Pendekar Forex

WATER AND LIFE

2008-12-13T15:21:00.000+08:00

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.
The Lecturer was happy to see them.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of
cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking
and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.
The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for
themselves.
When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up,
leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.

While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the
source of your problems and stress.
What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for
the better cups."
"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in
society are the cups.
They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't
change."
"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy/taste the
water in it."

EMPATI

2008-12-13T15:17:00.001+08:00

Suatu malam, sepulang kerja, saya mampir di sebuah restoran cepat saji di kawasan
Bintaro. Suasana sepi. Di luar hujan. Semua pelayan sudah berkemas.
Restoran hendak tutup. Tetapi mungkin melihat wajah saya yang memelas karena
lapar, salah seorang dari mereka memberi aba-aba untuk tetap melayani. Padahal,
jika mau, bisa saja mereka menolak.
Sembari makan saya mulai mengamati kegiatan para pelayan restoran. Ada yang
menghitung uang, mengemas peralatan masak, mengepel lantai dan ada pula
yang membersihkan dan merapikan meja-meja yang berantakan.

Saya membayangkan rutinitas kehidupan mereka seperti itu dari hari ke hari.
Selama ini hal tersebut luput dari perhatian saya. Jujur saja, jika menemani
anak-anak makan di restoran cepat saji seperti ini, saya tidak terlalu hirau akan
keberadaan mereka. Seakan mereka antara ada dan tiada. Mereka ada jika saya
membutuhkan bantuan dan mereka serasa tiada jika saya terlalu asyik menyantap
makanan.

Namun malam itu saya bisa melihat sesuatu yang selama ini seakan tak terlihat.
Saya melihat bagaimana pelayan restoran itu membersihkan sisa-sisa makanan di atas
meja. Pemandangan yang sebenarnya biasa-biasa saja. Tetapi, mungkin karena malam
itu mata hati saya yang melihat, pemandangan tersebut menjadi istimewa.

Melihat tumpukan sisa makan di atas salah satu meja yang sedang dibersihkan, saya
bertanya-tanya dalam hati: siapa sebenarnya yang baru saja bersantap di meja itu?
Kalau dilihat dari sisa-sisa makanan yang berserakan, tampaknya rombongan yang
cukup besar. Tetapi yang menarik perhatian saya adalah bagaimana rombongan itu
meninggalkan sampah bekas makanan.

Sungguh pemandangan yang menjijikan. Tulang-tulang ayam berserakan di atas
meja. Padahal ada kotak-kotak karton yang bisa dijadikan tempat sampah. Nasi di
sana-sini. Belum lagi di bawah kolong meja juga kotor oleh tumpahan remah-remah.
Mungkin rombongan itu membawa anak-anak.

Meja tersebut bagaikan ladang pembantaian. Tulang belulang berserakan. Saya tidak
habis pikir bagaimana mereka begitu tega meninggalkan sampah berserakan seperti
itu. Tak terpikir oleh mereka betapa sisa-sisa makanan yang menjijikan itu harus
dibersihkan oleh seseorang, walau dia seorang pelayan sekalipun.

Sejak malam itu saya mengambil keputusan untuk membuang sendiri sisa makanan jika
bersantap di restoran semacam itu. Saya juga meminta anak-anak
melakukan hal yang sama. Awalnya tidak mudah. Sebelum ini saya juga pernah
melakukannya.

Tetapi perbuatan saya itu justru menjadi bahan tertawaan teman-teman. Saya
dibilang sok kebarat-baratan. Sok menunjukkan pernah keluar negeri. Sebab di
banyak negara, terutama di Eropa dan Amerika, sudah jamak pelanggan membuang
sendiri sisa makanan ke tong sampah. Pelayan terbatas karena tenaga kerja mahal.

Sebenarnya tidak terlalu sulit membersihkan sisa-sisa makanan kita. Tinggal
meringkas lalu membuangnya di tempat sampah. Cuma butuh beberapa menit.
Sebuah perbuatan kecil. Tetapi jika semua orang melakukannya, artinya akan
besar sekali bagi para pelayan restoran.

Saya pernah membaca sebuah buku tentang perbuatan kecil yang punya arti besar.
Termasuk kisah seorang bapak yang mengajak anaknya untuk membersihkan sampah di
sebuah tanah kosong di kompleks rumah mereka. Karena setiap hari warga kompleks
melihat sang bapak dan anaknya membersihkan sampah di situ, lama-lama mereka malu
hati untuk membuang sampah di situ.

Belakangan seluruh warga bahkan tergerak untuk mengikuti jejak sang bapak itu dan
ujung-ujungnya lingkungan perumahan menjadi bersih dan sehat. Padahal tidak ada
satu kata pun dari bapak tersebut. Tidak ada slogan, umbul-umbul, apalagi spanduk
atau baliho. Dia hanya memberikan keteladanan. Keteladanan kecil yang berdampak
besar.

Saya juga pernah membaca cerita tentang kekuatan senyum. Jika saja setiap orang
memberi senyum kepada paling sedikit satu orang yang dijumpainya hari
itu, maka dampaknya akan luar biasa. Orang yang mendapat senyum akan merasa
bahagia. Dia lalu akan tersenyum pada orang lain yang dijumpainya.
Begitu seterusnya, sehingga senyum tadi meluas kepada banyak orang. Padahal asal
mulanya hanya dari satu orang yang tersenyum.

Terilhami oleh sebuah cerita di sebuah buku "Chicken Soup", saya kerap membayar
karcis tol bagi mobil di belakang saya. Tidak perduli siapa di belakang. Sebab
dari cerita di buku itu, orang di belakang saya pasti akan merasa mendapat
kejutan. Kejutan yang menyenangkan. Jika hari itu dia bahagia, maka harinya yang
indah akan membuat dia menyebarkan virus kebahagiaan tersebut kepada orang-orang
yang dia temui hari itu. Saya berharap virus itu dapat menyebar ke banyak orang.

Bayangkan jika Anda memberi pujian yang tulus bagi minimal satu orang setiap hari.
Pujian itu akan memberi efek berantai ketika orang yang Anda puji merasa bahagia
dan menularkan virus kebahagiaan tersebut kepada orang-orang di sekitarnya.

Anak saya yang di SD selalu mengingatkan jika saya lupa mengucapkan kata "terima
kasih" saat petugas jalan tol memberikan karcis dan uang kembalian. Menurut dia,
kata "terima kasih" merupakan "magic words" yang akan membuat
orang lain senang. Begitu juga kata "tolong" ketika kita meminta bantuan orang
lain, misalnya pembantu rumah tangga kita.

Dulu saya sering marah jika ada angkutan umum, misalnya bus, mikrolet, bajaj, atau
angkot seenaknya menyerobot mobil saya. Sampai suatu hari istri saya mengingatkan
bahwa saya harus berempati pada mereka. Para supir kendaraan umum itu harus
berjuang untuk mengejar setoran. "Sementara kamu kan tidak mengejar setoran?''
Nasihat itu diperoleh istri saya dari sebuah tulisan almarhum Romo Mangunwijaya.
Sejak saat itu, jika ada kendaraan umum yang menyerobot seenak udelnya, saya
segera teringat nasihat istri tersebut.

Saya membayangkan, alangkah indahnya hidup kita jika kita dapat membuat orang lain
bahagia. Alangkah menyenangkannya jika kita bisa berempati pada perasaan orang
lain. Betapa bahagianya jika kita menyadari dengan membuang sisa makanan kita di
restoran cepat saji, kita sudah meringankan pekerjaan pelayan restoran.

Begitu juga dengan tidak membuang karcis tol begitu saja setelah membayar,
kita sudah meringankan beban petugas kebersihan. Dengan tidak membuang permen
karet sembarangan, kita sudah menghindari orang dari perasaan kesal
karena sepatu atau celananya lengket kena permen karet.

Kita sering mengaku bangsa yang berbudaya tinggi tetapi berapa banyak di antara
kita yang ketika berada di tempat-tempat publik, ketika membuka
pintu, menahannya sebentar dan menoleh ke belakang untuk berjaga-jaga apakah ada
orang lain di belakang kita? Saya pribadi sering melihat orang yang
membuka pintu lalu melepaskannya begitu saja tanpa perduli orang di belakangnya
terbentur oleh pintu tersebut.

Jika kita mau, banyak hal kecil bisa kita lakukan. Hal yang tidak memberatkan kita
tetapi besar artinya bagi orang lain. Mulailah dari hal-hal kecil-kecil. Mulailah
dari diri Anda lebih dulu.

Mulailah sekarang juga.

Valuing Our Time And Opportunity

2008-12-13T15:12:00.002+08:00

Jack baru saja mendapatkan pelajaran berharga. Ia membuka sebuah kotak keemasan dan ia mendapati di dalamnya sesuatu yang sangat berharga juga secarik kertas yang sangat berkesan.Waktu kecil ia tinggal bersama ibunya di sebuah kota kecil. Ia bertetangga dengan seorang duda yang istrinya sudah meninggal. Duda itu tidak mempunyai anak dan hanya tinggal sendiri. Pria malang itu melihat Jack bertumbuh dari seorang anak-anak, sampai kencan pertamanya, lulus dari kuliah, bekerja dan menikah.

Jack adalah seorang pekerja keras yang gila kerja. Ia bahkan tidak ada waktu untuk putrinya dan istrinya. Setelah ia menikah, ia dan keluarganya tidak lagi tinggal di sebelah rumah pria tua itu. Mereka pindah.

Suatu hari Jack mendapat telepon dari ibunya, "Ingat Pak Belser? Ia meninggal dunia hari Selasa lalu. Pemakamannya hari Kamis pagi." Kenangan masa kecilnya berseliweran dalam dirinya. Ia mengenang kembali masa-masa kecilnya dengan Pak Belser."Halo?" suara ibunya membangunkannya."Iya bu, aku akan ke sana hari Rabu," kata Jack "tapi kupikir Pak Belser sudah lupa tentang diriku.""Oh tidak, Jack," kata ibunya, "Pak Belser selalu ingat padamu. Ia ingat akan hari-hari di mana kamu main-main di balik pagar rumahnya dan hari ketika kamu duduk di pangkuannya ketika istrinya meninggal." "Beliau orang pertama yang mengajariku ilmu pertukangan. Tanpa beliau, aku tidak akan mungkin terjun ke usaha ini." kata Jack.

Sesibuk-sibuknya Jack, ia kemudian mengatur ulang jadwalnya di hari Rabu dan Kamis. Ia menghargai Pak Belser seperti ayahnya sendiri dan ia sangat ingin ada di sana ketika pemakamannya. Hari Rabu malam ia tiba di kampung halamannya. Ia dan ibunya kemudian berjalan ke rumah Pak Belser untuk terakhir kalinya. Di beranda, ia mengintip ke dalam rumah Pak Belser.

Terbesit banyak kenangan tentang masa kecilnya. Sofa yang sering ia duduk, meja makan di mana ia pernah memecahkan piring, telepon di sudut ruangan dan hey...Jack terdiam sejenak."Kotak emas di ujung meja itu hilang!" seru Jack.Ibunya bingung. Segera Jack menjelaskan tentang kotak emas di ujung meja itu. Ukurannya tak lebih dari satu jengkal orang dewasa dan bercat emas di luarnya. "Pak Belser selalu mengatakan itu miliknya paling berharga dan akan diberikan kepada seseorang yang layak menerimanya. Tapi setiap kali aku menanyakan isinya, ia selalumenjawab 'Pokoknya berharga deh'."Dan sekarang kotak emas itu sudah tidak ada lagi. Dugaan Jack, mungkin diambil oleh seorang keluarga jauhnya.

Dua minggu kemudian setelah pemakaman, seorang kurir mengantarkan sebuah paket untuk Jack. Nama Jack tertulis di atas paket itu dengan tulisan yang sangat sulit dibaca. Jack membuka paket itu... Di dalamnya ada sebuah kotak emas (persis seperti kotak emas Pak Belser yang hilang itu) dan sepucuk surat. Jack membaca surat itu, "Setelah kepergianku, tolong sampaikan kotak ini kepada Jack Bennet. Ini adalah harta paling berharga yang kumiliki." Sebuah kunci ada dalam amplop itu, kunci untuk membuka kotak itu. Hatinya bergetar, tanpa sadar ia menangis terharu, Jack perlahan membuka kotak itu. Di dalamnya dia menemukan sebuah jam saku yang indah yang terbuat dari emas. Dengan perlahan Jack membuka jam itu. Di dalamnya terukir kata-kata yang tak pernah ia lupakan seumur hidupnya, "Terima kasih, Jack, untuk waktumu. Ini saya berikan jam untukmu, sesuatu yang paling berharga bagiku. Harold Belser.""Yang ia hargai dariku adalah... waktuku." serunya perlahan.

Ia menggenggam jam itu beberapa saat. Kemudian ia menelepon sekertarisnya dan membatalkan semua janjinya untuk dua hari ke depan. "Mengapa?" tanya Janet, sekertarisnya."Aku ingin menghabiskan waktu untuk keluargaku," kata Jack, "dan Janet, terima kasih untuk waktumu."

Sobat, di dunia ini ada dua hal yang tidak bisa ditarik kembali: itu adalah perkataan dan waktu. Waktu yang sudah lewat tidak akan bisa dikembalikan lagi. Waktu tidak bisa dipaksa mundur, tidak bisa diperlambat dan juga tidak bisa dipercepat. Waktu akan terus bergerak maju dengan kecepatan konstan. Kita tidak akan bisa kembali ke masa kanak-kanak. Kita tidak bisa mengulang satu peristiwa yang sama di waktu itu.

Sudahkah Anda memberi waktu pada diri Anda dan sesama Anda? Sudahkah orang lain menghargai waktu yang telah Anda korbankan kepada mereka?

Filosofi Pohon

2008-12-13T15:08:00.001+08:00

Seorang bijak bercerita tentang filosofi pohon ....
Ada 3 hal yg kita bisa belajar tentang pohon kata dia :
1. Pohon tidak makan dari buahnya sendiri

- Buah adalah hasil dari pohon ...dari mana pohon memperoleh makan ?
Pohon memperoleh makan dari tanah ...semakin akarnya dalam semakin
dia bisa menyerap nutrisi lebih banyak ...ini berbicara tentang kedekatan
hubungan kita dengan Sang Pencipta sebagai Sumber Kehidupan kita ...
Ada cerita menarik ...katanya buah kurma itu manis sekali ...
Kenapa bisa begitu ?
Menurut ceritanya pohon kurma itu ditanam di padang pasir ...
Bijinya ditaruh di kedalaman 2 meter kemudian ditutup dengan 4 lapisan ...
Sebelum pohon kurma itu tumbuh maka dia berakar begitu dalam sampai
kemudian menembus 4 lapisan tersebut dan menghasilkan buah yg manis
di tengah padang pasir .....
Ada proses tekanan begitu hebat ketika kita menginginkan hasil yg luar biasa...
Seperti perumpamaan pegas yg memiliki daya dorong kuat ketika ditekan ...

2. Pohon tidak tersinggung ketika buahnya dipetik orang
- Kadang kita protes kenapa kerja keras kita yg menikmati justru orang lain ...
Ini bicara tentang prinsip memberi ...dimana kita ini bukan bekerja untuk hidup,
tetapi bekerja utk memberi buah ....artinya apa ? kita bekerja keras supaya kita
dapat memberi lebih banyak kepada orang yg membutuhkan ...jadi bukan utk kenikmatan sendiri...cukupkanlah dirimu dengan apa yg ada padamu ....tapi tidak pernah ada kata cukup utk memberkati orang lain dengan pemberian kita ...
Pelajaran dari Warren Buffet seperti email yg sering anda terima tentang kehidupan
dia...beliau adalah orang terkaya di dunia, tapi kehidupannya mencerminkan kesederhanaan, katanya masih hidup di rumah yg sama yg dia tinggalin puluhan tahun lalu, pakai mobilnya yg lama juga....tapi ketika kekayaannya 35 Miliar USD dia berkomitmen utk menyumbang 31 Miliar USD, itu katanya pas jaman pemerintahan Bill Clinton awal ...
Sekarang kekayaannya justru bertambah2 banyak. .....
Berapa banyak dari kita yg sulit utk menahan nafsu terhadap barang2 bermerek, mobil2 mewah, gonta ganti HP .....

3. Buah yg dihasilkan pohon itu menghasilkan biji,dan biji itu menghasilkan multiplikasi
- Ini bicara tentang bagaimana hidup kita memberi impact terhadap orang lain ...
Katanya pemimpin itu bukan masalah posisi/jabatan ...tapi masalah pengaruh dan inspirasi yg diberikan kepada orang lain ...
Claudio Ranieri, pelatih Juventus berkata bahwa Del Piero itu adalah pemimpin, walau ban kaptennya dicopot sekalipun dia tetap pemimpin...ngerti kan ? Bukan mengenai ban kaptennya, itu hanya pengakuan saja...
Bicara tentang impact, pendiri Astra bercita2 menjadikan perusahaan ini sebagai sebuah pohon besar yg rindang dan menjadi tempat berteduh buat banyak orang ...dan hal itu mulai tercapai hari2 ini dengan jumlah karyawan 120.000 artinya memberi penghidupan kepada sekitar 600.000 jiwa....
Perusahaan ini dibangun bukan karena keserakahan memperkaya diri sendiri, tapi karena cita2 utk
"Menjadi milik yg bermanfaat bagi bangsa dan negara" (Catur Dharma ke-1)
Demikianlah yg diceritakan orang bijak itu tentang filosofi pohon ...

Semoga bermanfaat....
Selamat berkarya...

Trading evolution

2008-10-05T01:20:00.004+08:00

I think that I reached a certain important point in my trading education. I think the moment I had two months ago was like God appearing to me as burning bush!!!

The moment I talk about is that moment when you realize that systems are mostly useless, indicators all lag and price is king! I started to use trends, support/resistance,and breakouts. This is in fact the most basic form of trading we all start with, but then we loose all that basic stuff along the way in search of the holy grail. It's such a good feeling when it's back!

Now I'm just using trendline as support and resistances and trade the breakouts. With a little help from doji's, hammers etc this is working very very well!

Now this stage is completed in the course of mastering forex, I can move on to implementing and perfecting my money management system.

Never again indicators for me , ever!!!!

HAL PENTING SAAT MENGHADAPI NEWS

2007-11-16T17:06:00.001+08:00

Bagi saya, trading news memiliki resiko yang lebih kecil dibanding saat saya melakukan trading secara teknikal. Meski demikian demikian saya tidak pernah menganggap sepele masalah Teknikal. Banyak bukti bahwa pergerakan harga yang disebabkan oleh News, ketika berhadapan langsung dengan Teknikal kuat maka pergerakaannya akan teredam. Oleh karena itu, sebelum melakukan trading News saya selalu mengamati pergerakan harga sebelum news direlease. Beberapa hal yang selalu menjadi catatan adalah :

1. MA100 dan MA200 di H1, H4, D1dan Timeframe yang lebih tinggi adalah merupakan support dan resistant yang kuat.

2. Daily pivot, juga merupakan support dan resistant yang baik. Terutama bila open price jauh dari pivot.

3. Perhatikan support dan resistant di hari-hari atau jam-jam sebelumnya terutama yang dibuat oleh News kuat dari negara pair yang anda amati.

4. Gambar vertikal support, resistant dan trendline di timeframe H1 dan H4 keatas.

Jadi pada intinya saya selalu memperhatikan support dan resistant terdekat ketika sedang menghadapi News. Dan biasanya support dan resistant tersebut adalah gerbang exit dari posisi saya.

Hal lain yang saya perhatikan adalah:

5. Bila di hari yang sama ada 2 News dan News tersebut adalah milik dari sebuah negara , maka :

Bila News yang lemah direlease terlebih dahulu, maka biasanya tidak banyak trader yang ikut dalam volume perdagangan News tersebut, karena sebagian besar trader menunggu direleasenya News yang lebih besar. Misalnya : Pada hari yang sama, UK Service Production di release jam 4 sore dan UK BOE Interest Rate di release jam 6 sore. Maka biasanya efek yang dihasilkan oleh UK Service Production hanya 50% dari efek yang biasanya terjadi.

Dan bila News yang kuat direlease terlebih dahulu dan menciptakan support atau resistant kuat, maka S/R tersebut akan berlaku bagi News selanjutnya.

6. Jangan ambil posisi melawan arah news setelah news dirilis, meskipun sepertinya sudah hit resistant atau support kuat dan mulai berbalik arah. Ingat!! Support dan resistant hanya digunakan untuk exit target.

7. Jika nilai data News yang telah direlease diperkirakan dapat mengerakkan pair dengan kuat namun ternyata gerakannya tidak sekuat yang kita prediksi dan setelah initial spike ternyata harga langsung rebound ke pre-release price artinya sentiment pasar sedang berlawanan dengan data dari News.
Biasanya setelah rebound harga akan kembali menuju ke arah sesuai data yang di release namun harga akhir dari initial spike akan menjadi S/R kuat dan kemungkinan rebound lagi di S/R tersebut.

Contoh: US NFP akan direlease, konsensus 100K, harga ada di 1.9600, data keluar 60K, diperkirakan menggerakkan pair 60 pips, ternyata di menit pertama harga hanya bergerak 40 pips di 1.9640 dan kemudian harga balik lagi ke dekat pre release price 1.9605, maka jika kita mau beresiko kita ambil posisi buy disini dengan harapan harga bergerak lagi sesuai data yang direlease ke 1.9640 lagi dan segera exit di nilai tersebut.

Jangan berharap harga bergerak lebih jauh lagi mengingat sentiment pasar yang berseberangan dengan nilai data.
Dan jangan ambil posisi SELL karena berseberangan dengan nilai data yang baru direlease.

8. Hati-hati dengan Libur Nasional. Besarnya Efek dari data yang direlease terhadap nilai mata uang akan sangat berkurang bila waktu release data bersamaan dengan hari libur yang tentunya tidak semua trader ambil bagian dalam volume perdagangan pada saat tersebut.

Contoh: NFP 6 April 2007, bersamaan dengan hari Jum'at Agung (Good Friday). Diprediksi dengan nilai data yang direlease dapat menggerakkan GU minimal 90 pips, namun ternyata hanya bergerak lambat sebesar 39 pips di initial spike. Dan total kurang lebih 52 pips.

9. Bila lebih dari 1 data news yang di release diwaktu yang bersamaan dan ternyata data yang direlease mengalami konflik maka yang terjadi adalah :

a. Bila data-data yang direlease memiliki bobot yang berbeda misalnya : AUD Retail Sales (news kelas 1) dan AUD Building Approval (news kelas 3) maka biasanya yang terjadi adalah akan terjadi retrace hingga 50% cepat setelah spike dan kemudian secara perlahan-lahan harga akan bergerak sesuai dengan data news yang lebih kuat.

b. Bila data-data yang direlease memiliki bobot yang sama misalnya : US NFP dan US Unemployment Rate maka biasanya yang terjadi adalah akan terjadi retrace cepat hinggabalik ke prerelease price setelah spike dan kemudian secara cepat harga akan bergerak sesuai dengan data news yang lebih dominant pengaruhnya (dalam hal ini US NFP)

Winners Simply Do What Losers Won’t Do

2007-11-09T16:05:00.000+08:00

Adopting the belief that “winners” simply do what the “losers” will not do is very useful in many aspects of life. After all, that is the case in the field of investing and trading. So let’s step into that belief and see what naturally follows.

Here are some winner/loser opposites. If you find yourself disturbed by any of these, you may have stumbled across a clue to an area in which you need to spend some time.

1) A winner crafts a detailed business plan which includes on-going reviews and sticks to the plan.

A loser thinks a business plan is something he’ll get to one day in the future after he has achieved some success trading.

2) A winner designs systems with high positive expectancy, sound money management strategies, minimal degrees of freedom to avoid curve fitting, and then puts the system into his business plan for implementation. He lets the market determine the outcome.

A loser has a continually changing system/methodology based on whether or not the last few trades were winners or losers. He is scared of what "may happen to him" in the markets in the future. His position size is controlled by whims and notions. His exit points vary depending on how fearful he is of giving up open profits or how hopeful he is that a losing trade will turn around.

3) A winner knows that his method will provide the long term return he is after if he implements it correctly. A loser thinks he has to continually be looking for a new indicator to eliminate having to enter trades that lose money. A winner knows deep in his heart that he is completely responsible for the outcome of each and every trade.

A loser assumes responsibility for winning trades while blaming floor brokers, brokerage firms, hedge funds, international news events, or simply "the market" for losing trades.

4) A winner is not trying to prove anything about himself through his trading activities.

A loser thinks he’s the master of the market, closing a big winning trade,and then gloats in his outstanding success he had "beating" the market.

5) A winner knows he’s a winner even after an expected 12 losses in a row.

A loser is sure he’s almost worthless as a person after 5 losses in a row.

6) A winner realizes that he produces the emotions he experiences related to trading and assumes responsibility to resolve deep-seated root causes for negative emotions that interfere with his trading business.

A loser knows that it’s the market that causes him to feel depressed or angry, and he’s determined to fight this beast.

7) A winner gladly shares trading advice to less experienced people.

A loser thinks that he needs to look cool as a suave trader and talk down to those less experienced than him.

8) A winner is aware that his methods and systems may require modification as time proceeds, and he develops appropriate boundaries of performance which will indicate whether or not he needs to review his system.

A loser is sure that all he has to do is find "the right system or method" and then he will forever more be able to sit back and enjoy easy profits. He feels slighted by professional traders since they claim not to have any great secret indicators, and he "knows" they’re lying to him.

9) A winner understands the level of capitalization required to successfully implement his trading business plan.

A loser thinks that his $5,000 account is a great start for trading highly leveraged commodities, and the day he opens the account he feels like he’s really off to the races now.

10) A winner knows that it is up to him to develop the skills necessary to create, test and evaluate sound trading systems and methods.

A loser knows he just hasn’t looked hard enough to find that special system someone has created which will bring him all the wealth he’s ever dreamed of ("damn those professional traders - if only they would tell me their secret indicators").

11) A winner looks forward to opportunities to give back to the world some of what he has learned along the way to becoming a successful professional trader.

A loser knows he has to keep everything he learns secret since if anyone finds out where he places his one lot stop orders, then they will try to run the market to his stops to hurt him.

12) A winner who goes long on an upside break-out only to be stopped out at the bottom of the correction of the failed break-out four days later can simply reenter on another upside break-out a few days later.

A loser in the same trade gets mad that the market retraced all the way to his stop and then reversed. As prices rally back through to a second break-out he gets even madder since he’s not in the trade he tried to take. Two months later after a tremendous rally, the loser is so angry at the market for what "it’s done to him" that he finally buys (just days from the top of the move).

13) A winner runs his trading business wisely—carefully managing his fixed and variable costs of doing business and making capital investments which provide a worthwhile return to his business.

A loser spends all the money he can afford to buy the latest computer hardware and the hottest (best marketed) trading software he can find—with no understanding of the return expected from his investments.

14) A winner knows he needs to continually work on his feelings and emotions related to his trading business as he grows in success and equity.

A loser knows that he only needs to buy additional software and systems and perhaps attend the "latest guru’s" trading method to achieve what he’s after.

15) A winner knows what his goals are and he has criteria established to measure his level of achievement.

A loser’s goal is "being rich", and he’s sure that it’s only a matter of finding the "right" answer for how to trade.

In Time for Thanksgiving

2007-11-08T23:30:00.000+08:00

Time is rushing by,
Because that is what it's like.
So unless we slow down,
We might feel that we have never lived.

Memories of decades passed,
Are so fresh and vivid in my mind,
Images and feelings all rolled into one,
It is like they just happened yesteday.

If decades are collapsed into days,
Then what remains of the years ahead,
We will feel like we haven't even began to live,
And it is all very soon coming to an end.

But the laws of nature tells me,
The arrow of time is constant.
No, our feelings do not lie,
A thousand years to God is but a day.

So as we race toward eternity,
We feel time more like God feels.
We feel that much Nature's laws remained
For us to yet discover.

We exaggerate Time's importance,
It is just a marker for events.
After helping us to record so many,
We naturally feel that not many remain.

Yet life is not measured by the number of events,
But the meaning that each one brings
Hence God gives us the Seasons,
And the Special Occasions to celebrate.

These were lead-in lines of our lifes' stories,
They made our lives beautiful,
By enriching our relationships,
And gave them meaning.

And the most meaningful of them all,
Must be Thanksgiving!
Only when we learn to give thanks,
Only then we notice how our cups have overflowed.

I will slow down in order to Give Thanks!

The Fruits of Your Trading Success

2007-11-07T21:59:00.000+08:00

The fruits of your success will be in direct ratio to the honesty and sincerity of your own effort in keeping your own records, doing your own thinking, and reaching your own conclusions.

I find time and time again that losing traders are making the same mistakes:

1. They don't keep any records.
2. They do no testing.
3. They become euphoric about (and increase risk wildly after) wins.
4. They become despondent about (and decrease risk wildly after) losses.
5. They focus on how much money they want.
6. They rarely / never think about how much they stand to lose on a trade.
7. They set their stop loss based on a 1:1 or 1:2 risk to reward ratio, just to make the ratio look good.
8. They discount the importance of psychology.
9. They over-value the importance of the trading "system."
10. They have no routine.

Doing and Not Doing

2007-11-07T21:55:00.000+08:00

Becoming consistently profitable as a trader has as much to do with learning to not do some things as much as it has to do with learning to do some other things.

Overcoming the negative behaviors can be made much easier by making a routine for doing the positive behaviors.

The more you test, you less you trade (this is good). The more you study risk control, the less you feel compelled to increase your trade size erratically. The more you keep records of your trades, the less arbitrary your decisions will become. The more you do your own homework and research, the less you will depend on someone else to tell you what to do. The more often you get up on time, eat what you should, keep your body healthy, the more likely it is that your mind will be clearer. It's the simple routines that matter in trading.

It's not too late for you to change your routine. What are you going to change?

The Fear Factor

2007-11-07T21:53:00.000+08:00

I was chatting with a friend tonight about trading and she said she still had the "fear factor" when it came to pulling the trigger and taking a trade. It made me think. There are only a few reasons that people fear taking a trade:

1. Their trade size is too big. If the monetary loss if your stop is hit is frightening you, then lower the trade size. If the loss if your stop is hit is greater than 1%, take a long hard breath, think about your spleen, and reduce the trade size.

2. They haven't really tested their system. No testing = very little confidence.

3. They are afraid of being wrong. This usually relates back to #1 or #2 above.

The Woo-Hoo Timeline

2007-11-07T21:43:00.000+08:00

The Woo-Hoo Timeline of Progression is a simple graph that explains the trajectory by which most traders make progress to trading for a living. There is a myth that progress as a trader is linear, meaning we see a trader make small gains, day after day, until one day they have morphed into a full time trader who can support themselves by their trading profits alone.

In reality, the progress of a trader towards trading for living looks more like that pic.In other words, it's all about long periods of plateaus (the Ho-Hum times) interrupted by Woo-Hoo moments and breakthroughs. Many traders don't succeed because they give up during the Ho-Hum times. Their system is "not working like it used to," or "My schedule has changed," or "I am just breaking even and not making progress." At times like this, traders start to do all kinds of terrible things to try to force the progression upward, and that invariably fails.

The Ho-Hum moments are when traders lose hope.

The Woo-Hoo moments are when a trader finally understands that risking less on every trade means that long-term, he will make more money. Or when a trader finally admits that he cannot trade from the 5 minute chart, but instead needs to look at longer term setups because he has a full-time job. Or when he realizes the power of backtesting, or being disciplined in all areas of his life, or of keeping good records of his trades.

