Turn inward for the Diamond mine

Your spiritual beliefs are your own and I would not dare to tell you they are right or wrong. I'm not quite understanding how in a practical sense that helps with your trading. Unless you are trying to communicate a parallel between your beliefs and the market you trade.

While it is true the market is made up of people who are all acting on their individual belief of how the market works I don't think their spiritual beliefs play that big a part in it. Most are trading for financial not spiritual gain.

However, if you are trying to use you spiritual beliefs to "control" your behavior and thus improve your profitability, I think this too is erroneous. Good trading is simply disciplined behavior which requires very little if any spiritual connection (unless you wish to bring the lessons you learn on discipline to your spiritual life).

Discipline, while simple, is not always easy until it becomes habit. Once your disciplined behavior becomes habitual "the battle" (with yourself) is over. This is the "state of mind" we seek in trading. "See" the market for what it is...then acting in your own best interest will be obvious and your behavior (because you act in a disciplined way) does not interfere with how you see the market.

The "coded" patterns are all so predictable.

XAUUSD crashed this night/morning CET to 1401.50: almost basic support 1400.

Now @ 2-230pm CET, after two temptations to break through 1402-1401, the volume accelerates and see what happens....

THE problem, MY personal ego problem, is to step in with too heavy leverage in respect to equity and am then stopped out .

For me the secret is to balance equity and leverage in heavy price action. Nothing more

XAUUSD on 5' average price chart is up 76.66

Quote for June 26

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

-- Sigmund Freud

Why is this so?

Young children possess what Zen calls ‘beginner’s mind.’ They are awed and fascinated with the wonder of the world, open to discovering and experiencing new things. Anything is possible. Life is a great adventure.

For almost all of us, the systems that ‘educate’ us to be adults stifle our natural joy and curiosity.

We lose touch with our innate appreciation of life. We forget how to dream.

The blessing is that with attention, patience and love, we can reawaken our sense of wonder. We can again dance with life.

"The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead."

Grace Llewellyn

Well as adults we need to dis identify with the mind where the thoughts we have, HAVE us. We take ourselves to BE the mind instead of our true nature. Instead of developing a mind which is "empty, spacious & luminous", directly connected with the unlimited universal jewelled intelligence.
In that realm ideas are fresh, new, crisp, often defying all the limited beliefs we have about ourselves and the world and ...............about forex trading.

As mentioned here above: children until 5-6 yrs have this incredible fresh and spontaneous insights, remarks, thoughts; They ARE our true teachers.
They need to educate adults to trust life again in its unlimited potential.

Quote for today:

What do you usually focus on: problems or solutions?

When our mind dwells on a problem, we stay stuck. Woe is me! But when we can shift to ask how we might achieve

a solution to our problem, our subconscious mind, thinking and creativity move into gear. New possibilities open up.

Get in the habit of asking for solutions!

Well, I like this one.

That's exactly why I created this thread and follow/participate in other threads. Normal, human, simple, transparent sharing.
That's why we are all humans and incarnated to experience our soul in this adventurous endeavor.

In line with the above theme:

“The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Love that quote. Something to always keep in mind.

Definitely and in other words:

The Universe never give you a greater problem than the inner capacities you have to deal with them.

And then you may also like the story of the Donkey fallen in the well

The legend of the donkey and the well

One day, a farmer's donkey fell into a well. The animal moaned pitifully for hours and the farmer wondered what to do.

Finally, he decided that the animal was old and the well had to disappear.

In any case, it was not profitable for him to recover the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and started to fill the well.

At first, the donkey realized what was happening and started screaming terribly.

Then to everyone's amazement, it was silent.

A few shovels later, the farmer finally looked into the bottom of the well and was amazed at what he saw.

With each shovel of dirt and mud falling on him the donkey was doing something amazing:

he was shaking himself to remove the earth from his back and stepped on it.

Soon, everyone was amazed that the donkey was out of the well and began to trot!

Life will try to engulf you with all kinds of garbage.

The trick to get out of the hole is to shake yourself, step on the pile, to move forward, higher.

Each of our troubles is a stone that allows us to progress.

We can get out of the deepest wells by never stopping.

Never give up ! Shake and go for it!

Remember these five simple rules to be complete:

1. Release your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind of worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

I like the line of William Blake: "If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise."

Welcome in the Fool's Club

In respect to trust, I experience in myself a deep bottomless hole of basic existential distrust. And if we see the insane and inhuman behavior, I know I am not alone in this. The only difference is that the "fool" knows this deep down in his guts.

Since more than 12 years I spent an average of two hours/day trading..... I lost thousands and still did not make it.

If you read through my short profile, you know why I continue until the bitter or (hopefully) the sweet end.

My results in the metal competition are average and faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar better than I ever did.

So unless I can turn 100$ into 200$ demo, I sit on my hands filled with real duff.

And again, like life itself in essence, trading is soooooooooooooo simple, but not easy @ all.

Keep going strong.

PS: what helped me a lot is looking my distrust and fears straight in the eyes, and feed them with the deepest compassionate understanding.

These are gateways to life's basic trust itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDVA_WdbCDo

And this helps me a lot. You too?

Today's quote timeless wisdom:

"No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins

to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes."

-- Napoleon Hill

Soooooooooooooooooooooooo true and actual today.

Ever..............

We humans ALL have ego. In that we are all equal . I use trading to transform my consciousness. See also my private profile?

The opportunity is to use our ego intelligently, and with compassionate understanding use the suffering parts as a door/gate way to our immense unlimited and eternal beauty.

See also

I am struggling on this path of inner freedom with Faisal, since more than 15 years. And on the road back home since more than 40 years now

It's definitely worth the inner work

Well, after some time again, some interesting info, to improve your trading



I love it......

And you?????

I watched 2 minutes of that video and it felt like at least 20

????????????

Well, here you got a taste of the "eternal now"

You liked it or not?

Far too long?????????

I'm gonna have to go with "not like".

Thanks. Appreciate your frank reply....

And then the thread itself, is not your thing either?

I am back

A line about trusting oneself.

Ego trust or Basic Trust in the unfolding unknown waves in the eternal here-and-now?

Do you trust yourself in life?

Euh....do you TRUST life? The unfolding basic goodness in existence?????

If in doubt or simply NOT, then try to build durable ego trust.... I NEVER succeeded in more than 40 years efforting. I only had illlusionary, false trust.

And when that false trust collapsed, within myself a made a free fall through a gaping bottomless hole, crashing in an infinite ocean of never ending inconsolable, unbearable sadness, despair, rage, hopelessness and terror.

And that very space is a gateway to infinite, living, Basic Trust: See also this youtube link:

In respect to trust:

The ego is a LOSER. This brings us to the point that the only way left to go is "back home": recontact the basic trust of our own unique, living, normal, simple, jeweled essential true human nature.