Now, I know my suggestion to imagine the successful conclusion of a trade appears to fly in the face of these truths. Successful traders accept and expect losses. Losses are endemic to trading. Losses are a simple cost of doing business just as inventory is an acceptable cost to a merchant. A merchant never sits and whines and says, "Oh, dear, I hope I don't have to buy any inventory this season." of course not!   Neither does a successful trader sit and whine, "Oh, I hope I don't have any losses this quarter! Oh, I hope this trade isn't a loser!" The consistently successful trader accepts deep in her heart, deep in her bones, that her winnings will be tempered with inevitable losses. So what! She also anticipates her ultimate triumph because she's structured the probabilities in her favor. She takes the long view.

Since we never know what will be the result of any given trade, since each trade is unknowable and only one in a series of probabilities, it's probably better not to imagine the success of an individual trade. It's best to keep your mind open to the uncertainty of any given trade. Remember it's not your job to know whether any given trade will be a winner or loser. It is your job to apply the probabilities of your method.

So, unless you're really stuck being unable to put on a trade, don't imagine the success of a given trade, but rather go out into your future and look back on the successful conclusion of the day's, the week's, the month's, or the year's trades.

Here's, how I do it. I envision my time in this life as a line in space. You could call this my time line. My past is behind me, my present right around me, and my future is an upward rising path in front of me. (Other people may have a different configuration such as past to the left and future to the right, or something else.) In my mind I float up over my time line to just after the end of the year's trading. I settle down on my time line and in my imagination I experience the successful conclusion of the year's trading. I watch how events re-evaluate themselves. Then I float back to my present and any anxiety I might have had is simply gone. I couldn't care less how any one trade comes out. It's meaningless in the scheme of time.