Saturday is a Special Day

2007-11-07T21:41:00.000+08:00

Some people are so addicted to trading (and I was one of these people for lot of years) that they are upset on Friday when the market is closing. And they are excited about Monday coming.

Nowadays, I am thrilled for Saturday. There isn't a thing I can do about my open trades. There isn't a chart that I can look at and plan anything that wasn't able to be planned yesterday. Stephen Covey, the self-help business author, recommends that you take some time to "Sharpen the Saw," or, in other words, get away from your business (trading) life, and get your mind and body in shape.

Saturday is a perfect day for that. Read a good book (not about trading). Spend time with your family. Wake up early and go for a walk. Clear your mind. Take a one-day sabbatical from the business of trading. You can find that you have breakthroughs and epiphanies about trading when you become deeply involved in something else.

Living Comfortably

2007-11-07T21:31:00.000+08:00

Living comfortably isn't about trading a $1,000,000 account and trading for $100 per pip. It's not about buying a huge house in Menteng or driving a Jaguar or having a jet. It's not about being able to afford first-class plane tickets and staying at the Four Seasons.

So many retail traders are focused on what they will be able to buy once they start trading "big time." When I talk to them about trading for $1 per pip to start, and then working up from there, they are positively underwhelmed. Everything else I say is drowned out by the fear of not being able to get rich enough to live comfortably within a very short period of time.

The truth is that living comfortably isn't about all of those other things. It's about being comfortable living with less. It's about saving, not earning; about not risking rather than taking the big risk for the big score; it's about compounding gains over time rather than the lottery win. One of the best things a new trader can do for himself is to reduce his standard of living.

What is also fascinating to me is that by learning to compound gains over time, a trader becomes truly self-sufficient -- as opposed to hitting the jackpot on a single trade (which is not something easily replicated).

Long Term

2007-11-07T21:09:00.000+08:00

As you mentioned it seems that nothing really happens in the beginning [profits come slowly at first and then start to exponentially increase] but then it starts to balloon. Is that what you were alluding to at the seminar? All it takes is patience. What I am really saying is that so many of us overestimate the short-term and massively underestimate the long term.

See this link great article from Fortune Magazine. It's old but super relevant to your progression as a trader. And a quiz about fear of success.

Hey! Your Glasses Don't Work!

2007-11-07T21:00:00.000+08:00

"So and so's strategy doesn't work. He shows charts, and indicators, and whatever, but when I do it, it doesn't work."

Why is that?
How can a system work for one person and not the other?

The issue is that when you are trading a discretionary system, and you do enough testing to make it your own (this is a lot of testing -- at least 1,000 trades), you are essentially fitting yourself for a pair of glasses.

These glasses, once you fit yourself for them, work for you. They're your glasses. If you hand them to your friend while he's driving, he's likely to crash. What if he said to you, "These glasses don't work! They are terrible glasses!"

You'd say, "These glasses are not for you. They're mine." When you learn a system from someone else, from a book, a Web site, or a newsletter, you have to remember that in order to make it your own, you have to have your own experiences with the system. You can't just take it out of the box, and put it on like a pair of someone else's glasses.

Principles

2007-11-07T20:58:00.000+08:00

"As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."

Agreed. In your trading, focus on the big principles (money management, disciplined execution of a system, keeping a schedule).

Most People Won't Do the Work

2007-11-07T20:37:00.000+08:00

I received an email from a frustrated trader today. Let's call him Ming. That's not his name, but I like the name so that's what we're going with.

Ming wrote me to say that:

I created a personal web blog at [then he tells me his blog address which he is keeping private] to track my progress. Only you, my wife and Fred [a mutual friend] know it exists. As you can see I stalled out.

His frustration comes from having "stalled out." After a month of posting, and planning, and trading, he feels that he has backtracked, or not made enough forward progress, or that he was doing just fine and things kind of fell apart. He was looking at about 10+ currency pairs, but he's now looking at just 5. He is following the same system every day. he is consistently applying the same rules to the charts. He is doing his best to practice trade in a trade simulator (although this has not appealed to him as much).

My advice to Ming is this: you are doing what it takes to become successful. I would strongly encourage/beg you to not give up on the simulated testing. But other than that, you are putting an amazing amount of work into your goal of trading for a living. Most people don't want to do this kind of work. Let's reflect on a quote from Michael Covel's new book "The Complete Turtle Trader":

To cultivate that extra drive [exhibited by successful traders], however, requires deliberate practice. Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger has lived it; he has said, "In my whole life, I have known no wise people over a broad subject matter area that didn't read all the time -- none, zero." Most people do not want the real work that comes with real success.

That quote sums up much of what I feel about unsuccessful traders. It's not about your math skills. It's not about having some innate gift for trading. It's about work and practice.

Ming, you're on the right track. Keep yourself on it.

Knowledge and Confusion

2007-11-07T19:52:00.000+08:00

I've learned for myself, and seen it in many others, that the more they or I learn and then try to apply, the more confused we can become.

To me, this doesn't mean that we have to stop learning or reading books or investigating new methods. What it does mean is that it's important to separate the learning process from the application of the learning. I make the analogy that trying to follow multiple trading systems can be like trying to drive a car with multiple steering wheels. It just won't work. It becomes confusing and it's overcomplicated.

The statemens about stepping back and having an open mind, and about you having to learn for yourself, that was quoted in this thread, are so very true in my experience. Through your own observations, and open-minded (so well put!) interaction with new ideas, and reading, etc, you are going to get an idea of what indicators or methods make the most sense to you.

And then you have to do more than observe -- of course this is my opinion and I am excited to hear what others have to say -- then you have to test the methods that you learn. You go back in time and you apply what you have learned and you prove whether it works or not. You learn whether the method experiences drawdowns that are unnacceptable, or whether it has a great win percentage but a bad average winner to loser size, or whether it requires you to keep an unrealistic schedule that negatively affects your health. This process of learning, making a hypothesis, and then testing that hypothesis, can take a long time. That's why so many traders fail, I think: they realize how much effort can go into "making a system your own" and instead they just start trading again, because of financial pressures, an addiction to trading, or because they simply feel that all that testing is unnecessary.

Once that learning and testing process is complete, you start applying what you've tested in the market. Do you get the same results? Or are they not what you expected based on your testing? You can share your results with a friend or mentor or spouse or people at FF -- someone who cares about your success. They can hold you accountable to apply what you have learned and tested in a disciplined way, and then they can help you stop trading if it's not working, or encourage you to be confident and continue to take the necessary risks associated with trading if the system is working.

All throughout this process, you are emphasizing learning and testing, and making a system "your own", and you are de-emphasizing lots of trading, you are reducing stress about whether you are doing it "right", you are proving to yourself that you can learn and test and implement.

And then as you implement a system that you have made your own, and you are profitable, you can repeat the process with more learning, more testing, and so on. It can be a continuous process that lasts a lifetime.

To bring it full circle, hopefully, one helpful thing for me (which I have seen with others) is that they focus their learning on one or two things at a time, then test, then implement, then hold themselves accountable to others and themselves. And this reduces the confusion associated with looking at so many things, so many systems, so many methods, and not "knowing what to follow."

Forex Trading & The Science Of Getting Rich

2007-11-06T15:08:00.000+08:00

I first became aware of “the science of getting rich” a number of years ago when someone sent me a reprint of a book of that name by Wallace Wattle.

The book is a very “dry” read but the author claimed that getting rich was an exacting science which means that if anyone applied the rules – to the letter, then the outcome, by scientific definition, would be a true replication.

In other words, if one were to apply the rules of “the science of getting rich”, one would inevitably become rich.

In many ways, not dissimilar to applying a trading system that is proven to work, provided the user applies the system rules exactly, then the same success should be replicated time and time again.

You will recall – unless you have been trading Lunar Currencies (joke) – that we recently had a liquidity problem in the markets brought about by the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market.

In “the science of getting rich”, Wallace Wattle points out the necessity of generosity. In fact he states that one must give freely and although I may be slightly misquoting he suggests that “one should never miss the opportunity to give”.

It is a fact that almost all successful people give away money. I know that this may sound unlikely but check it out.

Warren Buffett has pledged to gradually give 85% of his Berkshire stock valued at around $40 million to five foundations. A dominant five-sixths of the shares will go to the world’s largest philanthropic organization, the $30 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Yes that’s right, Bill Gates of Microsoft fame gives away very large amounts of his fortune to charitable causes. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are far from being alone in giving away money.

Perhaps wealthy people understand more than most that the cycle of money must be kept in motion. You need to give to receive.
So what do “the science of getting rich” and forex trading have to do with each other?

In my opinion, rather a lot!

As we saw with the credit crunch, when money stops flowing, it causes a ripple effect that increasingly affects more and more people. As long as the money flow continues, there is opportunity for all, but when it stops, there is nothing but trouble ahead.

With the act of giving, according to “the science of getting rich”, one is perpetuating the mental attitude of plenty. In essence you are in the mind set of “I have plenty so I can give freely with the full expectation that I will receive even more”.

Being in the right mind set is a very important part of becoming a successful trader.

It is rather like “Trading in the Zone” (an excellent book on trading attitude by Mark Douglas). When you are in the mentality of winning, you carry on winning, but when you are in the mentality of “lack” you are just waiting for failure, which surely will come along.

If you would like to dynamically improve your trading there are a number of things you might consider, and these could include making sure that you have a well proven trading system, making sure that you are always in the “right” mind set when trading and being prepared to “pass on” some of you winnings to a good cause.

The language of the market

2007-11-03T12:19:00.000+08:00

All nations came up with their very own language system and in order for various nations to interact with each other, they have forcefully learn each others language system in order to sustain a good relationship with one another.

Another example on the importance of learning others language can be seen through this example. Let's say an american businessman is travelling to china for a business venture. In order for his business to flourish in China, its compulsory for him to either learn the Chinese language himself or hire a translator who will interact on his behalf. If he fail to do this, his business will not be a successful one since he will be facing a severe difficulty in communication that will affect his understanding and decisions. Evil people will be able to manipulate and cheat him easily.

All these said, this is where I want to come.

What is the language of the market?

The market is considered as a living entity by many great traders and authors and may of them believe that the market communicate with us but most traders, due to lack of experience will not be able to understand. The market uses a language system called candlesticks.

Candlesticks were invented centuries ago by japanese rice traders to track the evolution of their particular market. To date, candlesticks is still being used and is almost as the same one that were used long ago with very little differences. If a trader can develop his feel for the understanding of candlesticks patterns and signs, he will turn into a very successful trader without doubt since the candlesticks can tell lot of things on the current market status and can sometimes predict future developments. There are professional traders who only trades by reading candlesticks charts alone. This can sound weird but its true, and that will need years of experience to attain such a high level.

For the new trader, he should strive to learn the candlesticks charting system and symbols. This can be a difficult task at first since its new and somehow strange. And most of the time, we will get lost during the learning process. There will even be desperate moments when we will not be understanding anything at all. Here comes the word 'PERSEVERENCE', use this and make this your inner force. You did not understand it now, leave it, come back and hour later and retry because at the end, you will surely be able to understand it. Again the best way to learn candlesticks is not by only reading books, this is only the initial stage, the most important phase is observing it on real charts and trying to predict and interpret the candlesticks. Although you will surely be failing in the first weeks, you will start progressing very soon.

Among very good works on candlesticks we have the book The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison and Candlestick Charting Explained by Greg Morris. If you happen to get your hand on these books, you will be able to study the candlesticks system with much ease.

How to deal with FOREX literatures

2007-11-03T12:15:00.000+08:00

You may have noticed that there are hundreds of forex literatures out there for you containing an incredible amount of beneficial knowledge for the newbie as well as professional trader. What I came to notice is that most of them usually tend to contain many repetitions on and on and it soon become boring and we tend to leave it alone.

The right way to deal with forex literatures is not to give up. Even if the book becomes boring at some time and you feel like leaving it. Just leave it and do something else, like play a little fun game of bubble shootout or go to the kitchen and have some tea. Then, after a while do come back and resume your learning where you left, just dont give up.

Very often, after reading a whole book, when I try to recap what I learned from it, I could not figure it exactly since the information contained in the book was too much for my mind to absorb. So, without any doubt, I re-read the book one or more times and each time that I read the same thing, my understanding on the subject increases tremendously. I often notice things that I missed during the first reading.

While going through the books, especially when it starts to become boring, we have a tendency to skip parts from the literatures and just hurry up to the next paragraphs or chapters. This has to be avoided since we might be missing some important information that is necessary to complement with all our learning. Examples should be followed with a special interest since that will reinforce and ingrain the knowledge in your brain.

I wish to say here

Forex is not acquired overnight, but it is acquired with constant learning and practice, dont expect to become a better trader in a week or two, since you will never be.

The real problem...

2007-11-03T12:12:00.000+08:00

I have been studying the FX market years now and compared to where I started, I can see that I came a long way. Those charts that seemed all Greek to me in the past has started to communicate with me and we can have some understandanding in between. In all these days which passed in the blink of an eye, I have came across many many forex resources, I spent whole nights going through Ebooks and watching courses. Some were good, and as usual, most were bad and contained nothing new except some tricks to take away your money. During these days, I came across many many systems, and here I won't dare saying some were or and others were bad.

The real problem...

As usual, as a trainee trader, the first thing to do when we get a new system is learning and backtesting it and this is what I have been doing. Performance of these systems were good, bad or average. But whatever the reason, when I tried demo trading these systems, I was somehow losing over time. Then I kept wondering why is it like that...

Finally I came to realize that, all systems can be good but the major problem is the trader himself. The trader is his own enemy and will dragged him to losses if he does not have a rigid descipline and stick to the rules. There are many fancy and complicated trading systems for the forex market, using them will not make you any good if you don't know how to stick and observe the rules.

I was amazed how basic tools like pivots, fibos, support and resistance, trendlines among others, were highly effective as trading advisors, once we know how to respect and observe them. Armed with just these basic tools, its definitely possible to make some money of the currency market. All we need is discipline and with it comes money management rules which we can discuss some other times.

Thats all for now. Have a nice trade.

Forex eBook

2007-11-03T11:57:00.000+08:00

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Jack Schwager - The New Market Wizards

Jack Schwager - Complete Guide To Mastering The Markets Manual 2006

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Jai Ramoutar Report - Fear And The Market

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Jake Bernstein - Timming Short Term Price Swings in S&P.pdf

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Jay Lakhani - the_way_to_trade_forex.pdf 574KB

Jd Hamon - eight new commodity technical trading methods
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James O'Loughlin - The Real Warren Buffett.pdf 1,714KB
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Jan Arps The Art Of Trading The Market Swings.doc

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Jeff Cooper - Intra-day Trading Strategies

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Jet Heats - Mechanical Discretion

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Jm Hurst - The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing

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Joe Ross - Trading manual
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Joe Ross - Ambush.pdf 374KB
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Joe Ross & Marc Cherlin - Electronic Trading Tnt

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Johan Ginyard - Position-Sizing Effects on Trader Performance.pdf 144KB
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John Allen Paulos - A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market.pdf 9,493KB
John Bilson - Trading Implied Volatility.pdf

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John Cambell and Viceira - Strategic asset allocation.pdf
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Applying Poker Strategies to Trading The Markets

2007-11-01T20:43:00.000+08:00

As a professional no-limit holdem poker player prior to my trading career, I find that both professions share many similarities. Poker and trading are both a game of probabilities. Individual psychological makeup is also important to control emotions during times of tilt and euphoria.

In poker, a player can choose the stake he is willing to play. In the futures markets the stakes are chosen by the size of the trade. However, one of the biggest differences I found is as follows:

1. In poker, you are automatically offered the option to play a hand that you are dealt. For example, in no-limit holdem this can be a Q10, KK, 10J, 2-7, etc....

Each starting hand begins with a probability. For example, pocket 9's has a 52.4% favorite against an AK suited. The odds of getting dealt a pocket pair are 5.88%.

2. In trading, you are not automatically dealt starting hands. Starting hands in poker equals setups in trading. In order to hold a pocket pair, you must find a trading setup.

Each setup has its own set of probabilities. A setup that offers a 80% winning probability should be ranked higher than a setup that offers a 50% winning probability. The more setups a trader has the more ammunition or hands he has to play with. If a trader only trades moving average crosses, this is like playing only a KQ in poker. In poker, waiting for pocket AA's will slowly drain your capital with blinds and is definitely not the way to get rich. However, a poker player who is flexible to play a variety of hands with a variety of styles is the better player.

A trader needs to have different entry/exit and risk parameters for each setup. If one of your setups involves moving average crosses, make sure you apply different entry/exit and risk parameters from a scalping setup.

I like to consider my trading freestyle. I am very flexible with the different setups I have. Trading requires creativity. Novice traders apply too much science into trading and not enough art.

Trading should be compared to a game of limit holdem. No trade is worth all your chips so do not hold a no-limit mentality. When in doubt, stay flat. As long as you play the right hands and control your losses, a trader should come out ahead.

Good luck and best of trading.

Essential Elements of a Successful Trader

2007-11-01T14:23:00.000+08:00

Courage Under Stressful Conditions When the Outcome is Uncertain

All the foreign exchange trading knowledge in the world is not going to help, unless you have the nerve to buy and sell currencies and put your money at risk. As with the lottery “You gotta be in it to win it”. Trust me when I say that the simple task of hitting the buy or sell key is extremely difficult to do when your own real money is put at risk.

You will feel anxiety, even fear. Here lies the moment of truth. Do you have the courage to be afraid and act anyway? When a fireman runs into a burning building I assume he is afraid but he does it anyway and achieves the desired result. Unless you can overcome or accept your fear and do it anyway, you will not be a successful trader.

However, once you learn to control your fear, it gets easier and easier and in time there is no fear. The opposite reaction can become an issue – you’re overconfident and not focused enough on the risk you're taking.

Start by analyzing yourself. Are you the type of person that can control their emotions and flawlessly execute trades, oftentimes under extremely stressful conditions? Are you the type of person who’s overconfident and prone to take more risk than they should? Before your first real trade you need to look inside yourself and get the answers. We can correct any deficiencies before they result in paralysis (not pulling the trigger) or a huge loss (overconfidence). A huge loss can prematurely end your trading career, or prolong your success until you can raise additional capital.

Both the inability to initiate a trade, or close a losing trade can create serious psychological issues for a trader going forward. By calling attention to these potential stumbling blocks beforehand, you can properly prepare prior to your first real trade and develop good trading habits from day one.

The difficulty doesn’t end with “pulling the trigger”. In fact what comes next is equally or perhaps more difficult. Once you are in the trade the next hurdle is staying in the trade. When trading foreign exchange you exit the trade as soon as possible after entry when it is not working. Most people who have been successful in non-trading ventures find this concept difficult to implement.

For example, real estate tycoons make their fortune riding out the bad times and selling during the boom periods. The problem with trying to adapt a 'hold on until it comes back' strategy in foreign exchange is that most of the time the currencies are in long-term persistent, directional trends and your equity will be wiped out before the currency comes back.

The other side of the coin is staying in a trade that is working. The most common pitfall is closing out a winning position without a valid reason. Once again, fear is the culprit. Your subconscious demons will be scaring you non-stop with questions like “what if news comes out and you wind up with a loss”. The reality is if news comes out in a currency that is going up, the news has a higher probability of being positive than negative (more on why that is so in a later article).

So your fear is just a baseless annoyance. Don’t try and fight the fear. Accept it. Have a laugh about it and then move on to the task at hand, which is determining an exit strategy based on actual price movement. As Garth says in Waynesworld “Live in the now man”. Worrying about what could be is irrational. Studying your chart and determining an objective exit point is reality based and rational.

Another common pitfall is closing a winning position because you are bored with it; its not moving. In Football, after a star running back breaks free for a 50-yard gain, he comes out of the game temporarily for a breather. When he reenters the game he is a serious threat to gain more yards – this is indisputable. So when your position takes a breather after a winning move, the next likely event is further gains – so why close it?

If you can be courageous under fire and strategically patient, foreign exchange trading may be for you. If you’re a natural gunslinger and reckless you will need to tone your act down a notch or two and we can help you make the necessary adjustments. If putting your money at risk makes you a nervous wreck its because you lack the knowledge base to be confident in your decision making.

Patience to Gain Knowledge through Study and Focus

Many new traders believe all you need to profitably trade foreign currencies are charts, technical indicators and a small bankroll. Most of them blow up (lose all their money) within a few weeks or months; some are initially successful and it takes as long as a year before they blow up. A tiny minority with good money management skills, patience, and a market niche go on to be successful traders. Armed with charts, technical indicators, and a small bankroll, the chance of succeeding is probably 500 to 1.

To increase your chances of success to near certainty requires knowledge; acquiring knowledge takes hard work, study, dedication and focus. Compile your knowledge base without taking any shortcuts, thereby assuring a solid foundation to build upon.

Forex Market Trading and The Mind Games

2007-11-01T14:19:00.000+08:00

First, what is Forex: The FOREX or Foreign Exchange market is the largest financial market in the world, with an volume of more than $1.5 trillion daily, dealing in currencies. Unlike other financial markets, the Forex market has no physical location, no central exchange. It operates through an electronic network of banks, corporations and individuals trading one currency for another.

Mind Games defined: Mind Games are a kind of social interaction where participants try to screw with one anothers' heads. The concept is most often used colloquially to refer to deceitful, confusing or Machiavellian situations. However some mind games are described by the psychology of transactional analysis.

When it comes to trading on the Forex market, winning is a matter of the mind rather than mind over matter. Any trader who’s been in the game for any length of time will tell you that psychology has a lot to do with both your own performance on the trading floor and with the way that the market is moving. Playing a winning hand depends on knowing your own mind – and understanding the way that psychology moves the market.

Studying the psychology of the market is nothing new. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that any arena that rides and falls on decisions made by people is going to be heavily influenced by the minds of people. Few people take into account all the various levels of mind games that motivate the market, though. If you keep your eye on the way that psychology influences others – including the mass psychology of the people that use the currency on a daily basis – but neglect to know what moves you, you’re going to end up hurting your own position. The best Forex coaches will tell you that before you can really become a successful trader, you have to know yourself and the triggers that influence you. Knowing those will help you overcome them or use them. Are you saying ‘Huh?” about now? Believe me, I understand. I felt the same way the first time that someone tried to explain how the mind games we play with ourselves influence the trades and decisions that we make. Let me break it down into more manageable pieces for you.

Anything involving winning or losing large sums of money becomes emotionally charged.
All right. You’ve heard that playing the market is a mathematical game. Plug in the right numbers, make the right calculations and you’ll come out ahead. So why is it that so many traders end up on the losing end of the market? After all, everyone has access to the same numbers, the same data, the same info – if it’s math, there’s only one right answer, right?

The answer lies in interpretation. The numbers don’t lie, but your mind does. Your hopes and fears can make you see things that just aren’t there. When you invest in a currency, you’re investing more than just money – you make an emotional investment. Being ‘right’ becomes important. Being ‘wrong’ doesn’t just cost you money when you let yourself be ruled by your emotions – it costs you pride. Why else would you let a loser ride in the hope that it will bounce back? It’s that little thing inside your head that says, “I KNOW I’m right on this, dammit!”

To most people, being right is more important than making money.
Here’s the deal. The way to make real money in the forex market is to cut your losses short and let your winners ride. In order to do that, you have GOT to accept that some of your trades are going to lose, cut them loose and move on to another trade. You’ve got to accept that picking a loser is NOT an indication of your self-worth, it’s not a reflection on who you are. It’s simply a loss, and the best way to deal with it is to stop losing money by moving on – and really move on. Moving on means you don’t keep a running total of how many losses you’ve had – that’s the way to paralyze yourself. This brings us to the next point:

Losing traders see loss as failure. Winning traders see loss as learning.
Not too long ago, my twelve year old son told me that before Thomas Edison invented a working light bulb, he invented 100 light bulbs that didn’t work. But he didn’t give up – because he knew that creating a source of light from electricity was possible. He believed in his overall theory – so when one design didn’t work, he simply knew that he’d eliminated one possibility. Keep eliminating possibilities long enough, and you’ll eventually find the possibility that works.

Winning traders see loss in the same way. They haven’t failed – they’ve learned something new about the way that they and the market work. Winning traders can look at the big picture while playing in the small arena.

Suppose I told you that last year, I made 75 trades that lost money, and 25 that made money. In the eyes of most people, that would make me a pretty poor trader. I’m wrong 75% of the time. But what if I told you that my average loss was $1000, but my average profit on a winning trade was $10,000? That means that I lost $75,000 on trades – but I made $250,000, making my overall profit $175,000. It’s a pretty clear numbers game – but how do you keep on trading when you’re losing in trade after trade? Simple – just remember that one trade does not make or break a trader. Focus on the trade at hand, follow the triggers that you’ve set up – but define yourself by what really matters – the overall record.

Bottom line: You can’t keep emotions out of the picture, but you can learn not to let them control your decisions. Keep it all in perspective and realise that there are a lot of big boys playing this game and playing it to win...

Profit Run

2007-11-01T14:05:00.000+08:00

Once you’ve design and tested your system, there are a few trading fundamentals you will want to become familiar with. The first one is to always let your profits run. Let your trade go as long as it can and then take your profits once it moves back a bit from it’s high. This way you will be sure it has peaked, and you won’t be watching a position you closed keep climbing up, offering other traders higher and higher profits.

However, this is easier said than done. When a trade starts to become profitable, many traders quickly give in to their natural fear of losing the profits and close out the position. While it may seem reasonable to quit while you are ahead, it’s better to let your profits get as large as they can before you exit a trade.

Most trading consists of long stretches of small wins and losses that are followed by a few highly profitable trades. It’s these trades that can make the difference between realizing profits and simply breaking even; or even suffering a loss because of your trading costs, such as commissions, spread, and slippage. The key here is to let your profits run when you have a chance to.

You can do this by having trailing stops that are placed outside the daily noise of the market. This will ensure that the stops are not so tight that you are stopped out during ‘normal’ trading process. Moving the stops up as the price goes up, always keeping the same margin for noise, will make sure that you take your profits, not loose them.

This means you won’t get the maximum profit out of a winning trade, which is another reason why so many traders find this rule hard to implement. In fact, you should consider adding to any trade that is a winner, and think about widening your stops on it rather than trying to figure out how tight your stops can be to capture the largest amount of profit. If the trade has already shown you that it will be a winner, chances are it is a low-risk idea to add to the position now rather than ‘strangle it’ with stops that are too tight.

Make sure your trading system has room to let profitable trades run. If you have a procedure in place for these types of trades, then you won’t be tempted to take your profits too early when they do occur.

The New Market Wizards by Jack Swagger

2007-11-01T02:41:00.000+08:00

In these absorbing interviews with star performers in the financial markets, Schwager ( Market Wizards ) humanizes the mechanics and psychology behind billion-dollar daily world trading in such sophisticated instruments as currencies, stock options, commodity futures, and mutual-fund accounts by individuals, investment firms and group-trading computerized "money machines." One trader focuses on market response to news events, another calculates mathematical probabilities--one even cocks an ear to the noise level on the exchange floor. All rank assiduous research, self-confidence, a specific plan and the courage to cut losses among essentials to success. Few consider their work gambling, but Schwager entertainingly argues that a successful trader needs many of the qualities of a good poker player. Though the subject matter is esoteric, there is much here to attract the general reader, and Schwager appends a "primer" of technical basics.

This is the BEST of the 3 volume series. This book was absolutely outstanding and worth not only buying but keeping. I did not like volume #1 at all; there was really nothing in that & I doubted whether the traders interviewed had anything of value to give the reader. This book though is of a much higher quality as it delves more into Trading Systems & their psychology than previously.

A key thing you will learn from these interviews is best exemplified by Mike Carr a Turtle: Don't care what the market will do, Care what you will do when the market does it.

The gem in this series is Warren Eckhardt. In the first book the Ritchie Dennis & Will O'Neil interviews were the real gems. The others in vol#1 were totally without value including the GREAT Ed Seykota who is just a wise-acre with flippant answers and a juvenile sense of humour. Here in volume 2 even minor traders have more to say, perhaps Jack got better in getting information out of them?

Anyhow, remember more than HALF of these people have since gone the way of Livermore and blown up and those that haven't are RETIRED and teach at high costs.

Forex Scalping

2007-10-31T21:33:00.000+08:00

It’s a traders dream, getting in and out of the market each day and earning a few hundred dollars here and there which over time to make huge long term profits.

It’s the aim of an increasing number of traders, but you need to be aware of one important fact.

Day trading does not work and intra day trading in forex markets means the only person who gets scalped is the person trying it – normally of their entire trading account quickly.

So why doesn’t forex day trading and scalping work?

The answer is obvious if you think about it, so here it is:

Each day trillions of dollars are traded by millions of traders who fall into four main groups:

1. Hedgers

Who are not looking to profit from currency fluctuations but simply looking to hedge their portfolios.

2. Central Banks

Big players, who intervene occasionally to stabilize currency, markets should they believe it necessary.

3. Large traders

Well capitalized individuals and professional money managers.

4. Small speculators

Everyone else.

They all think differently and they all have different objectives and different methods and to say you predict what these vast diverse groups or traders will do in under a day or less is laughable.

But people buy into the myth and they lose all the time.

So why do people attempt it?

Well many are attracted by marketing copy that promise riches with low risk, but of course the people who tell them this and sell them the secrets, don’t trade themselves they make their money selling courses.

Other traders think it is a low risk way to trade but if you cannot predict where short term volatility will take prices you will lose – you can’t get the odds in your favour and may as well flip a coin.

So forex scalping does not work and by its nature will never work as volatility can and does take prices anywhere in a day.

Ever seen anyone who sells a course or claims to have made money forex scalping with the proof?

By this I mean a real time track record ( not a meaningless hypothetical track record done in hindsight) no neither have I.

Forex scalping is not a guaranteed way to win, it’s a guaranteed way to lose in forex trading and lose quickly.

Forget the hype of forex scalping and see the reality for what it is, a great way to lose.

If you want to trade currency markets get the odds in your favour by trading in periods where the data can actually help you put the odds in your favour.

Forex scalping is “the word” these days! It offers to give you handsome profits with out much of a risk. So lets get started in this article. We are going to cover the facts related to forex scalping for beginners.

Forex Scalping works this way. You look to make a neat profit by making small regular trading within a set time frame. I would put it in a more simple way. You make very small trades, therefore risking a small amount of money ( Of course when you profit as well, you a gain a small amount). You make plenty of such small transactions within a day. So you actually hope that little drops of water will make a mighty ocean. The fact of the matter is that it has never worked and never will.

Why?

Because Forex scalping is simply based on an incorrect belief or logic or whatever you want to call it. Infact, I am going to show you in the article why forex scalping can be the easiest way to lose your money in forex trading. Read on!!

Let us first take a look at the market and how they move.

We have approximately Trillions of dollars traded in the market daily by millions of traders. So, it will be ridiculous for us to assume that we can predict what this vast mass of traders will do in a short period of time

Let me direct you towards a Fact:

“All short-term volatility is random.”

That means?

Yes, that means prices can go up and down ( up or down? No one can predict). Infact , Neither Support and resistance levels are valid nor any of the technical indicators you have. All will fail in this random environment.

“I have seen successful track records though!”

Sure you have – and they are sold by vendors with a vested interest.

There are loads of them and they are all designed to bring forex scalping to beginners - for a few hundred bucks you get rich, Ha Ha ! that’s Laughable to me!

Please Consider a reality check!

