The loudest traders rarely last..

They chase each wave, they move too fast…

The patient sit while seasons turn…

And let the waiting slowly earn…

You can survive for years in a job by looking occupied. Wear trendy office clothing.. Reply quickly…. Sit around in meetings… Keep the spreadsheet open.. Send updates no one gives a flying fuck about.. Most workplaces reward visible effort more than actual outcomes, because busyness is easy to measure.

That’s because activity creates comfort. Motion creates the illusion of value. And slowly, without realizing it, people become addicted to appearing useful instead of being effective.

The stock market is a brutal correction to that conditioning… I promise :)

It does not care how many charts you watched today. It does not care how emotionally exhausted you are from “tracking opportunities.” It does not care that you woke up at 5 AM to read macroeconomic news from three continents. The market pays almost nothing for effort alone….

It pays for discipline, patience, positioning, and the ability to follow a sound system repeatedly without sabotaging it through ego or boredom. Most people enter the market carrying workplace habits into a completely different ecosystem. They think constant action must produce results. So they overtrade, overreact, overanalyse, and slowly bleed capital while feeling incredibly productive.

That is the irony of investing..the harder many people try to force outcomes, the worse their outcomes become!

Great investors often look inactive from the outside. They wait and watch ans observe and ignore all noise. They allow probability and time to do the heavy lifting. Their edge is not intelligence alone but mainly it is emotional restraint. In a world addicted to stimulation, inactivity feels irresponsible. But in markets, unnecessary action is often the tax you pay for emotional discomfort. People buy because they are restless. They sell because silence makes them nervous. They confuse movement with progress because every other system in life trained them to do exactly that.

The market eventually exposes this habit with ruthless honesty…And I promise this as well! :)

You can fake competence in an office for a surprisingly long time. You cannot fake a P&L statement. Markets strip away performance theatre. They reveal temperament and your impulsiveness. They reveal whether your decisions come from conviction or from the need to feel in control. And over time, they reward those who can build a system, trust it, and then resist the temptation to interfere every five minutes.

Because wealth in markets is rarely created in moments of frantic action. It is created in long stretches of conscious inactivity….

Think about the Relative Strength Index (RSI). Most people use it mechanically. 70/30/60/40..and whatnot! But then there is that default setting..14 periods, which most of us allow to remain as it is.. And that is where it gets interesting. Fourteen days is roughly half of the Lunar Cycle. The movement from new moon to full moon, or the other way around. Expansion to peak, and then peak to release.

You could call that a coincidence. That is a safe and “PhD-satisfying” explanation. But markets are nothing more than people making decisions under uncertainty. And people are not just logical, we know! They are emotional, cyclical, influenced in ways they do not fully understand. Anyone who has traded seriously knows how mood, confidence, fear, and restlessness come and go in waves. It is never constant. It builds, peaks, and then quitely fades…and then a new wave emerges!

That is exactly what RSI is measuring, in a way. Not just price momentum, but emotional momentum. When RSI pushes into extreme zones, it is not just telling you something is “overbought” or “oversold.” It is showing you where the crowd has stretched too far. Where energy has built up to a point where it cannot sustain itself. And naturally, that is where reversal or pauses start showing up.

Was J. Welles Wilder Jr. thinking about lunar phases when he set it to 14? No one can say for sure. Maybe he was not. Or Maybe he was! Who knows! Maybe he just arrived at it through observation and testing. But sometimes people land on the right number not just through logic, but through intuition. They sense a pattern before they can explain it.

And that makes RSI interesting to me! It sits right at the intersection of structure and something more subtle. You can use it as a clean, technical tool and it works. But if you look at it a little differently, it starts to feel like it is tracking something deeper. The rise and fall of collective emotion. The natural cycle of buildup and release.

At some point, you stop seeing RSI as just an indicator. It becomes more like a lens. A way to notice when things are getting stretched, when energy is peaking, and when it is starting to unwind. And once you see that, you trade a little differently. Not just reacting to numbers, but paying attention to the rhythm behind them.

