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The Option Alpha Podcast

215: The 15 Trading Psychology Questions to Ask Yourself If You Don't Have a Trading Coach

The Option Alpha Podcast

Kirk Du Plessis

Investing, Trading, Stock Market, Business, Options Trading, Education, Finance

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Show Notes: https://optionalpha.com/show215

On this week's episode, we'll present a collection of questions custom tailored for digging deep into your psychology and mindset around trading. These are questions you should ask yourself, ones that trading coach might ask you, on a recurring schedule to help uncover and keep a pulse on the potentially harmful subconscious "self-talk" that tends to consume you. Look, trading options is already hard enough and it's certainly not in your best interest be your own worst enemy when it comes to your mindset. We cannot predict or control the markets, though we all try on some level, but we absolutely can learn to focus and control our minds if we give it the attention it deserves. To help frame our trading psychology session together we'll walk through 15 questions you should ask yourself right now.

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On this week's episode, we'll present a collection of questions custom tailored for digging deep

0:04.4

into your psychology and mindset around trading. These are the questions you should ask yourself,

0:09.2

ones that even a trading coach might ask you, on a reoccurring basis to help uncover and keep

0:14.4

a pulse on the potentially harmful subconscious self-talk that tends to consume you. Look,

0:19.9

trading options is already hard enough, and it's certainly not in your best interest to be your

0:24.8

own worst enemy when it comes to your mindset. And we can't predict or control the markets,

0:29.7

though we'll all try on some level, but we absolutely can learn to focus and control our

0:34.8

minds if we give it the attention it deserves. To help frame our trading psychology session together,

0:40.4

we'll walk through 15 questions you should ask yourself right now.

0:59.7

Hey everyone, this is Kirk here again from option alpha dot com working every single week to make

1:08.2

this the most popular investing podcast offered online because it's based on one thing and one

1:13.7

thing only. And that's helping you consistently place smarter trades. So thank you again so much

1:19.2

for tuning in today and welcome back to show number two 15 where we're going to be walking through

1:24.6

the 15 trading psychology questions you should ask yourself if you don't have a trading coach.

1:30.9

And what my goal is for this podcast is to be a resource for you that you come back to over

1:37.6

and over again. I want you to literally save this podcast episode and keep referencing it.

1:43.0

Maybe once a month, once a quarter, at least once a year to help guide you down the path of assessing

1:49.8

your psychology, your mindset, your thought processes around trading. And I hope it's really

1:55.9

therapeutic and effective as a tool for you moving forward. So instead of me giving my own

2:01.8

perspective on everything, I'm just literally going to go through a series of questions,

2:06.8

broke it down into three main sections that we have in the podcast and ask you these questions

2:12.7

and encourage you to go through this podcast by listening to the question and then maybe even

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