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
Every serious trader remembers the beginning. The clarity of purpose, the hunger to learn, the hours spent on charts that did not feel like work because the drive behind them was genuine and strong. T
You have done the analysis. The setup is there — clean, structured, meeting every criterion you have defined. The entry signal has triggered. Everything your trading plan requires is present. And you
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,
They are often mentioned in the same breath. Trading communities treat them as variations of the same problem. Risk management advice addresses them with the same prescription — slow down, follow your
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