These vendors make the much promising forex scalping systems. Hey , why don’t you guys do forex scalping instead of making these systems. They know it wont work. Hence, lure the unsuspecting ones in to forex scalping

What will be shown to you by them are amazing track records with neat profits with draw downs being a rarity and almost non-existent. A little of your common sense coming in to play will tell you that its too good to be true. And when you get an intuition like that, it probably is “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE”

Many traders fall in the scheme, lose big time and still wonder “WHY?” or worse “WHY ME”

Take a closer look at the forex scaling track records, you will see the words “hindsight” or “simulation” written all over the track record as a disclaimer.

What does this imply?

That the track record is done in hindsight and simulated, knowing the closing prices!

How hard is that?

Any eight year old kid could do that and so could anyone who can read and write and you can to – My friends, these track records are useless and not even worth the paper they are written on.

Of course , you can try looking for an authentic track record. Take my word that it will take you a long time. I never found one in my life. SO if you do come across one, sure let me know.

The fact is forex scalping for beginners takes advantage of innocent and gullible investors who think making a profit is that easy and they don’t stop to think how authentic these systems are or what logic is in scalping?

If You Want to Win

You need to have odds in your favour. That simply means that you need to trade within longer time frames. That rules forex scalping out

If you are just a beginner at forex trading and looking to make a plunge in the forex market, Make a detailed study on the market. Follow the market for few months before investing your hard money in it. You can find some great ebooks here to get you started.
Do avoid the scheming companies wanting you to try forex scalping for the much-promised handsome profits, which will never materialize and do visit my blog for more articles and updates.

Eighteen Tips in Forex

2007-10-31T21:21:00.001+08:00

You can never have too many tips or tricks up your sleeve when you are trading. Most of the tips I’m including here are received wisdom, trading truisms that you should remember. They apply to all markets, but are particularly useful in a volatile and technical market like the FOREX

Pay attention to the market. Exit and enter trades based on market information. Don’t wait for a price you think the currency should hit when the market has changed direction on you.

There are times when, due to a lack of liquidity or excessive volatility, you should not trade at all. On a similar note, never trade when you are sick. You can’t count on yourself to be alert to the shifts of the markets, and make good decisions.

Trading systems that work in an up market may not work in a down market, and a system that works for trending markets, or for range bound markets may not work in other markets. Have a system for each type of market.

Up market and down market patterns are ALWAYS there, but you have to look for the dominant trends. Always select trades that move with the trends

During the blowout stage of the market, either up or down, the risk managers are usually issuing margin call position liquidation orders. They don't generally check the screen to see what’s overbought or oversold; they just keep issuing liquidation orders. Make sure you stay out of their way.

Trust your instincts. If something feels wrong about a trade, don’t make it. It’s better to be superstitious than to loose money.

Rumour is king. Buy when you hear the rumour, sell when you hear the news.

The first and last ticks are always the most expensive. Get in the market late, and out early. And never trade in the direction of a gap, either opening or closing.

When everyone else is in, it's time for you to get out. If a stock or currency is overbought, it’s time to exit your position.

Don’t worry about missing out on an opportunity to trade. There will always be another good one just around the corner. If the trade you are considering doesn’t meet all your entry signals but it seems to good to pass up, remember, you’re never going to run out of trades you can make.

Don’t get too confident. No one can predict the market with 100% accuracy. You need to always expect the unexpected. If you become uneasy, or the market becomes choppy, exit your trades.

Don't turn three losing trades in a row into six. When you’re off, turn off the screen, do something else. Often the best way to break a streak of consecutive loses is to not trade for a day.

But, don't stop trading when you’re on a winning streak.

Measure your success by the profit made in a day, not on a trade. It’s even better to measure it over two or three days. A successful trader’s goal is to make money, not to win on every trade.

Scalpers reduce the number of variables affecting market risk by being in a position only for a few seconds. Day traders reduce market risk by being in trades for minutes. If you convert a scalp or day trade into a position trade, you probably didn’t analyze the risks of the trade properly.

There is no secret to understanding the market. You can spend much of your valuable time and money looking for these kinds of secrets. It’s better to take the time to create a solid trading system, and realize that the secret to success is hard work.

Never ask for someone else's opinion, they probably didn’t do as much homework as you did anyways.

When the market is going up, say it out loud. When the market is going down, say that out loud too. You’ll be amazed at how hard it is to say what is going on right in front of you when you want it the market to be doing something else.

How To Lose Everything - The Worst Trading Strategy Ever That You Might Be Using

2007-10-31T01:37:00.000+08:00

You may be wondering, “Why we need to know about the worst trading strategy around?” There are a couple of reasons. First, to warn you about it. You really don't want to end up using this system. Secondly, because once you know the worst possible strategy, the one that is designed to maximize your losses over the long run, then you can reverse it to craft a strategy which does the exact opposite.

With what you learn from this system, you will be able to create a system that will produce some tremendous long-term gains. The strategy I'm referring to, which is simply the worst system I have ever encountered, is known as averaging down. This is the process of buying more shares of a stock that you had previously acquired, as the price drops.

Traders often purchase shares this way in an effort to reduce their initial entry price.

Only bad investors average down by buying shares of a sinking stock to decrease their overall average price per share. This strategy is hardly ever effective, and is often like throwing good money after bad. It also magnifies a traders losses if the stock keeps dropping. Remember, just because a share is cheap now that doesn't mean it's not going to get any cheaper. However, let's examine how this devastating strategy works. Say you bought one thousand shares at $40.

The novice investor may not have a stop loss in place, and the share price falls to $30 dollars. Here comes the stupidity of this strategy – to average down the novice trader might by another thousand shares at $30 to lower the average cost per share that he'd already purchased. So, his average cost per share would now be $35.

Unfortunately, the share price may fall even further, and the novice trader will again buy more shares to reduce the average cost per share. They end up buying more and more into a stock that's losing their money.

Now, imagine this strategy being applied to a portfolio of stocks. In the end, all the capital will automatically be allocated to the worse performing stocks in the portfolio while the best performing stocks are sold off. The result is, at best, a disastrous underperformance versus the market.

If a trader uses an averaging down system and uses margins, their losses will be magnified even further. The biggest problem with this strategy is that a trader's gains are cut short, and the losers are left to run. My advice is – never average down. The process of buying a stock, watching it fall, and then throwing more money at it in the hopes that you'll either get back to break even or make a bigger killing is one of the most misguided pieces of advice on Wall Street. Never be faced with a situation where you'll ask yourself, “Should I risk even more than I originally intended in a desperate attempt to lower my cost and save my butt?”

Instead, craft a simple, robust system with good money management rules. I can practically guarantee the results will be better than averaging down.

Kebetulan dan Kepastian Dlm Hidup & Trading

2007-10-30T01:45:00.000+08:00

Di dunia ini setiap hari bisa saja terjadi banyak sekali kejadian yang membawa keberuntungan dan juga kemalangan. Ketika mendapat keberuntungan, banyak orang tidak menganggap bahwa hal itu adalah berkah (pahala) dari perbuatan baik. Mendapatkan balasan baik selalu ditafsirkan sebagai suatu hal yang kebetulan terjadi, alasannya adalah masih banyak orang yang berbuat kebaikan sampai sekarang pun masih belum mendapatkan balasan baik; namun ketika kemalangan menimpa, orang juga tidak menganggap bahwa hal tersebut adalah balasan dari perbuatan jahat mereka, malah menafsirkan kemalangan tersebut sebagai kejadian yang kebetulan, alasannya adalah didunia ini masih banyak orang jahat yang kejahatannya walau sudah bertumpuk-tumpuk namun masih juga tidak mendapatkan balasan atas kejahatannya.

Namun jikalau ditelaah dengan serius, akan memahami bahwa setiap hal yang terjadi didalam dunia manusia tidak ada satupun yang kebetulan. Orang-orang sering menyebut manifestasi dari sebuah materi yang sering dijumpai ataupun yang tidak pernah dijumpai sebagai sebuah “kebetulan”, banyak kebetulan bukanlah kebetulan melainkan adalah sebuah kepastian. Maka dari itu jika melakukan analisa terhadap manifestasi sebuah materi yang muncul dengan kebetulan, akan mendapatkan bahwa kebetulan hanyalah tampak luarnya, kepastian adalah hakikinya.

Misalkan ketika seseorang sedang sakit atau mengalami kecelakaan lalu lintas, kebanyakan orang bilang bahwa hal ini adalah suatu kebetulan, akan tetapi didalam kehidupan seseorang, munculnya proses lahir, tua, sakit, mati adalah suatu kepastian. Hanya saja manusia tidak bisa meramalkan kapan terjadi; ketika seseorang sangat beruntung didalam suatu undian/lotre, telah mendapatkan hadiah besar, semua orang akan bilang itu adalah sebuah kebetulan. Akan tetapi didalam undian/lotre pasti akan ada orang yang mendapatkan hadiah, hanya manusia tidak bisa meramalkan siapa yang bakal mendapatkan hadiah. Ketika seseorang keluar rumah, diluar dugaan berjumpa dengan temannya atau kenalannya, orang-orang juga bisa berkata bahwa hal itu adalah kebetulan, akan tetapi jika seseorang keluar rumah untuk menuruti kemauannya bertemu dengan orang lain adalah sebuah kepastian. Hanya saja dia tidak bisa meramalkan bakal siapa yang akan dijumpai....

Ini menunjukkan bahwa kebetulan adalah tampak luar dari suatu kejadian, dia berbentuk. Kepastian adalah hakiki dari suatu kejadian, dia tidak berbentuk. Tampak luar yang berbentuk mendapatkan penentuan dan bergantung pada hakiki yang tak berbentuk. Maka dari itu proses meneliti perkembangan dari suatu kejadian hendaknya menembus gejala luar dengan melihat hakikinya.

Di dunia ini banyak orang yang tidak ingin mengakui keberadaan balasan dari sebab dan akibat, oleh karena dia telah berbuat kejahatan, juga ada sebagian orang yang telah berbuat kebaikan tapi tidak segera mendapatkan balasan kebaikan lalu dia tidak mengakui keberadaan balasan dari sebab dan akibat, maka dari itu mereka mengatakan orang baik yang mendapatkan balasan baik sebagai suatu kebetulan, begitu juga kepada orang jahat yang mendapatkan balasan kejahatan disebutnya sebagai suatu kebetulan. Kenyataannya jika seseorang banyak melakukan kejahatan pasti akan mendapatkan balasan kejahatan, hanya mereka tidak bisa meramal kapan dia akan menerima balasannya. Balasan dari kebaikan dan kejahatan juga siklus dari sebab dan akibat bagaikan sebuah jala yang tak kelihatan, jaring langit bermata besar, tapi tidak ada suatu apapun yang bisa lolos, dengan adil mengikat seluruh kehidupan yang ada didunia ini. Jika manusia tidak mempercayai lagi akan keberadaannya yang dikarenakan kasat mata, hal itu bagaikan mencuri lonceng dengan menutup telinga.

Kebetulan dan kepastian meskipun hanya terpaut dengan pikiran sekilas, namun bisa merefleksikan taraf pemikiran dari seseorang. Di dunia ini orang yang benar-benar pintar juga seorang kultivator, mereka tahu bahwa kebetulan itu tidak eksis, semua peristiwa yang terjadi didunia ini memiliki kepastian. Didalam kekaburan, terdapat kehendak langit. Mulai dari hukum alam yang mengatur lahir tua sakit mati dari kehidupan seorang manusia, hingga hukum yang mengatur perkembangan peradaban manusia, tidak ada satupun yang luput dari genggaman kehendak Langit.

Forex Trading Tips

2007-10-19T16:51:00.000+08:00

This two-part report clearly and simply details essential tips
on how to avoid typical pitfalls and start making more money in your forex trading.

Trade pairs, not currencies - Like any relationship, you have to know both sides. Success or failure in forex trading depends upon being right about both currencies and how they impact one another, not just one.

Knowledge is Power - When starting out trading forex online, it is essential that you understand the basics of this market if you want to make the most of your investments.

The main forex influencer is global news and events. For example, say an ECB statement is released on European interest rates which typically will cause a flurry of activity. Most newcomers react violently to news like this and close their positions and subsequently miss out on some of the best trading opportunities by waiting until the market calms down. The potential in the forex market is in the volatility, not in its tranquility.

Unambitious trading - Many new traders will place very tight orders in order to take very small profits. This is not a sustainable approach because although you may be profitable in the short run (if you are lucky), you risk losing in the longer term as you have to recover the difference between the bid and the ask price before you can make any profit and this is much more difficult when you make small trades than when you make larger ones.

Over-cautious trading - Like the trader who tries to take small incremental profits all the time, the trader who places tight stop losses with a retail forex broker is doomed. As we stated above, you have to give your position a fair chance to demonstrate its ability to produce. If you don't place reasonable stop losses that allow your trade to do so, you will always end up undercutting yourself and losing a small piece of your deposit with every trade.

Independence - If you are new to forex, you will either decide to trade your own money or to have a broker trade it for you. So far, so good. But your risk of losing increases exponentially if you either of these two things:

Interfere with what your broker is doing on your behalf (as his strategy might require a long gestation period);

Seek advice from too many sources - multiple input will only result in multiple losses. Take a position, ride with it and then analyse the outcome - by yourself, for yourself.

Tiny margins - Margin trading is one of the biggest advantages in trading forex as it allows you to trade amounts far larger than the total of your deposits. However, it can also be dangerous to novice traders as it can appeal to the greed factor that destroys many forex traders. The best guideline is to increase your leverage in line with your experience and success.

No strategy - The aim of making money is not a trading strategy. A strategy is your map for how you plan to make money. Your strategy details the approach you are going to take, which currencies you are going to trade and how you will manage your risk. Without a strategy, you may become one of the 90% of new traders that lose their money.

Trading Off-Peak Hours - Professional FX traders, option traders, and hedge funds posses a huge advantage over small retail traders during off-peak hours (between 2200 CET and 1000 CET) as they can hedge their positions and move them around when there is far small trade volume is going through (meaning their risk is smaller). The best advice for trading during off peak hours is simple - don't.

The only way is up/down - When the market is on its way up, the market is on its way up. When the market is going down, the market is going down. That's it. There are many systems which analyse past trends, but none that can accurately predict the future. But if you acknowledge to yourself that all that is happening at any time is that the market is simply moving, you'll be amazed at how hard it is to blame anyone else.

Trade on the news - Most of the really big market moves occur around news time. Trading volume is high and the moves are significant; this means there is no better time to trade than when news is released. This is when the big players adjust their positions and prices change resulting in a serious currency flow.

Exiting Trades - If you place a trade and it's not working out for you, get out. Don't compound your mistake by staying in and hoping for a reversal. If you're in a winning trade, don't talk yourself out of the position because you're bored or want to relieve stress; stress is a natural part of trading; get used to it.

Don't trade too short-term - If you are aiming to make less than 20 points profit, don't undertake the trade. The spread you are trading on will make the odds against you far too high.

Don't be smart - The most successful traders I know keep their trading simple. They don't analyse all day or research historical trends and track web logs and their results are excellent.

Tops and Bottoms - There are no real "bargains" in trading foreign exchange. Trade in the direction the price is going in and you're results will be almost guaranteed to improve.

Ignoring the technicals- Understanding whether the market is over-extended long or short is a key indicator of price action. Spikes occur in the market when it is moving all one way.

Emotional Trading - Without that all-important strategy, you're trades essentially are thoughts only and thoughts are emotions and a very poor foundation for trading. When most of us are upset and emotional, we don't tend to make the wisest decisions. Don't let your emotions sway you.

Confidence - Confidence comes from successful trading. If you lose money early in your trading career it's very difficult to regain it; the trick is not to go off half-cocked; learn the business before you trade. Remember, knowledge is power.
The second and final part of this report clearly and simply details more essential tips on how to avoid the pitfalls and start making more money in your forex trading.

Take it like a man - If you decide to ride a loss, you are simply displaying stupidity and cowardice. It takes guts to accept your loss and wait for tomorrow to try again. Sticking to a bad position ruins lots of traders - permanently. Try to remember that the market often behaves illogically, so don't get commit to any one trade; it's just a trade. One good trade will not make you a trading success; it's ongoing regular performance over months and years that makes a good trader.

Focus - Fantasising about possible profits and then "spending" them before you have realised them is no good. Focus on your current position(s) and place reasonable stop losses at the time you do the trade. Then sit back and enjoy the ride - you have no real control from now on, the market will do what it wants to do.

Don't trust demos - Demo trading often causes new traders to learn bad habits. These bad habits, which can be very dangerous in the long run, come about because you are playing with virtual money. Once you know how your broker's system works, start trading small amounts and only take the risk you can afford to win or lose.

Stick to the strategy - When you make money on a well thought-out strategic trade, don't go and lose half of it next time on a fancy; stick to your strategy and invest profits on the next trade that matches your long-term goals.

Trade today - Most successful day traders are highly focused on what's happening in the short-term, not what may happen over the next month. If you're trading with 40 to 60-point stops focus on what's happening today as the market will probably move too quickly to consider the long-term future. However, the long-term trends are not unimportant; they will not always help you though if you're trading intraday.

The clues are in the details - The bottom line on your account balance doesn't tell the whole story. Consider individual trade details; analyse your losses and the telling losing streaks. Generally, traders that make money without suffering significant daily losses have the best chance of sustaining positive performance in the long term.

Simulated Results - Be very careful and wary about infamous "black box" systems. These so-called trading signal systems do not often explain exactly how the trade signals they generate are produced. Typically, these systems only show their track record of extraordinary results - historical results. Successfully predicting future trade scenarios is altogether more complex. The high-speed algorithmic capabilities of these systems provide significant retrospective trading systems, not ones which will help you trade effectively in the future.

Get to know one cross at a time - Each currency pair is unique, and has a unique way of moving in the marketplace. The forces which cause the pair to move up and down are individual to each cross, so study them and learn from your experience and apply your learning to one cross at a time.
Risk Reward - If you put a 20 point stop and a 50 point profit your chances of winning are probably about 1-3 against you. In fact, given the spread you're trading on, it's more likely to be 1-4. Play the odds the market gives you.

Trading for Wrong Reasons - Don't trade if you are bored, unsure or reacting on a whim. The reason that you are bored in the first place is probably because there is no trade to make in the first place. If you are unsure, it's probably because you can't see the trade to make, so don't make one.

Zen Trading- Even when you have taken a position in the markets, you should try and think as you would if you hadn't taken one. This level of detachment is essential if you want to retain your clarity of mind and avoid succumbing to emotional impulses and therefore increasing the likelihood of incurring losses. To achieve this, you need to cultivate a calm and relaxed outlook. Trade in brief periods of no more than a few hours at a time and accept that once the trade has been made, it's out of your hands.

Determination - Once you have decided to place a trade, stick to it and let it run its course. This means that if your stop loss is close to being triggered, let it trigger. If you move your stop midway through a trade's life, you are more than likely to suffer worse moves against you. Your determination must be show itself when you acknowledge that you got it wrong, so get out.

Short-term Moving Average Crossovers - This is one of the most dangerous trade scenarios for non professional traders. When the short-term moving average crosses the longer-term moving average it only means that the average price in the short run is equal to the average price in the longer run. This is neither a bullish nor bearish indication, so don't fall into the trap of believing it is one.

Stochastic - Another dangerous scenario. When it first signals an exhausted condition that's when the big spike in the "exhausted" currency cross tends to occur. My advice is to buy on the first sign of an overbought cross and then sell on the first sign of an oversold one. This approach means that you'll be with the trend and have successfully identified a positive move that still has some way to go. So if percentage K and percentage D are both crossing 80, then buy! (This is the same on sell side, where you sell at 20).

One cross is all that counts - EURUSD seems to be trading higher, so you buy GBPUSD because it appears not to have moved yet. This is dangerous. Focus on one cross at a time - if EURUSD looks good to you, then just buy EURUSD.

Wrong Broker - A lot of FOREX brokers are in business only to make money from yours. Read forums, blogs and chats around the net to get an unbiased opinion before you choose your broker.

Too bullish - Trading statistics show that 90% of most traders will fail at some point. Being too bullish about your trading aptitude can be fatal to your long-term success. You can always learn more about trading the markets, even if you are currently successful in your trades. Stay modest, and keep your eyes open for new ideas and bad habits you might be falling in to.

Interpret forex news yourself - Learn to read the source documents of forex news and events - don't rely on the interpretations of news media or others.

Because human are all the same

2007-10-19T14:14:00.001+08:00

Be it a passionate young Nick Leeson,
or a family man Rusnak of Allied Irish Bank, they are all human. And human are all the same. Human has emotions. Human has creativity. Let alone the creativity be used when developing a system. And the emotion be the motivator for developing a better system. But when trading a live account, let the system run itself with 0% emotion and creativity. That is why great successful traders use 100% mechanical trading systems.

Don't hate market makers.Trade like them.

2007-10-19T14:07:00.000+08:00

“Successful market makers have controlled the ego
-based need to be absolutely correct. Because markets are constantly in motion, it is almost impossible to be exactly right on (in your entries).” Such a probative approach to the markets is at the heart of most successful professional trading.
Dealers know full well that their first foray into the trade is often wrong. They rarely commit the full position amount on the first try.
One of the key differences between professionals and amateurs is that professionals scale into trades while amateurs average down. This statement may seem like clever wordplay, but it’s not. Let’s assume that both the professional and the amateur decide to risk two percent of their capital account on a particular trade. The professional knows full well that he will not be able to hit the exact entry point on his first attempt. Therefore, he may allocate only 0.3% of his capital to the first entry, 0.6% on the second and 1.2% to the third – and stop himself out at -2.7% away from original entry price (-2% risk).. Read more here.

Having dispensed with disclaimers, let’s examine one common strategy many retail traders like to follow – the break-out trade. Using dealing methodology, here is an approach to possibly make the trade less risky. As shown in Figure 1, the trader can scale into the trade three times. By diversifying his position, he does not even need to have price exceed his initial entry point to record a profitable trade! If, however, he is correct in anticipating the direction, he still can capture the move with a partial entry. Consequently, by modifying the risk, the retail speculator can improve

Trade only the price:Despite

2007-10-19T14:02:00.000+08:00

It shows how profitable traders/fund managers do their trading.

He is an old pro trader. He runs one of the largest clearing firms on the NYMEX. He has his unique way of doing things and clearly is not a trend follower. That said, his concern about knowing how to take losses properly echoed the wisdom of Wall Street's great trend traders. His most interesting comment was about the word "despite". He loved to see the word. For example, if you see the talking heads saying, "Despite bad news Apple stock went higher", he would view that as an opportunity to go long even more. Conversely, if he saw "despite good news, Apple went lower", he would go short. He wasn't trying to preach fundamentals or "news" reading, but just wanted to pass along his insights from the last 20 years. Sure, it was short and simple wisdom, but then again most good Wall Street wisdom is that way, the hard part as he reminded me is the execution.
A quick note: DESPITE of whatever the news and fundamentals say, they trade the price. But this doesn't mean they use technical analysis mumbo jumbo. Not analysis. Not prediction.

Algorithmic trading. There's no other way better.

2007-10-18T20:05:00.000+08:00

Penggunaan mechanical system dalam bentuk EA di MT4, dibandingkan dgn trading manual dgn menggunakan segala kemampuan berfikir manusia beserta unsur emosi dan psikologinya, saya sendiri punya pegangan dalil2 sebagai berikut:

dalil #1:
utk trading, kita hrus pakai metoda atau strategi yg kita yakini bahwa kalau dijalankan, akan profit. metoda atau strategi ini bisa macem2, bisa mekanis ataupun murni feeling, atau tebak2an.. tapi prinsipnya adalah kita akan menjalankan aktifitas trading menggunakan suatu cara -apapun itu bentuknya- yang kita yakini memberi peluang besar utk profit. Lha kalo kita gak punya strategi yg kita rasa akan profit, kita tentu gak akan bisa memulai trading kan ya?

dalil #2:
untuk bisa memilih strategi yang kita yakini akan profit, tentu kita harus melihat dulu, kira-kira apa bener suatu ide tentang strategi itu bakalan profit. Misalnya kalau ada ide strategi trading berupa: "buy kalau market retrace di fibo, lalu exit saat overbought", tentu akan wajar sekali kalau kita cek ke historical, lihat2 secara visual di historical chart, apakah kalau kita lakukan strategi itu memang benar ada peluang akan profit. Lalu kalau ternyata kita harus perhatikan kondisi tertentu seperti big news time dll, itu juga kita lihat di historical. Hal ini tentu merupakan hal yg biasa dalam mencari-cari ide trading, kan? Setiap trader yg berusaha mencari strategi pilihannya, pasti melakukan hal ini, yaitu pemeriksaan historical, atau istilahnya backtest. backtest ini bisa manual/visual, atau mekanis utk lebih akurat.

dalil #3:
memeriksa suatu ide strategi tertentu dengan teknik pemeriksaan visual secara manual, memiliki banyak sekali kelemahan dan keterbatasan.
Kelemahan2 itu antara lain:

- seringkali kita memeriksa dengan bias/keberpihakan. seorang trader yg terlatih mungkin bisa mengurangi faktor ini. keberpihakan ini maksudnya begini mas: kita lakukan pengamatan visual untuk mencari pembenaran dari ide strategi kita. Jadi tiap kali kita lihat kejadian kalau kriteria entry-exit yg kita ingin periksa ternyata menghasilkan profit, kita hanya perhatikan itu saja. Kita lupa perhatikan bahwa ada banyak kondisi yang ternya berakibat kerugian, dan itu kita abaikan krn hasilnya tidak seperti yg kita inginkan. We see what we want to see.

- kelemahan parah lainnya adalah adanya faktor "oversight", yaitu misalnya kita buy kalau marketnya breakout ke atas suatu trend line, kita pikir kita bisa jalankan strategi itu, padahal trend line nya terbentuk dari titik-titik fraktal sebelum dan sesudah kejadian itu. ya ini contoh ekstrim, tapi kesalahan "oversight" ini sering kali dialami oleh orang2 yg baru mulai mencoba mengembangkan strategi trading.

- kelemahan lain: bila di historical chart kita melihat ada move naik yg 'bagus', dan kita ingin bisa menangkap gerakan itu dan mengkapitalisasi profit dari gerakan itu, lalu kita cari2 kondisi yg mendahului gerakan ini, lalu kita anggap kita menemukan suatu strategi. begitu terus kita lakukan tiap kali kita lihat ada gerakan 'bagus' di market yg ingin bisa kita tangkap, kita coba-coba cari kondisi di market yg mendahuluinya. padahal kondisi itu berbeda2, dan itu hanya kelihatan kalau kita sudah lihat gerakan 'bagus' yg kita inginkan.

SEMUA kelemahan dan keterbatasan ini akan hilang kalau kita lakukan pemeriksaan menggunakan teknik non-manual, misalnya pakai program statistik, di excel, atau pakai backtesternya metatrader.

dalil #4
Kemudian kita sudah menemukan suatu strategi yg ternyata memang profit, misalnya tiap kali market bikin triangle di jam tertentu, lalu break ke atas saat MACD di long term mengarah naik -- dan ini semua sudah ditest dengan cara yg akurat dan menghasilkan kesimpulan-kesimpulan sbb:
- "ooohhh... strategi ini kalau dijalankan memang profit"
- "rata2 dalam sebulan, kena SL hanya 5 kali, sedangkan selebihnya rata2 ada 20 yang kena TP"
Kalau kita sudah punya strategi yg setelah diperiksa memberi kesimpulan2 bagus seperti ini, tentu kita ingin menjalankannya secara disiplin kan?
Nah di sini lah faktor psikologi seringkali sangat mengganggu. Seringkali strategi yg seharusnya profit, tapi malah menjadi merugikan karena tradernya terganggu dari segi psikologi. Macem2 masalah psikologi yg bisa terjadi mas. Misalnya utk contoh trader yg pakai strategi triangle breakoutnya tadi:
- Sang trader enggan menuruti rules nya sendiri krn tiba2 ngerasa "kok kayaknya ngeri ya, buy di sini, walaupun triangle udah break ke atas, tapi kan market udah naik tinggi beberapa hari belakangan ini"..
- Sang trader tiba-tiba mengambil posisi trade padahal tidak ada kondisi yg sesuai dengan rules nya, krn tiba2 berfikir "ini mestinya bakalan naik nih, walaupun gak ada triangle, tapi ini kan marketnya udah bolak-balik di bawah resistance ini, jadi sekarang udah break, kita mesti buruan masuk nih supaya nggak ketinggalan".
- dan masalah ketidak-disiplinan lainnya, terutama masalah exit, menggeser SL, position sizing yg seenak perutnya, dsb dsb dsb..

nah kalau kita udah test/periksa ide strategi kita dengan menggunakan teknik yg akurat, misalnya menggunakan algoritma di metatrader, mestinya strategi itulah yg akan kita jalankan dengan disiplin kan.. disiplin artinya disiplin, nggak diubah2. gak dibikin pengecualian2 yg bebeda-beda tiap saat. kalau memang ada kondisi yg akan dikecualikan, misalnya gak akan trading kalau market New York libur, ya itu mesti diperiksa juga di historical kalau dilakukan begitu hasilnya gimana, apa memang lebih baik atau tidak. Kalau memang lbih baik, ya itu lah yg hrus dijalankan dengan disiplin, dst.

Trading dengan disiplin ini semua akan jauh lebih mudah bila kita jalankan strategi kita menggunakan suatu computer-programmed algorithm, misalnya pakai tools alert di MT4, atau bahkan pakai tools automatic trading di MT4 menggunakan EA itu.

dalil #5
Kalau kita tidak percaya dengan suatu strategi akan profit dijalankan krn kita pikir market akan berubah sehingga misalnya di contoh di atas, strategi triangle dan MACD itu kayaknya cuman profit di dulu2 aja, tapi besok2 belum tentu, ya lalu kita tidak punya alasan yg kuat utk menjalankannya, bukan? Di sini, menurut saya, kembali ke faktor psikologi dan rasional.

Kalau strategi tarik2 garis dgn supp/res atau fibo itu kita pikir gak akan profit lagi di masa depan, ya berarti kita gak akan pakai strategi itu juga. Kalau kita gak percaya suatu strategi punya harapan akan profit, lalu dengan apa kita akan trading dong. Sampai saat ini, sepenjang pengetahuan saya, utk menjalankan suatu strategi utk ditradingkan live, setidaknya kita hrus punya harapan bhwa strategi itu akan profit kalau dijalankan. Lebih baik lagi tidak hanya harapan, tapi juga keyakinan, yg kita dapatkan dari hasil pemeriksaan yg menunjukkan hasil yg baik, dan pemeriksaannya akurat.
Dan kalau kita yakin strategi trsebut mestinya profit, tentu kita ingin lakukan dengan disiplin se-disiplin-disiplinnya, kan.

