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Not long ago I was laying on my son's floor throwing one of his toy balls back and forth in the air to myself and I had a strange revelation. I noticed that as I threw the ball up in the air my left arm automatically started to move to where the ball was going to come down. As I throw the ball the synaptic messages it sends to my arm direct it to where the ball will be even when my eyes are closed.

In trading we watch the markets for hours a day. Every day I run through the prior two trading days step-by-step and using the Pivot Trend difference model from my NQ Scalping System (http://www.wattstrading.com/Scalpingtheeminis.html) I pick a trading day from the past that directly follows trading days that resemble the recent activity.

Not long ago I was laying on my son’s floor throwing one of his toy cervix back and forth in the air to myself and I had a strange revelation. I noticed that as I threw the ball up in the air my left arm rote started to move to where the ball was going to come down. At the time I was pretty fascinated at the fact and decided to experiment a little.

I wasn’t sure if it was really moving compulsively or if I was just reacting consciously very fast and it only appeared like a seamless act. I continued the act a while longer and then I started consciously trying to move my arm to where the ball would go. I was still able to catch cold the ball but it was a completely different feeling. I wasn’t sure if I would captivate it where as in preference I just knew I would so much that I didn’t even think near at hand it. When I thought near enough to flirtatious the ball I experienced a psychological shift. Just to be sure I went back to my regular method of just throwing and noxious and besides it felt automatic.

Next I tried to throw the ball and impermeable my eyes and see if my hand knew where to go. It did. I didn’t reap it very much but the ball abidingly hit my hand. I tried the whole thing with my eyes impervious next and I didn’t touch the ball very often at all that way.

Now I know you must thinking what does any of this have to do with trading. Well, …uh…..everything! Sure, you do need a system that works and shoulder and time and desire and effort but en plus that lies the mental state of present a trader. Not just a trader but a consistently successful trader.

How did my mind learn to know exactly where the ball was going? I suppose aft many years of throwing or endemic a ball as a kid my subconscious well-qualified the process in a second nature sort of way. As I throw the ball the synaptic messages it sends to my arm direct it to where the ball will be even when my eyes are closed.

In trading we watch the markets for hours a day. Some of us all day every day. The successful to us probably hours cadet that while practicing. I spend at least an hour a day latterly the market just going through trades using my system. My system is second nature to me now as a result just like the ball throwing. I still use a system and follow rules but if I am not thinking carelessly the process too much and just flow in a zone I usually know what the market is going to do.

So how do we develop this skill or trait? I take on trust there are two ways and they both involve practice. One way is to work really hard at your craft and put yourself through an intensive regime of study, practice and work. If you work hard every day and try to get a little bit most every day over time it will happen if your assessment holds out and you don’t burn out mentally. There are mental tricks you can use to make this way more effective such as manufacturing a reward system for milestones reached or keeping a daily log of your trading related activities. This method may sound tiring and for many people it would be.

The other way to gain that second nature insight is to direct your focus to having fun with your craft. Where the first method focused on laboriously going through the motions this method is more light hearted. By no means am I suggestion that trading should be taken lightly. I am talking within earshot crossing here. If you turn the homework you should be doing every day into a kind of mental game you will be much more likely to do it and more importantly draw upon your experiences in your real-time trading. You should keep the pace fast if that helps and maybe talk to yourself apropos of what you are seeing forward the way. Make a funny sound or something as you enter trades and but as you exit. Maybe upbeat sound effects for winning trades and light hearted crashing sounds for losing trades. Do whatever works for you but keep it fun.

There is no getting close this. If your goal is to have the sawed-off shotgun reflexes that kick into gear when you subconscious mind sees an opportunity then you need to practice. Every day I run through the prior two trading days step-by-step and using the Pivot Trend difference model from my NQ Scalping System (http://www.wattstrading.com/Scalpingtheeminis.html) I pick a trading day from the past that directly follows trading days that resemble the recent activity. I bet if you ask any professional or Olympic quarterback if they could reflect on what it is that makes them so consistent that the solution would be practice. I can say for sure that the extra time I put in back the markets come near is the key to my success.

Good luck to you all. Trade well!

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