What does it mean when you lapse back into bad habits? Is it a good idea to copy what a successful trader does? How do you know which time frame you should trade? Do experts make good teachers? Have you ever had a long night with a bottle of vodka? Darren and Walter tackle these issues (and more) in this episode…

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In this episode:

01:33 – Darren’s bad habits are surfacing

03:22 – Darren’s usually pious

04:44 – When Walter is “on guard”

05:15 – The value of a “day off” from trading

06:32 – How “talking out loud” helps your thinking

07:11 – Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink”

07:36 – Why many experts are awful teachers

08:47 – The case of the expert art examiner

11:11 – Is Walter flat out all the time?

12:15 – How Walter sets up his week

15:02 – What Darren thinks about surprises

16:10 – How Darren takes time off trading

17:53 – Does electricity bring disease with it?

20:33 – Nordic traders are obsessed with sunshine

22:10 – Do traders over complicate trading?

24:02 – When Walter looks at the charts

25:20 – The danger of smart phone trading

28:20 – Trade the correct time frame for your life

29:15 – Beware the mentor trap

30:56 – How Darren does analysis now

32:03 – What to do if your trading is now working now

33:53 – See what Darren sounds like sleep deprived

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Walter: Welcome back. You know where you’re at. You’re here at the 2TradersPodcast.com. This week Darren and I look at structure and trading. We talk about taking breaks and how to structure your life so that you have blocks of work and blocks of play, and Darren and I take a very different approach to that. We also look at what it takes to foster intuition and what it means once you achieve intuition in terms of how you can explain this to others, and that’s a little bit surprising.

We also talk about the importance of routine and how your routine affects your trading, and we get into whether or not your sleeping patterns are determined by the right person or the right things, and Darren also talks about slipping back into some bad habits. All this and more in today’s 2 Traders podcast episode.

Two traders: Darren and Walter, pull back the curtain on profitable trading sy...