A guest post by Paul Vernon for Zen to Fitness

I got the idea about this post as I was trading stocks (part of the day job, yes). In trading (stocks, futures, interest rates, commodities, etc.) there is what you call a resistance level. It is a level by which the price movement upward is met by a strong selling force. It is in this level wherein traders, investors, and other market players deem the price level too high and sell their holdings. In any kind of market, once you have a lot of sellers, prices stall or go down (basic economics, more supply than demand causes prices to go down).

Now, I realized that it’s not only in trading stocks or whatever that we find resistances. We find it in a lot of areas in our life. There is resistance... More...