{"id":10520,"date":"2011-03-24T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=10520"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:33:12","slug":"is-the-market-slower-and-easier-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/is-the-market-slower-and-easier-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Is the Market Slower and Easier than You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sit overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, after two cartoons of watermelon and a long morning run. \u00a0In the middle of a family\u00a0commitment I am on a non-vacation vacation. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superhuman\/dp\/030746363X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1300979170&amp;sr=8-1\">Tim Ferris<\/a> would not be so happy with me as I have started my eating with fructose overload. \u00a0One of my new favorite guys ripped off an email to me last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JBL- Just finished watching tape on the open<\/p>\n<div>&#8211; also noticed that if you watched it without a fixation on the 60c level and simply used the tape (keeping the level in the back of your head, perhaps for you level of conviction), it was extremely straight forward.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Rewind 24 hours and I stood in our SMB Training Room talking JBL on the open. \u00a0I said,&#8221;If you go back and watch your tape you will see that the market is not that fast.&#8221; \u00a0The market feels so much faster when you are in a trade. \u00a0When you watch back tape of your trading you recognize the market is not that fast. \u00a0Trading is more straight-forward than we sense it is mid-trade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is this because you want your trade to work for you so much? \u00a0Does our ambition to succeed harm our results? \u00a0That extra energy spent wishing plays tricks with what is really going on on your trading screens? \u00a0I will leave that for Douglas and Kiev and Steenbarger. \u00a0I have observed this from my years of trading. \u00a0Watch back some tape of your trading and compare how you felt during the trade with what was actually happening as you play back your tape.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mike Bellafiore<\/div>\n<div>Author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1300979210&amp;sr=1-1\">One Good Trade <\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, after two cartoons of watermelon and a long morning run. \u00a0In the middle of a family\u00a0commitment I am on a non-vacation vacation. \u00a0Tim Ferris would not be so happy with me as I have started my eating with fructose overload. \u00a0One of my new favorite guys ripped off an email to me last &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/is-the-market-slower-and-easier-than-you-think\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81,1193,653,1354,1349],"class_list":["post-10520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","tag-smb-training","tag-trader-education","tag-trader-training","tag-trading-coach","tag-trading-mentor","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is the Market Slower and Easier than You Think? | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/is-the-market-slower-and-easier-than-you-think\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is the Market Slower and Easier than You Think? | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I sit overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, after two cartoons of watermelon and a long morning run. \u00a0In the middle of a family\u00a0commitment I am on a non-vacation vacation. \u00a0Tim Ferris would not be so happy with me as I have started my eating with fructose overload. \u00a0One of my new favorite guys ripped off an email to me last ... 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