So the last trading day of 2023 has been and gone, and I ended a strange week in profit. Whether or not it's because of how Christmas fell this year so it was only 3 days, I don't know, but it seemed like there was not a great deal of volume around in the mornings. But, although it was a difficult week to navigate I managed to steer my ship in the right direction. Yes, there was the odd moment (emotional) where I could've made more had I not been quite so quick to move my stop up, or scalp out, but on the whole, I traded very well and I am happy and proud of how things went.
I've had a shift in mindset during the later part of 2023, in allowing myself to be more accepting of the outcome of my decisions that are made in the moment. For example, I will trade my strategy as a default until the market shows me that it may not be optimal. In that respect, I will then decide to scalp, or move my stop a lot sooner than usual, or I'll not FTS if stopped out but I'll wait for another signal. Of course there will be trades that end up costing me points if I had actually stuck to my strategy, but similarly to Tiger Woods and his 30 yard drill, whereby if he hits a bad shot, he will walk down the fairway and bemoan it but only for the first 30 yards. After that, he puts the shot completely out of his mind and focusses fully on the next shot. I will do the same. I'll have a few moments of 'Bugger, if only I'd....' but then after a couple of minutes, I'm back fully focussed, what happened happened so lets not dwell on it, lets look for the next signal and the next trade. In fact this is on a poster on my wall.
'Once a trade has been closed, it's closed. Never have remorse. You cannot go back, so always look forward and look for the next entry and the next trade.'
So roll on 2024. I'm looking forward to where this journey takes me and to just how much I'm going to achieve over the next 12 months.
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