Rules to Protect Your Account During Emotional Spikes, Bans for Fear, Greed, Anger

There is only one condition!!!

Emotions usually come first when an account swings a lot.

The feeling is suffocating when prices fall, and your hands burn when they rise.

Retail trader: "If I cannot stand this, just sell it!!!!"

That reaction is human, but trading requires rules.

How do you tell when it is fear?

Hands tremble and you keep refreshing the screen.

A sharp rise in news clicks compared with normal suggests fear.

Bodily reactions signal the psychological state.

What is the ban rule for fear?

Ban: do not hastily realize losses by immediate liquidation.

Stop losses are necessary, but immediate liquidation driven by emotional fear often causes regret later.

Confirmation bias means you look for information that confirms your initial belief and ignore the opposite.

What to ban during greed?

Ban: increasing leverage and indiscriminate chase buying.

Buying more based only on the feeling that a rally will continue fuels overheating.

How to recognize anger and regret?

You keep replaying past trades and feel vengeful.

This is not a financial judgment but a signal of emotional revenge trading.

Ban: revenge trades (trading to get back what you lost).

Three check signals for quick confirmation

Check: a surge in screen refresh frequency, which means you need to give your judgment a break.

Check: position size expanded by more than 2 times from the previous day, which is a greed signal.

Check: deciding to trade based only on news or chat messages, which suggests confirmation bias.

So, what to do first

→ 1. Stop immediately for 3 minutes, breathe and drink water, calm your emotions first.

→ 2. Open the rule sheet, as written loss and profit criteria reduce emotional interference.

→ 3. Next action must follow the rules, and if there is no rule, do not return to the market.

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