HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM A TRADING SYSTEM?

The meaning you place on any particular price change is the result of
your beliefs. As a trader you constantly have to define what is high and what
is low relative to your beliefs about the future. That is the only way you can
make money: buy low and sell it back at a higher price (in the future) or
sell high and buy it back at a lower price (in the future). As long as prices
continue to move, that movement will create opportunities to buy low and
sell high or sell high and buy low, and these opportunities are available for
all traders. You create the game in your own mind based on your beliefs,
intents, perceptions, and rules. It is your own unique perspective and no one
else's and the secret is, you can and do choose how you perceive events.
Even if you are not aware of exactly how to control and change your
perception to make other choices available to yourself, you are still
choosing, even if it is out of ignorance.
Until you learn the appropriate skills, your success as a trader will he
determined by a number of psychological factors that often have little or
nothing to do with the markets.