Semua dalil2 dalam pengembangan dan eksekusi strategi trading di atas tadi menunjukkan argumentasi yg sangat kuat utk menggunakan automated system. Gak ada pilihan lain, menurut saya.
Kalaupun artificial intelligence kita percaya bisa menjadi tool yg lbih baik, dan kita tidak percaya thd strategi yg hanya linear matematis biasa, ya lakukan itu. Do whatever you want to do.
Kalau setelah kita periksa suatu strategi secara akurat menggunakan EA di MT4, lalu forward testing menunjukkan hasil bagus juga, tapi begitu mau live kita malah tidak percaya bahwa market akan berlaku begitu lagi, ya kita punya hak penuh utk tidak menggunakan strategi itu utk live. Don't do anything we don't wanna do.
Tapi kalau dalam keadaan itu lalu kita drop out strategi itu hanya krn tidak berani, ya lalu mau trading pakai strategi apa? There's no any other way better.

arah teknik tradingku

2007-10-18T20:02:00.001+08:00

arahkan semua ke weekly, krn byk kelebihannya:
1.semua org di dunia sama open closenya: asia open, usa close
2.kebal news
3.TP gede
4.bisa mengerjakan yg lain

Asal kita pake teknik break pada akhirnya "in the long run" kita akan menang.
- Turtle, break 5 bar
- K2P break peak
- Pattern, semua pattern adalah break: rectangle,segi3,H&S,flag dll
- Tlatomi, conform indicator break
- asia H & L break range
- pola 123
- spike
- nail market
- triple screen
- dll

Teknik break ini sering kalah tp dikit, kalo menang bykkk. Jadi intinya cuma hrs berani loss dg udah diperhitungkan dulu.Cut loss short & let profit run

Di sini LIMIT benar2 dilarang keras. Limit & hedging adalah suatu teknik yg menjebak, ini dipakai para bandar utk membodohi trader & nasabah

NB. Kalau mau entry break di market SWISS ditunda dulu, krn byk jebakan

Successful Forex Trading

2007-10-18T19:59:00.000+08:00

Forex trading is fast becoming one of the easiest ways to earn large amounts of money on your investment. Then again, it can also be the easiest way to lose all of your money in a short period of time. That is, if you do not know what you are doing. The fact is that even seasoned traders make mistakes and only through the understanding of basic principles and the application of sound strategies can you be assured of earning money in the long run.

One of the most basic things that you have to understand about Forex trading is that there will always be losing streaks along with the winning ones. Having this fact in mind will keep you going during those times that you do not get a good deal. The best way to handle Forex trading is to have a reliable trading system coupled with a rigid money management system.

There are many different strategies employed in Forex trading today. What you should do is either adopt one of them or come up with your own. No matter which path you choose to take, the important thing is that your trading system has been proven or can be proven to be reliable. How would you know that your trading system is reliable?

It is quite simple, really. A reliable trading system is one which gives you more winning trades than losing ones. More than this, your winning trades should be – in general – of greater value than your losing trades. You do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out. More wins with greater value equals profits. No matter how you come up with your trading system, the bottom line is that you get consistent results.

Once you have come up with your trading strategy, try it out first. You can do this by using a demo account before trading live. Using a demo account is advantageous as you will be doing exactly the same thing as live trading – without real money. This way, you can test your strategy and pick out the flaws f there are any.

If, after you have tested your strategy, you are confident that you are getting consistent results, you could go live. Your strategy should not stop there, though. Once you engage in live trading, you must take care to instill strict discipline when it comes to money management. Do not deviate from your strategy once it is put in place. This is perhaps the foremost reason for traders to suddenly lose everything. Always remember that you cannot win all the time and that losses are part of trading. If you have a strategy in place, do not scramble to recoup your losses outside the boundaries of your strategy. The trend is that winning will come soon after your losses.

One rule you should stick to is never trading with more than 2% of your account at risk on a single trade. Whether you win or lose, this percentage is going to get you the long term results that you are aiming for.

Short Term Trading

2007-10-18T19:51:00.000+08:00

Profitable trading dengan long term trend following itu jelas2 nyata.Saya selalu sebut contoh turtle system yg dari curtis faith, yg kemudian kami bikin EA nya exactly as the said rules, hasilnya bener2 profit. Kami modifikasi, hasilnya bahkan lebih cantik lagi. Begitu juga dengan sistem "Aberration" yg pakai deviasi, alias Bollinger band, yg juga mengadopsi filosofi long term trend following, jelas2 profitable.
Gak ada prediction, gak ada hal2 canggih, hanya averages, deviasi, true range, etc..
Profitabilitas sistem2 di horizon long term itu sangat ditentukan oleh lengkapnya suatu sistem. Gak cuman entry - exit. Karena kalau mengandalkan entry-exit polos, sistem yg entry di 55 day b/o, exit di 20 day b/o, pasti bakalan losing. Apalagi yg entry di b/o bands, exit di b/o bands lainnya. Ugly banget deh..
Tapi ternyata, karena adanya komponen risk management (position sizing, pre-determined SL), trailing exit, dan multiple entry utk memanfaatkan trending session semaksimal mungkin, akhirnya suatu sistem yg sangat simple malah menjadi profitable.

Itu cerita saya di lembaran2 yg lalu. Namanya juga org lagi belajar selalu kena sindrom kaget, baru tau kayak gitu saya pikir: "that was the ONLY answer"..
Tapi ternyata perjalanan belum selesai. Sistem long term kayak gitu nggak feasible utk dijalankan kalau hanya mentradingkan capital $5k, apalagi cuman $400. Kecuali kalau trading itu hanya hobby. Baru layak dijalankan secara komersial kalo ada capital 100k ke atas, itu pun dengan efisiensi di komponen2 fixed cost. "Gak nendang" banget deh...

So, akhirnya, berangkat dari hasil belajar sebelumnya, lanjut bertapa lagi, riset lagi.
Kerangkanya masih sama: systematic trading, yg ujung2nya bisa di-mekanisasi.
Hasilnya: Short term trading si doable. Mission very possible.
Kuncinya:
- FX market punya pola volatilitas intraday yg sangat siklik. Hal ini termanifestasi pada batasan penggunaan suatu sistem tertentu pada jam2 tertentu saja. Akhirnya bakalan ada saat2 di mana kita menggunakan prinsip mean-reversion, dan ada saat2 di mana kita bisa menggunakan prinsip momentum.
- Profil Risk-to-Reward ratio per single trade nya ternyata inverted.
- Penentuan SL dan TP mengacu pada gerakan rata2 historical per satuan waktu tertentu, dilakukan dgn menarik value dari ATR (average true range), sehingga didapat suatu sistem yg sangat robust: menggunakan parameter yg sama utk semua currency pairs, dan profit di semua pairs. Robust.

Jadi, teman2 seperjuangan ku di sini, let me tell you here: jangan menyerah. Jangan berkecil hati.
Kalau gak percaya my story, berikut saya sertakan kutipan tulisan dari blog nya covel, komentar ed seykota dan covel tentang short term trading:
http://www.michaelcovel.com/archives/000314.html
Ed Seykota was recently asked in his forum:

"I am new to trend following and wish to ask you what your favorite chart is for determining a given market's trend? Daily, Weekly, Yearly, Hourly?"

Ed responded:

"Hmmm...your list seems to lack scaling options for minute, second, and millisecond. If you want to go for the really high frequency stuff, you might try trading visible light, in the range of one cycle per 10-15 seconds. Trading gamma rays, at around one cycle per 10-20 seconds, requires a lot of expensive instrumentation, whereas you can trade visible light "by eye." I don't know of even one short-term trader, however, who claims to show a profit at these frequencies. In general, higher frequency trading succumbs to declining profit potential against non-declining transaction costs. You might consider trading a chart with a long enough time scale that transaction costs are a minor factor - something like a daily price chart, going back a year or two."
I agree with Ed's pithy wisdom, but he is not saying short term is impossible.

There do exist shorter term systematic traders who have done quite well (Toby Crabel, Jim Simons). They would agree with Ed that their style is hard. The shorter you go the more you need great execution, fantastic data and multiple systems. To be a great shorter term mechanical trader is a different animal than trend following, but it is a style that a select few have mastered.

Short term vs long term systems

2007-10-18T19:48:00.000+08:00

Short term systems usually produce these outcomes:
Many small profits, usually consecutively. They may come as frequent as 70-80%.
A big losing trade will come occasionally, causing drawdowns. This is seldom, but alwas come and never can be predicted. Its just the nature of the system. This may as frequent as 20-30%.
Equity curve profile looks like this red lines in the picture at the bottom of this post.
Meanwhile, long term trendfollowing systems have the opposite profile:
Small losing trades usually happen regularly and consecutively. They are 60-70% of the total statistics. These are when cuting small losses.
Big profit comes when the system ride trends. They are seldom. And hardly are consecutively. We can not predict when it'll come, but it is promised by the nature of the market.

The equity curve profile looks like the blue lines in the picture below.
Short term systems includes the bolltrade, the multilot systems, the short term breakout systems, etc.
Long term systems includes the turtles, the aberration, and several others.
They all pretty consistent with those profile I mentioned.

Beberapa mitos ttg FX

2007-10-18T19:39:00.000+08:00

Mitos bhw anda trading di interbank market. Kenyataan anda trading dalam suatu house, shg mrk tidak pernah pakai tight SL. Hanya cat-SL, sdangkan exitnya pakai mental-SL. (tolong koreksi kalo gue salah soal yg ini)

Mitos bahwa FX = low cost. Kenyataan: biaya spread yg 2-3pips itu sangat tinggi. Bandingkan dengan trading futures atau stock, comission di bawah 1 pips per r/t. Apalagi dibanding ER2 yg volatilitasnya bisa 20 tick sehari.

Mitos soal Leverage yg dijadikan daya tarik. Kenyataan: ini adalah senjata paling ampuh bagi house utk marketing, sekaligus menjadi penyebab utama kehancuran rekening customer (para trader pemula).

Mitos bhwa di FX anda bisa trading selama 24 Hour. Kenyataan: para professional trader seperti para pembicara di video trsebut hanya trading di jam-jam tertentu saja. Mrk lihat calendar utk lihat kapan ada action di market. Bahkan menurut mereka: trader yg mencoba trading intraday dan mentradingkan semua signal buy/sell dari sistem nya, pasti trader2 itu rekeningnya masih losing. itu menurut pengamatan mereka melihat trader2 lainnya. Ini menarik sekali.

Mitos soal fasilitas Free software, free data utk FX. Kenyataannya: free sfotware dan data itu gak baik. Ini menurut mereka. Mrk pakai tradestation. Mungkin bener juga kata mereka, tapi mungkin juga salah ya. I don;t know. Coba temen2 ada yg bisa kasi tanggapan ?

Mitos soal indikator2: sell di overbought, buy di oversold. Buy/sell di corssover dll. Kenyataannya: teknik trading seperti itu sengaja disebarkan oleh pihak2 yg berkepentingan. Wah wah.

Mitos bhwa cukup demo 1-2 bulan, lalu go Live. Kenyataan: menurut mereka: "don't expect to go live within 6 months, 1 year or even 18 months".
Mitos bhwa FX & Futures lebih rumit drpada stock. Kenyataan: menurut mrk: stock lebih repot.

Hal menarik lain: Soal teknik trading.

Mereka pakai satu setting (mrk pakai 1 indikator) di 3 timeframe.
Mereka jelas2 bilang penggunaan banyak indikator di satu timeframe itu salah satu ciri2 trader yg masih merugi. Mereka justru lakukan yg sebaliknya sebaliknya: mrk pakai satu indikator atau tanpa indikator, di multiple timeframe. Utk intraday mrk pakai chart 15 min, 10min, 3 min. Utk posisi swing yg lebih panjang mrk pakai tf yg lebih panjang, tp tetap multiple timeframe.

Yah begitu lah point2 yg gue dapat tangkap dari video tersebut. Mungkin gue ada salah tangkap atau ada yg terlewat. Utk lebih jelasnya, silakan liat ndiri deh yak..
Ini gue posting lagi link nya, siapa tau ada yg kelewat postingnya Eugene:

http://www.netpicks.com/UTM/MythBustingE1.html
http://www.netpicks.com/UTM/MythBustingE2.htm

Reasons trading is like sex

2007-10-18T19:06:00.000+08:00

Some like it long, some like it short.

You can study the market as much as you like, but it all comes down to luck.
Those who talk about it the most, have the least experience.
One simple mistake could lead to 18 unprofitable years.
Some prefer to sit back and watch it grow.
Terms include swing trading, asset turnover, naked call, after hours, insider trading, silent partner, blind entries, 30-day wash rule, straddle, triangles, descending tops, ascending bottoms, pump and dump, partial surrender, stop order, position limit, voluntary liquidation, and explicit interest.
Low confidence can keep you out of the market.
Everyone tends to focus on performance.
Some do it alone, others do it with a group, and some hire professionals.
and the number one reason....Some positions are better than others and the best position is always up for debate!
And remember, past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Style trading Turtle BREAKOUT

2007-10-18T18:35:00.000+08:00

Ini adalah hasil trading Curtis "turtle" Faith di awal2 wkt dilatih Richard Dennis.

Terlihat teknik break loss mlulu di awal2 sampai 17x, tapi sekalinya menang semua loss ketutup & profit byk. Itulah ciri2 teknik BREAK. Makanya biarpun gampang tp org sulit sekali menerapkan ini. Hal ini membutuhkan DISIPLIN & KONSISENSI yg sempurna. Kedua hal ini bisa dicapai dg LATIHAN berulang-ulang sehingga confidence kita muncul dari dalam hati kita sendiri, bukan krn kata org.

Ternyata Curtis Faith lbh cocok dijuluki org "beriman" alias "faith", biarpun faith sebesar biji sesawi akan bisa memindahkan gunung loss.

The Secret of Timing

2007-10-18T18:08:00.000+08:00

Once you’ve identified a trading opportunity, the next step is to decide EXACTLY when to buy - and this is where many traders go wrong.Here we explain how to incorporate better market timing into your FOREX strategy - so that you can make bigger profits.

Most traders time their entry levels incorrectly, so here’s the right way to do it:

Using Support and Resistance Correctly
A basic wisdom of market timing is “buy low, sell high” - well, the reality is, if you try this in FOREX trading, you’ll end up losing money. First, let’s define what support and resistance means

A support level is a historical price that traders come in, and buy to “support the market” – and the more times it’s tested, the more valid the support will be.

Conversely, a resistance level is a level on the charts that “resisted prices from moving higher”- again the more times it’s tested, the more significant it becomes.

Why Buy Low and Sell High doesn’t Work
“Buy low, sell high” is accepted wisdom by the majority of traders - but this logic is fundamentally flawed - use it in FOREX trading, and you’re asking for trouble. Why? - If you wait for a pullback, you’re going to miss some of the biggest moves.

Think about it - what if a currency starts to trend and doesn’t pullback? (How often have you seen this?) If you’re waiting for a pullback that never comes, you’ll never get in on the trade – and you’ll miss a major opportunity.

You Need to Feel Uncomfortable
When Trading in the FOREX market, you should usually feel uncomfortable (and that’s why most traders don’t make these trades) - as no one likes to buy or sell after the market has started trending - but doing this will make you money.

The fact is, the more comfortable you feel when entering a trade at support, the less likely the trade will be a big winner.

During any given year, most of the big moves in currencies, take place from new MARKET HIGHS with NO pullback.

If you base your FOREX Trading strategy around waiting for a warm comfy entry, at key support, you’re going to miss the biggest and most profitable trades – so step away from the losing majority of traders.

Your FOREX trading strategy should give you a different mindset - most traders “buy low and sell high” - so you should “buy high and sell higher” – i.e. you should be doing the opposite of what the crowd are doing.

Don’t worry - most traders lose money, and their FOREX Trading strategy is based on the flawed logic we have just discussed - so not doing what they do makes total sense. Therefore, look for breakouts through support and resistance - and sell and buy respectively.

Its Tough Mentally - But it Makes Money!
Sure, it’s hard to do - the majority don’t agree with you - and no one likes to go against the majority. However, it’s the right thing to do, to make your FOREX trading successful. Think about what we’ve just said, and you’ll see it makes logical sense.

Has this Happened to You?
How many times do traders buy into support, and the market breaks support, stops them out and continues to decline. On the other hand, another common scenario is, price never get to support - it simply goes higher - and the trader misses the chance to get in on the trend.

This type of trading is tough mentally - that’s why 90% of traders don’t do it - they want to be comfortable - well being comfortable is great, but you’ll lose money.

Breakouts work, and if you use them in your FOREX Trading strategy, you won’t be comfortable on entry - but you’ll make money - and that will more than compensate.

The way to succeed in FOREX trading is to do what the losing majority don’t do - then you can join the elite 10% of traders who make the big profits - try it and see!

The Secret to Making Profits from the Big Moves

2007-10-18T18:05:00.000+08:00

In FOREX trading, it’s a fact that many traders simply can’t let their profits run - they enter trades correctly, but only ever, bank marginal profits. “Let your profits run” is accepted market wisdom - but how do you do it in practice? How do you maximize your profits?

Many FOREX traders get in on a good opportunity, and take a marginal profit, or are stopped out - they then watch in frustration as the trade piles up $20,000, $50,000, or more - and they’re not in the market! This happens all the time, so lets look at how you can let your FOREX trading profits run.

Statistical Significance
When FOREX Trading, letting your profits run, is the only way you can cover the cost of your losses - and most traders don’t understand its significance.

What constitutes a large winner in FOREX trading? - You need to make ten times or more than your average losing trade. If you lose $500, you need to make $5000 - but how do you do this?

The only way to make money in FOREX trading is by letting your profits run - and this isn’t as easy as it sounds. You need to let your profits run with a NO profit objective. Of course, this is hard to do - and most traders don’t do it (and that’s why they lose).

There are two reasons why traders lose money in the FOREX market – one’s mental, and the other’s physical:
A Mental Dilemma
Why is it so hard to hold on to winning trades?
The emotion of fear comes into play here - the bigger the profit becomes, the more a trader wants to take it - before they lose it.

Watching a trade you are making money in, dip back is hard. Most traders simply say, any profit is better than no profit – so they take a small profit and feel happy. However, the profit isn’t big enough - and their losing trades wipe them out sooner or later.

Traders want to snatch ANY profit - in case it gets away - but this is totally wrong.

Physical Reality
The large trends simply do not come around that often.
By using an open profit objective, and a lagging exit, most of your FOREX trades will lose you money.

Trying to avoid losses by snatching profits, or running stops to close, will see you lose money in the long run, when you trade the FOREX markets.

The huge trends don’t come that often - so you need to catch them.

If you want to catch the big winners, then you need to see the majority of the trades that you enter, that are in profit, reverse - and stop you out at a loss

Because FOREX Trading offers traders fantastic long-term trends - that go on for months, or years - if you can get in on them, and hold them - you’re all set for huge profits.

Use Lagging Exits
A lagging exit is where you wait for confirmation of a trend change - before banking your profit.

Many traders try to anticipate a trend change - only to take profits early, and miss the major move - don’t fall into this trap!

Here are two exit strategies that will keep you in the trend for as long possible:

1. To exit a trade, use the 40-day moving average. If positioned long in an up trend - wait for a close below this level - and exit the position. In a downtrend, exit a short on a close above this level.

2. If long from a new 20 day high - hold position until prices make a new 10-day price low. If short from a 4 week low - hold short until prices make a new 10-day high.

These two lagging exit strategies will ensure that you are in the big trending moves, for as long as possible. In FOREX Trading, if you want to run the big winners, then you must use a lagging exit. If you do this, then you will stay with the big moves - and pile up huge gains – rather that get stopped out early.

Search for the Holy Grail

2007-10-15T18:47:00.000+08:00

Some things in trading just aren't possible. Maybe a car analogy will help.Imagine for a moment you are designing a car and it has to have the following characteristics:

0-60 miles per hour in 6 seconds
Top speed of 180 miles per hour
So it's a fast sports car at the high end of performance. Now you have a couple more required characteristics:

Carry 7 passengers in comfort
Do 40 miles on a gallon of gas
If you know anything about physics and conservation of energy you will quickly realize that these 4 characteristics would be virtually impossible to embody into one vehicle (with current technology). You have 2 main choices - compromise on some of the requirements, or design 3 cars (a sports car, an SUV, and a compact).

What has this got to do with trading? Well a lot of the time people are trying to design the 'Holy Grail' system that has the following characteristics:

High win%
High average winner size to loser size
High frequency
High return
Low drawdown
Low slippage
Low implementation costs
Just like the car design where some of the characteristics have an inverse relationship (e.g. top speed to fuel economy) trading systems exhibit similar behavior. High win%, for example, is usually inversely proportional to both trade frequency and average size of winners compared to losers.

When you are attempting to design a trading system it is important that you make sure you don't have an 'impossible specification' for what you want to achieve because you don't clearly understand the relationships between the various system components and characteristics. Otherwise the only thing you'll achieve is frustration.

The Key to Long-Term Success

2007-10-09T19:58:00.000+08:00

Successful people have been studied in depth for more than 100 years. They have been interviewed extensively to determine what it is they do and how they think that enables them to accomplish so much more than the average person.

In this Newsletter, you learn the most important single factor of long-term success and how you can build it into your personality and your attitude. You learn how to virtually guarantee yourself a great future.

The Harvard Discovery on Success
In 1970, sociologist Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University wrote a book entitled The Unheavenly City. He described one of the most profound studies on success and priority setting ever conducted.

Banfield’s goal was to find out how and why some people became financially independent during the course of their working lifetimes. He started off convinced that the answer to this question would be found in factors such as family background, education, intelligence, influential contacts, or some other concrete factor. What he finally discovered was that the major reason for success in life was a particular attitude of mind.

Develop Long Time Perspective
Banfield called this attitude “long time perspective.” He said that men and women who were the most successful in life and the most likely to move up economically were those who took the future into consideration with every decision they made in the present. He found that the longer the period of time a person took into consideration while planning and acting, the more likely it was that he would achieve greatly during his career.

For example, one of the reasons your family doctor is among the most respected people in America is because he or she has invested many years of hard work and study to finally earn the right to practice medicine. After university courses, internship, residency and practical training, a doctor may be more than 30 years old before he or she is capable of earning a good living. But from that point onward, these men and women are some of the most respected and most successful professional people in any society. They had long time perspectives.

Measure the Potential Future Impact
The key to success in setting priorities is having a long time perspective. You can tell how important something is today by measuring its potential future impact on your life.

For example, if you come home from work at night and choose to play with your children or spend time with your spouse, rather than watch TV or read the paper, you have a long time perspective. You know that investing time in the health and happiness of your children and your spouse is a very valuable, high-priority use of time. The potential future impact of quality time with your family is very high.

If you take additional courses in the evening to upgrade your skills and make yourself more valuable to your employer, you’re acting with a long time perspective. Learning something practical and useful can have a long-term effect on your career.

Practice Delayed Gratification
Economists say that the inability to delay gratification-that is, the natural tendency of individuals to spend everything they earn plus a little bit more, and the mind-set of doing what is fun, easy and enjoyable-is the primary cause of economic and personal failure in life. On the other hand, disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem and personal satisfaction.

The long term comes soon enough, and every sacrifice that you make today will be rewarded with compound interest in the great future that lies ahead for you.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, think long-term. Sit down today and write out a description of your ideal life ten and twenty years into the future. This automatically develops longer-time perspective.

Second, look at everything you do in terms of its long-term potential impact on your life. Do more things that have greater long-term value to you.

Third, develop the habit of delaying gratification in small things, small expenditures, small pleasures, so that you can enjoy greater rewards and greater satisfaction in the future.

Only Indiana Jones was successful in searching for the Holy Grail!

2007-10-08T00:25:00.000+08:00

Don't fall into the trap of searching for the Holy Grail of technical analysis? There are traders who try one indicator for awhile and when success doesn't come, they move on to another hoping to find profits hidden within the indicator itself? At one time I did this too!

The truth be told, several indicators work well, if you really know how to read them. The lack of success in trading often comes not from not having the "right" indicator, but from not learning to read it properly. A logical examination will tell you this is true. Almost all indicators are built using the open, close, high, low and volume, or some of these. There are only so many relevant combinations of this data. So while a pursuit in an indicator that will provide you with magical insight that no one else has, sounds adventures, it is futile.

The key is not just finding the right technical tools. There are several useful charting tools available. The key is learning which ones to use together and to use them properly! This is the "art of trading". While it is an art, it is not hard to learn, but honestly it does take time. If it didn't we would all be millionaires!

The problem many face today, is that we live in an instant gratification society. So many habitually, if they don't get what they are looking for immediately, look somewhere else, when in some cases, like trading, all you have to do is exert yourself a little to really understand how an indicator works and you can find the success you were looking for. This is only one of the pit falls new traders suffer from.

It reminds me of when I was a little child and my father would take me fishing. I was so impatient. I would throw my line in and if a fish didn't bite within a minute, I would reel it in and cast it out somewhere else. My Dad, would smile, while he patiently waited with his line in place. At the end of the afternoon, as usual, we would go home. I would be empty handed and he would be carrying 3 or 4 fish.

So what is needed is knowledge and a systematic way of applying that knowledge so your success or failure can be measured.. A streamed lined way to gain a systematic application of knowledge is the "franchise method" like in real business.

The path of oneness.
Don't make the same mistake many new traders make!

Don't try to be one of those who attempt to learn on their own and usually end up losing their capital in the process. This risk is very real as my experience will show.

It happened to me, don't let it happen to you: When I first began to trade, I spent a short time educating myself and thought I was ready to go. I started trading and started making some money. The excitement and my confidence built up! Within a short time however, my losses started to catch up with my winnings. I would enter a trade, get stopped out and then to my dismay, I would see the price start climbing the next day. Frustration started to set in.

It wasn't long before I started to panic which caused me on occasion to widen my stop losses on losing positions in hopes they would reverse themselves, which only resulted in larger losses. Within a year I had single handedly destroyed almost half of my trading account.

Words alone could not tell the frustration I felt, as I knew of other traders who were raking in profits month in and month out, so I knew it could be done. That's when I decided to get serious. I stopped trading, at least with real money. I took a few short courses and stared reading more books and even wasted time in search of the Holy Grail. Over the next couple of years and several reams of paper later I paper traded and recorded everything I did. Every win and every loss documented to the last small detail of the trade, looking for the common thread of success.

In my case the saying was true, "I couldn't see the trees, because the forest was in the way", but when I had finally put enough pieces of the puzzle together, I began to understand what I was looking at. When I finally found out what worked, I was amazed at how simple it was. It was like the combination to a safe. Just a little error made the difference between success and failure. Success had come, but it was a long, hard road and an expensive one.

Discretionary vs System Trading

2007-10-03T10:01:00.000+08:00

I believe that one can apply good trading principles without having an explicit system and be successful as a discretionary trader. Some of the best traders I know are discretionary traders, this is especially true of day traders or swing traders. Discretionary trading is more fun and can be more gratifying if you have the right personality.

Many people believe that only a human brain can make money and that discretionary trading is vastly superior to systematic trading. Others believe that discretionary trading is inferior and that only system trading works. I hold none of these dogmatic beliefs.

I believe that all successful traders are systematic but that some have internalized the rules they use so that they are able to perform without having to explicitly refer to rules. They may not even be aware of all the rules they use.

Good system traders would learn quite a bit from reading the blogs of discretionary traders. There are many ideas contained in these blogs that can be used to build systems which make money.

I also believe that discretionary traders can learn a lot by building systems and testing out trading ideas in the context of those systems for scientific validation. I have found that many ideas I held as truth did not stand up to the rigor of testing. I’m sure that many discretionary traders find the same when they test their ideas using simulation software.

When I have sat down with discretionary traders, I often find that after a few hours of questions and answers I can get them to describe to me concepts which they did not believe could be tested in such a way that I was able to create a specific trading algorithm that embodied those concepts. This process has always been instructive for both of us.

So I encourage all of you who believe that only your religion is the one true faith to try to learn from the dark side. I am sure that you will find, as I have, that both approaches have their merit and can be the basis of a successful trading career, and that success using either approach comes down to the same core principles: trade with an edge, manage risk, be consistent, keep it simple.

Triple screen trading system

2007-10-03T00:40:00.000+08:00

The factor of five in choosing timeframes. Decide which timeframe you want to trade and call that intermediate timeframe. The long-term timeframe will be 5 times longer and the short-term timeframe 5 times shorter than the intermediate timeframe.

First Screen (long-term timeframe) – Market Tide
The first screen uses trend-following indicators to identify a long-term trend. The original system uses the slope of the MACD-Histogram to identify the market tide. The slope is defined as the relationship between the two latest bars. The upturns and downturns that occur above or below the centerline give better signals than the opposite. You could also use a simple 13 candles exponential moving average to define where the trend is going. The principle is the same: first screen enables you to decide if you will go long or short on second screen.

Second Screen (intermediate timeframe) – Market Wave
The second screen applies oscillators to the intermediate timeframe chart in order to identify deviations from the first screen chart. When the long-term timeframe trend is up, intermediate timeframe declines point to buying opportunities. When the long-term timeframe trend is down, intermediate timeframe rallies point to shorting opportunities. Force index and Elder-ray are good oscillators to use with Triple Screen, but Stochastic and Williams%R also perform well.

Third Screen (short-term timframe) – Intraday Breakout
The third screen uses intraday price action to pinpoint entry points. The third screen does not require a chart or an indicator. It uses a trailing buy-stop technique when the long-term timeframe trend is up while the intermediate timeframe is down to catch upside breakouts. On the other side, it uses a trailing sell-stop technique when the long-term timeframe trend is down while the intermediate timeframe is up to catch downside breakouts.

So technically, when the conditions you are looking for are met on the First and on the Second Screen, place a buy (or a sell order) on the third screen one tick above (or below) the high (or the low) of the last closed candle on the INTERMEDIATE TERM TIMEFRAME.

Keep moving your buy-stop (or sell-stop) for each subsequent candle until stopped in or until the trend on the long-term timeframe reverses therefore cancelling its initial signal.

Best Forex trading tips

2007-10-01T19:47:00.000+08:00

We cannot say that it is very easy to make money in forex trading, but it isn’t really difficult also. It is the smart work that matters than hard work in trading currency market. Following are the essential tips on how to avoid usual pitfalls and start making more money in forex trading.

Trade in pairs not in currency- Like any relationship; you need to know both the sides. Success or failure in forex currency trading relies upon being right about both foreign currencies and how they contact each other, not just one.

Understand the basics - When you start to trading currency online, it is indispensable that you understand the basics of this particular market if you desire to make the most of your investments. The chief forex influencer is worldwide news and other related events. Most newcomers respond aggressively to news like this and close their positions and next miss out on some of the most excellent trading chances by waiting until the market goes down. The latent in the forex market is in the instability, not when it is clam.

Self-government - If in case you are fresher to forex, you would either choose to trade your own money or to have a forex broker trading it for you. It is good but your risk of losing augments tremendously if you either of these two things: you also need to interfere with what your forex broker do on your behalf; seek counsel from too many other sources - many input would only result in multiple losses. Take a location, ride with it and then analyze the result - by yourself, for yourself.

Small margins – Small margin trading is one of the leading benefits in trading forex as it permits you to do trading in the amounts far bigger than the total of your deposits. However, it could as well be risky to beginner traders as it could demand to the voracity factor, which wipes out many forex traders. The best guideline is to boost your leverage in line with your skill and success.

Trade during Off-Peak Hours - Professional FX traders, option traders, and other hedge funds mobs a wide benefit over small retail traders in off-peak hours (usually between 2200 CET and 1000 CET) as they could hedge their place and move them around when there is far tiny trade volume is going through (that simply means that their risk is smaller).

Trade on the news - Most of the actually big trade market moves arise around news time. Trading volume is lofty and the moves are very important; this means there is no superior time to trade than when news is actually released. This is when the big players alter their places and prices alter resulting in a somber currency flow.

Confidence - Confidence comes from winning forex trading. If you lose money early in your trading career it's extremely hard to gain it back; the ploy is not to go off half-cocked; study the forex business before you start to trade. Keep in mind, knowledge is power.

Filosofi Pasar Modal

2007-10-01T09:08:00.000+08:00

Beberapa waktu lalu saya mendapat surat elektronik (e-mail) dari seorang konsultan keuangan (lihat artikel di bawah). Menarik, karena e-mail tersebut datang dari seorang konsultan keuangan yang beraktivitas di pasar modal.
Judul e-mail tersebut adalah Philisophy of the Stock Market atau Filisofi Pasar Saham. Isinya begini: Sekali peristiwa di sebuah desa, muncullah seorang tuan yang mengumumkan kepada para penghuni desa bahwa dia akan membeli monyet dengan harga 10 Ringgit per ekor. Para penghuni desa yang melihat banyak monyet di hutan bersegera keluar dan mulai menangkap monyet-monyet itu.

