The spirit of the practice

The ancient martial arts practitioner used various "sayings" from his sensei as
a starting place to learn technique. Training followed,in the form of katas, to have the person become automatic, in any type of stress situation. Each saying was adopted,
and practiced until the full spirit was fully demonstrated in performance. You might notice in the these 1000 year old sayings, the spirit of the Pit.

happo biraki:total awareness on all eight sides
rinkiohen:adaptation to circumstances/
kage ugokashi no heiho:strategy of removing the shadow that hides the intention of the enemy
isshin itto:one mind - one strike of the sword
katsuhayabi: victory here and now
nadegiri: x

I'll let you find the meaning of the last one!

Old School Practice

Most of us want to have instant results in trading, and, coming from a hacker background, I'm always trying to figure out how to learn something quicker, faster and better. While doing some research on fun trips, I ran across three European guys who found an old Kung Fu master in rural China. Coming from a long tradition of Kung Fu masters in pressure points, it's interesting to look at his new students training program. Notice that there are only 36 pressure points taught, yet the training program consists of 3 sessions per day, six days week, for 2 years. The old guy was relentless in drilling the three novices until he could wake them up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night, and they could do the move perfectly. Fortunately, with the Practice Software, you can speed up the process, with the same goal of becoming completely automatic when the opportunity presents itself. Even so, it's click-click-click until you're there.

Simple rules create complex systems

How do ants search for food? They don't have cell phones, cars and mini-markets near the nest. It's based on SIMPLE RULES. And from those simple rules, seemingly very complex systems appear, like the Market.

Here is how ants work:

1. Travel randomly in search for food.
2. Take a piece of food and head straight back to the nest. On the way back to the nest lay down an odor trail.
3. Notify nest-mates of the discovered food encouraging them to leave the nest. These newly recruited ants will follow the odor trail directly to the food source. In their turn, each ant will reinforce the odor trail until the food is gone.

Now that you know the simple ant rules, drop some bread crumbs and watch the rules in action

http://www.mcrit.com/Complexity/applets/boid.html

Perspective

Remember that each one of these methods is a "perspective" that give new information to you. A really useful exercise, is to
set up a stock's chart, then put only one method on the screen, say L&S..

Then, back away from the screen and choose a specific location in the room to look at the screen. Now, think through every thing
about L&S that you learned, to think about where the stock is "today." Once you have that, go back to the screen
and change it to only have Kizeme Blade on the screen.

Now, move to a completely different part of the room and repeat the process. (and for all the other Methods). Each Method will have a different location in the room.

By moving to different locations throughout the room, and using only one Method's perspective, you've "coded" that perspective
into your neurology, with everything you've learned. Now, when you sit back at your PC, you'll integrate all of them, and have full access to all the information and perspectives, so that you can make your trade.