The Funny thing about Human Beings.

From Paulo Coelho

A man asked my friend Jaime Cohen: ' What is the human being's funniest characteristic?'

Cohen said: ' Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.'

It reminds me of the time we think about the future and take a position without giving due weightage to the present(trend) and end up holding a losing position....

Little Knowledge would do fine, often.

Once upon a time there was a high IQ cheetah who couldn’t run at a top speed of 120 km per hour. As a result, the Thompson’s gazelles that he chose to chase easily outran him and he was never able to get hold of one. Thus, in order to survive, he was forced to catch rodents and frogs and other small animals which lived in the Serengeti.
Of course he had to do this surreptitiously because if any of the other cheetahs ever found out it would be terribly humiliating for him. “What’s the use of being the fastest land animal in the world,” he would often say to himself, “if I can’t even run down a decent high speed deer for dinner?”

The Art Of Trying

Pablo Picasso said:"God is above all, an artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the ant. He never tried to follow one particular style. He simply kept on doing whatever he felt like doing".

It is the desire to walk that creates the path ahead; however, when we set off on the journey towards our dream, we feel very afraid, as if we had to get everything right first time. But, given that we all live different lives, who decided what 'getting everything right' means? If God made the giraffe, the elephant and the ant, and we are trying to live in His image, why do we have to follow any other model? A model might sometimes help us to avoid repeating the stupid mistakes that others have made, but, more often than not, it becomes a prison that makes us repeat what everyone else has always done.

It means making sure your tie always matches your socks. It means being forced to have the same opinions tomorrow as you had today. Where does that leave the constantly shifting world?

As long as it doesn't harm anyone, change your opinions now and then and be unashamedly contradictory. You have that right; it doesn't matter what other people think, because they're going to think something anyway.

So relax. Let the universe move around you and discover the joy of surprising yourself. 'God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise', says St.Paul.

A warrior of light often finds that certain moments repeat themselves. He is often faced by the same problems and situations and, seeing these difficult situations return, he grows depressed, thinking that he is incapable of making any progress in life.
'I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart.
'Yes, you have been through all this before', replies his heart.'But you have never been beyond it'.
Then the warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he has not yet learned. He always finds a different solution for each repeated battle, and he does not consider his failures to be mistakes but, rather, as steps along the path to a meeting with himself.

- From Paulo Coelho..Like the flowing River

Being Spiritual

Spirituality to me means being in balance within myself when all kinds of emotions arising due to our interactions with the external events , people, etc. I have watched many truly spiritual people working in various fields like Dr.Manmohan Singh, Dr.Abdul Kalam, Sachin Tendulkar, Viswanathan Anand, Magic Johnson, Michel Schumacher, Pele, Dhyanchand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Amitabh Bachhan , Swamy Vivekanand , Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji, to name a very few. They excelled in their fields irrespective of any distractions & criticisms and what mattered most in their life was the job in hand and they kept at it with an amazing balance and carried out their work with such SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS which propelled them into the highest pinnacle of their chosen field with an incredible consistency. They were able to filter out the noise around them, stayed focused and above all they were always disconnected from the excitement and the expectant results as emphasised in Bhagawad Gita.

I have been blessed in knowing a few amazing traders both men and women (My Critic & friends) with such high level of intelligence and perception and one of them trades like Jesse Livermore. Inspite of their excellent grasp of the market, they have failed on certain occasions due to inconsistency in applying themselves and disconnecting from excitement & results, though they are capable of much higher reach.And I am seeing them evolving into fine traders everyday.

That brings me to the spirituality factor or should I call it the CONSCIOUSNESS factor. The more conscious you are in the market, evenly balanced as in yogic teachings, the end results are going to be amazing as well. It is very difficult considering that Arjuna who was always mentored by Lord Krishna couldn't keep his EGO in check and has to be brought down to his senses by the Lord Himself on many occasions.
Even the egotistic Arjuna had that Superconsciousness whenever he took his arrow & aimed, he would just see the object and nothing else and he was the Expert Archer.

So the enemy to an excellent trading is not the efficient market or CNBC or hyped up tipsters & the so called operators but within us. We have to handle our inner turmoil, become evenly balanced by increasing our levels of Consciousness by the KARMA YOGA Method. Just keep doing it till you perfect it..and become one day like the character Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon answering to his Master's observations that his Skills are at the point of Spiritual insight.
"What is the highest technique?"..."To have no Technique.."
"What are your thoughts on facing your opponent?".."There is no opponent...."
"Then why is that?"..."Because the word "I" does not exist"..
"A good martial artist doesn't become tense but ready.Not thinking yet not dreaming.Ready for whatever may come when there is an opportunity. A martial artist has to take full responsibility for himself and accept the consequences for his own doing"

And you will become one with the flow of things when you learn to FEEL the Markets...You won't fight it..You will just let it happen to you..