Cognitive bias
Cutting winners and holding losers: one habit, not two
They look like opposite errors. They come from the same source, they compound in the same direction, and one fix addresses both.
6 min read
Research / Tag
Trading emotions
Fear, greed, FOMO and tilt — what they cost and how to structure around them.
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Tagged “Trading emotions”
Trading emotions
Fear in trading: hesitation, early exits and the trades you never take
Fear rarely announces itself as fear. It arrives as caution, as a reason to wait, as a good argument for standing aside. How to tell it from genuine risk assessment.
6 min read
Trading emotions
FOMO: chasing the move you already missed
The setup came and went without you. Then price runs, and entering late feels urgent. Why chased entries carry the worst risk-reward on the chart.
5 min read
Trading emotions
Greed and target creep: how winning trades become losing ones
The target was 60 pips. At 55 you decided to hold for 90. How a plan quietly becomes a hope, and the exits that prevent it.
6 min read
Cognitive bias
Loss aversion: why losing hurts more than winning feels good
The asymmetry that makes traders cut winners early and hold losers long. Where it comes from, and the structural fixes that work better than trying to feel differently.
6 min read
Trading emotions
Revenge trading and tilt: the loss that becomes four losses
One bad trade produces an emotional state in which the next decisions are worse. How tilt escalates, and the only intervention that reliably stops it.
6 min read
Position sizing
Sizing down: the one lever that fixes most psychology problems
Hesitation, early exits, moved stops, revenge trades. Nearly all of them shrink when the position does. Why size is the primary psychological tool, not just a risk one.
6 min read
Drawdown
The psychology of a drawdown
The strategy is fine and the account is down. What that period does to judgement, and the decisions that turn an ordinary drawdown into a serious one.
6 min read
Discipline
Why trading rules break under pressure
Every trader has rules. Most break them. The failure is usually in how the rule was written, not in the character of the person following it.
6 min read
Trading emotions
Why trading psychology matters more than your strategy
Two traders with the same signals get different results. What separates them is not analysis but execution under pressure — and execution is a psychological problem.
7 min read
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Cognitive biasRisk-rewardPosition sizingDisciplineMarket structureRisk managementDrawdown