      Patience is a chromosome that I was not born with. It was somethingthat I had to beat into my thick skull with a very large club. Thischromosome (or lack thereof) has cost me quite a bit of money. I amaggressive and act on intuition in my day-to-day life. This spills overinto my trading strategies, and I have to work very hard to control thisimpulse that I was born with. The aforementioned exercises have help mequite a bit; however, I am still overcome by aggressiveness andimpulsiveness from time to time. When I don't catch it, I usually losemoney. After the fact, when I analyze my trades, I always realize when thischaracter trait has reared its ugly head. As an exercise, I take a cleansheet of blank paper and write, "I will not be impulsive and irrationalwhen I trade" 10 times. It sounds like something that my second gradeteacher used to make me do when I pulled girls' hair on the playground.However, that exercise worked (I no longer pull hair), so I figure thatthis exercise is a good one to keep and use. Again, do what works for you.