Tuan itu membeli beribu-ribu ekor monyet dengan harga 10 Ringgit. Ketika persediaan monyet mulai menurun dan para penghuni desa mulai menghentikan usaha mereka, dia mengumumkan bahwa sekarang dia akan membeli monyet pada harga 20 Ringgit per ekor. Para penghuni desa tergerak, dan mereka mulai menangkap monyet lagi. Persediaan monyet pun semakin menurun dan mereka kembali ke kebun.

Harga penawaran kemudian dinaikkan menjadi 25 Ringgit per ekor. Karena persediaan monyet sedemikian langka maka diperlukan upaya lebih keras dari sebelumnya. Tak berapa lama Tuan itu mengumumkan bahwa dia akan membeli monyet pada harga 50 Ringgit per ekor. Tapi berhubung dia harus ke kota untuk urusan bisnis, maka asistennya yang diserahi tugas untuk kepentingannya.

Ketika Tuan itu sudah pergi, asisten itu berkata kepada para penghuni desa: "Lihatlah monyet-monyet di kandang besar yang telah dikumpulkan oleh Tuan. Saya akan menjual monyet-monyet kepada Anda seharga 35 Ringgit per ekor, dan ketika Tuan kembali, Anda bisa menjual kepadanya dengan harga 50 Ringgit per ekor."

Terjadilah antre panjang para penghuni desa untuk membeli monyet dengan seluruh tabungan yang ada pada mereka. Ternyata setelah itu, baik asisten maupun Tuan lenyap tak berbekas, sementara monyet-monyet ada di mana-mana!

Persepsi Jadi Realitas
Persepsi menjadi kenyataan (perception becomes reality) adalah ungkapan paling tepat untuk menggambarkan kisah tersebut di atas. Kisah di atas bisa mewakili apa yang sering terjadi di pasar modal.

Belum lama ini pasar modal kita dihebohkan dengan kasus gagal bayar antarpialang atas transaksi suatu saham dengan nilai lebih dari Rp 200 miliar. Dalam hitungan bulan, harga saham ini bergerak spektakuler, dari di bawah Rp100 menjadi di atas Rp 4.000. Nilai transaksi yang terjadi setiap hari pun tidak tanggung-tanggung, pernah mencapai di atas Rp 1 triliun.

Para pelaku pasar pun berdecak dan senang. Tapi tidak sedikit juga yang cemas. Mereka senang, karena dengan pergerakan harga yang naik luar biasa mereka akan memperoleh keuntungan yang substansial. Namun, mereka cemas kalau-kalau harga keburu turun sementara mereka belum sempat menjual kembali apa yang telah mereka beli pada harga tinggi. Cemas karena mereka tahu bahwa penurunan harga, cepat atau lambat tetap akan terjadi, namun kapan persisnya, semuanya tak bisa memperkirakan.

Apa yang dicemaskan kemudian benar-benar terjadi. Harga saham menukik tajam sampai suspensi oleh Otoritas Bursa pada level sekitar Rp 2.000. Ada yang memang meraup untung karena sempat menjual di atas harga beli, tapi ada juga yang rugi besar, karena telanjur membeli pada harga tinggi dan belum sempat menjual kembali.

"Penggorengan" Saham
Ada istilah yang populer di pasar modal kita yakni saham gorengan, dengan pelakunya disebut penggoreng saham atau tukang goreng saham. Menarik, bukan?

Ternyata bukan hanya pisang yang bisa digoreng, saham pun bisa. Artinya saham bisa diberi "bumbu" dengan berbagai informasi menarik dan menjanjikan untuk menciptakan persepsi bahwa saham itu memang bagus dan banyak peminat.

Lalu harga semakin naik seiring naiknya permintaan dan turunnya persediaan. Setelah harga naik tinggi, penggoreng saham mulai menjual sahamnya pada harga tinggi tersebut. Akibatnya, pasar mulai dibanjiri saham tersebut dan harga mulai turun drastis. Dalam hal ini penggoreng saham tidak bekerja sendiri, melainkan memiliki kaki-tangan yang membantunya. Mirip cerita monyet di atas, bukan?

Goreng -menggoreng saham sering terjadi di pasar modal kita. Itulah yang sering memberi kesan bahwa pasar modal merupakan tempat berjudi. Sayangnya, istilah 'main saham' yang telanjur lumrah ini memberi konotasi negatif atas suatu aktivitas investasi keuangan.

Lalu, apakah memang demikian cermin pasar saham yang seharusnya? Jawabannya, tentu saja tidak. Contoh di atas menggambarkan penyimpangan pada aktivitas pasar modal yang bermartabat.

Hakikatnya, investasi pada saham suatu perusahaan memungkinkan sang investor memiliki perusahaan tersebut dan berpartisipasi dalam pertumbuhan perusahaan yang dipilihnya itu. Investor saham mendapat bagian keuntungan dari perusahaan tersebut dalam bentuk dividen. Investor juga mendapat keuntungan dalam bentuk capital gain, yaitu apresiasi harga pasar terhadap harga beli. Kenaikan harga saham ditopang oleh faktor fundamental antara lain kinerja keuangan perusahaan yang solid dan pertumbuhan perusahaan yang menjanjikan, bukan karena "digoreng" oleh tukang goreng!

Mestinya inilah filosofi investasi di pasar saham, yaitu partisipasi sebagai pemegang saham lalu mendapatkan keuntungan bersih perusahaan dalam bentuk dividen dan apresiasi harga saham dalam bentuk capital gain, dan sebaliknya, turut menanggung kerugian perusahaan (tidak ada dividen) dan capital loss akibat penurunan harga saham.

Pasar Bermartabat
Nafsu mengambil untung secara tidak wajar dengan mencelakakan orang lain menandakan tiadanya etika dalam praktik bisnis. Bercermin dari cerita monyet di atas, siapakah yang menikmati keuntungan, sebaliknya, siapakah yang mengalami nasib naas? Kisah monyet tersebut di atas jelas menggambarkan bahwa si Tuan dengan kaki-tangannya si asisten mendapat untung besar, sementara para penghuni desa mendapat rugi besar.

Sahabat saya sering heran kalau saya meminta mereka untuk berhati-hati berinvestasi di pasar saham. Menurut mereka, sebagai praktisi yang turut mempromosikan dan memajukan pasar modal di Indonesia, saya mestinya mendorong mereka menyisihkan sebagian tabungan untuk investasi di pasar saham.

Betul, memajukan pasar modal adalah sebuah kewajiban profesional yang melekat, tapi menjauhkan pasar modal dari praktik penggorengan saham dalam rangka penciptaan harga semu, adalah sebuah kepedulian yang tak bisa saya hindari.

Alangkah bermartabatnya kalau pasar saham bebas dari praktik manipulasi harga lewat penciptaan harga semu. Betapa mulianya jika pasar saham bersih dan berwibawa, dan jauh dari stigma "tempat berjudi". Hanya dengan demikian masyarakat pemodal dapat beraktivitas dengan aman dan nyaman. Semoga!

The Last Samurai

2007-10-01T00:21:00.000+08:00

Waktu nonton The Last Samurai di tipi eh langsung ingat forex trading :D :-) ceritanya gini:seorang bekas kapten dari Ameriki yg pernah menaklukkan suku Indian dikirim ke Jepang untuk menumpas para pemberontak , atas permintaan kaisar Jepang.

Pengalaman Si kapten itulah alasan kenapa dia dipilih. Di Jepang kapten itu melatih para warga sipil(petani pedagang dll) yg belum familiar dengan senjata baru(senapan).
ketika bertanya lebih jauh siapa lawanya. si kapten terkejut karena ternyata lawanya hanyalah samurai berpedang,. para samurai dulu pernah memaki senapan tapi kemudian meninggalkannya karena dianggap senapan bukan jalan kehormatan. mereka merasa lebih terhormat dengan pedang di sisi mereka.
senapan lawan pedang !! ini konyolll.

Pelatihan pun dimulai . tetapi ketika baru beberapa minggu/hari? pelatihan diadakan dan para prajurit dadakan ini belum mahir benar sudah keluar perintah untuk segera menyerang para pemberontak.kapten menolaknya mentah2. tetapi perintah tetaplah perintah.segeralah pasukan disiapkan. dengan senjata lengkap dan canggih. senapan lawan pedang sungguh tak imbang.

para prajurit dadakan bersiap dengan senapan ditangan , menunggu aba2 sang kapten. Ketika para samurai berkuda muncul dg kostum menakutkan , terlihatlah ketakutan diwajah para tentara si kapten(padahal mereka bawa senapan) ,lalu ada beberapa tentara yg saking takutnya menembak tanpa aba2. diikuti teman2nya. padahal aba2 belum diberikan oleh kapten. mereka terus menembak seperti tidak mendengarkan lagi aba2. senapan pada jaman itu sekali isi tembak lalu isi lagi.

mulailah formasi kocar kacir. akhirnya pedang lawan senapan berakhir dengan kalahnya senapan.sang kapten akhirnya ditangkap oleh para samurai. dan dibiarkan hidup karena dianggap spesial :D

di tempat para samurai sang kapten nggak habis pikir kenapa dia dibiarkan hidup. disini dia mengamati para samurai yg mendedikasikan dirinya untuk pekerjaanya. mulai dari bangun pagi sampai malam. 8-)
singkat cerita. dia belajar main pedang. dan selalu dikalahkan oleh samurai disitu.
trus sesuai pengarahan dia harus "KOSONGKAN PIKIRAN konsentrasi fokus, JANGAN PIKIRKAN BAHWA KAMU DITONTON " namanya juga film. si kapten kemudian berhasil men DRAW samurai itu. dg hasil imbang.

ternyata para samurai memberontak karena kesetiaan mereka pada tuan nya (semangat bushido).mereka berpikir kaisar dikuasai oleh orang2 disekitarnya.dan kaisar tak berdaya melawan, semua keputusanya adalah bisikan oran2 disekitar kaisar.
setelah dibebaskan oleh para samurai dan kembali ke kota ,kapten langsung disuguhi senjata baru. meriam howitzer dan senapan mesin anti macet. dg ratusan peluru permenit.Trus gimana kisah selanjutnya??tonton aja sendiri :-) nggak tahu habis ketiduran sih hehehhe payah :-D

tapi intinya menurutku. ibarat kita memakai alat bantu indicator canggih(senapan) dan indi simple(pedang). hasilnya mungkin bisa bagusan indi simple jika kita menguasainya luar dalam master pedang/indi.

mental juga menentukan pengambilan keputusan, seringkali kita melakukan keputusan terlalu awal karena gugup market yg bergerak cepat. kosongkan pikiran, konsentrasi, jangan pikirkan penonton/dalam hal trading LOSS, kenapa? karena loss sudah diatur risk manajemen (sekitar 2%). disinilah kelihatan fungsinya risk manajemen mengurangi ketakutan dan beban. berpengaruh pada reaksi, analisa dan keputusan

Kehormatan, nah kalau yang terakhir ini apakah anda berpikir trading itu judi? kalau iya berarti tidak ada kehormatan/kebanggaan karena merasa trading bukanlah hal benar menurut norma dan agama. ini sangat fatal. kita lihat samurai dalam cerita itu memiliki semangat setia pada tuannya. dan itu dianggap sebagai kebenaran. dan itulah dasar yg penting. Apakah anda melakukan pekerjaan anda di dunia nyata dg kebanggaan? jawabannya pasti iya to? kalau nggak gimana? pasti nggak konsen too. :-( . kalau trading dianggap judi mending nggak usah trading sekalian, jika diteruskan ini hanya akan membuat anda semakin yakin kalau trading judi karena loss mulu :D

"Barangsiapa mengenal dirinya sendiri dan mengenal musuhnya, ia senantiasa menang dengan mudah. Barangsiapa mengenal langit dan bumi, ia menang atas segalanya - by Sun Tzu -

"tak akan serampangan dia dalam gerakannya ia kaya karsa dan membatasi kemungkinan- by Sun Tzu -

TITIPAN

2007-09-30T23:02:00.000+08:00

Sering kali aku berkata,
ketika orang memuji milikku,
bahwa sesungguhnya ini hanya titipan,
bahwa mobilku hanya titipan-Nya,
bahwa rumahku hanya titipan-Nya,
bahwa hartaku hanya titipan-Nya,
bahwa anakku hanya titipan-Nya,

tetapi,

mengapa aku tak pernah bertanya,mengapa Dia menitipkannya padaku?
untuk apa Dia menitipkan ini padaku?
dan kalau bukan milikku,apa yang harus kulakukan untuk milik-Nya ini?
adakah aku memiliki hak atas sesuatu yang bukan milikku?
mengapa hatiku justru terasa berat, ketika titipan itu diminta kembali oleh-Nya ?

Ketika diminta kembali,
kusebut itu sebagai musibah,
kusebut itu sebagai ujian,
kusebut itu sebagai petaka,
kusebut dengan panggilan apa saja
untuk melukiskan bahwa itu adalah "derita".

ketika aku berdoa,kuminta titipan yang cocok dengan hawa nafsuku,
aku ingin lebih banyak harta,
ingin lebih banyak mobil,
lebih banyak rumah,
lebih banyak popularitas, dan kutolak sakit,
kutolak kemiskinan,

Seolah,semua "derita" adalah hukuman bagiku.
Seolah,keadilan dan kasih-Nya harus berjalan seperti matematika
aku rajin beribadah,maka selayaknyalah derita menjauh dariku,
dan Nikmat dunia kerap menghampiriku.

kuperlakukan Dia seolah mitra dagang,dan bukan Kekasih.
kuminta Dia membalas "perlakuan baikku",
dan menolak keputusan-Nya yang tak sesuai keinginanku,
padahal tiap hari kuucapkan,hidup dan matiku hanyalah untuk beribadah.

"ketika langit dan bumi bersatu,bencana dan keberuntungan sama saja"

Jangan Menilaiku Terlalu Tinggi

2007-09-30T22:06:00.000+08:00

Aku bukanlah orang yang bijak
sangat baik
hebat
tak bermasalah
selalu tersenyum
rasional
selalu berpikir jernih

BUKAN...

Aku hanyalah laki2 biasa
Bertampang jutek
berkaos
bercelana pendek, kadang2 berjeans
bersendal jepit ...

aku hanyalah laki2 biasa
yang kadang menangis
marah
lempar barang
tendang orang

karena itu,jangan menilaiku terlalu tinggi...

aku hanya manusia biasa
Dengan segala kekurangan dan kelebihan
Aku hanya ingin memberi yang terbaik untuk saudaraku
Aku hanya ingin membalas kebaikan orang yang bersedia menjadi saudaraku
Aku hanya ingin menjadi sahabat untuk siapapun

Dan....jangan menilaiku terlalu tinggi...
---Segala puji hanya milikNya---

Mundur Untuk Melangkah Maju

2007-09-30T02:35:00.000+08:00

Jaman dahulu di Tiongkok kuno ada sebuah cerita mengenai Mendapatkan dan Memberikan yang patut dijadikan renungan.Konon ada dua orang, sebut saja si A dan si B, yang usianya di dunia fana telah berakhir, lalu kedua orang ini datang menghadap kepada Raja Neraka. Raja Neraka setelah membaca catatan mereka di Buku Neraka, memutuskan untuk membiarkan kedua orang ini untuk kembali reinkarnasi ke dunia fana menjadi manusia, dan memberi mereka dua pilihan: pilihan pertama adalah terlahir kembali di suatu kehidupan yang memberikan, sedangkan pilihan kedua adalah terlahir kembali di suatu kehidupan yang mendapatkan. Timbullah sifat serakah dalam diri si A, dalam hati ia berpikir bahwa dalam suatu kehidupan yang mendapatkan tidak akan mungkin ada penderitaan, tinggal duduk santai saja menikmati segala sesuatu yang telah tersedia, jadi dengan cepat si A segera merebut kesempatan untuk memilih pilihan pertama.

Sedangkan si B bukan saja tidak mengumpat karena si A sudah berhasil terlebih dahulu merebut pilihan pertama, justru sebaliknya ia berpikir, bahwa kehidupan yang memberikan harus senantiasa membantu orang lain, sungguh suatu kehidupan yang sangat bermakna! Raja Neraka setelah mende-ngar pilihan kedua orang tersebut lalu menetapkan jalan hidup dan masa depan bagi kedua orang ini dengan Pena Nasibnya, dan berkata kepada si B, “Karena engkau memilih kehidupan yang memberikan, maka dalam kehidupan tersebut engkau akan menjadi seorang hartawan, yang akan engkau abdikan untuk menderma dan membantu kaum fakir miskin, sedekah-kanlah seluruh hartamu bagi orang – orang miskin.”

Bagaimana dengan si A? Karena ia memilih kehidupan yang mendapatkan, maka jalan hidupnya telah digariskan untuk seumur hidupnya menjadi pengemis, yang akan selalu menerima pemberian bantuan dan pemberian dari orang lain selamanya.

Cerita ini mengingatkan kita bahwa mendapatkan atau memberikan dalam kehidupan seseorang tidak dapat diputuskan hanya dari sisi permukaannya saja. Ada kalanya kita sepertinya adalah pihak yang mendapatkan sesuatu, namun di lain pihak, di suatu dimensi yang tak terlihat, kita justru telah kehilangan sesuatu yang amat berharga hanya karena berusaha memperoleh sesuatu yang amat sepele dan tidak berarti.

Zheng Ban Qiao (baca : cheng pan jiao) pada saat menjadi pejabat, adik-nya terlibat perselisihan dengan tetangga ketika sang adik membangun rumah, kedua belah pihak sama sekali tidak mau mengalah, sampai akhirnya keduanya masing – masing membangun tembok pembatas di bagian depan rumah mereka sehingga membuat jalan di depan rumah mereka tersebut buntu, tidak dapat dilalui lagi. Sang adik mengirim sepucuk surat kepada Zheng Ban Qiao, berharap agar sang kakak dapat membantunya untuk memenangkan persidangan kasus perselisihan ini. Namun Zheng Ban Qiao membalas surat tersebut dengan sebait puisi, yang berbunyi demikian :

Mengirim surat dari ribuan kilometer hanya demi sebidang tembok rumah,
Apa sulitnya mengalah 3 kaki bagi tetangga itu,
Tembok raksasa China yang hingga kini masih berdiri kokoh,
Tetap tidak mampu membuat Raja Qin yang mendirikannya hidup abadi.

Para tetangga yang mengetahui hal itu sangat terharu, kedua belah pihak akhirnya saling mengalah selebar 3 kaki, yang kemudian justru menciptakan suatu kebaikan yang lebih agung bagi masyarakat sekitar, yakni di wilayah itu telah bertambah lagi satu jalan kecil/gang yang baru selebar 6 kaki.
Yang patut untuk dibahas adalah sikap Zheng Ban Qiao dalam menyelesaikan masalah ini, yang mengingatkan kita untuk : Mengalah selangkah de-ngan didasari kesabaran dan kebesaran hati, sekaligus juga tetap menjaga ketenangan dan ketentraman hati, niscaya pikiran kita akan menjadi jernih dan kebijakan tidak akan pernah luntur dari diri kita, perselisihan dan pertentangan baru dapat diselesaikan dengan baik, yang selanjutnya dapat memutar balikkan bahaya menjadi kedamaian.

Petani yang melangkah mundur dengan tubuh membungkuk sembari menancapkan bibit padi di petak sawah memberikan kita suatu pencerahan, suatu kesuksesan baru dapat diraih dengan menunduk dan melangkah mundur (menancapkan bibit padi dapat segera diselesaikan jika dilakukan de-ngan cara membungkuk sambil kita melangkah mundur). Selain itu, kiasan ini juga mengingatkan kita akan filosofi tingkat tinggi, bahwa mundur sesungguhnya adalah untuk maju.

Di dalam kehidupan manusia ada banyak kejadian yang kita alami yang sepertinya kita telah mengalah, sebenarnya kita justru telah melangkah maju. Kejadian Zheng Ban Qiao di atas merupakan suatu contoh yang terbaik untuk mengilustrasikan pernyataan ini.

Tersenyum

2007-09-29T11:08:00.000+08:00

Tersenyumlah maka Kamu akan mendapatkan orang lain akan tersenyum kepada kamu, itulah nasihat yang saya dapat dari orang tua saya.

Saat ini dalam kehidupan dan persaingan yang keras, saya jarang melihat orang tersenyum, semua orang dengan ekspresi muka yang kusut, penuh emosi, dan tidak bersahabat. Sedih hati saya melihat semua itu…

Susahkah kita hanya sekedar tersenyum, senyum yang tulus kepada semua orang, tetapi bukan tersenyum sendiri nanti Bisa dikira orang gila lagi. Pernahkah saya alami ketika suasana hati saya dalam kondisi yang sangat menjengkelkan, ingin marah, dan dunia terasa menghimpit hati,tiba-tiba sahabat saya dating dengan senyum-senyum sendiri… dan saya punsedikit geli dengan ulahnya yang membuat saya mengeluarkan senyum seketika.

Sedikit efek yang ditularkan dari sahabat saya tersebut,ternyata dengan sedikit senyum yang saya keluarkan maka, pikiran yang penat,dan suasana hati yang sedang galau sedikit mencair, dan saya Bisa berfikir jernih kembali, dan suasana hati dapat berubah.

Mahalnya sebuah senyuman, percaya…? Banyak sponsor yang berani invest untuk program komedi yang Bisa membuat kita tersenyum seperti contoh acara empat mata, dengan ikon nya tukul arwana, hanya bertujuan membuat kita tersenyum.

Ternyata senyum itu Bisa menularkan kebahagian, seperti contoh yang saya sebuatkan ternyata senyum Bisa menualrkan rasa bahagia dengan sesama kita, senyum adalah ibadah yang paling mudah yang bisa kita lakukan.

Tetapi dalam tersenyum janganlah senyum sinis, itu berarti anda sama dengan menabuh genderang permusuhan dengan seksama. Jujur saja saya suka dan senang melihat orang-orang tersenyum. Orang akan terlihat awet muda, cantik, menarik untuk dilihat. Tidak percaya coba anda tersenyum di balik kaca dan lihatlah wajah anda begitu menarik jikala tersenyum.

Percaya atau tidak senyum adalah bahasa universal yang dapat diterima di seluruh dunia sebagai bahasa persahabatan, semua orang akan menjadi ramah bila kita senyumi, walaupun kita datang ke suatu negara tanpa bisa berbahasa mereka, dengan memberi senyum, mereka akan membalas senyum kita.

kita akan sehat pikiran dan tubuh kita bila kita sering tersenyum, tapi sekarang ini banyak yang jarang tersenyum karena strees,banyak yang terkenya penyakit karena jarang tersenyum, terkena stress, struk dan penyakit lainya.

Kita tidak hanya tersenyum jikala kita senang dan berhasil,cobalah kita tersenyum dikala kita susauh dan gagal. Senyum dikala susah dan gagal akan memberi warna lain dalam hidup kita.

Jadi Kenapa kita masih susah tersenyum, karena hanya dengan senyum kita bisa membuat orang lain senang, kita jadi sehat, menambah sahabat, dan keutungan lainya. Mulailah tersenyum dengan orang terdekat anda, sahabat, teman kerja, rekan bisnis, keluarga.

"dengan sebuah senyum akan membuat dunia menjadi damai dan menyenangkan"

"Tuhan memberi manusia dengan jalannya masing-masing, hadapi semuanya dengan
senyum dan hidup ini akan terasa mudah"
Dalam perenunganku, Untuk meraih kembali mimpi dan sukses dengan senyum

Menjadi Matahari

2007-09-29T11:03:00.000+08:00

Seorang wanita bertanya pada seorang pria tentang cinta dan harapan.

Wanita berkata ingin menjadi bunga terindah di dunia dan pria berkata ingin menjadi matahari.
Wanita tidak mengerti kenapa pria ingin jadi matahari, bukan kupu-kupu atau kumbang yang bisa terus menemani bunga.

Wanita berkata ingin menjadi rembulan dan pria berkata ingin tetap menjadi matahari. Wanita semakin bingung karena matahari dan bulan tidak bisa bertemu, tetapi pria ingin tetap jadi matahari.

Wanita berkata ingin menjadi Phoenix yang bisa terbang ke langit jauh di atas matahari dan pria berkata ia akan selalu menjadi matahari.

Wanita tersenyum pahit dan kecewa. Wanita sudah berubah 3x namun pria tetap keras kepala ingin jadi matahari tanpa mau ikut berubah bersama wanita. Maka wanita pun pergi dan tak pernah lagi kembali tanpa pernah tahu alasan kenapa pria tetap menjadi matahari.

Pria merenung sendiri dan menatap matahari.

Saat wanita jadi bunga, pria ingin menjadi matahari agar bunga dapat terus hidup. Matahari akan memberikan semua sinarnya untuk bunga agar ia tumbuh, berkembang dan terus hidup sebagai bunga yang cantik. Walau matahari tahu ia hanya dapat memandang dari jauh dan pada akhirnya kupu kupu yang akan menari bersama bunga. Ini disebut
kasih yaitu memberi tanpa pamrih.

Saat wanita jadi bulan, pria tetap menjadi matahari agar bulan dapat terus bersinar indah dan dikagumi.

Cahaya bulan yang indah hanyalah pantulan cahaya matahari, tetapi saat semua makhluk mengagumi bulan siapakah yang ingat kepada matahari. Matahari rela memberikan cahaya nya untuk bulan walaupun ia sendiri tidak bisa menikmati cahaya bulan, dilupakan jasanya dan kehilangan kemuliaan nya sebagai pemberi cahaya agar bulan mendapatkan kemuliaan tersebut. Ini disebut dengan Pengorbanan, menyakitkan namun sangat layak untuk cinta.

Saat wanita jadi Phoenix yang dapat terbang tinggi jauh ke langit bahkan di atas matahari, pria tetap selalu jadi matahari agar Phoenix bebas untuk pergi kapan pun ia mau dan matahari tidak akan mencegahnya.

Matahari rela melepaskan phoenix untuk pergi jauh, namun matahari akan selalu menyimpan cinta yang membara di dalam hatinya hanya untuk phoenix.

Matahari selalu ada untuk Phoenix kapan pun ia mau kembali walau phoenix tidak selalu ada untuk matahari. Tidak akan ada makhluk lain selain Phoenix yang bisa masuk ke dalam matahari dan mendapatkan cinta nya. Ini disebut dengan Kesetiaan, walaupun ditinggal pergi dan dikhianati namun tetap menanti dan mau memaafkan.

Pria tidak pernah menyesal menjadi matahari bagi wanita.

Sebuah koin penyok

2007-09-29T11:02:00.001+08:00

Alkisah, seorang lelaki keluar dari pekarangan rumahnya, berjalan tak tentu
arah dengan rasa putus asa. Sudah cukup lama ia menganggur. Kondisi
finansial keluarganya morat-marit. Sementara para tetangganya sibuk memenuhi
rumah dengan barang-barang mewah, ia masih bergelut memikirkan cara memenuhi
kebutuhan pokok keluarganya sandang dan pangan.

Anak-anaknya sudah lama tak dibelikan pakaian, istrinya sering marah-marah
karena tak dapat membeli barang-barang rumah tangga yang layak. Laki-laki
itu sudah tak tahan dengan kondisi ini, dan ia tidak yakin bahwa
perjalanannya kali inipun akan membawa keberuntungan, yakni mendapatkan
pekerjaan.

Ketika laki-laki itu tengah menyusuri jalanan sepi, tiba-tiba kakinya
terantuk sesuatu. Karena merasa penasaran ia membungkuk dan mengambilnya.
"Uh, hanya sebuah koin kuno yang sudah penyok-penyok," gerutunya kecewa.
Meskipun begitu ia membawa koin itu ke sebuah bank.

"Sebaiknya koin in Bapak bawa saja ke kolektor uang kuno," kata teller itu
memberi saran. Lelaki itupun mengikuti anjuran si teller, membawa koinnya
kekolektor. Beruntung sekali, si kolektor menghargai koin itu senilai 30
dollar.

Begitu senangnya, lelaki tersebut mulai memikirkan apa yang akan dia lakukan
dengan rejeki nomplok ini. Ketika melewati sebuah toko perkakas, dilihatnya
beberapa lembar kayu sedang diobral. Dia bisa membuatkan beberapa rak untuk
istrinya karena istrinya pernah berkata mereka tak punya tempat untuk
menyimpan jambangan dan stoples. Sesudah membeli kayu seharga 30 dollar, dia
memanggul kayu tersebut dan beranjak pulang.

Di tengah perjalanan dia melewati bengkel seorang pembuat mebel. Mata
pemilik bengkel sudah terlatih melihat kayu yang dipanggul lelaki itu.
Kayunya indah, warnanya bagus, dan mutunya terkenal. Kebetulan pada waktu
itu ada pesanan mebel. Dia menawarkan uang sejumlah 100 dollar kepada lelaki
itu.
Terlihat ragu-ragu di mata laki-laki itu, namun pengrajin itu meyakinkannya
dan dapat menawarkannya mebel yang sudah jadi agar dipilih lelaki itu.
Kebetulan di sana ada lemari yang pasti disukai istrinya. Dia menukar kayu
tersebut dan meminjam sebuah gerobak untuk membawa lemari itu. Dia pun
segera membawanya pulang.

Di tengah perjalanan dia melewati perumahan baru. Seorang wanita yang sedang
mendekorasi rumah barunya melongok keluar jendela dan melihat lelaki itu
mendorong gerobak berisi lemari yang indah. Si wanita terpikat dan menawar
dengan harga 200 dollar. Ketika lelaki itu nampak ragu-ragu, si wanita
menaikkan tawarannya menjadi 250 dollar. Lelaki itupun setuju. Kemudian
mengembalikan gerobak ke pengrajin dan beranjak pulang.

Di pintu desa dia berhenti sejenak dan ingin memastikan uang yang ia terima.
Ia merogoh sakunya dan menghitung lembaran bernilai 250 dollar. Pada saat
itu seorang perampok keluar dari semak-semak, mengacungkan belati, merampas
uang itu, lalu kabur.

Istri si lelaki kebetulan melihat dan berlari mendekati suaminya seraya
berkata, "Apa yang terjadi? Engkau baik saja kan? Apa yang diambil oleh
perampok tadi?"

Lelaki itu mengangkat bahunya dan berkata, "Oh, bukan apa-apa. Hanya sebuah
koin penyok yang kutemukan tadi pagi".

Bila Kita sadar kita tak pernah memiliki apapun, kenapa harus tenggelam
dalam kepedihan yang berlebihan?

Hipnotis

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Hipnosis sebenarnya adalah nama yang agak salah kaprah. Secara bahasa, artinya adalah tidur atau kondisi yang menyerupai tidur. Dibilang demikian, karena dulu orang menganggap yang namanya hipnosis itu ya tidur. Dalam perkembangannya, bahkan sang pencetus nama hipnosis itu sendiri sudah sempat mengganti istilah ini. namun karena kadung populer, jadilah sampai sekarang kita mengenal ilmu ini sebagai hipnosis.

Gampangannya, hipnosis itu definisinya sederhana kok: put someone into trance. Dengan definisi seperti ini, maka hipnosis tidak harus sesuatu yang formal seperti layaknya pertunjukan di TV. Tanpa perlu teknik yang terlalu rumit, seorang dengan perawakan seperti Romy Rafael, misalnya, akan dapat membuat seseorang terhipnosis karena ia memang sudah memiliki karisma akibat berbagai publikasi yang dilakukannya.

