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Maria Jane Poncardas Our circle of friends created a group named "CuriousCirc", spearheaded by Johniel Babiera,  Dave Emmanuel Magno  and yours truly. Since 2019, me and Johniel Babiera have been discussing about the latest trends of Data Science and its applications. Johniel, an alumnus of Asian Institute of Management (AIM) has been sharing his academic encounters, business processes, coding and statistics. His classmates were usually the big minds and some CEO of big companies in the Philippines... his level of competence must be at par with them. (Quick overview: AIM was founded in 1968 by a consortium of prominent business leaders, Philippine academic institutions and the Harvard Business school.). I have been inspired in pursuing analytics because of everything he shared. There wasn't an idle moment when we speak about a thing, conversations would even go beyond working hours. Hilarious. Dave Emmanuel Magno , on the other hand, because of his curiosity, jumped in wh...

 by Maria Jane Poncardas      My previous article  discusses about an overview of trading psychology, wherein the emotion is a huge contributor. Why can we say that? The Greek word 'psyche' means 'soul', therefore, Psychology is the study of our soul. There are three parts of the soul -- the mind, emotion and will. Each of the aspect that when distorted, will overthrow the entire balance of psychology. Thus, we notice that when a person is about to rampage (by revenge trading), both the decision making and mindfulness is distracted.      I recalled from Rande Howell's  ideas that breathing is part of our emotion. When we are furious, we breathe deep, when we are ecstatic, we breathe rapidly. We need to acknowledge the importance of breathing with respect to our emotions. We may have not noticed our breathing patterns since it is already an integral part of our system. But, it intensifies when it is associated with an emotion.   ...