Red Trading Days
Does this ring a bell?, You lose a trade and you feel the need to instantly reenter. You were absolutely sure that trade would win. So you reenter, this new trade loses as well, now you are furious you wait a bit and you reenter again with the same lot size and yet again you lose - this typically occurs because you are no longer trading based on logic but on pure vibes, pure emotion. You are 3 trades in the hole and your desire to be right is higher than ever. You’re almost seeing red itself as if you had a bloodlust towards the market. So you take a 4th trade but this is where the beginning of the end starts, you decide to go in with a bigger lot size. Once you get here, you’ve already lost the game because now you are no longer willing to listen to reason.
You definitely aren’t willing to stop and you won’t rest until you win a trade. And maybe you do win this trade but it wasn’t enough, you’re still just under break even and you need to make back your profit. So you take another trade with the same overleveraged lot size and that trade comes and loses as well, bummer. And now you are delusional thinking that the market must be against you, So by this point you pretty much give up, you yolo the account activating the margin call. Account has been blown.
Nobody likes red days, you know what I’m talking about - when almost no matter how hard you try you just can’t seem to win any trades. I promise you aren’t alone in both feeling that way and having red days to begin with. But I’ve found in my experience that learning to be okay with a losing day is one of the keys to trading from a place of peace. It is also instrumental in stopping you from both taking stupid trades and or revenge trading.
We’ve all been there, things going good - it seems like you’re finally getting it. Everyday you’re winning, Monday Profit. Tuesday Profit. Wednesday Profit. And then BAM. Thursday you start to lose your first trades. Calm down and relax, what you do next will dictate if you get to keep this account alive or not. I’ve seen it happen to other traders and it has happened to me as well. As soon as you lose a trade you instantly feel wrong and have an immediate desire to make your money back. But if you come to terms with the fact that it was never your money to begin with. You can have a shift in your perception which could help calm your nerves a bit. Many a trader has destroyed their entire account because of one silly losing trade.
So we already know that, feeling this way is normal and you are not alone. So why is it other traders can be successful and you can’t? Well the answer is you can but you must control yourself. Trading is more of a mental thing than anything else. For instance, drawdown. Drawdown is a mental thing. It is designed like that to freak you out but in actuality if you are right drawdown is just a part of the process, maintain control and follow your directive.
One thing that has greatly helped me better deal with red days is pass it off as a loan towards the market. I like to think as though the market needs to borrow my money, no biggie, sometimes people need to borrow money from you right? But good news, you get to apply interest when they are paying you back because all financial institutions do that, why shouldn’t you? When you are taking money back from the market that is the market paying interest to you. It sounds silly but that is what I do to cope with losing, something I have little to no control over. It stops me from taking stupid ill-advised trades and allows me to justify those “losses”.
It is all about the little things that allow you to better control yourself. It isn’t crazy if it works. What if I told you.
It is also very important to acknowledge the fact that you cannot win every single trade. By not actively trying to win every single trade what you are actually doing is taking pressure off of yourself because you are prepared for the worst.
I say this to say - I will likely be taking the rest of the day off from trading Either Gold or BTC as neither of them have any real opportunity to me currently. Peace out folks!
You definitely aren’t willing to stop and you won’t rest until you win a trade. And maybe you do win this trade but it wasn’t enough, you’re still just under break even and you need to make back your profit. So you take another trade with the same overleveraged lot size and that trade comes and loses as well, bummer. And now you are delusional thinking that the market must be against you, So by this point you pretty much give up, you yolo the account activating the margin call. Account has been blown.
Nobody likes red days, you know what I’m talking about - when almost no matter how hard you try you just can’t seem to win any trades. I promise you aren’t alone in both feeling that way and having red days to begin with. But I’ve found in my experience that learning to be okay with a losing day is one of the keys to trading from a place of peace. It is also instrumental in stopping you from both taking stupid trades and or revenge trading.
We’ve all been there, things going good - it seems like you’re finally getting it. Everyday you’re winning, Monday Profit. Tuesday Profit. Wednesday Profit. And then BAM. Thursday you start to lose your first trades. Calm down and relax, what you do next will dictate if you get to keep this account alive or not. I’ve seen it happen to other traders and it has happened to me as well. As soon as you lose a trade you instantly feel wrong and have an immediate desire to make your money back. But if you come to terms with the fact that it was never your money to begin with. You can have a shift in your perception which could help calm your nerves a bit. Many a trader has destroyed their entire account because of one silly losing trade.
So we already know that, feeling this way is normal and you are not alone. So why is it other traders can be successful and you can’t? Well the answer is you can but you must control yourself. Trading is more of a mental thing than anything else. For instance, drawdown. Drawdown is a mental thing. It is designed like that to freak you out but in actuality if you are right drawdown is just a part of the process, maintain control and follow your directive.
One thing that has greatly helped me better deal with red days is pass it off as a loan towards the market. I like to think as though the market needs to borrow my money, no biggie, sometimes people need to borrow money from you right? But good news, you get to apply interest when they are paying you back because all financial institutions do that, why shouldn’t you? When you are taking money back from the market that is the market paying interest to you. It sounds silly but that is what I do to cope with losing, something I have little to no control over. It stops me from taking stupid ill-advised trades and allows me to justify those “losses”.
It is all about the little things that allow you to better control yourself. It isn’t crazy if it works. What if I told you.
It is also very important to acknowledge the fact that you cannot win every single trade. By not actively trying to win every single trade what you are actually doing is taking pressure off of yourself because you are prepared for the worst.
I say this to say - I will likely be taking the rest of the day off from trading Either Gold or BTC as neither of them have any real opportunity to me currently. Peace out folks!
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