Hipnosis memakan korban? MUSTAHIL! La wong cuma put someone into trance kok bisa memakan korban. Nah kalau setelah masuk ke trance terus diberi sugesti yang macem2, la itu baru namanya bisa memakan korban. Tapi hipnosisnya sendiri amat sangat aman.

Aman, karena kondisi trance sebenarnya adalah kondisi yang berada within our control. Tidak mungkin seseornag dihipnosis kalau dia tidak mau. Inilah sebabnya para ahli kemudian berani menyimpulkan bahwa "every hypnosis is self hypnosis". Nggak ada yang namanya seseorang dihipnosis. Yang ada adalah seseorang yang menghipnosis dirinya sendiri dengan panduan seorang hipnotis. Nggak percaya? Cobalah menghipnosis seseorang kemudian katakan sesuatu yang tidak disukainya, saya jamin ia akan segera out of trance. Pengalaman saya dihipnosis juag demikian. Ketika di awal2 rekan saya masih terdengar agak kaku dengan kalimat2 induksinya, saya berkata dalam hati, "Ah, saya kan mau belajar. Ya udah, let if flow aja deh, biar saya ngerasain." jadilah saya pun masuk ke trance segera setelah itu.

Gimana prosesnya kita bisa menghipnosis? Cukup dengan membuat lelah conscious, maka kita akan segera masuk ke sub atau unconscious. Nah, menggunakan bandul ala hipnosis jadul itu sebenarnya adalah usaha untuk membuat lelah ini tadi. Menggunakan hipnosis Ericksonian, kita bisa menggunakan metode apapun asalkan bisa pacing dengan orang yang ingin kita hipnosis. Misalnya, teknik Naturally existing Trance, kita ajak seseornag untuk menelusuri sebuah pengalaman yang biasa ia lakukan seperti menyetir mobil dll. Itu yang agak lama. Kalau mau yang cepat, bisa pake pattern interrupt model salaman. Dengan bersalaman kita bisa begitu mudahnya bikin seseorang trance.

Seorang trainer sebenarnya sdah sering membuat orang trance. Ketika trainee-nay begitu tersepona sampai terbengong2, nah, udah trance deh tuh orang.

Cinta

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Cinta tak pernah akan begitu indah, jika tanpa persahabatan.....yang
satu selalu menjadi penyebab yang lain dan prosesnya... adalah
irreversible......

Seorang pecinta yang terbaik adalah sahabat yang terhebat. Jika kamu
mencintai seseorang, jangan berharap bahwa seseorang itu akan mencintai
kamu persis sebaliknya dalam kapasitas yang sama. Satu diantara kalian
akan memberikan lebih, yang lain akan dirasa kurang...........Begitu
juga dalam cinta: kamu yang mencari, dan yang lain akan menanti......

Jangan pernah takut untuk jatuh cinta.... mungkin akan begitu
menyakitkan, dan mungkin akan menyebabkan kamu sakit dan
menderita.....tapi jika kamu tidak mengikuti kata hati, pada akhirnya
kamu akan menangis....... jauh lebih pedih... karena saat itu kamu
menyadari bahwa kamu tidak pernah memberi cinta itu sebuah jalan.

Cinta bukan sekedar perasaan, tapi sebuah komitmen....Perasaan bisa
datang dan pergi begitu saja......Cinta tak harus berakhir
bahagia.....karena cinta tidak harus berakhir.....

Cinta sejati mendengar apa yang tidak dikatakan....dan mengerti apa yang
tidak dijelaskan, sebab cinta tidak datang dari bibir dan lidah atau
pikiran.........melainkan dari HATI.

Ketika kamu mencintai, jangan mengharapkan apapun sebagai imbalan,
karena jika kamu demikian, kamu bukan mencintai,
melainkan.....investasi.

Jika kamu mencintai, kamu harus siap untuk menerima penderitaan. Karena
jika kamu mengharap kebahagiaan, kamu bukan mencintai....melainkan
memanfaatkan.

Lebih baik kehilangan harga diri dan egomu bersama seseorang yang kamu
cintai dari pada kehilangan seseorang yang kamu cintai, karena egomu
yang tak berguna itu........

Jangan mencintai seseorang seperti bunga,karena bunga mati kala musim
berganti, cintailah mereka seperti sungai, sebab sungai mengalir
selamanya......

Cinta mungkin akan meninggalkan hatimu bagaikan kepingan-kepingan kaca,
tapi tancapkan dalam pikiranmu, bahwa Ada seseorang yang akan bersedia
untuk menambal lukamu dengan mengumpulkan kembali pecahan-pecahan kaca
itu.....Sehingga kamu akan menjadi utuh kembali.

Beberapa petuah

2007-09-29T10:49:00.000+08:00

*Sesuatu yang baik, belum tentu benar. Sesuatu yang benar, belum tentu baik. Sesuatu yang bagus, belum tentu berharga. Sesuatu yang berharga/berguna, belum tentu bagus.

*Pikiran dan mulut merupakan suatu kombinasi. Semakin banyak Anda berbicara tentang diri sendiri, semakin banyak pula kemungkinan Anda untuk berbohong. Jika Anda tidak bisa menjadi orang pandai, jadilah orang yang baik .

*Lidah Anda yang menentukan siapa Anda. Jika kejahatan di balas kejahatan, maka itu adalah dendam. Jika kebaikan dibalas kebaikan itu adalah perkara biasa. Jika kebaikan dibalas kejahatan, itu adalah zalim. Tapi jika kejahatan dibalas kebaikan, itu adalah mulia dan terpuji.

*Sesungguhnya sebagian perkataan itu ada yang lebih keras dari batu, lebih tajam dari tusukan jarum, lebih pahit daripada jadam dan lebih panas daripada bara. Sesungguhnya hati adalah ladang, maka tanamlah Ia dengan perkataan yang baik, karena jika tidak tumbuh semuanya (perkataan yang tidak baik) niscaya tumbuh sebagiannya.

*Nasihat yang baik tidak pernah datang terlambat.

*Iri hati yang ditunjukan kepada seseorang akan melukai diri sendiri. Anda cuma bisa hidup sekali saja didunia ini, tetapi jika Anda hidup dengan benar, sekali saja sudah cukup .

*Jika Anda tidak memulai hari ini dengan senyuman, belum terlambat untuk mencobanya pada hari esok.

*Seorang teman sejati akan membuat Anda hangat dengan kehadirannya, mempercayai akan rahasianya dan mengingat Anda dalam doa-doanya. Doa memberikan kekuatan pada orang yang lemah, membuat orang tidak percaya menjadi percaya dan memberikan keberanian pada orang yang ketakutan. Jika kita berbuat baik, kebaikan pula yang akan kita terima kelak .

*Persahabatan sejati layaknya kesehatan, nilainya baru kita sadari setelah kita kehilangannya. Seorang sahabat adalah yang dapat mendengarkan lagu di dalam hatimu dan akan menyanyikan kembali tatkala kau lupa akan bait-baitnya. Bertemanlah dengan orang yang suka akan kebenaran. Dialah hiasan dikala kita senang dan perisai diwaktu kita susah.

*Namun kita tidak akan pernah memiliki seorang teman, jika kita mengharapkan seseorang tanpa kesalahan . Karena semua manusia itu baik, kalau kita bisa melihat kebaikannya dan menyenangkan kalau kita bisa melihat keunikannya, tapi semua manusia itu akan buruk dan membosankan kalau kita tidak bisa melihat keduanya.

*Kenangan indah masa lalu hanya untuk dikenang, bukan untuk diingat-ingat. Rasa takut bukanlah untuk dinikmati, tetapi untuk dihadapi. Orang bijaksana selalu melengkapi kehidupannya dengan banyak persahabatan.

*Hiduplah sesuka hatimu, sesungguhnya kamu pasti mati.
*Cintai siapa saja yang kamu senangi, sesungguhnya kamu pasti akan berpisah dengannya.
*Lakukan apa saja yang kamu kehendaki, sesungguhnya kamu akan memperoleh balasannya.
*Kemarahan hanyalah satu kata yang dekat dengan bahaya.

*-Pikiran yang besar membicarakan ide-ide;
-Pikiran yang rata-rata membicarakan kejadian-kejadian;
-Dan pikiran yang kerdil membicarakan orang-orang.

*Tak seorang pun sempurna. Mereka yang mau belajar dari kesalahan adalah bijak. Menyedihkan melihat orang berkeras bahwa mereka benar meskipun terbukti salah. Bila kita mengisi hati kita dengan penyesalan untuk masa lalu dan kekhawatiran untuk masa depan, kita tak memiliki hari ini untuk kita syukuri.

*Sekali tidak berhasil bukan berarti gagal selamanya. Kebahagiaan takkan pernah bisa dibeli dengan uang.

*Belajarlah dari kesalahan orang lain. Engkau tidak dapat hidup cukup lama untuk mendapatkan semua itu dari dirimu sendiri.

*Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Smarter people learn from the mistakes of others. A Champion is someone who always try to get up even when he/she can't.

*UBAHLAH APA YANG MASIH BISA DIUBAH. TERIMALAH APA YANG MEMANG SUDAH TIDAK BISA DIRUBAH. HINDARKAN DIRI DARI HAL-HAL YANG BERPOTENSI MENDATANGKAN PERUBAHAN BURUK

4 Tipe Manusia Hadapi Tekanan Hidup

2007-09-28T10:45:00.000+08:00

"Semua kesulitan sesungguhnya merupakan kesempatan bagi jiwa kita untuk tumbuh"

Hidup memang tidak lepas dari berbagai tekanan. Lebih-lebih, hidup di alam modern ini yang menyuguhkan beragam risiko. Sampai seorang sosiolog Ulrich Beck menamai jaman kontemporer ini dengan masyarakat risiko (risk society). Alam modern menyuguhkan perubahan cepat dan tak jarang mengagetkan.

Nah, tekanan itu sesungguhnya membentuk watak, karakter, dan sekaligus menentukan bagaimana orang bereaksi di kemudian hari.

Tipe pertama, tipe kayu rapuh. Sedikit tekanan saja membuat manusia ini patah arang. Orang macam ini kesehariannya kelihatan bagus.

Tapi, rapuh sekali di dalam hatinya. Orang ini gampang sekali mengeluh pada saat kesulitan terjadi.

Sedikit kesulitan menjumpainya, orang ini langsung mengeluh, merasa tak berdaya, menangis, minta dikasihani atau minta bantuan. Orang ini perlu berlatih berpikiran positif dan berani menghadapi kenyataan hidup.

Majalah Time pernah menyajikan topik generasi kepompong (cacoon generation). Time mengambil contoh di Jepang, di mana banyak orang menjadi sangat lembek karena tidak terbiasa menghadapi kesulitan.

Menghadapi orang macam ini, kadang kita harus lebih berani tega. Sesekali mereka perlu belajar dilatih menghadapi kesulitan. Posisikan kita sebagai pendamping mereka.

Tipe kedua, tipe lempeng besi. Orang tipe ini biasanya mampu bertahan dalam tekanan pada awalnya. Namun seperti layaknya besi, ketika situasi menekan itu semakin besar dan kompleks, ia mulai bengkok dan tidak stabil. Demikian juga orang-orang tipe ini. Mereka mampu menghadapi tekanan, tetapi tidak dalam kondisi berlarut-larut.

Tambahan tekanan sedikit saja, membuat mereka menyerah dan putus asa.
Untungnya, orang tipe ini masih mau mencoba bertahan sebelum akhirnya menyerah. Tipe lempeng besi memang masih belum terlatih. Tapi, kalau mau berusaha, orang ini akan mampu membangun kesuksesan dalam hidupnya.

Tipe ketiga, tipe kapas. Tipe ini cukup lentur dalam menghadapi tekanan. Saat tekanan tiba, orang mampu bersikap fleksibel. Cobalah Anda menekan sebongkah kapas. Ia akan mengikuti tekanan yang terjadi.

Ia mampu menyesuaikan saat terjadi tekanan. Tapi, setelah berlalu, dengan cepat ia bisa kembali ke keadaan semula. Ia bisa segera melupakan masa lalu dan mulai kembali ke titik awal untuk memulai lagi.

Tipe keempat, tipe manusia bola pingpong. Inilah tipe yang ideal dan terhebat. Jangan sekali-kali menyuguhkan tekanan pada orang-orang ini karena tekanan justru akan membuat mereka bekerja lebih giat, lebih termotivasi, dan lebih kreatif. Coba perhatikan bola pingpong. Saat ditekan, justru ia memantuk ke atas dengan lebih dahsyat. Saya teringat kisah hidup motivator dunia Anthony Robbins dalam salah satu biografinya.

Untuk memotivasi dirinya, ia sengaja membeli suatu bangunan mewah, sementara uangnya tidak memadai. Tapi, justru tekanan keuangan inilah yang membuat dirinya semakin kreatif dan tertantang mencapai tingkat finansial yang diharapkannya.

Hal ini pernah terjadi dengan seorang kepala regional sales yang performance- nya bagus sekali.Tetapi, hasilnya ini membuat atasannya tidak suka. Akibatnya, justru dengan sengaja atasannya yang kurang suka kepadanya memindahkannya ke daerah yang lebih parah kondisinya. Tetapi, bukannya mengeluh seperti rekan sebelumnya di daerah tersebut. Malahan, ia berusaha membangun netwok, mengubah cara kerja, dan membereskan organisasi. Di tahun kedua di daerah tersebut, justru tempatnya berhasil masuk dalam daerah tiga top sales.

Contoh lain adalah novelis dunia Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
Pada musim dingin, ia meringkuk di dalam penjara dengan deraan angin dingin, lantai penuh kotoran seinci tebalnya, dan kerja paksa tiap hari. Ia mirip ikan herring dalam kaleng. Namun, Siberia yang beku tidak berhasil membungkam kreativitasnya.

Dari sanalah ia melahirkan karya-karya tulis besar, seperti The Double dan Notes of The Dead. Ia menjadi sastrawan dunia. Hal ini juga dialami Ho Chi Minh.

Orang Vietnam yang biasa dipanggil Paman Ho ini harus meringkuk dalam penjara. Tapi, penjara tidaklah membuat dirinya patah arang. Ia berjuang dengan puisi-puisi yang ia tulis. A Comrade Paper Blanket menjadi buah karya kondangnya.

Ah itu kan contoh kejadian di luar negeri . . . mungkin demikian pertanyaan anda.
Seorang rekan yang bekerja di sebuah perusahaan otomotif terbesar di Indonesia dikucilkan bahkan dibuang kecabang nun jauh dari kantor pusat oleh si Boss yang seorang wanita . Namun dengan motivasi kuatnya dia berhasil " ditarik " kembali ke kantor pusat dan malah bertugas " meng " guide " departemen sang Boss untuk beberapa materi development dengan ilmu yang dimilikinya .

Sekarang sang rekan malah sudah menduduki posisi puncak dengan wewenang diatas sang boss yang mengucilkannya , walaupun di perusahaan otomotif kompetitor.

Itu hanya contoh kecil. Yang penting sekarang adalah Anda. Ketika Anda menghadapi kesulitan, seperti apakah diri Anda?Bagaimana reaksi Anda?

Tidak menjadi persoalan di mana Anda saat ini.Tetapi, yang penting bergeraklah dari level tipe kayu rapuh ke tipe selanjutnya. Hingga akhirnya, bangun mental Anda hingga ke level bola pingpong.

Saat itulah, kesulitan dan tantangan tidak lagi menjadi suatu yang mencemaskan untuk Anda. Sekuat itukah mental Anda?

Keinginan versus Kebutuhan

2007-09-25T17:27:00.000+08:00

Kadang ketika melihat sesuatu yang menarik hati, ada terpetik dalam hati keinginan untuk memiliki, padahal mungkin tidak terlalu butuh. Ketika hp kita ingin diganti dengan yang lebih baru, sepeda motor ingin dimodifikasi, atau ingin membeli sesuatu yang menarik, ternyata mungkin itu semua hanya sekedar keinginan bukan kebutuhan apalagi kebutuhan yang mendesak artinya jika tidak dimiliki akan terhambat atau bermasalah terhadap kehidupan kita.

Yah, bagi sekelas kita yang ekonominya pas-pasan, ingatlah untuk selalu menimbangnya dengan kata2 keinginan atau kebutuhan, walaupun pahit tapi itulah kenyataanya.

Kalau tetep ingin membeli, yah cari penghasilan tambahan donk……

Semua Terjadi Karena Suatu Alasan

2007-09-24T11:13:00.000+08:00

Semua dimulai dari impianku. Aku ingin menjadi astronot. Aku ingin terbang ke luar angkasa. Tetapi aku tidak memiliki sesuatu yang tepat. Aku tidak memiliki gelar. Dan aku bukan seorang pilot. Namun, sesuatu pun terjadilah.

Gedung Putih mengumumkan mencari warga biasa untuk ikut dalam penerbangan 51-L pesawat ulang-alik Challanger. Dan warga itu adalah seorang guru. Aku warga biasa, dan aku seorang guru. Hari itu juga aku mengirimkan surat lamaran ke Washington. Setiap hari aku berlari ke kotak pos. Akhirnya datanglah amplop resmi berlogo NASA. Doaku terkabulkan. Aku lolos penyisihan pertama. Ini benar-benar terjadi padaku.

Selama beberapa minggu berikutnya, perwujudan impianku semakin dekat saat NASA mengadakan test fisik dan mental. Begitu test selesai, aku menunggu dan berdoa lagi. Aku tahu aku semakin dekat pada impianku. Beberapa waktu kemudian, aku menerima panggilan untuk mengikuti program latihan astronot khusus di Kennedy Space Center.

Dari 43.000 pelamar, kemudian 10.000 orang, dan kini aku menjadi bagian dari 100 orang yang berkumpul untuk penilaian akhir. Ada simulator, uji klaustrofobi , latihan ketangkasan , percobaan mabuk udara. Siapakah di antara kami yang bisa melewati ujian akhir ini ?

Tuhan, biarlah diriku yang terpilih, begitu aku berdoa. Lalu tibalah berita yang menghancurkan itu. NASA memilih orang lain yaitu Christina McAufliffe. Aku kalah. Impian hidupku hancur. Aku mengalami depresi. Rasa percaya diriku lenyap, dan amarah menggantikan kebahagiaanku. Aku mempertanyakan semuanya. Kenapa Tuhan? Kenapa bukan aku?

Bagian diriku yang mana yang kurang?Mengapa aku diperlakukan kejam ?
Aku berpaling pada ayahku. Katanya: "Semua terjadi karena suatu alasan."

Selasa, 28 Januari 1986, aku berkumpul bersama teman-teman untuk melihat peluncuran Challanger. Saat pesawat itu melewati menara landasan pacu, aku menantang impianku untuk terakhir kali. Tuhan, aku bersedia melakukan apa saja agar berada di dalam pesawat itu. Kenapa bukan aku? Tujuh puluh tiga detik kemudian, Tuhan menjawab semua pertanyaanku dan menghapus semua keraguanku saat Challanger meledak, dan menewaskan semua penumpang.

Aku teringat kata-kata ayahku: "Semua terjadi karena suatu alasan." Aku tidak terpilih dalam penerbangan itu, walaupun aku sangat menginginkannya karena Tuhan memiliki alasan lain untuk kehadiranku di bumi ini. Aku memiliki misi lain dalam hidup. Aku tidak kalah; aku seorang pemenang....

Aku menang karena aku telah kalah. Aku, Frank Slazak, masih hidup untuk bersyukur pada Tuhan karena tidak semua doaku dikabulkan.

Tuhan mengabulkan doa kita dengan 3 cara:
1. Apabila Tuhan mengatakan YA. Maka kita akan mendapatkan apa yang kita minta.
2. Apabila Tuhan mengatakan TIDAK. Maka mungkin kita akan mendapatkan yang lain yang lebih sesuai untuk kita.
3. Apabila Tuhan mengatakan TUNGGU. Maka mungkin kita akan mendapatkan yang terbaik sesuai dengan kehendakNYA.

Rahasia Kekayaan - Visualisasi

2007-09-20T14:22:00.000+08:00

Kelimpahan dan kekayaan di seluruh lini kehidupan Anda adalah hak lahir Anda dan warisan dunia!

Salah satu konsep dalam The Secret adalah visualisasi. Jadi untuk mencapai apa yang kita inginkan, kita harus bervisualisasi seakan-akan hal tersebut sudah terwujud.

Untuk membantu Anda mewujudkan apa yang Anda inginkan, bilamana yang Anda inginkan adalah kekayaan, maka video visualisasi yang disiapkan oleh The Secret berikut ini akan sangat bermanfaat.

Judulnya “The Secret to Riches”, bisa membantu Anda menfokuskan pikiran pada kekayaan yang diinginkan, secara sadar melepaskan sinyal memanfaatkan Hukum Ketertarikan untuk mencapai tujuan Anda.

Anda juga bisa download dari website thesecret.tv, tapi mohon maaf, bila itu sangat lambat, dan mungkin butuh waktu berhari-hari.

Klik disini untuk download file video ini dlm Quicktime atau 3gp, akan bisa Anda simpan dalam handphone/PDA dan bisa dibawa serta diputar setiap kali dalam perjalanan Anda. Kalau Anda merasa ini bermanfaat, jangan lupa beritahukan kepada teman Anda yang lain untuk mendownloadnya juga.

Download sekarang juga! Tariklah kekayaan dan kemakmuran ke dalam diri Anda, sebagaimana Anda pantas menerimanya.

Bagaimana menggunakan “Visualisasi Rahasia Kekayaan”
Agar Anda mendapatkan manfaat maksimal dari video ini, hayatilah setiap kata dan kalimat yang ditampilkan, penuh perasaan dan segenap pikiran, baca setiap kata yang ditampilkan. Penuh kepercayaan, sadar dan visualisasikan bahwa kekayaan itu sudah Anda miliki. Semakin kuat perasaan Anda, semakin kuat kekuasaan alam semesta dalam menjalankan proses mewujudkan kekayaan bagi Anda.

Anda bisa menontonnya berkali-kali. Baik sendiri maupun bersama teman Anda. Karena setiap kali Anda menontonnya, kekuatan fokus, pikiran dan energi dalam diri Anda akan meminta Hukum Ketertarikan membawa kekayaan itu ke dalam hidup Anda.

Ide untuk membuat Visualisasi Rahasia Kekayaan ini diusulkan oleh salah satu guru besar kekayaan dunia, yaitu Bob Proctor.

the.secret.id

DENGAN HATI

2007-09-19T15:55:00.000+08:00

Kupikir semua telah mati
Harapan… kebaikan… mimpi…
Ketulusan… kasih sayang… senyum kebahagiaan
Kebersamaan… persahabatan…
Ketika aku menyayangi
Mereka pun menyayangi
Ketika aku memulai
Mereka pun memulai
Ku mulai langkahku ini
Dengan hati
Tiada yang lain
Hanya dengan hati
Berjalan terus menembus hati

Saya dibesarkan di sebuah keluarga yang sederhana. Yang berangkat dari kekurangan, sempat meraih kejayaan tapi musnah karena manajemen uang yang buruk.Saya sekolah, kuliah dan mendapatkan pacar yang juga ternyata berasal dari keluarga yang sederhana. Kami berjuang, bermimpi dan berkali-kali jatuh. Selama kuliah, saya dan pacar saya berkenalan dengan motivasi. Ada kisah nyata seseorang yang berangkat dari kemiskinan dan bangkit menjadi sukses, Andrie Wongso. Kisah itu menjadi seperti legenda bagi kami, yang membuat kami berani terus bermimpi. Setiap kali kami gagal, kami memutar ulang kisah kesuksesan itu di dalam pikiran kami, entah sebagai penghibur atau sebagai pegangan untuk tidak jatuh.
Kami bergabung di MLM untuk bisa mengikuti seminar-seminar lebih murah. Termotivasi oleh misi yang tulus MLM tersebut, kami menjalaninya dengan serius dan gigih. Dari pagi sampai tengah malam terus merekrut jaringan supaya bisa bersama-sama menjalani misi dan keluar dari kekurangan. Sebisa mungkin kami mengikuti berbagai seminar untuk bisa terus belajar menjadi lebih baik. Beberapa tahun menjalaninya hanya untuk bonus yang tidak lebih dari tiga ratus ribu rupiah. Ketika hampir berhasil, ketika bonus kami dan para downline mulai menanjak mendekati gaji bulanan orang-orang kantoran yang baru masuk kerja, tiba-tiba leader jaringan melupakan misi dan hancurlah grup jaringan itu. Gagal lagi. Jika ditanya apakah kami menjalankan hukum-hukum kesuksesan yang kami ketahui dari berbagai seminar? Apakah sudah bekerja keras? Apakah mempunyai mimpi? Apakah terus berbuat baik? Kami melakukan semua itu semampu kami. Tapi memang entah mengapa seperti tidak ada jalan keluar, terperangkap walau sudah meronta sekuat tenaga, tetap terkunci tidak ada pintu untuk keluar.

Saya ingat betul, waktu itu untuk mengikuti pendidikan menjadi hipnoterapis saya tidak ada uang. Apalagi untuk mendalami regresi kehidupan lalu yang harus diambil di luar negeri, sangat mahal, jauh di luar batas keuangan saya. Saya tetap menjalaninya apa adanya. Saya lakukan regresi sendiri semampu saya dengan anggapan apapun yang akan terjadi, terjadilah, toh saya juga tidak mempunyai apa-apa, jika terjadi sesuatu apa yang harus ditakutkan? Karena itu di buku saya, “Journey to My Past Lives”, ditulis saya belajar secara otodidak. Ternyata kehidupan-kehidupan lalu yang saya lihat dengan regresi kehidupan lalu mengubah saya, seperti dihamparkan sudut pandang kehidupan yang berbeda di hadapan saya. Saya berubah. Saya tuliskan semua kehidupan lalu yang saya masuki dalam regresi di buku diari dengan anggapan jika kisah-kisah itu bisa menyentuh hati saya dan mengubah saya maka mungkin kisah-kisah itu bisa membantu orang-orang lainnya. Saya berniat membagi kisah-kisah itu. Ketika saya menetapkan hati untuk membagi kisah-kisah itu, keajaiban-keajaiban terjadi, seperti arah angin yang berbalik arah dan sungguh mencengangkan. Tiba-tiba saya mendapatkan uang untuk bisa mengikuti pendidikan hipnoterapis di dalam negeri. Sekolah regresi kehidupan lalu yang saya idamkan di luar negeri menawarkan kemudahan-kemudahan pembayaran pada saya dan saya bisa kuliah jarak jauh. Orang tua, keluarga dan teman-teman yang tadinya memandang sebelah mata minat saya di regresi kehidupan lalu mulai mendukung dan membantu sekuat tenaga. Semuanya seperti berbalik arah, seperti keajaiban yang menyentuh mobil mogok yang tidak bisa jalan walau sudah direparasi di sana-sini dan tiba-tiba dengan mencoba lagi satu kali putaran kunci gas, mobil itu bisa jalan.

Saya menuliskan kisah saya ini hanya sebagai sharing. Ada kalanya kita berada di suatu kondisi di mana kita tidak berdaya, kita meronta sekuat tenaga tapi tetap terpendam semakin dalam. Terpendam dalam kekurangan, terpendam dalam kelelahan, dan terpendam dalam keputusasaan. Tapi jika kita terus berjalan dalam kebaikan maka hasilnya pun pasti akan baik, entah kita akan menuainya di kehidupan sekarang atau pun di kehidupan mendatang.

Dan seperti puisi di atas, mulailah langkah kita dengan hati dan berjalan terus menembus hati

Are You DELTA enough?

2007-09-19T15:54:00.000+08:00

Apa yang terjadi dengan gelombang otak kita pada saat memasuki kehidupan lalu?
Banyak pengalaman unik yang saya dapatkan dalam meregresi para klien saya.
Setiap sesi seperti kejutan yang mendebarkan karena saya dan klien tidak akan
tahu apa yang akan terjadi ketika kami mulai melakukan regresi kehidupan lalu.
Ada sebagian dari mereka bertingkah seperti anak-anak ketika mereka memasuki
masa kecil mereka di kehidupan lalu. Ada yang langsung bicara berbisik karena
dia sedang bersembunyi dari kejaran tentara. Beberapa berbicara dalam bahasa
asing yang mereka gunakan pada masa kehidupan lalunya. Bahkan ada yang teriak
dan terbatuk-batuk ketika memasuki momen pembunuhan dirinya. Berbagai kehidupan
lalu yang mereka masuki memberikan ‘journey’ yang tak terduga bagi saya dan
mereka. Tapi ada juga klien-klien saya yang belum bisa memasuki kehidupan lalu
mereka dalam beberapa sesi yang kami lakukan. Ada yang hanya melihat satu atau
dua pemandangan kemudian hilang. Bahkan ada yang memasuki relaksasi pun belum
bisa. Semua hal itu membuat saya bertanya-tanya apa
yang terjadi pada saat kita memasuki kehidupan lalu?

Riset brainwave/gelombang otak

Ada empat frekuensi gelombang otak yang telah teridentifikasi sampai saat ini
yaitu: Beta, Alpha, Theta dan Delta. Yang setiap penurunan gelombang pada otak
kita berarti kita meninggalkan gelombang Beta dan memasuki kondisi peralihan
(altered state). Seorang psikiater Jerman yang mendalami Regresi Kehidupan Lalu,
Dethlefsen, menjelaskan apa yang terjadi pada saat frekuensi vibrasi otak
menjadi lebih lambat: “Terjadi penyempitan kesadaran ke satu poin, seperti
ketika sebuah lensa yang bersudut besar diganti dengan lensa lebih fokus maka
cahayanya menjadi lebih fokus dan cahaya tersebut menembak satu poin sehingga
membuat intensitas cahaya di satu poin itu menjadi jauh lebih kuat.”
Informasi-informasi mengenai gelombang otak saat meditasi, energi penyembuhan
dan memasuki kehidupan lalu dikontribusikan oleh sebuah alat biofeedback yang
bernama Mind Mirror yang dikembangkan di Inggris. Mind Mirror merupakan alat
seperti layar TV yang memperlihatkan amplitudo EEG dari gelombang otak. Dua
elektroda ditempelkan di kepala subjek yang secara terus-menerus merekam
aktivitas otak dan menunjukkan fungsi bagian-bagian otak dalam frekuensi Beta,
Alpha, Theta dan Delta.

Apa yang terjadi pada otak pada saat meditasi?
Mind Mirror telah digunakan secara luas dalam penelitian berbagai tipe meditasi.
Pada saat meditasi, otak menunjukkan pola gelombang otak yang serupa yaitu Alpha
yang rendah, Theta yang tinggi dan sedikit atau bahkan tidak ada Beta. Dari
observasi pola yang dilakukan pada meditasi dalam ternyata gelombang otak
terdiri atas amplitude Alpha dan Theta yang lebih besar dengan sedikit Beta.
Pola yang optimal ini disebut Pikiran yang Tercerahkan (Awakened Mind).
Apa yang terjadi pada otak ketika memasuki kehidupan lalu?

Riset regresi kehidupan lalu yang dilakukan dengan Mind Mirror menunjukkan
fenomena yang menarik. Pada saat melakukan regresi kehidupan lalu, terapis
maupun klien, menunjukkan frekuensi Delta dengan gelombang lainnya juga masih
ada. Subjek yang berada dalam meditasi dan relaksasi dalam menunjukkan gelombang
Alpha dan Theta, tetapi pada saat mulai memasuki kehidupan lalu, gelombang delta
muncul disertai juga munculnya gelombang beta yang berkurang pada saat
visualisasi awal.

