Trading Mentality: Facts not Symbols

In trading, mistakes are plentiful and unanticipated outcomes happen often. As such it is important to correct oneself with facts and not use symbols as we can read just about anything out of symbols but the easiest thing to read out of symbols is the intentions of the other party. Once you read the intentions out of the symbols, you are just about done. Any more and you are straying into fortunetelling and mind-reading.

The media is talking about issues that place us at dealing with World War Two style issues right now but most traders are uninterested in ideology.

Some people argue for symbols because they can use symbols to reach an absolute truth. I argue no such thing exists, but everyone has their own truth. We won’t converge to an absolute truth because everyone has their own point of view. Using symbols in a way to define and converge to a reality in my view is the definition of totalitarianism which first came to being on the right side. Facts are what matter when we talk between people. Another danger of using symbols is you start thinking real people symbolize fictional characters when they may simply temporarily resemble them because they are pressured to do so or because you are comparing them to moving targets, which is to say you yourself are under pressure by society and aren’t an unbiased observer.

In the end, facts are what correct us to the course of existence in democracy that is known as a global narrative. In short facts are the only way to the truth first for each person and then for everyone. But to go for an absolute truth first before there are facts, that doesn’t exist.