E Is for Emptiness
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E Is for Emptiness

Once a week, clear your charts completely. No indicators. No trendlines. No support and resistance zones. Just price. Sit with the blank canvas for ten minutes. Watch the candles print. Notice what you see when you are not looking for anything.

Then ask yourself: What am I holding onto right now—a bias, a grudge against a pair, a desperate hope for a reversal—that is preventing me from seeing what is actually here?

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D Is for Detachment
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D Is for Detachment

Establish a "Wu Wei Hour." For one full hour during your usual trading session, you are not permitted to place a single trade. Your only task is to watch. Observe the charts. Observe your own impulses. Notice when the urge to "do something" arises in your body—a tightening in the chest, a restlessness in the fingers. Do nothing. Let the urge pass.
This practice builds the muscle of detachment. It teaches you that you are not your impulses. You are the stillness that observes them.

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C Is for Cycle
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C Is for Cycle

Map the current market sentiment onto the Wu Xing. Is it blazing fire? If so, prepare for the harvest of Earth.

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