Advanced course introduction

Trading, like any other discipline that allows a mastery stage, is not aiming for a place of arriving but instead defined by a process of neverending expansion.

Consequently, in theory, performance can be flawless, but the question remains of how to get there.

Terms like "being in the zone" come to mind, and in trading, it would mean a 100% hit rate and ideal process execution for the remaining parts of trade execution.

While complex to imagine, at least a process instruction on elevating "average" consistency trading to near-perfect trading is worthwhile exploring and developing.

Expansion is not linear, it is one of contraction and expansion segments, and setbacks are the norm before successful expansions into the unknown.

For one, the flow principle must follow process integrations that include newly extracted principles.

After all, we believed at some point the world to be a flat disc and the typical process of an individual questioning the status quo, reaching outside the circle of the known to find him/herself at a spot anew, ridiculed and even attacked by those who hold onto the norm. Worse, once the general consciousness is elevated to the truth of the new principle, no thanks are given. Instead, the masses claim this has been within the circle of the known all along, and no achievement credits are being dispersed.

How can such miracle creation be achieved besides an open mind and a creative effort?-How can hit rates be elevated to numbers an average trader strongly doubts achievable?

It is a process of focusing on one's beliefs. An absence of doubt and a steadfast not supported by an entirely logical consequence string, and it needs more than just "checking one's ego at the door," as so often said in trading psychology. It is a knowing, a genuine longing, a following of the principle:" mind creates matter," allowing for some time to pass for a new belief to manifest and, in essence, a stepping aside of one's self to allow room for an expansion unincumbered.

Automated writing has similar principle structures on how to let energies flow freely through one.

Another way is seeking out others to model after.

Once, the belief that no man can run a 100-meter sprint in under ten seconds was held steadfast. Once this barrier was broken instantly, a group of individuals could follow such a performance as well since the mental wall of a task seeming impossible was broken down.

As such, seeking out leadership and gaining insight through them can be extremely helpful in accelerating one's trading performance.

Extraordinary performances, as a whole, end in fields like phenomenology and alike.

It isn't apparent that music is mainly defined in the space between the notes, and there is much debate that compositions from the past were performed much slower in tempo than nowadays attempted to achieve.

This points towards a reduction form, a form of contraction, and minimalism, which is only possible after a segment of expansion.

Meaning "less is more" is only advice of wisdom allowing for massive expansion prior.

Chefs in the kitchen know that the most complex performances are simplistic recipes like an omelet. Michelin star chefs also, in unison, trying to keep their craft as much removed as possible from meal preparations and instead focus on ultimate ingredient quality and, as such, try to step as much aside with their personalities from the process as possible, altering these ingredients to a minimum but instead aligning them in composition and sequence-very much alike a process of a master trader who identifies principle elements of trading and putting execution steps in sequence without much manipulation of the observed elements the process entails.

Highly successful sportsmen speak of a process absent of talent but rather an ever-repeating process of operation and dedication and finding themselves in a "zone," where the physical process seems effortless and clear in timing and force at a time where the mind is without reflection but rather a mental dedication to focus having blended any distractions out but a body and mind dominated by an inner joy for the game, the process itself, independent of outcome or other motivations but finding oneself surrendering to the here and now.

It is easy to speculate and intellectualize process elements for trading since principles are transferable between subject groups, but achieving a mindset without expectations, ultimate focus, and stepping outside one's aims are truly challenging tasks, yet:

Mind creates matter.