Psychological Warfare
I’ve never been one to shy away from the harsher realities of participating in the financial markets. If you follow me on social media, you’re likely no stranger to my beliefs in showing both sides of the digital coin.
To successfully play in this field, you first need to have a general awareness of your importance within the market, which is none. We tend to be rather fragile when it comes to the ego being rattled, it’s not easy for most to accept that they are an irrelevant metric in the market they choose to dabble in. It’s even harder when the ego has something to prove and believes it deserves to be crowned a winner of the markets.
You never truly conquer the art of trading, anyone carrying such a belief has been humbled quickly by the unpredictable shifts in the behaviour of the financial markets. It’s an endless battle, faced against an opponent with the capability of never allowing you to know its next move. Blindly challenging such an enemy is a foolish approach, especially if you’re repetitively going in for the same method of attack with little success. The opponent knows you better than you know yourself, it already knows the likelihood of where you’ll attack. This opponent has mastered the art of hunting and thrives on the consumption of those who fall for the bait. It learns from its feeding habits, it inherently possesses a very large appetite, and greed drives it to feed on the swarms of smaller prey blindly running into its trap.
The financial markets are interconnected with almost every aspect of our current reality.
The mainstream media, global economy, and politics are just a handful to mention. All of these carry one key similarity, centralisation. A concentration of power is left in the hands of those who thrive on the dominance they have instilled over mankind. To retain such status is no easy task, you certainly cannot achieve it without pulling a few strings and manipulating your way to the top.
I imagine the financial markets as the heart, with the individual sectors making up the ‘system’ to be the arteries that facilitate the stimulation of the heart. For the heart (market) to be stimulated, it requires nutrients (data) to flow through the arteries (the system). The problem here lies in the fact that the system stimulating the markets operates on a pyramid-hierarchy model, where a handful of players pull the strings. The data is frequently polluted, to create irregular behaviour from the market and unpredictable volatility. This heart is man-made, with the creators having full control over how it beats.
You couldn’t possibly expect a market dependent on the decisions, actions, and words of a select few to be free of manipulation, could you?
It’s fuelled by a monopoly of power. The corruption and manipulation within the very system the markets reflect can be visualised in real-time thanks to candlestick charts. It’s executed in broad daylight for all to see, yet most continue falling for the same tricks, unable to comprehend that they have entered a playground where their suffering benefits the pockets of those pulling the strings.
Whilst many different factors and methods go into the manipulation of the financial markets, which we will save for another article, it all stems from the same source, that being greed.
The market makers prey on the vulnerability of those who possess the traits of sheep, blindly flocking in herds to their slaughter. Greed is the driving force behind this mentality, it can eradicate all rationale. In an irrational and emotional state, you are at your most vulnerable. When critical thinking is clouded by emotions, you are very easily susceptible to external programming. We saw this example showcased in real life throughout the COVID Pandemic.
To successfully play in this field, you first need to have a general awareness of your importance within the market, which is none. We tend to be rather fragile when it comes to the ego being rattled, it’s not easy for most to accept that they are an irrelevant metric in the market they choose to dabble in. It’s even harder when the ego has something to prove and believes it deserves to be crowned a winner of the markets.
You never truly conquer the art of trading, anyone carrying such a belief has been humbled quickly by the unpredictable shifts in the behaviour of the financial markets. It’s an endless battle, faced against an opponent with the capability of never allowing you to know its next move. Blindly challenging such an enemy is a foolish approach, especially if you’re repetitively going in for the same method of attack with little success. The opponent knows you better than you know yourself, it already knows the likelihood of where you’ll attack. This opponent has mastered the art of hunting and thrives on the consumption of those who fall for the bait. It learns from its feeding habits, it inherently possesses a very large appetite, and greed drives it to feed on the swarms of smaller prey blindly running into its trap.
The financial markets are interconnected with almost every aspect of our current reality.
The mainstream media, global economy, and politics are just a handful to mention. All of these carry one key similarity, centralisation. A concentration of power is left in the hands of those who thrive on the dominance they have instilled over mankind. To retain such status is no easy task, you certainly cannot achieve it without pulling a few strings and manipulating your way to the top.
I imagine the financial markets as the heart, with the individual sectors making up the ‘system’ to be the arteries that facilitate the stimulation of the heart. For the heart (market) to be stimulated, it requires nutrients (data) to flow through the arteries (the system). The problem here lies in the fact that the system stimulating the markets operates on a pyramid-hierarchy model, where a handful of players pull the strings. The data is frequently polluted, to create irregular behaviour from the market and unpredictable volatility. This heart is man-made, with the creators having full control over how it beats.
You couldn’t possibly expect a market dependent on the decisions, actions, and words of a select few to be free of manipulation, could you?
It’s fuelled by a monopoly of power. The corruption and manipulation within the very system the markets reflect can be visualised in real-time thanks to candlestick charts. It’s executed in broad daylight for all to see, yet most continue falling for the same tricks, unable to comprehend that they have entered a playground where their suffering benefits the pockets of those pulling the strings.
Whilst many different factors and methods go into the manipulation of the financial markets, which we will save for another article, it all stems from the same source, that being greed.
The market makers prey on the vulnerability of those who possess the traits of sheep, blindly flocking in herds to their slaughter. Greed is the driving force behind this mentality, it can eradicate all rationale. In an irrational and emotional state, you are at your most vulnerable. When critical thinking is clouded by emotions, you are very easily susceptible to external programming. We saw this example showcased in real life throughout the COVID Pandemic.
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