You say you want to succeed. You study charts. You learn strategies. You back test. You even pass some prop firm challenges. But then you blow it. You overtrade. And you give it all back. Why? Because there's a certain part of your brain that fears success. Not consciously, but subconsciously. And until you rewire that part of your brain, you'll keep sabotaging your success, staying stuck at the exact same level, wondering why consistency never clicked. And in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to rewire that part of your brain. Now, whatever trading psychology challenge you're facing right now, I want you to comment below. I want to offer you an insight. Every individual has hardwired within them a survival response. This is what your subcortical parts of your brain are responsible for. The amigdula is responsible for literally keeping you alive. It's a survival mechanism that's been developed over millennia and has been developed to keep you from avoiding pain and running away from pains and predators and seeking after pleasures and prey after food. And this survival mechanism, the amygdala, the subcortical parts of your brain have literally been developed to keep you alive. And every individual, every animal has this survival mechanism built within them. And a great example of this survival mechanism or survival mode is an octopus. An octopus is a master of camouflage. If any of you have seen an octopus before, if there's a certain predator, what the octopus perceives as a predator, and they perceive themselves in danger in survival mode, this octopus is going to camouflage. is they're going to put a mask on and they're literally going to camouflage around the environment around them in order to protect themselves from this predator so they can't be seen and eaten by the predator. And the camouflage mask is a survival mechanism to protect against the predator. So too, octopus have a certain camouflage or a mask again to blend in with the environment around them in order to be invisible to prey so they can jump out and capture that prey. And this octopus has had to develop these masks, these camouflage mechanisms as a survival response to avoid being eaten by a predator, avoid death, and avoid being seen by a prey they want to capture so they don't starve to death. So the masks of camouflage have been developed as a way to keep that octopus alive. These masks are developed as survival mechanisms. And again, every animal has this. Every human hardwired within them has this as well. Because remember, thousands of years ago, we didn't have the comforts and the securities we have around us. We didn't have the access to food or the access to shelter, the access to water. We had these hardwired survival mechanisms heavily wired in our brain, the amydala, as a way to keep us away from predator and seeking after prey so we didn't get eaten and we didn't starve to death. Now because we have these mechanisms hardwired in the subcortical parts of our brain, the amigdula, you know, human nature never gets rid of old components. It just builds new layers on top of this same survival mechanism in the masks and the camouflage and the predator and prey is going to be firing in our trading. And if we're not aware of it, we're going to be run by this survival mechanism out of fear and greed. and we're never going to be able to stick to our trading plan because to survive is different to thrive. To thrive is to stick to our plan consistently irrespective of the outcome, irrespective of the emotion of fear and greed. To survive is to try and avoid the pain of losing and seek after the pleasure of winning. The animal mind, the amygdala out of this survival response wants to avoid the predator, the loss. It's no longer a saber-tooth tiger. Now it's just a loss P&L on your computer screen. But we're going to we're going to recognize and we're going to interpret the loss as a predator because that that's how the amigdula interprets it. And we're want to seek after this win, this positive profitable win which our amigdula, you know, registers as a prey certain food so we don't starve. And we're seeking after this because of the fear of starvation. And we're trying to avoid this out of the fear of death, out of the fear of lo of being eaten. So in trading we have certain masks that we put on to try and protect ourselves from the pain of this and the pain of death and the pain of starvation. And the human mind has these certain mechanisms and masks that it interprets and puts on based on that survival mechanism. The first one whenever a trader experiences a loss we put this shame and minimization mask on. We promote fear in our trading. If you've ever experienced a painful loss in the trade on in trading, guess what happens that next trading day? You're afraid of experiencing another loss. You're in a self-minimized state where you're ashamed and in pain and in fear as a survival response to avoid that pain again. And fear is promoted in our body and in our mind in order to avoid that pain of losing again that so-called predator. And whenever we take a win in the market and we feel good, guess what happens? We kickstart this exaggerating response in the mind where we exaggerate how good that win was. And we have this state of pride and this state of feeling of wanting to capture more wins in the market because in our mind this is bad. This is predator. We have mechanisms and masks to make us trade less and undertrade out of fear of experiencing this again. And whenever we take a win, we go into this pride state, this pride mask which exaggerates how good it is to put this overtrading mask on so