This week, we’re diving into two powerful ideas that can reshape your trading mindset and elevate your strategy. Ready to build a stronger trading foundation? Let’s get started.

 

Money Is Just an Idea:

Unlocking the Power of Words to Transform Your Wealth Mindset

Money is more than just currency—it’s a concept shaped by the words and beliefs we hold. Words like “abundance” and “opportunity” can change the way you approach trading, influencing both mindset and results. By reframing negative thoughts, you shift your focus from scarcity to possibility, which can make all the difference in your trading success.

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Money is just an idea

Mastering Systematic Trading:

Building Confidence and Consistency

Systematic trading allows you to trade with confidence, free from the emotional ups and downs of the market. Through objective, rules-based strategies, you’ll make data-driven decisions and avoid second-guessing. A systematic approach also reduces stress, setting you on the path to long-term consistency.

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Building confidence and consistency

Trading Tip: Cultivate a Clear Financial Language

Take a moment to assess your self-talk around money. Shift phrases like “It’s hard to succeed” to “I’m building wealth methodically.” Clear, positive language builds confidence and discipline, helping you stay focused on long-term gains rather than short-term fluctuations.

Trading Quote:

"Humans naturally don’t make good traders because our brains are wired to survive, not to profit in financial markets."~ Adrian Reid, Founder - Enlightened Stock Trading

The important trading lesson from this quote is that our natural impulses and emotions that we bring with us to the markets will generally not help us succeed. We are trained through school and our jobs that we need to be right and we naturally avoid losses. We place undue emphasis on recent events.

These are just a couple of examples of how humans naturally don’t make good traders. In order to get around this sort of issue we need to adopt a systematic, rules based approach to trading so we can make consistent decisions with a positive edge in the market.

Revolutionise your trading

Revolutionise your trading with The Smart Stock Automation Engine

In the video below, you will see a demonstration of The Smart Stock Automation Engine running on a single strategy. It can easily automation many strategies into multiple different Interactive Brokers accounts! The video is narrated by Alan Clement, the developer of our Automation Engine.

Demonstration of the smart stock automation in action

Featured Video: Optimization Is Important in Trading Systems

Discover how to maximize efficiency and trading results with systematic approaches. This video covers practical tips for busy professionals and aspiring full-time traders on how to enhancing performance of your trading strategy.

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Optimization is important in trading
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Adrian Reid Founder and CEO
Adrian is a full-time private trader based in Australia and also the Founder and Trading Coach at Enlightened Stock Trading, which focuses on educating and supporting traders on their journey to profitable systems trading. Following his successful adoption of systematic trading which generated him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year using just 30 minutes a day to manage his system trading workflow, Adrian made the easy decision to leave his professional work in the corporate world in 2012. Adrian trades long/short across US, Australian and international stock markets and the cryptocurrency markets. His trading systems are now fully automated and have consistently outperformed international share markets with dramatically reduced risk over the past 20+ years. Adrian focuses on building portfolios of profitable, stable and robust long term trading systems to beat market returns with high risk adjusted returns. Adrian teaches traders from all over the world how to get profitable, confident and consistent by trading systematically and backtesting their own trading systems. He helps profitable traders grow and smooth returns by implementing a portfolio of trading systems to make money from different markets and market conditions.