Dalam riset Mind Mirror ditemukan terapis dan klien memasuki gelombang Delta
lebih kurang secara bersamaan pada saat memasuki kehidupan lalu. Pada momen
seperti ini terlihat terjadi penyatuan energi elektromagnetik antara terapis dan
klien seperti ada dua vibrasi yang saling terhubung. Ketika terapis dan klien
memasuki gelombang Delta secara berkesesuaian maka kemungkinan regresi yang
dilakukan lebih berhasil.
Mengapa pada saat regresi kehidupan lalu muncul gelombang otak Delta? Padahal
seperti yang telah kita ketahui Delta diidentifikasi sebagai gelombang pada saat
kita tidur tanpa mimpi. Riset Mind Mirror membuka kemungkinan bahwa Delta
bukanlah kondisi tidur tapi Delta adalah kondisi radar untuk memasuki mind
field. Memori kehidupan lalu pastilah disimpan di suatu tempat dalam bentuk
energi yang bisa dimasuki oleh kondisi tertentu dari kesadaran manusia. Delta,
yang terlihat sangat kuat bukan hanya pada saat memasuki kehidupan lalu tapi
juga pada aktivitas paranormal seperti penglihatan masa depan dan kondisi
out-of-body, mungkin saja merupakan kondisi untuk memasuki mind field itu.

Dalam riset Tidur yang dilakukan oleh Menninger Clinic ditemukan suatu hipotesa
bahwa tidur tanpa mimpi, yang muncul pada gelombang Delta, bukanlah kondisi
tanpa kesadaran tapi kontak dengan kesadaran universal yang dibutuhkan untuk
survival. Swami Rama, seorang yogi yang mendirikan Himalayan Institute yang juga
telah menjadi subjek riset di Menninger, bisa mengeluarkan gelombang Delta
secara disengaja. Pada saat Swami tertidur dengan sangat nyenyak berserta
dengkurannya, dia menerima semua informasi percakapan yang dilakukan pada saat
dia tertidur dan dia mengatakannya tanpa salah pada saat dia terbangun.
Penjelasan Swami adalah kesadarannya tetap aktif walaupun tubuhnya, sistem
sarafnya dan otaknya berada di kondisi rileks. Dan yang mencengangkan, peralatan
EEG merekam hanya ada gelombang Delta pada saat Swami tertidur. Tapi mengapa dia
bisa mengetahui semua percakapan selama dia berada di kondisi tidur tersebut?
Bukankah semestinya gelombang Beta yang bisa memproses
percakapan itu? Yang jelas, kita belum sepenuhnya memahami kondisi tidur.
Pengalaman Swami itu mendukung hipotesa riset di Mind Mirror bahwa Delta adalah
ketika kesadaran kita kontak dengan mind field. Kontak tersebut memberikan
langkah awal dalam pemahaman di mana kehidupan lalu disimpan dan bagaimana
kehidupan lalu bisa dimunculkan kembali.

Forgiveness

2007-09-19T15:52:00.000+08:00

Memaafkan adalah sebuah mukjizat yang bisa kita lakukan setiap saat. Saya baru menyadari pentingnya memaafkan setelah menjadi seorang hipnoterapis. Memaafkan berarti melepas. Dan tidak memaafkan adalah bagaikan seseorang yang di punggungnya terjahit ikatan-ikatan yang selalu menariknya mundur kembali pada saat dia berusaha untuk maju, dan sakitnya terasa merobek kulit.

Saya mempunyai klien seorang wanita muda yang cantik. Dia datang ke terapi karena telah berkali-kali mencoba bunuh diri. Sering sekali dia merasakan sedih yang tanpa alasan ketika ia bangun dari tidurnya dan di momen seperti itu ia akan mencoba bunuh diri karena kesedihannya tidak tertahankan. “Saya sedang sakit, bukan di tubuh tapi di batin. Obat apa pun telah saya minum tapi belum ada obat yang menyembuhkan batin saya”. Ketika saya tanya tujuannya menjalani terapi, dia menjawab, “Saya memiliki seorang suami yang sangat baik. Dan saya mau tetap hidup untuknya”.

Kami melakukan sesi hipnosis untuk mencari sumber kesedihannya yang membuatnya terus ingin bunuh diri. Saya meregresinya memasuki momen-momen di kehidupan sekarang. Dia memasuki banyak momen-momen indah dalam hidupnya. Sampai ketika saya meregresinya memasuki masa kecilnya, tiba-tiba tubuhnya menegang dan dia berteriak menangis, “Jangan biarkan dia masuk!”. “Siapa dia?”, tanya saya. “Ayah tiri saya. Dia menyentuh tubuh saya ketika saya sedang mandi”. “Kamu usia berapa saat itu?”. “Lima tahun. Dia terus memaksa saya untuk melayaninnya sampai saya berusia delapan tahun. Rumah kami kecil, hanya memiliki satu kamar sehingga saya harus tidur bersama dia. Ibu saya sering tidak berada di rumah”. Pelecehan seksual itu berhenti ketika mereka pindah ke rumah yang lebih besar dan neneknya tinggal bersamanya. Ketika saya tanya apakah ada orang lain yang mengetahui hal ini, dia menjawab tidak ada seorang pun yang tahu bahkan ibunya dan suaminya pun tidak tahu kejadian masa kecilnya itu.
Setelah kami mengolah momen masa kecilnya itu, sampailah dia di momen memaafkan, “Saya maafkan dia dengan sepenuh hati untuk membebaskan saya dari cengkraman kesedihan ini. Tiga tahun dia memperkosa saya, tapi saya terus membawa siksaan itu sampai sekarang. Saya maafkan dia sekarang”.

Beberapa hari kemudian dia menelpon saya dengan suara yang lebih ceria. Dia bilang dia sudah bisa tersenyum dengan ringan seperti roh hitam yang selama ini merasukinya telah meninggalkan tubuhnya. Dan dia masih meneruskan terapinya untuk hasil yang lebih maksimal.

Banyak masalah yang begitu kompleks yang berangsur-angsur menjadi lebih baik dengan kita mau memaafkan. Memaafkan diri kita, memaafkan orang lain, memaafkan momen-momen buruk dalam hidup kita, memaafkan kekhilafan kita yang berarti kita melepaskan ikatan-ikatan yang terjahit di punggung kita supaya kita bisa melangkah maju dengan bebas dan menjalani hidup lebih bahagia.

Mindfulness

2007-09-19T15:25:00.000+08:00

Seorang murid junior sedang berjalan pulang setelah selesai
berceramah di sebuah kuil di desa. Di tengah jalan ia bertemu denganseorang murid senior, murid senior itu bertanya padanya, "Mengapa kamu berani memberikan ceramah kepada begitu banyak orang di kuil?Apa kamu yakin perkataanmu sudah benar? Kamu kan masih junior. Apa ilmu kamu sudah cukup?"

Sepanjang perjalanannya ke kuil, murid junior memikirkan teguran seniornya. Di kuil, ia menemui gurunya dan menanyakan apakah ia telah melakukan hal yang kurang baik dengan berceramah di kuil di desa. "Guru, apakah saya telah melakukan hal yang salah?" Gurunya menjawab, "Selama kau melakukannya dengan mindfulness maka hal itu
benar adanya… asalkan mindfulness…" Murid junior bingung dan tidakmengerti akan jawaban gurunya. Kebingungan terpancar dari wajahnya.Melihat wajah bingung murid juniornya itu, guru berkata, "Berjalanlah ke utara maka kau akan tahu apa itu mindfulness." Lalu gurunya kembali duduk bermeditasi.

Murid junior pun menuruti nasehat gurunya. Ia berjalan ke utara, itu artinya ia harus berjalan menuju kota. Di tengah jalan ia melihat sebuah dojo yang pintunya terbuka setengah. Di dalamnya ada dua orang samurai yang sedang duduk berhadapan. Wajah mereka sangat serius dan tanpa kata-kata. Suasananya sangat hening. Yang terdengar cuma suara kayu terbakar dari tungku masak poci teh yang berada di tengah-tengah kedua samurai itu.

Murid junior mengintip dari balik pintu. Lalu salah seorang samurai berkata dalam kemarahan pada samurai hening dihadapannya, ia menunjuk-nunjukkan tangannya, "Kau telah membunuh kakakku! Kau telah membunuh kakakku!" Ternyata kakaknya tewas dalam pertempuran melawan pasukan samurai hening itu. "Kau telah membunuh kakakku! Aku akan membalaskan dendamnya! Kau telah membunuh kakakku!", samurai dalam kemarahan itu
terus-menerus meneriaki samurai hening. Sangat mengesankan, samurai hening itu tetap diam tanpa bereaksi. Hanya sesekali wajahnya berkerut menunjukkan emosi yang ingin keluar tapi tidak beberapa lama wajahnya menjadi hening kembali. Setelah beberapa saat, samurai hening itu berdiri, ia berkata dengan sangat tenang, "Sudah selesai?"
Lalu ia berjalan ke dalam. "Kau telah membunuh kakakku. Aku tidak tahu apa yang harus aku lakukan terhadap rasa kehilangan ini. Aku tahu ia telah kalah dalam pertempuran. Ia telah kalah dalam pertempuran", samurai dalam kemarahan itu menangis sambil memukul-mukulkan tangannya ke lantai. Kesedihan sangat terpancar dari dirinya. Setelah tenang, samurai dalam kemarahan itu berjalan keluar dojo dengan sebelumnya membungkuk hormat dan ia berkata kepada dirinya sendiri, "Kak, kau dikalahkan oleh orang yang hebat. Ia dikalahkan oleh orang yang hebat."

Melihat semua itu, murid junior mengerti tentang mindfulness. Samurai dalam hening mengajarkannya tentang mindfulness. Samurai hening itu tetap diam dan hanya mengamati semua emosi yang muncul dari dalam dirinya dan membiarkannya musnah tanpa perlu mengeluarkan reaksi. Tujuan dari samurai dalam hening itu adalah hanya mendengarkan luapan emosi kemarahan samurai dalam kemarahan. Ia tahu luapan emosi samurai dalam kemarahan hanya perlu diungkapkan dan ia mendengarkannya tanpa
perlu memberikan reaksi dan dengan demikian emosi itu pun akan musnah dengan sendirinya. Samurai dalam hening telah menetapkan tujuan dan ia tidak membiarkan emosi mengeluarkannya dari tujuan itu. Ia duduk mendengarkan luapan emosi samurai dalam kemarahan itu dengan penuh kesadaran. Mindfulness adalah menentukan tujuan, tetap berada di dalam tujuan itu, menyadari semua fenomena yang muncul dan
membiarkannya musnah kembali tanpa harus larut didalamnya.

Mindfulness membuat kita tetap berada dalam tujuan dengan menyadari semua emosi yang muncul dan membiarkannya musnah supaya kita tetap berada dalam tujuan.
Lalu murid junior langsung berlari pulang dan menemui gurunya. "Guru,saya telah mengerti! Saya telah mengerti!" Ternyata gurunya sedang di dalam toilet, dan di pintu toilet tergantung tulisan, "Sedang dalam mindfulness." Murid junior mengerti, bahwa apapun yang dilakukan dalam mindfulness hasilnya akan lebih baik karena dilakukan dengan berkesadaran penuh.

Mindfulness seperti radar yang mengamati semua fenomena yang muncul dalam perjalanan kita mencapai tujuan. Dengan mindfulness menjaga kita untuk selalu berada di right track dan dia akan memberikan sinyal bila kesombongan, kebencian, keserakahan, kemalasan, dll mulai muncul supaya kita tidak meneruskannya menjadi reaksi dan supaya kita tetap ingat akan tujuan kita.

Tiga Cara Untuk Memanfaatkan Masa Sekarang Hari Ini

2007-09-19T10:11:00.000+08:00

1. BERADA PADA MASA SEKARANG
Jika Anda ingin lebih bahagia dan lebih sukses
Fokuslah pada apa yang ada pada Masa Sekarang
Responlah pada hal yang penting sekarang
Jangan Terlarut dalam kenangan buruk masa lalu
Jangan tertekan akan sesuatu yang akan datang

2. BELAJAR DARI MASA LALU
Jika Anda ingin menjadikan Masa Sekarang lebih baik daripada Masa Lalu
Lihatlah apa yang telah terjadi pada Masa Lalu
Belajarlah sesuatu yang berharga dari hal tersebut
Lakukan hal yang berbeda pada Masa Sekarang

3.RENCANAKAN MASA DEPAN
Jika Anda ingin Masa Depan yang lebih baik daripada Masa Sekarang
Lihatlah Masa Depan seperti apa yang Anda inginkan
Buatlah rencana untuk mewujudkannya
Tindak lanjuti rencana itu pada Masa Sekarang

Berhenti Mencoba

2007-09-19T10:09:00.000+08:00

Suatu saat, seorang peneliti melakukan percobaan dengan ikan untuk mengetahui apakah hewan berdarah dingin tersebut bisa kehilangan kepercayaan.

Sebuah kotak yang tidak terlalu besar diisi air. Kemudian, ditengah kotak tersebut diberi pembatas sebuah kaca bening. Di salah satu sisi dimasukan ikan yang relatif besar dan sangat kelaparan. Sedangkan di sisi lainnya, dimasukan beberapa ekor ikan kecil yang cukup untuk dimakan oleh si ikan besar.

Melihat hadirnya ikan-ikan kecil yang biasa menjadi mangsanya itu, ikan besar langsung menjadi beringas. Dengan penuh semangat ia berenang ke arah ikan-ikan kecil berada. Apa yang terjadi? kita semua sudah dapat menduganya. Setiap kali Ikan besar berenang menghampiri mangsanya, setiap kali itu pula dia menabrak dinding kaca pembatas.

Rasa lapar yang amat sangat memaksanya untuk terus mencoba, sampai akhirnya dia menghentikan usahanya yang sia-sia tersebut. Dan... menyerahlah si Ikan besar.

Percobaan dilanjutkan, kali ini kaca pembatas yang ada di tengah-tengah kotak air tersebut diambil. Sekarang apa yang yang terjadi?

Ajaib! Dengan leluasa ikan-ikan kecil dapat berenang, bahkan sampai mendekati dan menyentuh sirip atau insang ikan besar yang tetap diam dan tak bergerak sedikitpun. Bisa saja sebenarnya si Ikan besar melahap Ikan-ikan kecil, tapi ia diam saja.

Ikan besar telah menyerah, pasrah dengan asumsi bahwa sekarang bukan saatnya untuk menyantap mangsa walaupun sebenarnya dia mempunyai kesempatan.

Kisah ini ada persamaannya dengan kita saat menjalankan pekerjaan sehari-hari. Banyak orang yang mempunyai kesempatan, namun selalu berpikir bahwa rintangannya terlalu banyak dan tidak mungkin dapat teratasi.

Di sisi lain dia juga tidak berbuat apapun untuk mengatasinya sehingga menghasilkan sikap peduli amat (I don’t care), sama seperti Ikan besar dalam cerita di atas yang akhirnya akhirnya menyerah, pasrah.

Manusia pesimistis, seperti si ikan besar, sering membiarkan kesempatan berlalu begitu saja. Banyak hal sebenarnya yang dapat anda lakukan agar pekerjaan menjadi lebih menarik, menantang dan memuaskan. Anda juga dapat menganalisa metode-metode atau teknik-teknik apa yang cocok untuk meningkatkan hasil kerja anda. Sejuta cara dapat kita coba dan lakukan terus untuk mencapai target kita. Jauh lebih memuaskan daripada sekedar mengkritik tanpa sedikitpun melakukan tindakan positif.

Bersikap lembut dan penuh kasih sayang

2007-09-19T10:03:00.000+08:00

Banyak cara yang kita lakukan untuk mencapai kebahagiaan , kita bisa bersifat ihklas, bersikap ramah,bersahabat, yang mungkin membuat kita bisa bahagia.

Bersikap positif adalah salah satu menuju kebahagiaan. Tetapi beberapa hari ini kita diajarkan untuk bersikap lembut, dan sabar dan penuh kasih sayang.Dan saya yakin dengan bersikap lembut dan penuh kasih sayang terhadap sesama,kepada orang tua, sahabat, rekan satu kantor, atasan, bawahan, rekan bisnis dan lainya berdampak besar, dan mungkin lebih besar dari bersikap positif yang membuat kita lebih bahagia.

Tidak percaya saya sedikit membuat percobaan diri sendiri dari hasil perenungan, ketika saya coba berfikir penuh kasih sayang dan bersikap lembut, dan saya coba membuat diri saya kesal, dan saya tidak bisa kesal. Mungkin berfikiran lembut dan penuh kasih sayang bersifat positif yang akan menetralisir sifat kesal atau marah yang bersifat negative.

Bila fikiran anda sedang lembut, reaksi anda dengan terhdap kejadian-kejadian biasa terutama pada masalah kecil cenderung anda penuh pengertian, sering saya memperhatikan seorang ibu yang dengan penuh sabar melayani putra/putrinya yang merengek meminta sesuatu, dengan sikap sabar tanpa ekspresi kesal tetap melayainya. Karena rasa penuh cinta seorang ibu terhadap anaknya yang luar biasa.

Oh iya ketika kita sedang marah, sikap lembut sahabat atau orang tua akan
meredakan amarah kita, sungguh luar biasa jika kita bisa bersikap lembut dan penuh cinta terhadap sesama.Pikiran yang lembut dan penuh kasih sayang akan menonjolkan tentang indahnya kehidupan, akan membangkitkan rasa syukur, dan memberi keihklasan karena anda menerima kehidupan ini dengan penuh rahmat dan anugrah. Dan membuat
kejadian yang terjadi pada hari-hari anda begitu indah dan menabjubkan.

Terkadang dalam hidup ini fikiran kita sering tertuju pada kesuksesan,kesempurnaan,
dan kemenangan, dan saat itu ego kita bermain, yang membuat suasa yang bersifat biasa menjadi hal-hal yang menjengkelkan, dan hidup kita seperti menjengkelkan dan tidak menyenangakan. Dengan mencoba hal kecil dengan berfikir lembut dan penuh kasih dengan sesame, akan membuat kita lebih tenang dan bisa menikmati kebahagiaan hidup. Dan dengan mencoba bersikap lembut dan penuh kasih sayang kita akan terlatih lebih sabar, dan tidak gampang kesal. Walaupun kita dalam keadaan gagal, atau frustasi.

Kemarin sempat beberapa sahabat, menganggap saya marah karena hal-hal kecil,
dan mengaggap saya akan mengakhiri suatu persahabatan, tetapi dengan
belajar bersifata lembut dan penuh kasih saya tidak merasakan amarah, atau
kesal. Dan persahabatan kami pun kembali normal.

Dengan bersikap lembut dan penuh kasih, tidak menjadikan kita dianggap lemah
atau rendah, dengan bersikap lembut akan membentuk pribadi kita jadi lebih
kuat, dan luar biasa dalam menjalani kehidupan baik dalam menerima
kebahagiaan dan dalam menerima cobaan hidup. Karena hidup tidak selalu dalam
keadaan bahagia, dan cobaan yang membuat kita lebih kuat. Jadi mari kita
mulai menularkan bersikap lembut dan penuh kasih sayang.

" Kekerasan dan Amarah tidak akan menyelesaikan suatu masalah, dengan sikap
lembut dan kasih sayang kita akan jadi lebih mudah menjalani hidup"

Thoughts Become Things

2007-09-18T19:54:00.000+08:00

from http://www.universeofsuccess.com/thoughts-become-things.html
The basic premise behind the law of attraction is thoughts become things. When you begin to understand that your thoughts are the first step in creating your reality you can watch your life evolve according to what you have been habitually thinking about. In The Secret movie which is now available on DVD it explains how thoughts become things. If you can simply keep your thoughts on what you want you will get what you want. In fact, you cannot get anything else. If you keep thinking about what you do not want you will get what you do not want. The concept is so simple that it seems almost complex or not possible but this is the way the world works.

I have written about the law of attraction on a number of occasions and written a review of The Secret movie which is basically a video documentary on how the law of attraction works but I decided to write this article since this information is just so important for personal development. As you begin to digest the idea that thoughts become things, the concept can become overwhelming. It basically means that you will be accountable for everything you think about and the more you think about something in particular the sooner you will notice that particular thing or event appearing in your life.

If thoughts become things it means you can change almost any circumstance in your life. I say almost anything because there are some things you cannot change, for example you could probably never be able to breathe underwater no matter how much you thought about it. However, when it comes to external life situation like attaining wealth even though you have always been poor, this is a situation which is entirely possible if you change your thoughts about wealth or becoming wealthy.

You are thinking everyday and although your thoughts seem to wander and change constantly, this is just by habit. When you change your thoughts you begin changing your subconscious mind and by doing so you can change your life. If you think you have no way out to a better life, well thatâ€™s what you will get. If you think things are getting better and your life is improving then that is what will happen. As you notice things getting better and you keep your thoughts focused on this, more and more positive events will come your way. Often people change their thinking habits to a more positive mindset and as they notice improvements occurring in their lives, they begin to say things like, this canâ€™t last, or they start to go back to their old way of thinking and just wait for things to turn sour again and that is just what happens as your thoughts become things.

When you hear about very successful people who seem to go through their lives and everything they touch turns to gold you may think to yourself they are just very lucky. Well the truth is it has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with what they think about, therefore once again thoughts become things. They make their own luck by only thinking about what they want. You will get what you think about, wanted or unwanted so if you have been getting what you do not want, you now know why.

When I first learned about the law of attraction I intuitively understood that this idea must be true and I knew this from past experiences. Whenever I had gone through rough patches in my life it was always when I had been thinking negatively or felt unhappy. The same thing went for happy periods in my life, when my thoughts were positive good things happen. If you are a regular reader of personal development material this will be nothing new to you but so many readers of my site email me and ask me how they can fix certain problems in their life and the best answer I can give is to change your thoughts and you will change your life becasue of the simple fact that thoughts become things. I changed my thoughts and as my life changed for the better I kept expecting more good things to come my way and that is exactly what has happened. If I ever catch myself thinking negatively I have a special word that automatically pops up in my mind and I refocus my thoughts on what I want. That special word can be anything, it is just a trigger word to help you refocus and remember that your thoughts become things so you must concentrate on what things you want to create. The more you become accustomed to refocusing the more often you can expect your thoughts to remain habitually positive and you will bring positive events into your life.

LOVE

2007-09-18T19:17:00.000+08:00

Ada sebuah kisah menarik tentang hakikat kecerdasan spiritual sebagai berikut:

Pada suatu sore menjelang malam, ada tiga orang tua yang sedang berdiri di depan pintu sebuah rumah. Ketiganya kelihatan seperti sedang dalam perjalanan jauh. Namun meskipun demikian tidak tampak tanda kelelahan atau kegetiran dari raut muka mereka. Beberapa saat kemudian keluarlah seorang wanita dari dalam rumah tersebut. Melihat ketiga orang tua tersebut, wanita ini menjadi iba dan mempersilahkan mereka untuk masuk ke rumah dan makan malam bersama dengan keluarga di rumah tersebut.

Salah satu dari ketiga orang tua tersebut menjawab,”Perkenalkan nama saya adalah WEALTH (yang berarti kekayaan), dia bernama SUCCESS (yang berarti kesuksesan), dan teman saya yang satu lagi bernama LOVE (yang artinya kasih). Kami tidak dapat masuk bersama-sama ke dalam rumah. Anda harus memilih siapa di antara kami yang Anda undang untuk masuk ke dalam?”

Kemudian si wanita masuk kembali ke dalam rumah dan menceritakan kejadian tersebut kepada suaminya. ”Sudah jelas bagi kita untuk mengundang WEALTH ke dalam rumah. Karena dengan kekayaan kita dapat memiliki segalanya di dunia ini,” kata sang suami. Tetapi sang istri lebih memilih SUCCESS untuk dapat menikmati kehidupan di dunia ini. Tiba-tiba anak mereka yang berumur sebelas tahun menimpali, ”Mengapa kita tidak memilih LOVE, sehingga kita bisa saling mengasihi dan menciptakan kedamaian dalam kehidupan kita.”

Akhirnya mereka sepakat untuk mengundang LOVE. Ketika sang isteri menyampaikan hal tersebut kepada ketiga orang tua tadi, maka masuklah LOVE ke dalam rumah. Tetapi kemudian kedua orang tua yang lain juga mengikutinya masuk ke dalam rumah.

Bertanyalah wanita itu,”Kami hanya mengundang LOVE, mengapa kalian berdua juga mau masuk ke dalam rumah kami? Bukankah kalian berkata bahwa kalian tidak dapat masuk bersama-sama ke dalam rumah?”

Salah satu dari orang tua itu menjawab,”Jika kalian mengundang saya, WEALTH atau teman saya, SUCCESS, dua orang dari kami akan tetap tinggal di luar. Tetapi karena Anda mengundang LOVE, maka kami berdua harus ikut ke dalam. Kemana pun LOVE pergi kami akan mengikutinya.Whereever there is love, there is also wealth and success.”

Kisah ini menunjukkan bahwa seorang anak kecil dapat memperlihatkan kecerdasan spiritual yang tinggi. Jelas bagi kita bahwa sang anak lebih cerdas secara spiritual, karena mengetahui manakah yang lebih penting antara kekayaan, kesuksesan dengan cinta kasih.

FILOSOFI MENABUNG

2007-09-17T19:52:00.000+08:00

Saya sering berdiskus dengan, teman dan kerabat mengenai masalah kesulitan keuangan mereka, dan kurangnya pendapatan mereka dalam memenuhi kehidupan sehari-hari, maka dalam kesempatan ini saya coba sedikit memberi paparan dalam tulisan saya ini mengenai Filosofi menabung.

Di Indonesia ada ungkapan "jangan lebih besar pasak daripada tiang". Itu berarti nenek moyang bangsa Indonesia telah memiliki bekal tentang ilmu ekonomi untuk diteruskan ke generasi penerusnya. Tetapi mengapa sebagian besar dari kita masih rentan dalam kemandirian ekonomi? Dalam kesempatan ini akan diuraikan d tentang kelemahan kita dalam kultur ekonomi, utamanya budaya menabung, dalam artikel "Pengantar Filosofi Menabung".

Menarik untuk dikaji, bahwa Indonesia belum berhasil mengadopsi kapitalisme yang konsepnya diadopsi dari Barat. Di Indonesia banyak sekali wirausahawan, semangat kerja para pekerja juga bagus, tetapi mengapa tetap belum bisa masuk ke garis depan negara maju? Jawaban yang akademis adalah bahwa kita belum bisa efektif menciptakan kapital. Di sini kapital berarti sesuatu yang bisa mendorong meningkatnya produktivitas kerja (labor productivity) dan kemakmuran bersama (common wealth) yang diperoleh dari produktivitas tersebut. Kapital bisa merupakan uang atau aset, bisa intellectual capital, bisa teknologi dan sebagainya yang bisa diorganisasi untuk menciptakan produktivitas yang hasilnya diterima oleh pasar.

Kalau kita lihat di jalan-jalan, banyak mobil BMW, Mercy berseliweran, tapi apakah itu wujud dari pembentukan kapital? Jawabannya sebagian besar tidak! Banyak perusahaan Indonesia yang menjadi besar karena hubungan kedekatan dengan suatu subyek: dekat dengan bos suatu perusahaan, dekat dengan menteri dst. Dari situ yang diperoleh adalah akumulasi aset, tetapi bukan kapital dalam arti yang sesungguhnya. Itu karena akumulasi tersebut bersifat subyektif atau tergantung subyek orang tertentu, dan tidak self-sustained (menopang diri sendiri).

Salah satu sebab mengapa kapital tak berhasil dibentuk dengan efektif di Indonesia adalah kurangnya filosofi tentang keuangan, terutama mengenai pentingnya menabung. Secara historis kultural, harus diakui di negara-negara tropis di mana tanaman bisa berbuah sepanjang tahun, budaya menabung kurang kondusif. Sebaliknya di negara sub tropis, di mana ada perubahan musim sepanjang tahun, menabung menjadi keharusan. Itu karena sejak jaman pra modern sudah terbentuk kebiasaan menabung, dikarenakan pada musim gugur dan dingin tidak bisa dilakukan kegiatan kerja yang produktif.

Menabung merupakan elemen penting untuk pembentukan kapital, yang telah mendorong negara-negara seperti Amerika Serikat, Jepang dan Eropa menjadi begitu maju seperti sekarang ini. Tapi di negara kita, kebanyakan orang membeli barang lebih suka dengan kredit dan bayar di belakang. Ini berbeda dengan kultur menabung yang mana uang dikumpulkan di depan dulu untuk membeli barang. Kedua hal sekilas sama, tapi memiliki perbedaan yang besar. Pengumpulan uang di depan kemudian dibelanjakan memungkinkan keputusan diambil secara rasional karena ada sense of reality, orang bisa merasakan susah payahnya mengumpulkan uang. Selain itu menghemat cost of money yaitu bunga kredit. Kalau kita membayar bunga kredit, yang paling untung adalah pihak yang memiliki kapital lebih dulu yaitu lembaga-lembaga keuangan. Kemudian kalau dilihat secara aggregate / kumulatif, uang yang ditabung dan terkumpul di bank bisa dialokasikan untuk sektor produktif yang bisa memajukan perekonomian negara.

Tapi meskipun tahu demikian, mengapa menabung tetap sulit? Jawabannya seperti diuraikan di atas, karena faktor historis kultural. Lalu bagaimana bisa melepaskan diri dari kebiasaan tidak menabung tersebut.

"psikologi" dasar manusia yang menyangkut uang.

"psikologi" dasar manusia yang menyangkut uang. Ini sangat penting diketahui agar kita mengetahui cara-cara yang cocok untuk diri kita dalam rangka bisa menabung.

