Jacob Troutman

“When you learn the trading skill of risk acceptance, the market will not be able to generate information that you define or interpret as painful. If the information the market generates doesn’t have the potential to cause you emotional pain, there’s nothing to avoid. It is just information, telling you what the possibilities are. This is called an objective perspective—one that is not skewed or distorted by what you are afraid is going to happen or not happen.”
― Mark Douglas, Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude

“You are an underearner if you are earning less than you have the potential to earn, and your potential to earn is solely determined by you.”
― Rachel Rodgers, We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power

“Most traders have absolutely no concept of what it means to be a risk-taker in the way a successful trader thinks about risk. The best traders not only take the risk, they have also learned to accept and embrace that risk. There is a huge psychological gap between assuming you are a risk-taker because you put on trades and fully accepting the risks inherent in each trade. When you fully accept the risks, it will have profound implications on your bottom-line performance.”
― Mark Douglas, Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude

“I can't imagine a world where the man holding a sword does not have the last say over the man without one.”
― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons