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Integrity is the ability of a trader to trade with complete and uncompromising adherence to his or her virtues, beliefs, and personal trading methodology. Traders with integrity have the ability to enter into a trade with undivided attention, and are not distracted by what anyone else is saying or doing. This is possible only because the traders have consciously worked on improving their virtues and beliefs, and the quantity and quality of their references. They know that their trading methodology is completely valid.
People who trade from integrity are operating from a position of strength, free of fear, totally in charge of their mental environment. They will rigorously obey the rules they have developed for their trading methodology. Specifically traders with integrity are immune from what their vices, disempowering beliefs, and unconscious are telling them about the rational reasons the market is acting in a certain way. They will continue to trade within their trading methodology. Quite simply, traders with integrity will be brutally honest at all times with themselves. They will always hold themselves responsible for their actions and beliefs, and will demand a strict code of personal conduct.
In order for you to trade from a position of total integrity you must master the following:
Your ability to control your unconscious thoughts.
Your ability to create empowering beliefs.
Your confidence in your abilities.
The discipline to obey your trading rules at all times.
The ability to have courage to consistently execute your trading methodology.
The ability to tell the difference between being "into wishing" and intuition.
The ability to persistently develop your trading abilities in the face of hardships.
Successful traders with integrity will have integrated all their virtues and trading beliefs into a unified set of principles, and vanquished their vices.
Integrity is the highest possible virtue. The foundation of all virtues is mastering your mental environment, and the pinnacle of virtues is your integrity. All the other virtues are sandwiched between them, and they are all codependent. It is very important for you to master all your character traits so you can accomplish your goal of being a successful trader. It is also easy to

 
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