“I don’t need to kill it right now, I just need to make sure I’m around for the next cycle that is favorable to my style of trading.”

According to Anthony Crudele, most traders who struggle do so because they are too short-sighted. He believes most successful traders think longer term—not about time frames but about how each individual trade, day, or week fits into the bigger picture of what the trader is looking to accomplish.

Meanwhile, outside distractions can be too much to overcome if we don’t have our “houses” in order. “A lot of my success comes when I don’t have a lot of outside distractions.” And it makes sense. Anthony talks about how what’s happening in your life affects our patience and our discipline.

And he knows. At too young of an age, he suffered a stress-induced heart attack that almost took him out of the game for good.

It was a wake-up call. “Just let shit go. So many people get consumed by this business and can’t get past the screens.” Anthony got to a level of frustration with trading and his health that he said to himself: “I don’t want to live this way anymore.”

He withstood the storm and came out the other side a better trader and more importantly — a better human.