Survey Trading Through Political Events

1. Did you have a good or better year this year?
   1. Being honest with yourself, if your answer is yes, you don’t need to finish the survey.
2. If you did not do well, or as well as you wanted so far this year, what percentage are you down from last year?
   1. How does that make you feel?
      1. Be specific.
3. Why do you think your profit/equity is down from last year?
   1. Be specific.
4. Did you see opportunities this year that you did not take advantage of due to current events of any kind, but particularly political events?
   1. If so, why do you think you didn’t make and take profit as much as you did last year?
      1. Be specific.
5. Do you personally know other traders that increased their equity this year?
   1. How did that make you feel?
   2. What type of emotions or self-talk did that bring up?
      1. Be specific.
6. Did you think the political climate here in the U.S. was going to calm down by now?
   1. If so, did you change your trading strategy to accommodate that belief?
      1. If not, why not?
   2. If you believed the political disharmony was real and growing, did you change your trading strategy to accommodate that belief?
      1. If not, why not?
         1. Be specific in these answers.
7. Whatever you believe about the political climate whether yesterday or today or tomorrow doesn’t matter in terms of this survey. What does matter is that you created a certain belief about political events – no matter how or why you created that belief - and once that new belief was added to your trading strategy, you may have done little to tweak your edge or change your perspective toward your trading.
   1. Since you may have created a new belief about current politics affecting yourself, why wouldn’t you think you needed a newer thinking methodology for your trading?
8. What do you think you need to change about your approach to your trading today to build your equity?
   1. Considering the uncertain political climate may be here to stay indefinitely?
      1. Be specific.

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