Neither markets move in straight lines nor do people. And maybe that is the reason why something as simple as RSI has lasted so long. It perfectly fits into that rhythm without trying too hard to explain it.

They want quick money, fast results, certainty, and control. They want to predict what will happen tomorrow. In a way, they are trying to grab from the market. And that’s exactly where both trading and abundance begin to break down.

Because abundance..what I often call Kuber consciousness, is not about grabbing at all. It is about allowing what the world has to offer you

Trend following slowly, almost quietly, reshapes this inner posture.

When you follow a trend, you are not trying to be right. You are not trying to prove anything. You are simply observing… waiting… and then participating when the market clearly shows a direction. There is a deep humility in this. You are no longer the one deciding what should happen. You are listening to what is happening.

This shift alone is powerful.

In daily life, scarcity shows up as forcing, rushing, overthinking, and doubting. In trading, it shows up as overtrading, jumping in too early, exiting too fast, or constantly changing systems. But a trend follower learns to sit through silence. There are long periods where nothing happens. No trades. No excitement. Just waiting.

And yet, this waiting is not empty. It is full of trust.

Trust that opportunities will come. Trust that you don’t need to chase. Trust that when the time is right, the market will invite you in.

This is abundance.

Kuber consciousness isn’t about stacking money and guarding it. It’s more like understanding that money has its own rhythm..it comes, it goes, it moves. Your role is not to force it, but to stay open when it’s ready to come your way. That’s exactly what trend following teaches, but in a very real, practical way. You don’t create the trend. You don’t control where it goes. When it shows up, you simply come in synchronicity with it… and then you stay with it.

And honestly, that “staying” part is where things get tough.

Almost anyone can enter a trade. Holding it is a different game altogether.

Because holding means sitting through those uncomfortable phases. The small pullbacks, the random noise, the constant urge in your head saying, “Book profits now before it disappears.” It asks for a kind of steadiness most people haven’t built yet. It asks you to trust the process, even when you can’t fully see where it’s going. It asks you to relax into the idea that something bigger might be playing out.

And if you look at it closely, that’s exactly how things grow in life, too.

Whether it’s a relationship, a business, or even your own inner growth, you start something, and then you give it time. You don’t keep poking at it every day to see if it’s working. You let it breathe. You let it unfold at its own pace.

Trend following quietly trains you in this.

You learn to take losses without making a big deal out of it. Some trades won’t work..simple as that. No drama, no blaming, no overthinking. Just a calm, “Alright, that didn’t go my way,” and you move on. Then you wait again.

There’s something very grounding about this way of operating.

Slowly, your need to constantly do something starts fading. You stop chasing trades just to feel active. You stop looking for validation in every small win. Instead, you begin to enjoy the process of waiting, watching, the moment when things start lining up.

And when a trend finally does move strongly in your favor, it doesn’t feel like you forced it. It feels like you were just in the right place, at the right time, and you allowed it to happen.

That’s the real essence of Kuber consciousness.

Wealth that comes from being in sync, not from stress. From trust, not fear. From working with the flow, not trying to control everything.

At that point, trend following stops being just a method to trade. It becomes a way you start living.

You no longer feel the need to catch every opportunity or predict every move. You just stay ready. And when something real begins to move, you recognize it, and you go with it.

Over time, the market stops being just about money.

It starts reflecting you back to yourself.

And if you stay long enough, it teaches you what abundance actually feels like, not as some big idea, but as something you experience quietly, trade by trade.

Most traders get pulled into this drama. They begin to believe that if they can just understand global politics or economic moves a little better, they will gain an edge. It feels logical though, stay informed, connect the dots, anticipate the next move. But in reality, this approach quietly traps them. It becomes less about making money and more about proving how smart or informed they are.

The truth is uncomfortable. No one can reliably predict how a world leader will act tomorrow. No one can time a conflict or a policy decision with precision. When you base your trades on news or macro opinions, you are not really trading the market. You are betting on your ability to forecast uncertainty. And that is a very fragile edge.

