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Psychology – An Often Overlooked Aspect of Forex Trading

It may not seem immediately obvious when you first starting trading forex, but psychology plays an enormous part in determining whether or not you will ultimately make it as a profitable forex trader. If you can control your psychological feelings and emotions, then you have won half the battle.

Of course you also need to find and apply a profitable trading system, but if you can do that and are disciplined enough, then you can make substantial profits from trading. So what do we actually mean by psychology, and what part does it play in a forex trader’s everyday life?

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The Psychology of Communication

On the limits of the process of communication and the central role of interpretation

Communication is about using symbols and in case of humans, using language, to convey meanings and ideas between individuals and it involves the act of evoking reactions from other individuals. Human communication is marked by intention and anticipation of the reactions and communication in humans can be verbal when mediated by language or non-verbal when no language is involved. Communication can also be direct when a certain pattern of behavior evokes a particular type of response or subtle and indirect when behaviors are not predictable or ambiguous and not even completely comprehensible. Thus communication is separated into certain distinct categories such as:

1. Direct and Indirect communication

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Modern Psychology and Tarot – Strange Bedfellows

Reading through the meaning of each Tarot card, it is common to wonder where the Tarot interpretations originated from. While earlier Tarot decks may have been influenced by folklore or oral traditions of the time, newer Tarot decks, especially those created in the last century have meanings linked to psychology. Not too Freudian, thank goodness!

Popular psychology is present in many definitions but more specifically, Jungian psychology has highly influenced the Tarot meanings. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), was originally a student of Freud, but moved away from Freud’s psycho-analytical approach to develop a rich system of symbols entirely his own.

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