You’re Listening to Yourself Too Much — And It’s Costing You Trades

What if the key to trading clarity, confidence, and control wasn’t a new strategy… but simply talking to yourself out loud?

In this episode, I reveal a high-performance habit used by elite athletes, world-class performers, and consistent professional traders — even if they don’t know they’re doing it.
It’s not a tactic. It’s a psychological reset button. One that activates your conscious mind, aligns your subconscious identity, and turns your thoughts into focused action.

You’ll learn how moderating a trade room kept me sharp, how I lost that clarity when I stopped narrating my process — and how I rebuilt it using a simple daily practice. Plus, I’ll walk you through the 3-tier system for implementing this high-performance habit in your own trading workflow, starting today.

If you've been feeling distracted, impulsive, or disconnected from your edge… this might be the single most powerful habit you’re not using.

Key Takeaways

• Don’t listen to yourself — talk to yourself. Verbal self-narration helps clarify intention, reduce hesitation, and break emotional loops.

• Speaking engages your entire nervous system. It activates auditory, kinesthetic, and visual channels — leading to better memory, emotional regulation, and pattern recognition.

• Narration aligns your conscious and subconscious mind. This builds a self-image of discipline and professional execution.

• Trade room moderators sound so “on it” because they verbalize their process. You can recreate that loop on your own to gain the same clarity and edge.

• There are 3 levels of implementation:

  1. Audio Self-Talk – Narrate your trades live using your phone.

  2. Video Recording – Capture your screen, face, voice, and charts to analyze posture, tone, and energy.

  3. Text Journaling – The least immersive but still useful for emotional tracking when audio isn’t possible.

• The review is as important as the recording. Focus on moments before the trade, during execution, and post-outcome. What did you see, feel, and say?