Trading questions
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Make the fix mechanical, before the loss: a fixed cooldown after any losing trade, a hard size cap on the next entry, and log the loser before you may take another. Willpower in the moment is what revenge trading has already defeated, so the rule has to exist first and the checking cannot be left to you.
Read the full answerTrack what you knew at entry, not just what happened after: the thesis in one sentence, entry price, stop, target, size and the percent of the account at risk, then the exit and how you managed the trade. Add one line about your state going in. Outcome fields alone repeat what your P&L already told you.
Read the full answerCompute expectancy on a written sample: average win times win rate, minus average loss times loss rate, per trade. A positive number over enough trades is an edge; around 25 trades is where a result starts to separate from luck, and below that a hot streak proves nothing. Then check the number you actually keep, because broken rules can spend a real edge in execution.
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