Commentary Topic from greenfaucet
The biggest block to our trading success is what I call our ‘default future'. In our childhood we encounter events to which we develop strategies to enable us to be safe, secure and survive. In time, these strategies become automatic, unconscious responses. To the extent we come from a functional environment, is the extent to which we achieve success - the responses become our strong suits; to the extent we develop dysfunctional responses, is the extent to which we will ‘fail'. By functional, I mean ‘with the ability to deal with reality'.