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“Call it “the New Year’s resolution effect”— it’s why gyms that were crowded in January are only half full in July and why so many slightly used guitars are available on Craigslist. So”
― Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets From The New Science of Expertise

“traders often believe that a set strategy should work in all environments, when, in fact, the best traders alter their strategy to adjust to the environment they’re in at the time. This continuous failure leads to the endless search for a new strategy, which ultimately creates more frustration and soon leads to yet another failure. The truth is that most people spend a lifetime searching out new trading strategies, on a cycle of continuous failure, whereas the successful trader spends a lifetime honing the strategy already consistent in bringing gains.”
― Tatro Quint, Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading

“If the landscape has shifted and now the vast majority of traders are positioning for the same outcome that should transpire, doesn’t it make sense that the odds of this transpiring has been dramatically reduced?”
― Tatro Quint, Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading

“There is often sadness hibernating beneath your angry words. The sadness won’t kill you. The anger actually might.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle