Bruce Lee As A Template For Trader Discipline

You read in many financial books about how discipline is important to traders, but very little elaboration on how discipline can be visualized.

Enter Bruce Lee.

As a pioneer in Jeet Kune Do and other mixed martial arts, the career of Bruce Lee can be said to be a study in mental discipline. Some principles of Jeet Kune Do which attributed to him:

Alive Footwork – Good mobility is essential. It can put you in a position to hit, or it can take you out of position from being hit. Distance, rhythm and timing are controlled with footwork, which should always be alive, fluid and mobile.

Focus on Low Line Kicking – Kicking high to head in street fights can be dangerous. High kicks are slower, easier to defend, more telegraphic and you need to be very limber to execute them. Low line kicks to the groin, knee and shin are quite effective and much safer to execute. They are also faster, harder to defend, less telegraphic and your balance is not as compromised.

I can’t stop thinking of numerous analogies of just these two principles when it comes to trading markets.

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