Detachment

Maintaining an emotional detachment allows the mind to be in the proper frame for analyzing the situation. If you are glued to the pundits on CNBC with their ever changing opinions that are calling for Armageddon or golden riches it is impossible to maintain detachment. Your analysis must be untainted by gibberish. Face it, if they knew that of which they speak they would be trading from a yacht, not spouting off to the entire world.