Mario & Matches
I often use psychological tricks to get me through rough patches in all sorts of aspects of life, so that I have a target that doesn't destroy my will to carry on. The one I've settled on for trading is comparing it to an early Nintendo game "Mario" I recall how parts of it seemed impossible, but it was fun and so I kept banging my head Mario-like, against the brick wall until the solution dawned upon me and I progressed to the next sticking point. I must have spent hundreds of hours learning the game but once there it was available to be called upon when required. Not surprisingly it as never been called upon again. Trading is as deviously simple as Mario was, if a little more expensive, so I'll sit back and enjoy the ride secure in the knowledge that the "penny will drop" in due course. Being in a position of knowledge, however, is not necessarily going to be enough to make money, it has to be borne in mind that a trader will take money off players worse than he, but lose money to those better than he. Don't believe me? Consider this hypothetical situation, if there are only two traders in a market and they are both trading unless they "break even" then who will come home with the bacon, the better trader or the worse? Sobering thought isn't it?