Trailing a stop once you're in profit is the most universally recommended habit in retail trading, and across 40,000 simulated trades it lost money in every version that kept a target. The tighter the...
Everyone writes about revenge trading. Almost nobody writes about what happens after a big green day, when the size creeps up and you're playing with what feels like the market's money. On a trailing ...
Not because volatility is frightening. Because volatility only moves one side of the trade — a stop is a market order that fills wherever price is, a target is a limit order that fills at your price o...
The standard advice is to make peace with losses. Professional CBOT traders tested for loss aversion showed more of it than students, not less. What separates the people who last isn't comfort — it's ...
Why So Many Traders Play Poker (And What Actually Transfers) Susquehanna, one of the largest options market makers in the world, puts new traders through 100+ hours of poker before they touch a real p...
The Gym Won’t Make You a Sharper Trader. It Does Something Better. The claim you’ve heard is that exercise improves executive function, so you’ll have better impulse control at the s...
Why You Follow a Prop Firm’s Rules But Not Your Own You’ll respect a $2,000 trailing drawdown you didn’t choose while blowing through the $500 limit you set yourself last night. The ...
Watching Your P&L Is Costing You Money There’s an experiment where the only thing that changed between groups was how often people saw their results. The group that saw them most took the le...
Your Trading Journal Is Lying to You (and You Can Fix It in One Step) Every trading site tells you to journal. None of them mention that a note written after the trade closes is a reconstruction rathe...
Why You Trade Worst When You Most Need the Money There’s a body of research showing that financial pressure doesn’t just make people anxious — it measurably degrades the reasoning theyR...
