| ng we do in society prepares us to function | | | | of controlling your surroundings so that they fit your |
| effectively in the commodity markets and an | | | | idea of the way things should be, you can learn to |
| environment with no real boundaries. But, most of us | | | | control yourself. Then you can view information |
| are brought up to function well in society, so we`ve | | | | objectively, and choose to behave in a manner that |
| acquired strategies for fulfilling our needs and desires | | | | is in your own best interests. You do this by creating |
| that are geared toward social interaction and | | | | rules to trade by, and following them. |
| acceptance. We don`t just take what we want, we | | | | Nearly everyone agrees that you need to have rules |
| take other people into consideration, too. Not only | | | | to be successful in trading, but most traders have no |
| have we learned to depend on each other to fulfill | | | | intention of following any. Most people who are |
| our needs and desires, but in the process we`ve | | | | interested in trading resist the idea of creating a set |
| acquired many socially based techniques for assuring | | | | of rules. The resistance may be subtle, but it`s still |
| that other people behave in a manner that is | | | | there. |
| consistent with what we want. | | | | Often this is a response to how we acquired our first |
| The commodity markets may seem like a social | | | | set of societal rules. Our parents, relatives, teachers, |
| endeavour because there are so many people | | | | or friends gave most of the guidelines we live by to |
| involved, but they`re not. While we may have learned | | | | us when we were children. These guidelines were |
| to depend on each other to fulfill basic needs, the | | | | taught to us, we did not create them, an important |
| market environment is different: it`s every person for | | | | distinction. During this time, many of our natural |
| themselves. | | | | impulses to move, express, and learn about the |
| Not only can you not depend on the market to do | | | | nature of our existence through our own direct |
| anything for you, but it`s extremely difficult to | | | | experiences, were stifled. Some of these impulses |
| manipulate or control anything that the market does. | | | | were never reconciled, and can still exist inside of us |
| If you`ve become effective in your personal lives at | | | | as frustration, or disappointment. The accumulation of |
| fulfilling your needs and desires by learning how to | | | | these types of feelings can cause a person to resist |
| control your environment, but are existing as a trader | | | | anything that keeps them from doing whatever they |
| in an environment that does not know, care, or | | | | want, whenever they want to. |
| respond to anything that is important to you, what | | | | The very reason most people are attracted to |
| do you do? You take control. | | | | trading, the unlimited freedom of choice and decision |
| One of the principal reasons so many successful | | | | making inherent in trading, is the same reason they |
| people have failed at trading, is that part of their | | | | feel a natural resistance to rules and boundaries. The |
| success, outside the market, is due to their ability to | | | | need for rules may make perfect sense, but it`s |
| control their social environment. To some degree, | | | | difficult to generate any enthusiasm for these rules |
| everyone has developed techniques to make their | | | | when you`ve been trying to break free of them |
| external environment meet their needs and desires. | | | | most of your life. It usually takes a great deal of |
| The problem is that none of those techniques work | | | | effort to break down a traders resistance to |
| with the commodity markets. The commodity | | | | establishing and abiding by a trading regime that is |
| markets don`t respond to control and manipulation, | | | | organized, consistent, and reflects prudent money |
| unless you`re a very large trader. | | | | management guidelines. But, once they do, the |
| However, you can control the way you deal with | | | | possibilities for attaining consistent trading success are |
| market information and your own behaviour. Instead | | | | limitless. |