You never trade the market directly; you trade it through your nervous system. Four emotions do most of the damage, each with a signature trade it loves to place using your login.
Fear: the early exit
Signature: closing winners at +0.3R that were planned for +2R; skipping valid setups after a loss. Cost: it amputates the right tail of your returns, the big Rs that pay for everything. Antidote: pre-set TPs and partials (our TP1/TP2 structure exists partly for this), plus size small enough that fear has nothing to scream about.
Greed: the overstay and oversize
Signature: removing targets "because it's running", doubling size after wins, revenge-adjacent recovery bets. Cost: gives back streaks in single candles. Antidote: mechanical exits written in the plan; size fixed by formula, reviewed only weekly.
Hope: the stop-widener
Signature: moving stops away from price, "it always comes back", averaging into losers. This is the account-killer emotion. Every catastrophic loss story features it. Antidote: hard stops placed at order time, never modified except toward profit. No exceptions clause, written while calm.
Regret: the revenge engine
Signature: instant re-entry after stop-outs, chasing the move that left, FOMO spirals. Antidote: the one-loss-one-hour rule, and journaling the emotion itself. Regret loses power when it has to sign its name.
The meta-antidote
All four emotions scale with position size and shrink with process. Trade small, decide early, journal honestly. The app's AI Coach will even flag your personal signatures back to you. You cannot delete emotions; you can make them irrelevant to execution.
Education only, not financial advice. Trading carries risk of loss; never trade money you cannot afford to lose.