we can capture more of this. But the issue with that is as a trader, you have a sample space. You've got 100 trades. At the end of that 100 trades, you know you're profitable. But on the individual trade, you may have a win, you may have a loss. Win, win, loss, loss, loss. The individual trade is uncertain the outcome, win or loss. The larger sample space, you know, you're going to end up profitable at the end of that larger sample space. So, in order to be a consistently profitable trader, you have to embrace embrace both winning and losing in order to have consistent profitability. If you're seeking after winning, trying to avoid losing, what's going to happen is you're going to deviate from your trading plan because you may have to experience a loss on that individual trade to have true winning, which is consistent profitability over a large sample space. But what happens is our pride and our fantasy gets so addicted to the win on the individual trade, which is actually false winning. And as a result, we can never achieve consistent profitability because the addiction to the win deviates us from our trading plan out of greed. And it means that we can't face the side of losing, the pain of losing, even though that's very much what we may need to to do to have consistent profitability in the long run. So as a trader, we need to learn how to manage our pride and shame masks, our exaggeration and overtrading masks and our minimization and undertrading masks in order to embrace both winning and losing in the pursuit of our sticking to our trading plan relentlessly so we can have true winning, which is consistent profitability, which is neither the pain of losing and the pleasure of winning. As a trader, you have to learn to detach from the outcome of the individual, the individual trade, so you can consistently stick to your trading plan and have con consistent profitability over a long period of time. But it's the survival mechanism of wanting to seek out of this, seek after that, and avoid this that stops us from doing this. This is why your trading psychology is crucial once you have a trading edge. Mastering your trading psychology and starting to manage and rewire the wired survival mechanism in your mind is crucial as a trader. And this is exactly how you do it. First, you have to recognize that in today's day and age, the likelihood of a life-threatening situation is very, very low. You know, out of a 100 days, you know, out of four months in the year, you're unlikely to have a life-threatening situation for most people in most situations. If you work, if you're watching this YouTube video and you're working, you're trading, you're probably in a in a safe environment with an air conditioner on or a heater on and in front of your computer with great internet connection. So, the likelihood of a survival, you know, threat in a first world country is very, very, very low. And out of a 100 days of the year, it's unlikely you have a life-threatening situation. Out of a thousand days every 3 years is very unlikely. out of 10,000, you know, days out of 30 years, then you may have one life-threatening situation every 30 years for most people in in very very safe environments. So that's why I put this statistic here. So the likelihood of a survival situation for most people in today's day and age is very very low. So the the point I'm trying to make is that that outdated and antiquated survival mechanism that keeps you alive in life-threatening situations needs to be managed, especially when you're in a safe environment in an air conditioned or a heated apartment in front of a computer screen using proper risk management. You need to learn how to manage that so you're not run by that outdated and antiquated survival mechanism that's trying to make you win each individual trade and avoid unavoidable losses. You see, it's the it's the addiction to winning every trade which is unrealistic and avoiding every loss which is unavoidable. That's what keeps us in that trap of unrealistic expectations and suffering as a trader. The desire for that which is unachievable and to try and avoid that which is unavoidable is the source of our suffering as traders. What we need to do is learn to set realistic expectations and realize that you're going to both win and lose, but the outcome of the individual trade is not important. What's important is sticking to your trading plan consistently and embracing both winning and losing. At the end of a larger sampler space, you're going to approximate your edge. And this is what how you do it. You have to realize that your emotional state after a trade and how heightened your survival response is after a trade is directly correlated with your expectations before that trade. You see, if you're sitting and watching a certain trade and you think that that trade's going to be a win, it's going to give you all this pleasure and profit and percentage and reward and you think it's going to get you a new watch and a new car and status and recognition. Even these even if these are subconscious quiet expectations at the back of your mind, but I guarantee most traders have this or you think this trade is going to get you a certain funded account or a certain payout or this trade is going to get you a certain reward for retirement or whatever it may be. Now, if that trade is a win, this individual trade is a win, guess what's going to happen? You're going to reinforce your fantasies and your unrealistic expectations and you're going to go into a state of pride thinking that you can consistently show up at the market and take what you want from the market. It's creating unrealistic