Americans are taught to be proactive rather than reactive, and we constantly think of ways to alter our relationships and environments. If you’re dissatisfied with the color of your living room, you paint it. If you disagree with your partner, you take action to change things for the better. If your children misbehave, you ask them to redirect their actions.
The stock market flows like a river. You cannot push it in the other direction. You cannot paint it a different color. You cannot disagree with it, or demand it behave differently. You can only control yourself and your reaction to it!
Once you have that concept firmly in place, your goal is to come to the market each day, as professionals do, and regard it with positive objectivity.
– Toni Turner, A Beginners’s Guide to Day Trading Online
