The moment
During the trade
What an open position does to the person holding it — how often they decide, and what changes once a loss is on the screen. The hour when rules written calmly meet the moment they were written for.
“Am I reading the market, or my position?”
Frequency
“Is this a setup, or is it just the screen?”
Fear and Greed Are Not an Explanation
Two words account for everything and predict nothing. What has been measured about emotion and trading, and why a mechanism is more useful than a label.
5 min · mixed sources
Why Traders Overtrade, and What It Costs
Overtrading is usually described as an emotional failing. In the account data it is an arithmetic one, and the cost has been measured across two whole markets.
6 min · peer reviewed
After a loss
“Has this loss been booked, or is it still open?”
Revenge Trading: What Happens After a Loss
The hour after a loss is the most studied hour in trading behaviour. What the research found was not anger — it was whether the loss had been booked.
6 min · peer reviewed