It passed three years because I started trading and eventually I can call myself a trader, I am not full time I am not a guru, but I am earning (small ) money day after day with my daytrading doctrine and pretty big money with my long-term doctrine (see: doctrine not egy).
Those 3 decades fully changed my life, I could say that I am awaken after a huge sleep (Anthony DeMello words), in the beginning I felt lost, I did not know anymore who was, all my certainty collapse just like a newspaper wall. Each of the icon that I was after kindly today where revealing for what they were: nothing totally hollow. Targets for my life were in order:
1) find a good job (so I could make cash )
2) earning excellent money (so I could cover large villa, luxury automobiles, have money for myself and my family, college insurance, ecc...)
3) marry child/family
4) dying happy with nephew.
My life story might have been used to get an advertisement on TV.
I was on this road, took a dentist diploma, beginning to make good dollars, with a beautiful girlfriend (that I will marry on july ), already bought a wonderful car and looking out for my dream home.
But then one day I went on yahoo fund opened a demo account bought 1000#8364; stocks (do not recall which company, I think google) only to find out a 60-70% profit three days after, wow fantastic!! I wondered why in the hell I am not doing it everyday? . So I discovered forex, forum, several fancy indior egy who worked for 1 week and then no more; analyzed hours and hours following job, I recall going at bed at 5 AM waking up at 8 AM working all day long, did that numerous times. But if my efforts where enormous I was consistently.... Losing money. .
Then one afternoon (again) about a year and a half ago I started to think: let us stop those BS price does not move because support resistance ecc... they move randomly!! Therefore I totally changed my perspective about trading and I started to trade in my way, yes, so I do not have a egy, I do not have a plan, I have 1 rule: Stop Loss that is it. There are times where I feel nostalgic so I place my Sl in 30-40 pips and try to TP in 10-15 pips, other days where I place a 10 SL and I wait 100-200 pips profit, my long-term egy is more or less similar to this: place a little SL 100 pips and then wait for 2-3 weeks (I will wait 5-10 decades, but I am not able to get it done, I fight waiting a lot ).
Stated that I do not mean to say that technical analysis is garbage, I mean that it wasn't great for me! I couldn't earn money with those rules that are fixed, now that I am free I have only one rule: stop loss, stop loss, stop reduction again.
The truth is this: I am conscious about what I am doing, my mind tells me what to do everyday, so it does not take effort trading, so it's not stressing.

Ok, let's go back to the query:
In my instance trading set me I broke all of the mental chains I had, I stopped to hear others (my favorites; an icon might be your father or mother) and I started to live my life, doing what I like, I nearly stopped to function as a dental practitioner (not in all, I do not have much cash ).
I started to follow my dre, sometimes I pass my days doing nothing, just reading books and taking long walks at the park with my dog. And you know what? I DON'T FEEL GUILTY, once doing nothing for 3 hours will be meant to feel guilty for the rest of the day.

More has to come, (the negative impact trading had in my entire life ) it's very difficult to explain those feelings since they aren't completely apparent, in my thoughts, sometimes I grasp among them, I try to write it, but then I realize it is to cloudy to explain it.

I have a lot to say so stay tuned if you like!!

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