Leakage From Deeper Awareness TradersCALM © dedicated to trading with good feelings
	You know the feeling, when you are trying to remember something - often a persons name or a place name - and you say something like "It is on the tip of my tongue."     Deep down we know the name, but just cannot find the link or association. A similar experience relates to some aspects of trading - deep down you know how to correctly evaluate a trading situation, but somehow the correct intuitive and/or rational processes just elude you.     In these situations, sometimes others can see that you are on the cusp of consciously knowing, but you, yourself, are, on occasion, not fully aware of it.     Involuntary verbalisation or need to share the decision making process with another person can often be a clue to inner awareness trying to leak out. Unwittingly, you are probably trying using the spoken or written word and possibly the other person as a sounding board - to help you become more aware. Paula, not her real name, was on the cusp of knowing a core truth about her trading.     This came across fairly clearly when, every few weeks or so, she told me about two options for action - selecting between two markets - but she was unaware of it, until it was pointed out to her. Often she would say something like: "There were opportunities in both of my favourite markets, both with roughly equal probability of being good entries, and I chose the slightly more attractive one."     In many - not quite all - of these cases as described by Paula, one of the choices combined all the benefits of the other, but Paula had repeatedly not seen this - at least not at the conscious level. When I gently pointed out she seemed to know more that she was using, her initial response was - "Um, I think you are right, if I used that additional evaluation, the better entry would have been clearer."     Her secondary response was amusing, as insight often is - "Maybe just telling you about the options is my deeper awareness trying to leak through." So what was Paula signalling was that she more or less only told me about two options she had considered when she was not using all the information available to her - it was her deeper self trying to make herself more aware of the unused information. Over the next few months Paula used this deeper awareness of the extra evaluation process to make better market picks - she reported a 50% increase in profits, and more important for her, only 35% of trades were losers compared to 46% before. From similar client interactions as well as personal trading (and other experience), yes sure it is true the insight helps our trading move forward, but the real bonus is a greater feeling of self-trust which manifests in calmer and more enjoyable trading. Please take me back to the self-awareness archive menu.