There is a simple but powerful reality in markets and that is, if you are unsure where the profits are coming from, chances are you are the one providing them. The constant urge to “figure things out” can actually become the biggest liability.

Trend following takes a very different path. It deliberately removes the need to know. It does not try to answer why the market moved. It focuses only on what the market is doing. Price becomes the final word, which actually is the combined effect of every news event, every decision, every fear and every opportunity. Instead of getting lost in stories, it listens to this one clear signal.

This approach is not about being right every time. It is about having a structured way to deal with uncertainty. When the market changes direction, the system responds. Positions are exited without hesitation. Losses are accepted without drama. There is no waiting for clarity or confirmation from the news.

While many are busy debating headlines and forming opinions, the trend follower stays grounded in action. There is no attempt to solve global problems or predict the next big event. There is only a commitment to follow the process, manage risk, and move with the market.

In the end, it is a shift in mindset. From needing to predict, to being willing to respond. From chasing explanations, to respecting price. And that shift often makes the difference between confusion and consistency in the markets.

When a trader first encounters trend following, it often feels counterintuitive. Buying when prices are already rising, selling when they are falling!

This goes against a deeply ingrained instinct to look for bargains and avoid paying “too much.” This instinct is not random. It is rooted in what behavioural finance calls loss aversion, a concept explored by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Their work shows that losses hurt far more than gains feel good. So when a trend follower cuts a losing trade quickly, they are not just exiting a position. They are going directly against one of the strongest biases in human nature.

This is where trend following begins to move beyond a trading strategy and becomes a tool for self-awareness. Every rule, in its own way, asks the trader to confront something within. Cutting losses challenges denial. Letting profits run challenges impatience. Following a system challenges the ego’s need to predict, control, and feel right.

Take the simple act of holding a winning trade. In theory, it sounds easy, right!? Stay in as long as the trend continues, they say! In reality, most traders exit too early, locking in small gains. This tendency reflects what Richard Thaler describes as the disposition effect—the habit of selling winners too soon while holding on to losers. The mind is not always seeking the best outcome. It is often seeking emotional relief. Booking a profit brings certainty and comfort. Letting a profit run requires sitting with uncertainty, watching gains fluctuate, and resisting the urge to act.

Over time, a trader who stays committed to trend following begins to notice patterns..not just in the market, but within themselves. They begin to see how fear shows up as premature exits, how greed quietly pushes them to take excessive risk, how boredom leads to unnecessary trades, and how the need to be right can make them abandon a perfectly sound system after a few losses. Each trade becomes a mirror, reflecting not just decisions, but deeper emotional and mental habits.

Research in psychology on delayed gratification adds another layer to this understanding. The ability to give up immediate rewards for larger future gains is strongly linked to long-term success. Trend following, by design, trains this ability. It asks the trader to accept small losses and long periods of inactivity in exchange for occasional, meaningful gains. In doing so, it gradually shifts the mind away from short-term impulses toward long-term thinking.

This shift also brings a deeper change in how one relates to uncertainty. Most people are conditioned to think in terms of being right or wrong. Trend following breaks that pattern. It works on the understanding that any single trade does not matter much. What matters is how a series of trades plays out over time. This kind of thinking aligns more closely with probability than certainty, something the human mind naturally struggles with.

But perhaps the most powerful transformation comes from learning to surrender..no not in a poetic or a “spiritual” or a passive sense, but in a very active and conscious way. Trend following forces a trader to accept that the market cannot be predicted or controlled. The only thing that can be controlled is one’s own behavior. This realization, while uncomfortable at first, is deeply freeing. It shifts attention away from outcomes and toward process.

In that sense, trend following begins to feel almost like a discipline of awareness. The charts become a point of focus, the rules become a structure, and the mind becomes something to observe. Every time a trader breaks a rule, it opens up a question: what drove that decision? Fear or what? Impatience!? Ego or what? Over time, this inquiry deepens and often extends beyond trading into other areas of life.

And somewhere along this path, almost quietly, comes wealth.

