One thing I’ve been keeping myself “busy” with is a new game, called Assassin’s Creed. One of the nicest action games set in the Crusades era. Amazing graphics and gameplay. Gaming is one of the best mental recuperation tools that work for me, when I’m gaming I’m both disconnected from everything else while still honing my trading skills - that’s right. Gaming helps trading. Not just the eye-hand coordination and reflexes but also the dynamics. One of the main features in games is the ‘lives’, you get to play till you ‘die’ and you have several ‘lives’ to go through. Just like striking it out on the day with getting stopped out. Another similarity is the pressing and withdrawing, in the Assassin’s Creed and other games I spent lots of time on Company of Heroes, Battlefield 2 etc. you gotta press your advantage and you gotta know when to pull and retreat and conserve your troops or health. Company of Heroes is especially good in instilling that, approaching an area head-on and insisting on fighting it out will get you killed and losing the game most of the time. Approaching it strategically, assessing the situation as it unfolds and deciding on whether to cut your losses and return another time, stay your course, or add troops is the single most important factor that will win the day. Choosing which type of troops, vehicles or weapons will get the job done is also an important part. You have to stay flexible, adapt and adjust to your opponents actions and not get locked in and you’ll do fine. Just like in trading.

Here are a few pics.