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Sand and Stone

I recently read a story called Sand and Stone'.  It is about two friends walking through the desert.  They argue and one friend slaps the other.  The friend who was slapped writes the transgression in the sand.  Later that day the friend who was slapped is dying.  His life is saved by the friend who had slapped him earlier in the day.  The friend who was saved etches this deed in stone. 

The moral of that story is to write the bad things in sand then let the winds of time erase the deed.  Good deeds are etched stone so the winds cannot erase them.  They are there for all time. 

That is a great way to think about life in general.  We all have had bad things done to us that we never forget.  We have also had good deeds done for us that we forget easily.  It is often human nature to remember the bad things and forget the good things.  We tend to not properly recognize the good done for us by others.  

What does this have to do with our trading Maybe you sold earlier than you should have because you got spooked.  Or maybe you bought when you should not have.  Afterwards you let the emotion of that trade play over and over in your mind.  It affects future trades because the memory is still there.  You dwell on the negative and you might find yourself chasing other stocks in an effort to get even.  In the end you wind up with less money and even hotter emotions. 

People do not seem to remember the big winning trades they may have made.  Those trades are quickly forgotten.  I always find it interesting when someone emails me an angry note about a particular position being out of the money but they fail to remember all the winning stocks we have had.  There have recently been several big winners yet those wins are forgotten in a heartbeat.  

There is the what have you done for me lately mentality.  It is the same in the corporate world your boss does not care what you did at your last job what's important is what can you do for us right now. 

The emotional trades are what we need to write in the sand.  If you make a bad trade it is important to get over it and move on.  Write those trades in the sand then continue on your journey.  Write the big winning trades in stone so you will always remember what you did correctly.  Since we learn from every trade good and bad you should write the bad trades down also but write them in the sand.  After many lessons learned those old habits will soon be blown away and you will never see them again.





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