expectations and you're going to come to the next trade with even stronger expectations, unrealistic expectations of a win, percentage, what you want from the market, status, recognition, a new funded account, whatever it is. And let's say this trade is an inevitable loss. It's a lost part of your sample space because in your mind you've anchored a very pleasurable win. A lot of pleasure and dopamine and oxytocin and feelgood chemicals. Guess what happens by law of contrast but you're associating all this pleasure and dopamine to winning. Then by by law of contrast when you get the loss you get exact opposite. So after that loss, you're extremely pained and you perceive a life-threatening situation and you perceive this as a threat because you're addicted to the win. All painful losing is is the addiction to an unrealistic expectation before. The only reason you have painful losses in your trading is because before the trade, you're addicted to an unrealistic, pleasurable outcome on that trade and addicted to winning. The pain of losing comes from the addiction to pleasurable wins. And guess what happens when you take an inevitable loss? Because of that unrealistic expectation before, you have a very strong negative emotion and you perceive yourself in a life-threatening situation. It's not life-threatening. It's just threatening to your fantasies. And then same thing, if you have a very pleasurable win perception before a trade, if you take a break even, then you get the opposite. You don't get all those things you desired, all those things you associated dopamine to. So again, you're sad. So any negative or positive emotions after a trade are an indication of unrealistic expectations before the trade. The outcome of a trade should not influence how you feel. Your decision should be I'm taking this trade because it aligns my trading plan. And when you make that decision, you know you've made the right decision because you've stuck to your trading plan. You know if you do that over a large sample space, you're going to end up profitable. And this is where you realize that real trading is actually quite methodical and it's quite streamlined and it's quite stable and there's no need to go on these peaks and troughs and booms and busts and elations and depressions. So the first thing you want to do as a trader is make sure you have a true edge. Once you do you put in a mechanical trading plan then you want to manage your expectations before every trade. Use my free bulletproof trading mindset tool which is linked in the description to manage your expectations before every trade. So those things and those ideas and those fantasies that you anchor yourself to, learn to become aware of them and ground them. Aware of them, ground them. Aware of them, ground them. So the outcome, which is unpredictable, doesn't run your life. It doesn't run your emotional state. If you don't if you truly don't have any expectations in the ark before the trade because you've become aware of them and you've grounded them and you align yourself with process based thinking which is what the bulletproof trading mindset tool allows you to do and you've done the visualization exercise that's outlined in it where you visualize both outcomes the win and the loss you being unfased by them and sticking adhering to your trading plan because you know that if I stick to my trading plan on this trade irrespective of what the outcome is I know over the large sample space I'm going to end up profitable and you go to that trade with true process-based realistic expectations. Then if the results a win, cool, doesn't matter because you've made the right decision here before the trade. If it's a loss, cool, doesn't matter. If it's a break even, cool, doesn't matter. You've made the right decision before. You're just sticking to your edge. You're letting it play out. And then you no longer trigger the emotional reaction that survival mode because there's no loss of you know prey or or um or gain of predator. The only reason you perceive the loss as a gain as a gain of predator is because it's taking away from your unrealistic expectations before. The only reason because you perceive the win as a positive prey is because you think it's aligning with your expectations before. If you ground your unrealistic expectations before on a deep level using the bulletproof your trading mindset tool, then the win or loss, the result of the market doesn't matter. Doesn't have any effect on you. You're not affected by it. You're unreactive. This is what the best traders are doing. They're so unreactive to what the market does. They just stick to their trading plan. They make wise, objective decisions based on the information the market's communicating to them at any point in time, and they consistently stick to their trading plan. As a result, they have consistent profitability. So, if you don't already have a copy of the free bulletproof your trading mindset tool 2.0 in that free course, jump in the description, jump in the first comment and download that, watch the free course, implement the tool, and let me know what type of a difference that has in your trading. And if you found this video useful, please like and subscribe. And before you click away, I want you to click on this video here and watch this next. It's 15-minute video which is going to help you get a deeper understanding of your psychology and help you bulletproof your trading mindset. And you can use this YouTube video in conjunction with my free bulletproof your trading mindset tool to really strengthen your mindset and ensure you truly achieve consistent profitability. Sorry.