Improving Your Process-Focus Skills in Trading
Maximizing the Brains Features to Improve Your Focus Skills
Your life follows the direction of your focus.
Focusing on an object you want to avoid while driving increases the likelihood of colliding with it. This applies just as strongly in trading.
Obsess over not missing trades, and ironically, you’ll adjust your behavior in a way that makes you miss them.
True potential as a trader is uncovered when you're in the flow state, at your peak focus. The switch from process to outcome-driven gets you out of this state.
That’s when you abandon your capabilities as a trader, your emotions become harder to manage, and your trading plan goes to waste.
The challenge is not only to achieve peak focus but to maintain yourself there throughout the trading session.
In a past post about trading boredom, I touched on some points related to focus but not enough to dive deep into other specifics.
In today’s post, we’ll explore new findings about the science of focus and how to leverage your skill to focus on the process throughout the session.