Beberapa Psikologi Dasar Manusia Terhadap Uang:

PARADOX 1: Semakin uang terkumpul, justru kita semakin hati-hati menggunakan uang dan cenderung ingin menambah tabungan yang terkumpul. [Itu karena uang yang terkumpul memberi rasa PD pada diri kita, sehingga kita ingin semakin menabung]

PARADOX 2: Semakin punya uang, kita menjadi tidak gengsi untuk tidak boros atau tidak cari sensasi. [Ini sesuai dengan "psikologi komplementer", yaitu secara tidak sadar kita akan berusaha menutupi kelemahan pada diri kita. Kalau kita tak punya uang, untuk menutupinya justru kita akan memperlihatkan royal atau ngejreng ke orang lain]

TEKNIK 1: Mengganti pengeluaran uang dengan pujian. [Meskipun uang itu sangat
berharga, tapi kebutuhan manusia tak hanya uang tapi juga aktualisasi diri. Dengan
memberi pujian kepada orang (istri, pacar dsb), kita bisa mengurangi pengeluaran
uang untuk orang tersebut, dengan kepuasan yang sama bagi orang tersebut]

TEKNIK 2: Buat target yang tidak sulit dulu. Setelah berhasil, otomatis target akan
bertambah besar dengan sendirinya. [Ini kunci umum dalam meraih keberhasilan.
Target yang terlalu besar membuat kita malas untuk mencapainya. Mulailah dari
yang tidak sulit, misalnya target dalam 3 bulan uang telah terkumpul sekian sekian]

PEPATAH 1: Dalam pepatah Jepang, dikatakan "barang siapa menertawakan uang
1 yen, suatu saat akan menangis karena uang 1 yen." [Ini bukan mengajarkan pelit,
tetapi untuk membentuk sikap mental menghargai uang. Apabila kita care terhadap
uang yang kita keluarkan, maka secara otomatis pemborosan akan berkurang dengan
sendirinya. Kalau bisa, 5 menit pada malam hari kita analisa seakurat mungkin di
atas kertas ke mana saja uang kita gunakan pada hari ini]

PARADOX 3: Kita akan mudah dirayu untuk membeli sesuatu, tetapi kita akan marah
kalau dikomentari tentang sesuatu yang kita beli. [Oleh karena itu, pada saat dirayu
membeli sesuatu jangan mudah tergoda. Pikirkan apakah barang tersebut ada
manfaat secara riil dan berkelanjutan]

PARADOX 4: Meminjam uang 100 ribu sebelum gajian dan meminjam uang 100
ribu setelah gajian, nilainya sangat berbeda. [Butuh uang 100 ribu dua hari menjelang
gajian membuat kita tidak PD, dan merasa berhutang budi banyak terhadap orang
yang meminjami kita. Bahkan kalau kita diminta mengembalikan 150 ribu, kita akan
mau. Moral yang diambil dari situ: aturlah uang jangan sampai kurang. Kekurangan
uang membuat mental kita menjadi tidak stabil dan justru cenderung tambah boros]

PEPATAH 2: Kalau ada cerita yang manis atau lezat, biasanya A3 atau "Ada Apa-
Apanya' [Kadang ada ajakan "bisnis" tertentu yang hasilnya luar biasa, atau tibatiba ada sms masuk mengabarkan dapat hadiah mengejutkan. Pada saat itu, kita
harus berpikir dulu bahwa di dunia ini tak ada rejeki yang turun gratis dari langit.
Jangan mudah tergoda kalau tidak ingin kehilangan uang sia-sia]

PEPATAH 3: "Yang utang saja sabar, kok yang mengutangi tidak sabar?" [Berhatihatilah meminjamkan uang yang agak besar kepada orang lain. Kalau uang tersebut
tidak kembali, 50% dari kesalahan ada pada diri kita karena kita percaya uang bakal
kembali. Sebelum meminjamkan uang, analisa kredibilitasnya dari pengalaman
berhubungan uang dengannya selama 1 tahun terakhir]

Memahami "psikologi" dasar manusia yang menyangkut uang penting karena menurut teori strategi Sun Tzu, untuk bisa mengatasi suatu masalah, sebelumnya kita harus mampu memahami kelebihan dan kelemahan diri sendiri serta pihak lain.

Mungkin ada yang bertanya, apakah kita harus pelit agar bisa menabung dan mengumpulkan aset, jawabannya tidak juga. Menampung rejeki seperti halnya memegang air pada telapak tangan, terlalu digenggam air akan tumpah, terlalu dibuka juga akan tumpah. Jadi ada level optimal tertentu dalam mengelola keuangan, tidak terlalu royal dan tidak terlalu pelit.

Kita tidak perlu terlalu pelit sehingga mengabaikan pengeluaran yang mungkin timbul dalam jangka panjang. Ada pepatah Jepang yang mengatakan
bahwa membeli barang murahan itu hanya membuang uang saja. Itu artinya barang
yang "murahan" biasanya umurnya tidak panjang dan akhirnya kita harus membeli
barang yang sama.

Selain itu ada ajaran yang mengharuskan kita berhati-hati dalam menerima pemberian gratis dari orang. Sebab tidak ada yang lebih mahal daripada pemberian gratis! Pemberian sesuatu yang bersifat gratis menimbulkan hutang budi yang apabila kita tak bisa mengembalikan budi tersebut bisa meretakkan hubungan. Pemberiangratis oleh orang lain bisa juga menimbulkan penguasaan secara psikologis terhadap diri kita, sehingga suatu saat apabila kita dimintai suatu pertolongan meskipun sulit, kita pasti sulit untuk bisa menolaknya. Apabila diberi barang gratis, lebih baik kita membayarnya meskipun hanya ala kadarnya.

Akhir-akhir ini, kartu kredit menjadi suatu mode. Kartu kredit memberi kemudahan dalam belanja, tapi mengingat budaya kartu kredit itu baru bagi masyarakat Indonesia, banyak dari kita yang belum tahu mengenai perhitungan bunga dan efeknya terhadap cashflow rumah tangga. Dengan bunga 3% per bulan dan bersifat akumulatif (bunga berbunga), selayaknya kartu kredit hanya digunakan untuk halhal yang bersifat rutin (belanja bulanan) serta darurat (rumah sakit dsb) saja.

Di berbagai kolom Surat Pembaca di berbagai media massa, sering saya membaca artikel orang mengeluh bagaimana mengatasi cicilan yang terlalu banyak yang melilit rumah tangganya. Individu maupun perusahaan memiliki karakteristik yang sama, apabila pengeluaran cicilan terlalu banyak maka operasional kehidupan/bisnis akan terganggu. Alangkah baiknya apabila kita selalu bisa mengontrol agar total cicilan bulanan tidak lebih dari 25% penghasilan kita.

Konsep Cashflow dan Manajemen Aset

Banyak menjadi polemik di dunia akademis, bahwa salah satu kelemahan kurikulum pendidikan di Indonesia adalah tidak adanya pengajaran tentang ilmu ekonomi praktis, terutama mengenai pengaturan cashflow. Cashflow adalah keluar masuknya uang sepanjang waktu. Kelemahan dalam pengaturan cashflow menyebabkan uang menjadi krodit / habis di suatu waktu tertentu, sehingga orang terpaksa harus cari utangan. Padahal dengan pengetahuan pengaturan cashflow yang sederhana, titiktitik rawan bisa diprediksi sehingga kekurangan uang bisa diprediksi dan dihindari.

Manajemen Aset adalah masalah lain, menyangkut bagaimana mengoptimalkan aset. Agar aset nilainya menjadi optimal, orang biasanya membeli barang yang kalau dijual lagi (re-sell) harganya bagus. Pengetahuan seperti ini penting juga dalam rangka menabung dalam arti yang lebih luas, yaitu menabung aset.‧

" Nafsu atau keinginan yang dimiliki manusia adalah anugrah bila kita bisa mengendalikan, tetapi akan menyadi musibah jika tidak bisa terkendali "

Marah

2007-09-17T01:54:00.000+08:00

Suatu hari sang guru bertanya kepada murid-muridnya;
"Mengapa ketika seseorang sedang dalam keadaan marah, ia akan berbicara
dengan suara kuat atau berteriak?"

Seorang murid setelah berpikir cukup lama mengangkat tangan dan menjawab;
"Karena saat seperti itu ia telah kehilangan kesabaran, karena itu ia lalu
berteriak."
"Tapi..." sang guru balik bertanya, "lawan bicaranya justru berada
disampingnya. Mengapa harus berteriak? Apakah ia tak dapat berbicara secara
halus?"

Hampir semua murid memberikan sejumlah alasan yang dikira benar menurut
pertimbangan mereka. Namun tak satupun jawaban yang memuaskan. Sang guru
lalu berkata; "Ketika dua orang sedang berada dalam situasi kemarahan, jarak
antara ke dua hati mereka menjadi amat jauh walau secara fisik mereka begitu
dekat. Karena itu, untuk mencapai jarak yang demikian, mereka harus berteriak.

Namun anehnya, semakin keras mereka berteriak, semakin pula mereka menjadi
marah dan dengan sendirinya jarak hati yang ada di antara keduanya pun
menjadi lebih jauh lagi. Karena itu mereka terpaksa berteriak lebih keras
lagi."

Sang guru masih melanjutkan; "Sebaliknya, apa yang terjadi ketika dua orang
saling jatuh cinta? Mereka tak hanya tidak berteriak, namun ketika mereka
berbicara suara yang keluar dari mulut mereka begitu halus dan kecil.
Sehalus apapun, keduanya bisa mendengarkannya dengan begitu jelas.

Mengapa
demikian?" Sang guru bertanya sambil memperhatikan para muridnya. Mereka
nampak berpikir amat dalam namun tak satupun berani memberikan jawaban.
"Karena hati mereka begitu dekat, hati mereka tak berjarak. Pada akhirnya
sepatah katapun tak perlu diucapkan. Sebuah pandangan mata saja amatlah
cukup membuat mereka memahami apa yang ingin mereka sampaikan."

Sang guru masih melanjutkan;
"Ketika anda sedang dilanda kemarahan, janganlah hatimu menciptakan jarak.
Lebih lagi hendaknya kamu tidak mengucapkan kata yang mendatangkan jarak di
antara kamu. Mungkin di saat seperti itu, tak mengucapkan kata-kata mungkin
merupakan cara yang bijaksana. Karena waktu akan membantu anda."

Kiss

2007-09-15T12:38:00.000+08:00

Seringkali kita terkecoh saat menghadapi suatu masalah, dan walaupun masalah tersebut terpecahkan, tetapi pemecahan yang ada bukanlah suatu pemecahan yang efisien dan justru malah terlalu rumit.

Kasus 1
Salah satu dari kasus yang ada adalah kasus kotak sabun yang kosong, yang terjadi di salah satu perusahaan kosmetik yang terbesar di Jepang. Perusahaan tersebut menerima keluhan dari pelanggan yang mengatakan bahwa ia telah membeli kotak sabun (terbuat dari bahan kertas) kosong. Dengan segerapimpinan perusahaan menceritakan masalah tersebut ke bagian pengepakan yang bertugas untuk memindahkan semua kotak sabun yang telah dipak ke departemen pengiriman. Karena suatu alasan, ada satu kotak sabun yang terluput dan mencapai bagian pengepakan dalam keadaan kosong.

Tim manajemen meminta para teknisi untuk memecahkan masalah tersebut. Dengan segera, para teknisi bekerja keras untuk membuat sebuah mesin sinar X dengan monitor resolusi tinggi yang dioperasikan oleh dua orang untuk melihat semua kotak sabun yang melewati sinar tersebut dan memastikan bahwa kotak tersebut tidak kosong. Tak diragukan lagi, mereka bekerja keras dan cepat tetapi biaya yang dikeluarkan pun tidak sedikit.

Tetapi saat ada seorang karyawan di sebuah perusahaan kecil dihadapkan pada permasalahan yang sama, ia tidak berpikir tentang hal-hal yang rumit, tetapi ia muncul dengan solusi yang berbeda. Ia membeli sebuah kipas angin listrik untuk industri yang memiliki tenaga cukup besar dan mengarahkannya ke garis pengepakan. Ia menyalakan kipas angin tersebut, dan setiap ada kotak sabun yang melewati kipas angin tersebut, kipas tersebut meniup kotak sabun yang kosong keluar dari jalur pengepakan, karena kotak sabun terbuat dari bahan kertas yang ringan.

Kasus 2
Pada saat NASA mulai mengirimkan astronot ke luar angkasa, mereka menemukan bahwa pulpen mereka tidak bisa berfungsi di gravitasi nol, karena tinta pulpen tersebut tidak dapat mengalir ke mata pena.

Untuk memecahkan masalah tersebut, mereka menghabiskan waktu satu dekade dan 12 juta dolar. Mereka mengembangkan sebuah pulpen yang dapat berfungsi pada keadaan-keadaan seperti gravitasi nol, terbalik, dalam air, dalam berbagai permukaan termasuk kristal dan dalam derajat temperatur mulai dari di bawah titik beku sampai lebih dari 300 derajat Celcius.

Dan apakah yang dilakukan para orang Rusia? Mereka menggunakan pensil!

Kasus 3
Suatu hari, pemilik apartemen menerima komplain dari pelanggannya. Para pelanggan mulai merasa waktu tunggu mereka di pintu lift terasa lama seiring bertambahnya penghuni di apartemen itu. Dia (pemilik) mengundang sejumlah pakar untuk memecahkan masalah ini.

Satu pakar menyarankan agar menambah jumlah lift. Tentu, dengan bertambahnya lift, waktu tunggu jadi berkurang. Pakar lain meminta pemilik untuk mengganti lift yang lebih cepat, dengan asumsi, semakin cepat orang terlayani. Kedua saran tadi tentu memerlukan biaya yang tidak sedikit.

Tetapi, satu pakar lain hanya menyarankan satu hal, "Inti dari keluhan pelanggan anda adalah mereka merasa lama menunggu". Pakar tadi hanya menyarankan untuk menginvestasikan kaca cermin di depan lift, agar pelanggan teralihkan perhatiannya dari pekerjaan "menunggu" dan merasa "tidak menunggu lift".

Moral cerita ini adalah sebuah filosofi yang disebut KISS (Keep It Simple Solution), yaitu selalu mencari solusi yang sederhana, sehingga bahkan orang bodoh sekalipun dapat melakukannya. Cobalah menyusun solusi yang paling sederhana dan memungkinkan untuk memecahkan masalah yang ada. Maka dari itu, kita harus belajar untuk fokus pada solusi daripada pada berfokus pada masalah.

The Pursuit of Happiness

2007-09-15T12:35:00.000+08:00

Setelah sekian lama mendengar cerita tentang film 'The Pursuit of Happyness' dan tergiur menyaksikan akting Will Smith yang konon katanya ‘the best ever’, akhirnya saya berhasil nonton film ini. *deuuu, bangga..* :)

Sejak dulu setiap kali melewati satu hari yang buruk, saya selalu saja merapal mantra andalan "Aku akan baik-baik saja, Aku akan baik-baik saja, Aku akan baik-baik saja." Tapi sejak menonton film The Pursuit of Happyness, saya mendadak punya banyak mantra serep seputar Chris Gardner.
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Chris Gardner (Will Smith) bukan seorang yang luar biasa. Dia hanyalah seorang sales alat pemindai kepadatan tulang. Seperti jutaan orang di bumi ini, dia juga menghadapi tumpukan masalah yang sama. Tunggakan pajak dan kontrakan rumah selama 4 bulan, 6 alat pemindai senilai U$ 250 per buah yang tak kunjung laku, tabungan yang terkuras habis hingga tinggal U$ 20. Tambahkan faktor 1 anak yang harus diasuh, dan 1 istri frustasi yang akhirnya memilih untuk hengkang ke New York. Makin lengkaplah daftar masalah seorang Chris Gardner.

Tapi Chris tidak mengeluh. Saat ia bertemu dengan gadis hippie yang mencuri salah satu alat pemindainya, Chris cuma mengambil miliknya sambil diam, tanpa sekalipun memaki. Saat diusir dari rumah kontrakannya dan tak punya tempat untuk tidur, dengan cerdiknya ia menciptakan permainan "Mesin Waktu" bersama anaknya, Christopher. Karena takut diburu dinosaurus jaman purba, mereka terpaksa bersembunyi di "gua" terdekat. Dan "gua" itu adalah toilet laki-laki di stasiun kereta bawah tanah. Saat ia terpaksa mengambil pilihan magang kerja 6 jam setiap harinya sebagai pialang saham, dengan kontrak 6 bulan kerja tanpa digaji, dan seleksi ketat dimana dari 20 orang hanya akan disaring 1 orang sebagai pekerja tetap. Saat uang di dompetnya tinggal U$ 15, dengan ikhlas ia meminjamkan satu lembar U$ 5 nya pada bos tempatnya magang untuk bayar ongkos taksi. Saat ia terpaksa memperbaiki salah satu alat pemindainya yang rusak sekaligus belajar ujian sahamnya dalam redupnya cahaya bulan, karena di tempat penampungan listrik padam jam 21.00. Saat ia terpaksa menjual darahnya dengan harga U$ 20 sekantung, demi membeli makanan yang layak untuk Christopher. Semuanya dijalani Chris tanpa sekalipun juga mengeluh atau protes pada Tuhan. "Yang penting, kamu bahagia, Ayah bahagia. Itu saja cukup," ujar Chris pada Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith).

Menonton film yang berdasarkan kisah nyata ini membuat saya merenungkan kembali arti kebahagiaan. Dulu bagi saya, kebahagiaan itu sederhana saja. Bisa berupa 1 buku bagus di waktu weekend, secangkir coklat panas saat turun hujan, bercengkerama bersama para sahabat, atau menatap langit yang menghijau di senja hari.
Tapi saya--yang mencecap kebahagiaan dengan romantisme-- tidak menelan hari-hari getir yang dijalani Chris. Dengan beruntungnya, setiap pagi saya berangkat dengan perut kenyang, dan saya selalu punya kamar yang hangat dan nyaman untuk ditiduri setiap malam. Setiap akhir bulan, saya tak perlu putar otak mencari celah "bernafas" untuk 1 bulan berikutnya. Berjuang hidup dari bulan ke bulan, minggu ke minggu, bahkan dari hari ke hari.

Menonton film ini membuat saya belajar berempati. Bahwa bagi seorang Chris Gardner, kebahagiaan bukanlah hal yang telah ada sebagaimana mestinya. Kebahagiaan harus dikejar, seperti yang pernah diucapkan Thomas Jefferson. "Dan saat mengejarnya, jangan pernah biarkan orang lain bilang 'Kamu tak akan bisa', bahkan meskipun orang itu Ayah," pesan Chris pada Christopher.

Tak hanya itu, menonton film ini juga mengajari saya untuk merasa malu. Malu saat saya banyak mengeluh, malu saat saya banyak protes, malu saat saya tak bisa menahan diri. Dan dari film ini ini jugalah saya belajar untuk merapal mantra baru saya. "Chris Gardner saja bisa menjalani ini dengan ikhlas dan tanpa mengeluh, masa sih kamu nggak bisa sih?"

Pendapat saya tentang ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’?

Sejujurnya, tidak banyak. Dan saya juga memilih untuk tidak terburu-buru mencantumkannya dalam daftar film favorit di Friendster *wink*.

Alasannya?
Well.. mungkin pandangan saya tentang arti kebahagiaan sedikit berbeda. Entah benar entah salah, namun bagi saya kebahagiaan bukanlah sesuatu yang harus dikejar seperti Will Smith (atau Chris Gardner) memperjuangkannya.

Entah hidup dengan harta berlimpah atau melarat setengah mati, sehat walafiat atau terbaring di rumah sakit, bisa makan di restoran mewah atau makan nasi-kerupuk, tinggal di rumah jutaan dolar atau di penginapan sederhana yang bayarnya pakai ngutang, menikah dengan eksmud super-tampan lagi baik budi dan tidak sombong atau masih single di usia ‘kepala dua lari-lari’; menurut saya, kebahagiaan tidak ditentukan oleh itu semua.

Saya menonton film tersebut sampai habis, dan mendadak teringat pada sebaris kalimat yang dituliskan seorang teman beberapa waktu lalu. Kalimat yang sangat sederhana, namun lebih dari cukup untuk merangkum makna kebahagiaan secara utuh (dan menohok hati saya).

“Kebahagiaan tidak perlu dikejar, karena kebahagiaan timbul dari hati dan pikiran yang senantiasa bersyukur.”

Teman saya bukan ahli filsafat, seniman besar, sastrawan terkenal, pun pembuat film kondang.Tapi bagi saya, ia telah berhasil menyampaikan arti kebahagiaan melebihi yang dapat diuraikan oleh siapa pun. :)

BEBAS DARI PENJARA PIKIRAN MELALUI PINTU KESADARAN

2007-09-15T12:33:00.000+08:00

“The human condition: lost in thought.”

Banyak orang yang salah mengerti bila saya berbicara mengenai pikiran. Banyak yang bertanya pada saya, ”Pak, berarti kunci untuk mencapai sukses atau kebahagiaan adalah dengan pikiran?”

”Ya dan belum tentu,” jawab saya.

Lha, kok bisa ya dan belum tentu. Bukankah semua ini hanya permainan pikiran?

Anda benar sekali. Semua adalah permainan pikiran. Namun sayangnya sering kali yang kita alami adalah kita dipermainkan pikiran kita dalam suatu permainan yang pikiran mainkan dengan tidak main-main.

Bingung?

Manusia pada umumnya, tanpa mereka sadari, hanya menjalani kehidupan dalam koridor penjara pikiran yang sempit yang dibatasi oleh tembok-tembok tinggi persepsi. Mereka jarang sekali, jika tidak mau dikatakan tidak pernah, mampu menjelajah melampaui perangkap penjara pikiran yang dikondisikan oleh keterbatasan persepsi akibat ketidaktahuan akan ketidaktahuan.

Dengan bahasa yang lebih sederhana manusia hidup dalam realitas yang ditentukan oleh seperangkat aturan (baca: program pikiran) yang ada dalam pikirannya. Kita tidak melihat segala sesuatu apa adanya. Kita melihat sesuatu apa kita-nya.

Sang Buddha pernah berkata, “Pikiran itu sungguh sukar diawasi. Ia amat halus dan senang mengembara sesuka hati. Karena itu hendaklah orang bijaksana selalu menjaganya. Pikiran yang dijaga dengan baik akan membawa kebahagian. Pikiran itu mudah goyah dan tidak tetap, sulit dijaga dan sulit dikuasai; namun orang bijaksana akan meluruskannya, bagaikan seorang pembuat panah meluruskan anak panah.”

Benar, kita bisa mencapai kebahagian atau sukses di bidang apa saja dengan menggunakan pikiran secara benar. Namun bila kita tidak hati-hati seringkali kita diperdayai oleh pikiran kita.

Ambil contoh ”kebencian” dan ”kebahagiaan”. Jika dilihat sekilas maka kita tahu bahwa ”kebencian” adalah suatu emosi yang negatif sedangkan ”kebahagiaan” adalah emosi positif. Benarkah demikian? Ternyata ”kebahagiaan” justru bisa menjadi sumber masalah. Pikiran yang terlalu melekat, atau selalu menginginkan, atau berusaha mempertahankan ”kebahagiaan” justru akan menimbulkan efek negatif. Dan bahkan keinginan untuk bahagia bisa mengobarkan api ”kebencian”. Untuk lebih jelas mengenai hal ini Anda bisa membaca artikel saya yang berjudul ”Bahaya Kebencian dan Kebahagiaan”.

Untuk bisa keluar dari perangkap pikiran maka kita perlu mengerti cara kerja pikiran. Dengan memahami cara kerja pikiran kita bisa mengerti permainan yang sedang pikiran mainkan di suatu saat. Sehingga kita, bukannya larut dalam permainan itu atau didikte dengan suatu aturan main yang pikiran tetapkan sendiri, dapat menetapkan rule of game yang menguntungkan diri kita.

Untuk itu mari kita amati proses belajar setiap manusia. Kita melewati empat tahap belajar yaitu:
1. Unconscious Incompetence
2. Conscious Incompetence
3. Conscious Competence
4. Unconscious Competence

Pada tahap pertama, Unconscious Incompetence, kita tidak tahu kalau kita tidak tahu. Misalnya, sewaktu kita masih kecil, kita tidak tahu bahwa kita, saat itu, belum bisa jalan. Melalui interaksi dengan orang dewasa atau lingkungan kita, yang masih kecil, akhirnya tahu (Conscious Incompetence) bahwa kita belum bisa jalan. Mengapa? Karena kita melihat orang di sekeliling kita berjalan tegak.

Selanjutnya kita mulai belajar berjalan dan akhirnya bisa berjalan dengan sempurna (Conscious Competence). Sekarang, kita bahkan tidak sadar lagi bahwa kita bisa jalan dengan sempurna (Unconscious Competence). Kemampuan berjalan, yang dulunya kita pelajari dengan begitu susah payah, mengalami jatuh bangun, bahkan ada yang sampai kepalanya benjol karena jatuh, kini telah menjadi kecakapan yang bekerja secara otomatis.

Nah, saat suatu skill telah masuk ke tahap Unconscious Competence maka sejak saat itu, bila tidak dilakukan intervensi secara sadar, skill ini akan bekerja dengan prinsip automatic pilot.

Hal yang sama berlaku juga dengan kecakapan berpikir, yang note bene adalah keahlian pikiran itu sendiri.

Automatic pilot berfungsi untuk memudahkan hidup kita. Yang akan dijalankan oleh sistem automatic pilot adalah program/kebiasaan yang paling kuat. Baru-baru ini, saat sedang mengendarai mobil, saya larut dalam pemikiran yang cukup intens mengenai sesuatu. Saat itu pikiran (bawah sadar) saya secara otomatis mengambil alih kendali. Tanpa saya sadari, saat bertemu jalan yang bercabang dua, secara otomatis mobil saya belokkan ke kanan. Padahal rute yang seharusnya saya lewati adalah belok ke kiri. Jalan ke arah kanan adalah rute yang setiap hari saya lalui untuk ke kantor.

Nah, apa sih yang membuat kita terperangkap di dalam penjara pikiran?

Salah satu kebutuhan dasar manusia yang sangat menonjol adalah kebutuhan akan konsistensi. Saat pikiran telah memutuskan untuk menerima sesuatu sebagai ”kebenaran” maka ia akan konsisten dengan ”kebenaran” itu. ”Kebenaran” ini belum tentu sejalan dengan ”kebenaran” yang kita setujui kebenarannya. ”Kebenaran” menurut pikiran sejalan dengan pemikiran pikiran itu sendiri yang didukung dengan berbagai pengalaman yang pernah kita alami.

”Kebenaran” ini dikenal dengan istilah belief. Jadi, setelah pikiran mengadopsi suatu belief maka selanjutnya belief ini yang mengendalikan pikiran. Tanpa intervensi yang dilakukan secara sadar maka hidup kita sepenuhnya dikendalikan oleh berbagai belief yang telah kita adopsi dan yakini kebenarannya.

Saat kita percaya/belief akan kebenaran sesuatu maka kita tidak akan lagi mempertanyakan keabsahan data atau landasan pijak berpikir yang digunakan sebagai dasar penerimaan suatu belief. Belief kita selalu benar menurut kita. Yang benar menurut kita belum tentu benar menurut orang lain. Kita akan mati-matian mempertahankan belief kita karena kita yang memutuskan bahwa ”sesuatu” itu adalah hal yang benar. Masa kita meragukan kebenaran yang telah kita putuskan ”kebenarannya”?

Lalu, bagaimana caranya untuk bisa keluar dari perangkap penjara pikiran? Sesuai dengan judul artikel ini maka jalan kebebasan adalah melalui pintu kesadaran.

Nah, Anda mungkin akan bertanya, ”Mengapa harus melalui pintu kesadaran?

Hanya melalui pintu kesadaran kita bisa menyadari bahwa kita bukanlah pikiran kita, kita bukanlah perasaan kita, kita bukanlah kebiasaan kita, dan yang lebih penting lagi adalah bahwa kita bukanlah belief kita. Kesadaran membuat kita mampu untuk melakukan disosiasi atau pemisahan yang jelas.

Dengan kesadaran kita mampu melakukan metakognisi atau berpikir mengenai pikiran. Dengan berpikir dan mengamati pikiran maka kita akhirnya mengenal ”sosok” pikiran kita. Kita akan tahu pola atau kebiasaan yang pikiran lakukan. Dengan kesadaran kita dapat memahami bahwa pikiran, walaupun merupakan piranti yang sangat luar biasa, tetap hanyalah sebagian kecil dari kesadaran itu sendiri.

Lalu, bagaimana cara untuk bisa mengamati pikiran?

Oh, caranya mudah sekali. Yang perlu kita lakukan adalah belajar untuk menjadi hening. Kita perlu membiasakan diri ”berjalan” di keheningan. Hanya dengan hening kita baru mampu mengamati pikiran kita dengan jelas.

Pikiran ibarat segelas air yang keruh karena berisi kotoran atau partikel kecil (baca: buah pikir). Dalam kondisi keruh kita tidak akan bisa melihat melampaui gelas air itu. Kita tidak akan mampu melihat dan mengamati berbagai komponen yang membuat air (baca: pikiran) menjadi keruh.

Lalu, bagaimana caranya untuk bisa melihat partikel kecil yang mengotori air?
Bagaimana cara untuk bisa melihat melampaui gelas yang keruh?

Sekali lagi, caranya sangat mudah. Letakkan gelas yang berisi air keruh dan biarkan selama beberapa saat. Jangan digerakkan atau diaduk-aduk. Biarkan saja.

Selang beberapa saat kotoran-kotoran itu akan mulai mengendap dengan sendirinya, tanpa harus kita upayakan. Setelah semuanya mengendap air di gelas menjadi sangat jernih. Kotoran itu akan turun ke dasar gelas dan menjadi sangat mudah diamati. Kita juga akan dapat melihat melampaui gelas. Mudah, kan?

Pertanyaannya sekarang adalah bagaimana caranya menjadi hening?

Setiap hari, selama sekitar 30 menit sampai 60 menit, lakukan meditasi. Duduklah dengan tenang dan mulailah mengamati pikiran Anda. Bagi pemula Anda bisa melatih diri dengan melakukan meditasi 15 menit di pagi hari dan malam hari.

Pengamatan terhadap pikiran akan membawa kita pada pengenalan dan pemahaman mendalam yang kita namakan kebijaksanaan. Nah, kebijaksanaan inilah sebenarnya kunci pembuka pintu kebebasan kita.

Bill Gould, selalu berpesan, if you want to keep growing, you have to challenge everything. Even your own thinking and beliefs.”

Pendapat saya hal ini merupakan tahapan yg jelas seorang di segala bidang, mau golf, tennis, apalagi yg jelas sebagai trader forex. Kalau kita sudah sampai ke tahapan tidak sadar eh ternyata sudah ahli alias udah bosen gitu loh barulah di situ kita sebenarnya udah experts sbg trader.

What's Wrong With "The Secret"

2007-09-15T12:31:00.000+08:00

I just watched "The Secret" again over the weekend. I love this film, but this whole business over calling it "The Secret" makes me laugh. It's not like "Think and Grow Rich" or "The Power of Positive Thinking", or "The Law of Attraction" have been kept hidden by some cabal of powerful business men. None of this is new, and none of it's a secret. In fact these are the titles of immensely popular and influential books over the last century.

So what is the secret?

Esther Hicks found hers and teaches message of Abraham. Wayne Dyer found his and he teaches the Power of Intention. Byron Katie found hers and teaches The Work. I found mine, and I teach Magic and Manifestation.

But even these aren't the real secret.

Cause you can do everything "right"--the mantras, the meditations, the visioning, the positive thinking--and not see a change in your circumstances. I've been that girl. Give yourself a break. You're not doing it wrong. You're not less worthy. You're just where you are. Right now. We all take a turn in that dark night of the soul.

"Be a light unto yourself," the Buddha taught. Take all these teachings in, and take them all with a grain of salt. There's an old Irish adage that says you have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather is. Nobody else's law is your law, not even the Law of Attraction.

I believe in a strong tendency of attraction. Don't get me wrong--I'm all about attraction. I think about something and a few days later it shows up. But a "law" of attraction? Like always attracts like? Not really:

Twenty four years ago, I was in rapturous love for the first time. I was getting straight A's and awards in high school. And I had just come home from my first trip to Europe. It was a very high vibration time. Until I was hit by a car, went into a coma, and came out with a serious brain injury that destroyed my life for a few years. I had to let go of everything I knew about spirituality at that time just to survive. In this instance, at least, like did not attract like.

While I may quibble with the Law of Attraction, I choose to believe in a Law of the Highest Good: everything happens for the highest good. Everything. You just have to survive it first.

So what really is the secret?

That area of your deepest pain is also the key to your heart's desire. Only the person who has been through your pain, walks on your path, and learns what you learn will discover your secret.

There's a connection between mind and matter. There's a connection between you and the universe itself. "As above so below." But how you access those connections is your unique experience.

NOTHING works for everyone all the time. What you discover will probably look A LOT like what other people have been saying for the last 10,000 years.

And the stuff that looks different may be even more important. It's your contribution. In fact this may be what you're here to teach so others can discover their own secret.

We all have to reinvent the wheel at some level for ourselves. I cannot presume to have your answers, only suggestions. The finger the teacher points at the moon is not the moon itself.

So go watch the movie. It's great. And if you like "The Secret," pick up "Millionaire: Awaken Your Secret." It's different, similar, and you'll like it too.