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Trading psychology

Educational articles from the Rex notebook. Dates belong to the original publications.

How to Know When to Stop Trading, the Business Owner's Version

How to know when to stop trading, set as two business limits: a daily stop that fires about one day in six, and an account level pause. Down 30 percent needs 42.9 percent to get back to flat.

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How to Think Like a Professional Trader Mark Douglas Described

How to think like a professional trader mark douglas described, turned into procedure. At a 55 percent win rate a five loss run is 64.7 percent likely inside 100 trades.

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Managing Your Trading Psychology Like a Business

Fear, greed and revenge are real costs on your P&L. Learn to manage trading psychology like a business with systems, rules and a nightly emotional audit.

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You Missed the Trade, Now What? Why Chasing Is Bad Business

Missed a fast gold move and tempted to chase it? Here's why a missed trade isn't a loss, why chasing is bad business, and an operator's routine for FOMO.

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The Gap Between Knowing and Doing (and Why It Empties Accounts)

You know exactly what to do, and you do the opposite anyway. Here's why the gap between knowing and doing empties trading accounts, and the operator's system that closes it.

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Why Do Most Traders Blow Their Accounts?

Why do most traders blow their accounts? Not the strategy, not bad luck. A five-year business owner names the four failure patterns, and the real root cause.

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