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.
