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Trading Psychology, from the ground up

A twenty-part course in the mental side of trading — why losses hurt more than equivalent gains, where tilt comes from, how rules survive contact with a drawdown, and the routines that hold a process together. Each part includes a diagram and a plain-English definition.

All levels 20 of 20 parts

Applies at every stage — read alongside the technical analysis levels.

How the mind misreads markets
  1. Why trading psychology matters more than your strategy
  2. Loss aversion: why losing hurts more than winning feels good
  3. Confirmation bias: finding the chart that agrees with you
  4. Recency and availability: why the last three trades feel like the whole picture
  5. Overconfidence: why winning streaks are dangerous
Emotions in the moment
  1. Fear in trading: hesitation, early exits and the trades you never take
  2. Greed and target creep: how winning trades become losing ones
  3. FOMO: chasing the move you already missed
  4. Revenge trading and tilt: the loss that becomes four losses
Discipline and rules
  1. Why trading rules break under pressure
  2. Writing a trading plan you will actually follow
  3. The trading journal: recording decisions, not just results
  4. Pre-trade and post-trade routines
Surviving drawdowns
  1. The psychology of a drawdown
  2. Sizing down: the one lever that fixes most psychology problems
  3. Cutting winners and holding losers: one habit, not two
  4. Boredom and overtrading: the cost of needing something to happen
Building durability
  1. Process versus outcome: judging the part you control
  2. Screen time and decision fatigue
  3. Building a trading routine you can run for years