Our conscious brains are not designed to process huge amounts of information.

Our brain is split into 3 parts. The conscious brain is the only part we can directly access. The nonconscious brain processes emotions and drives most of our behaviour, including keeping our hearts beating and our lungs breathing.

Because we live in an information rich world, our brains are designed to take conscious information and turn it into unconscious information. For example, when learning to drive a car, we have to consciously think about every action when we are new to driving. But after a few weeks of driving, it becomes automatic and our subconscious brain does the job for us.

This applies to trading as well. Depending on which trading strategy we newly employ, we initially use much of our conscious brain to make decisions. With practise, a great portion of this decision making becomes subconscious, and we can more quickly and accurately select profitable trades.

We give more weight to information that we are conscious of, but our subconscious brain has over 200,000 times more processing capacity than our conscious brain. The subconscious brain learns from its past experiences and mistakes, while the conscious brain relies on short-term memory.

Before you give up on your trading system or indicator, do allow yourself some time to practise and gain experience. Once your subconscious takes over, things get easier.