When I am not trading, studying, reviewing chart taking etc, I play board games on my phone to help me think. Outside of trading I work for what is essentially an after school program. In one class we talked about Trading/Investing.

An analogy I used to explain it was that your personality. Plays a big part in what you may be comfortable trading/investing in. I gave it some thought for myself and here are the games I play and what they say about me as a trader:

 

Settlers of Catan - I NEVER trade resource cards with my opposition, I generally play a rinse and repeat strategy to exploit one half of the options in the game and disregard but have a fundamental understanding the other half. Like trading I am exclusively long but I understand short selling, I understand where people would short and why. I enter trades thinking about "what advantages does a short seller have here". I keep a close eye on the win conditions for my opponent and how they close are they to achieving them, as well as possible disruptions. An example of this is "what key level is this near and what happens if this breaks that level?"

 

Monopoly- My main strategy in Monopoly is to not trade any property to anyone until I am in the best position to build houses or even hotels in 1-2 turns. The more I can lock the game the more control I have over the outcome. With trading I do something similar, I like to wait for pullbacks on intraday charts and breakouts on 1 year charts. I wait until my opposition is within a specific set of conditions before I put capital on the line. The inverse of this strategy is what nets me losses. I have been taking pullbacks on 1 year charts on intraday breakouts.

 

Pokemon Showdown- To me this game is all about the art anticipating the opponents most likely moves and the best counters. Like trading there are a broad set of possibilities in the series of games you can play but they are limited to a few commonly used moves. Therefore it is important to understand what strengths on your side you can lean on in order to counter the majority of enemy moves. You need to know what you have on your side that your opponent has very low odds of being able to counter and force them to quit. The average opponent, like the average trader is going to quit the game if it seems hopeless. This is the equivalent of closing a position. If someone shorts LOD and they realize it they will abandon their position if someone buys a top then they are going to sell almost instantly. They have been countered beyond the hope of winning. Your job is not always to be first, your job is to enter nearest the point where the other side is going to quit.

 

These are just a handful of examples but they provide good lessons in this niche.