Daily Archives: December 15, 2021

On Isolation

Let’s talk about the trader’s neme­sis, iso­la­tion — the prob­lems it caus­es, and the ben­e­fits that come from it. Iso­la­tion is a nec­es­sary cor­rel­a­tive of trad­ing. I’m not refer­ring to phys­i­cal iso­la­tion, though that is some­times nec­es­sary and use­ful. I’m talk­ing of men­tal iso­la­tion, inde­pen­dence, and sep­a­rate­ness. The essence of trad­ing is inde­pen­dence. A trad­er […]

December 15, 2021 – 4:29 pm | By Ted Hearne | Posted in Psychology of Awareness, The Rest of Life | Comments (0)

On Freedom

Let’s talk about free­dom, and of depen­den­cy. We speak of liv­ing free in an unfree world. We live in a world sur­pris­ing­ly lack­ing in free­dom. In the Unit­ed States and in many oth­er west­ern indus­tri­al­ized coun­tries we live inside a myth of free­dom, that is, we believe we are freer than we actu­al­ly are. Our […]

December 15, 2021 – 2:36 pm | By Ted Hearne | Posted in Moral States, Psychology of Awareness, Psychology of Fear, The Rest of Life, Trader Psychology | Comments (0)