Jorge M Moutinho

BALANCE life lessons from the financial markets Jorge M Moutinho

Trading is not much more than looking at charts in order to find reasons to place trades. It gives you information and you use it to make decisions. Same goes for our daily lives. The reasons behind what drives us in our daily lives and what makes us decide one way or the other has always fascinated me. The more I investigated about the different parts of our brain, the conscious and the unconscious mind, the awaken and the latent thoughts, the more I saw it in the same way as I have been looking at charts for years. At some point, I realized that the reasons behind these processes were equivalent. Looking back at this path of mine, I started to understand about the imbedded reasons that led me to trading (besides making money of course...): 1 - Fighting the established.2 - It made me a better professional, even a better person. The thing that impressed me the most in this career, it still does, is that understanding charts is about understanding human behavior - especially the social spectrum - while becoming a consistent trader is about understanding yourself. As most of the topics/chapters are closely interconnected, you can read them in no specific order as each of them holds its own information - beginning, middle and end. My favourite books are the ones I can have on my bedside table so I can open them in a random page and have a quick 5 minute read. I wanted this one to follow that structure.