Much of a trader's early education is concentrated on strategies and market analysis. That is what many of us live for and what keeps us in the game, because trading can be a very tough business with long hours. Key Ingredients to Performing Your Best Passion. You must be passionate about what you are doing and having fun. Passion first, then performance.
Top performance comes from having a high degree of confidence.
You must have the confidence that you can take control and face adversity. You must also be confident that you will have a favorable outcome over time. You must concentrate on the process, though, not the outcome. A sprinter who is in the lead is thinking about the wind on their face, how relaxed their arms are, feeling the perfect stride they are totally in the moment. They are tense and tight because they are thinking about the outcome, not the process.