These metaphors will be your behind the scenes nurturing guides. Think about the metaphors you use to describe living in general. If not, choose others. Let's look at some metaphors that traders and the trading culture as a whole use to depict and explain trading. Common metaphors for trading involve sports and warfare.
Trading is perceived as a contest between two sides.
Combat metaphors are rife. Think about how many times you have read or heard traders referring to trading as a battle. If thinking of trading as a combat enables you to trade more effectively, all well and good. But warfare demands that you bring up all of your resources. It's an all or nothing affair, involving ambush, pillage, rape, scorched ground, wounding, life and death, victory and defeat.