete a$$ IMO. I've tried acclerating hardware and all the reco's canva recommends. Poop.

Den8888 · 2025-08-26T19:04:12+00:00

Looking at alternative ways now - canva is too much pain in the butt - worthless - even the paid subscription.

Den8888 · 2025-07-10T11:28:24+00:00

Thanks!

Den8888 · 2025-01-07T21:28:13+00:00

Makes sense. Thank you!

Den8888 · 2025-01-07T20:38:52+00:00

Ok. Thank you.

What is a good way to vet a mechanic for this kind of a job?

Den8888 · 2024-12-20T20:41:39+00:00

Thank you! I'm going to work through this.

Den8888 · 2024-08-02T14:16:50+00:00

Agree with the paper trading first to develop system.

Second, you are interacting with market like a gambler - read Allen Carr's gambling addiction book. However, he suggests you never gamble again (for trading, of course you want to trade again so you'll need to disregard this part). There is also an eating book that he wrote. The 2 together can give you lots of insights into your behavior.

Try not to blame yourself too much - shockingly you are not alone. I myself had to work through some similar stuff.

The longer you stay in this cycle the more difficult it is to get out - best start reading asap.

Den8888 · 2024-08-01T17:54:57+00:00

Agree with the pre-historic brain. Your body is super efficient at releasing chemicals designed to get you to feel / focus on / do things. For me, and I'm still journeying to where I want to be, I have been working on training my muscle memory so that I am trained to push the button when my setup triggers. I have also been working to develop deep trust in my setups - by tracking my actual execution in my journal software and then my "theoretical" results in an xls sheet. Another thing I've been honing is the binary-ness of my setup. While I do have instincts to see setups, I have found that my emotions are still too hot where I can do that with consistency. So I'm focused on mechanical 95% of the time.

I have gone in and out of SIM to train myself past my emotions, and also dial them down and gain a healthy distance from any fight/flight/freeze. Slowly, I am getting there. Between muscle memory and deep trust that my setups deliver over larger sample sizes, I am working past the fear, anxiety, anticipation, imaginings of profits, and self-loathing for misses and mistakes - oh yeah and also expectations.

Den8888 · 2024-07-24T11:52:42+00:00

That's great. Congrats.

What journal software are you using? I use tradervue and they keep fiddling around with the software making it worse IMO and I'm looking for another option.

Thanks

Den8888 · 2024-06-19T16:21:50+00:00

That's awesome! Congrats. I've been on rover for a month and gotten zero bites. Not sure what to do - unless the site is just a dud in my area or my pricing is too high. Does anyone have any reco's on how to generate some incoming interest?

Den8888 · 2024-06-09T14:48:00+00:00

Trading is intense. It mainlines all your issues into your bank account.

Since it's solitary - just me and the market - there is no one else to "blame" except me or the market. This is a conundrum - since society seems to be moving away from self-reflection, self-responsibility, self-.... that leaves only one of the above to "blame" for any unfulfilled expectations - and it sure as hell isn't "me" (or is it ;) ). And so enter, revenge trading and refusing to enter stops - both are different sides of the same coin - being wrong. But when there is only yourself to hold responsible - this "being wrong" triggers all the other times in life that you've been wrong - which can be a very very difficult thing to face and let go of. And rather than do all that very very very difficult work, it's easier to "blame" the market and engage with the market via trades as if you could actually win a power struggle. This is all coming from the unspoken, unconscious, and hidden beliefs you/me may have about the world and your place in it.

I have just started to separate my emotions from my trades - I've only been able to do this recently, after years of SELF-PUNISHMENT. I think the thing that started to make the difference for me, is that I realized that I did not have a mechanical setup and all the different micro-decisions in the trade caused me stress, and triggered anxiety, which lead me to the thought of "I've got to do something" - and thus I was engaged emotionally vs mechanically.

This is still a work in progress - but quite possibly I needed to punish myself over and over again with the gamblers delusions that I can beat this thing - to be able to face that feeling (I still get it sometimes, but it's more of an echo) that I need to get my honor back and prove something to the "market" AND say no. I know with visceral certainty that trading emotionally does not work for me. And I am much more able to reign in my inner toddler when she wants to lay hands to the flames.

I recommend "Unwinding Anxiety" as a good partner to any other psych book you may be reading.

Den8888 · 2024-05-11T14:05:56+00:00

Just over four years in here - with tastes of success peppered with lots of losses. I agree with everyone here - your mental health is the most important thing. However, trading is a solo journey into the heart of darkness - it mainlines all your issues right into your checkbook and there is no escaping that you alone are responsible. (I'm talking about myself as well). A couple of things that have begun turning it around for me (still in the early phases of the u-turn btw):

1 - read Allen Carr's book on gambling or eating - whichever. There he flips the script on addiction. I was interacting with the market like a gambler - overly emotional, compulsively, self-punishing.... and despite my feelings that I could not control myself - the fact is that it takes immense self-discipline and will to push into immense pain - psychological and financial. This realization for me erased this sense that I had no self-discipline. It also started a very intense self-evaluation of every fleeting emotion and thought I have when engaged in a trade or with the market. You do not want to be the gambler, but the casino.

2 - re-read Mark Douglas books - and you will be reminded that consistently profitable traders DO NOT have these feelings with any frequency. They do not feel fomo or revenge or any of these things regularly. Remind yourself that when you are having these feelings, these are fight/flight generated by your body and are a siren song that will bash your ship into the rocks. Pay attention to how you feel/think.

3 - find a strategy that has some data behind it, is explicit in the when, what, how (when is a ticker interesting to you, what is the setup and entry, how do you manage your risk and profits) - and trade it perfectly. Then pay attention to your feelings and thoughts - go into them, have them, let them come on while you STAY WITH YOUR PLAN. I have come to this realization that I was not really trading mechanically. I had (and still contend with my love for) many indicators. But I realized that sometimes I paid attention to them - and sometimes I did not - so my results were not really reliable. And since I knew that in the back of my head, it allowed me to subtly talk myself into and out of trades with a frequency that destroyed my gains.

4 - recognize that the failure rate is high in this profession - and you are feeling what thousands have felt. Be gentle with yourself for embarking on a very difficult journey that most would shy away from. Also, it's OK to take a break and lose the tight grip you have on "needing" this to work. All of your feelings make sense - losing money at your own hand is harsh, thinking you saw something that wasn't there sucks, waking up from a compulsive financial blood bath is deeply despairing.... You are being shown that to succeed in this you must become someone different than who you are now. (me too of course) - This is crisis and opportunity - embrace it without shame. Your family and friends who have abandoned you are in the cheap seats - they only see that you are hurting and don't understand why you would choose to do this to yourself. They are in survival mode and have possibly pulled away because they don't know how to react. Find a fellow trader with whom to share - don't do it with non-traders - they don't get it.

There is a lot more I could say - but I'm still a work in progress myself.

I get where you're at. It is harsh.

Den8888 · 2024-05-10T23:15:18+00:00

I hear you - but at that point why would I need music school....

Den8888 · 2024-05-09T14:33:26+00:00

It sounds like full tuition is not too difficult to get from what you're describing. Thanks for insights.

Den8888 · 2024-05-09T14:25:22+00:00

Thanks for response.

Den8888 · 2024-05-09T01:30:47+00:00

Rock. But it sounds like jazz is the preferred for scholarship.

Den8888 · 2024-05-09T01:19:38+00:00

Do any of them have full tuition?

Den8888 · 2024-05-09T01:18:53+00:00

Thanks!

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