{"id":46678,"date":"2018-03-03T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T19:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=46678"},"modified":"2018-03-03T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T19:19:49","slug":"is-it-your-poor-trading-or-the-poor-adoption-of-your-routines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/is-it-your-poor-trading-or-the-poor-adoption-of-your-routines","title":{"rendered":"Is it your poor trading or the poor adoption of your routines?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One trader at the firm underperformed this month.\u00a0 In his own words, he is in a nasty losing trading streak.<\/p>\n

He is a developing trader and working to be consistent.\u00a0 He actually was an SMB Training student who impressed us so much, he was hired to trade on our desk.<\/p>\n

During a one-on-one mentoring session with this trader, he quickly found connections for his poor trading.\u00a0 He lacked proper sleep one session.\u00a0 He ate poorly the night before another session.\u00a0 In a tailspin of 8\/9 poor trading sessions, he felt they all could have been avoided.<\/p>\n

For the record, even with this poor trading he still finished positive for the month.\u00a0 So there is good in his trading and an ability to trade with edge.<\/p>\n

The key for this trader is to trade his A+ PlayBook trades.\u00a0 The tailspin is a result of this trader not taking enough of his A+ trades.<\/p>\n

So should this trader work on his poor trading?\u00a0 Or should the trader double down on an optimal personal routine that ensures he will take his A+ trades?<\/p>\n

Think of how differently this month’s goals would be.\u00a0 On one hand, trader tries to trade his A+ trades better.\u00a0 With another approach, trader focuses his energy on completing his routine that leads to taking A+ trades.\u00a0 The first approach imbibes trader with pressure and stress.\u00a0 The later with an emphasis on process and the little things that measurably breed better trade choices.<\/p>\n

The trader can trade with edge in A+ trades.\u00a0 The focus ought to be on how he takes more of them.\u00a0 The solution is doubling down on the routine that leads to A+ trades and eliminating the destructive behavior that manifests banging into lesser trades.<\/p>\n

In walking through this solution with this developing trader, I mentioned as primary source evidence another trader on the desk for whom this approach is paramount.\u00a0 This other trader went 30k plus, 30k plus, negative, 30k plus the past four months.\u00a0 Getting this other trader back on track was an issue of a focus on his routine of best practices.<\/p>\n

Both of these traders have edge, so you need that first for this focus to work.\u00a0 But often it is not the poor trading that ought to be our focus, but rather the poor adoption of our routines.<\/p>\n

In winding down our conversation, the developing trader predicted, “this month is gonna be great.”<\/p>\n

*no relevant trading<\/p>\n

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