You had a good morning. The first two trades went exactly according to plan — clean entries, disciplined sizing, both closed at target. By midday you are sitting on a profit that represents a genuinel
The position has been red for three weeks. The thesis you had when you entered — the catalyst, the setup, the fundamental or technical case — has not played out. Price has moved against you steadily,
Most traders discover they were on tilt in retrospect. The session ends, the damage is done, and somewhere in the post-session review — looking at the sequence of trades, the position sizes that crept
You just took a significant loss. It happened fast — faster than you could process it. The position moved against you, the stop triggered, and now you are staring at a number in red that represents re
There is a reason surgeons use checklists before operations they have performed thousands of times. A reason commercial pilots run through pre-flight procedures they have memorized for decades, item b
There is a reason you remember your losing trades more vividly than your winning ones. A reason you hold a losing position longer than you should, hoping it comes back, while cutting your winning posi
