The Game w/ EasySlope
We are all part of a story. On a global level, national level, community level and in our own minds. There’s no universal truth that dictates these stories – they developed over time to meet our needs, carry information, provide guidance and manipulate. These stories shape our inner life and our potential.
I thought about this while exploring writing, my now resting passion. Writing and trading have the same formula for success. For high performance, the story about your potential needs to be irrational. This is something we can control. Just decide that your potential is almost limitless, that this is an undeniable truth and everything else is something you have bought into. Then create the narrative you want and revisit it frequently.Â
The gap between your story and where you are now will give you direction, energy and align your actions (not magic, just how we work).
Your market beliefs also need deliberate control, but you don’t want these to be irrational. You might be able to trade thinking reptilians control a market of pattern-following retail traders, but this is likely to create unnecessary friction and limit your potential. Building your trading on accurate ideas gives you a more durable edge.
As a retail trader, you don’t answer to clients or bosses, you’re not bound to limiting performance ratios. You profit by trading what you see and applying your strategy the way your experience says is optimal. What you see follows your beliefs, which become embedded in your system over time. Therefore, it is worth spending time researching many different approaches and theories while modeling your personal view of the market.
I wrote the following piece as a backstory to my fictional game of trading. Mostly for fun but also to capture my thoughts around what I’m doing and why. Viewing my trading as part of a storyline with the essential challenges and transformation helps me focus on the path. It acknowledges the psychological battle at the heart of trading and harnesses the power of my inner storyteller.
The Game
In the outskirts of the Milky Way, on a small blue planet, a species of curious apes has developed a remarkable gift—the ability to anticipate the future. What started as a simple survival mechanism has grown into something complex and potentially destructive.
Having secured their basic needs, these beings created a useful fiction called “money”—a way to represent energy exchange. Yet their old instincts, shaped through thousands of years of scarcity, don’t work well in this new world of plenty. The games built around this fiction have created serious imbalances, putting power in the hands of clever manipulators, misguided dreamers, and their lazy heirs.
As a trader, you aim for more than just profits. You work to redirect resources toward renewal and balance. This challenge requires developing a keen sense for distinguishing between actions based on love versus those driven by fear—with fear fueling the planet’s destructive forces.
Success in this game demands both strategy and the ability to work against the very instincts that now endanger your species. The path requires patience, discipline, and facing your deepest behavioral patterns head-on.
“Success in this game demands both strategy and the ability to work against the very instincts that now endanger your species. “
– EasySlope
The setting is The Market, a complex ecosystem where different systems compete and feed on each other. To survive, your approach must become adaptable and precise. You need to master when and how to deploy your game pieces—the contextual setups—most effectively. The method also needs constant tuning and renewal based on observations of the ever-changing environment.
The few who reach the endgame aren’t necessarily the strongest, smartest, or most stubborn. They’ve developed genuine curiosity and fascination with markets while making peace with their human nature. Battle-scarred and humbled, these players focus on steady compounding—redirecting energy toward creating a more balanced future. To reach this stage is to win the game, but for these players, the goal was never winning—it was participating in something greater than themselves.
EasySlope
CT Member