Not the kind driven by excitement or quick wins, but the kind that builds steadily over time. Evidence from long-term studies of systematic trading approaches shows that trend following, across different markets and cycles, can produce consistent returns when applied with discipline. But these results are not easily accessible. They demand patience, consistency, and the ability to stay committed even during difficult phases.

This is why so few people truly benefit from it. The challenge is not understanding the strategy; it is actually embodying it.

In the end, trend following is not just a way to trade markets. It is a structured path to self-mastery. It strips away illusions, exposes emotional patterns, and demands discipline. It teaches patience, resilience, and humility. And in doing so, it offers something far more valuable than profits alone: a deeper understanding of oneself.

The markets, then, are not just a place to make money. They are a place to see.

I sometimes felt abandoned.. not being understood..

But what he did, openly, secretly yet powerfully,

was help me “see”, rather help me refine how I “perceive”

Over the last few years that I have been working with him, only my perceptions have refined..

And gradually I began to understand that this process is what has been waking me up slowly and steadily.

My coach never gives answers. He creates circumstances and situations which help me refine my perception.. and it is these perceptions that help me find my answers.

And believe me, only such answers are true and real. And only such answers have stayed with me..

Needless to say, now that I too have taken up the role of a coach, I walk on the very same footsteps that helped me and are still helping me unlock my treasures.

People come into trading thinking they need to be active. They think more trades mean more chances to make money. They think being right often is important. Trend following goes against all of that. You are not trying to be right often. In fact, most of the time you are wrong. If you look at basic data from trend following systems, many of them win only around 30% to 40% of the time. That means out of 10 trades, 6 or 7 will not work. There is no way to make that feel good. You just take the loss and move on.

But then something else happens, and this is the part people don’t stay long enough to see. One trade starts moving. Not fast, not dramatic, just steady. It keeps going a little more than expected. Then a little more. And if you don’t interfere, if you don’t cut it early, that one trade can cover many of the small losses that came before it. In many cases, a very small number of trades, sometimes just 5% or 10%, bring most of the total profit. Everything else is just part of staying in the game.

I have seen this very clearly in my own work. For the last three years, I have been teaching Nifty credit spread trading, what many people also call pair trading. (I choose to call it “Two-Legged” trading :) ) The structure is simple, but the thinking behind it is the same as trend following. Stay aligned with direction, manage risk, and keep repeating the process without overthinking every move. Around 56 students have gone through this with me. Out of them, only 8 have stayed consistent with the rules over time. And those 8 are the ones who are now seeing steady wealth building. Nothing dramatic, nothing overnight, just consistent growth.

The rest did what most people do. They started well, then they got restless. They changed things. They stopped after a few losses. They tried to be smarter than the system. And slowly, they moved away from the process that could have worked for them.

This is why trend following is not really about the method. It is about whether you can stay with it. Because the method itself is not complicated. What is difficult is staying through the quiet phases, taking losses without reacting, and not chasing something else when things feel slow.

There is also a different kind of patience here. It is not just waiting for a trade. It is waiting inside the trade. When a trend finally starts, the natural reaction is to take profit early. You see a decent gain and you want to lock it in. That habit breaks the whole idea. The real benefit comes from holding longer than feels comfortable. There is no clear signal that tells you this is the big move. It just keeps going, and your job is to not get in the way.

Over time, this way of trading changes how you think. You stop caring about each trade. You stop needing to feel right. You stop reacting to every small movement. You begin to understand that results come from staying consistent over a long period, not from trying to win every time.

Trend following builds wealth slowly. It is not built for short-term excitement. It does not give quick rewards or constant action. But if you are willing to stay with it for years, not weeks or months, the outcome becomes very hard to ignore. In that sense, the risk is not really in the system. The risk is in leaving it too early.

Because if you are ready to stay, to keep showing up, to keep following the same simple process without breaking it, then over time, it becomes very difficult to lose.

And most people never find that out, not because it doesn’t work, but because they don’t stay long enough to see it.

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