Those interested in tennis may remember former American tennis champion, Andre Agassi. He won eight Grand Slam titles during his career and married German tennis star Steffi Graf after divorcing Hollywood actress Brooke Shields.
In his autobiography, he narrates a very interesting fact about his rivalry with German tennis star Boris Becker. Agassi was beaten by Becker in three straight matches and it was because the way Boris Becker served was almost impossible to resist. Baker's service was coming very fast but it was also difficult to understand where it would go. A big challenge for Agassi was how to solve this problem. For this, he started watching several video cassettes of Boris Becker. He saw these cassettes from not just one but many different angles. After studying it very closely, Agassi noticed a special and distinctive habit of Baker. He noticed that the baker's tongue stuck out every time he served. The funny thing was that every time the direction of the baker's service and the direction of the tongue were the same! Agassi watched many of his videos over and over again. Each time the baker's tongue told him what was going on in his mind and which side he was going to place the service on. In fact, this was happening outside Baker's knowledge, sticking out the tongue was Baker's subconscious habit.
Once Agassi realized this, it was not too difficult for Agassi to break Becker's serve, but Agassi continued to make deliberate mistakes to avoid leaving Boris Becker in doubt as he wanted to hide the fact that he was breaking his opponent's serve. had understood.
Agassi then won the next nine matches in a row. Boris Becker did not realize until the end how this sudden change had come about.
After Boris Baker retired, Agassi told Boris about this fact, and Boris nearly fell off his chair!
Boris said, every time after losing a match with you, I used to tell my wife that I think this man is reading my mind... but I didn't know how!!
Regarding this phenomenon, Agassi writes that however great the competition and how strong the competitor is, we must face it without hesitation. There is a way somewhere but to find that way we need to study intelligently till we find the way. You must be confident that you will win and victory is yours!!!
(From the autobiography 'The Open' by famous tennis player Andre Agassi)
How it is related to trading? Trading is a mass psychology where the crowd is involved and they have a habit of repeating again and again. So we have to read the crowds' subconscious habits by studying the chart. Who decodes the code could be Andre Agassi. Analyzing & Execute the wave is the key to success in trading.
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