Trading is chock full of paradoxes and contradictions in thinking that make it extremely difficult to learn how to be successful.
In fact, if I had to choose one word that encapsulates the nature of trading, it would be "paradox."
(According to the dictionary, a paradox is something that seems to have contradictory qualities or that is contrary to common belief or what generally makes sense to people.)
Financial and emotional disaster are common among traders because many of the perspectives, attitudes, and principles that would otherwise make perfect sense and work quite well in our daily lives
have the opposite effect in the trading environment. They just don't work.