Be Aware Of The Market Stressors In Your Trading Strategy

I want to continue on the article I published last week on Eliminating "Hope" from your trading. One way to do that is by identifying the key market stressors in your trading style and how they affect you personally in how you approach the market. Because Hope, as great and wonderful that word sounds, is detrimental to your trading, because Hope has a personality complex with Frustration. When Hope meets reality, you end up with a Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scenario, and for trading such a mindset leads to destruction of your capital. 

I've put together a chart below that shows three different trading styles (can't include them all), and the stressors that are associated with each of them. I, for one, am a horrible long-term investor, and much of that has to do with my patience level, of waiting over a long period of time for a stock to do what it should do. Also, I have a hard time holding stocks through earnings, and "believing in a company" with out having access to the company outside of their published documents that they provide to everyone. As a result I am a hybrid of a day-trader and swing-trader which I will discuss more below:

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