By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Two small, ordinary instincts. Combined, they can undo weeks of otherwise careful trading. This is loss aversion ego trading account behaviour in its purest form — two ordinary instincts, reinforcing each other until neither backs down. Neither one, alone, is dramatic. Loss aversion…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com A trade that never happened can still cost a night’s sleep. This is FOMO breakout trading psychology in its purest form — a loss that technically never happened, felt as if it had. Gold breaks the level clean, runs for two hundred pips,…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com A trade is not one decision. It’s six, and only one of them happens on purpose. Strategy gets rehearsed. Entry rules, risk parameters, target levels — all decided calmly, in advance, with a clear head. Then the trade actually opens, and somewhere between…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Not calm exactly. Something steadier than calm — and much harder to fake. This is what ventral vagal trading actually is — not relaxation, but a specific nervous-system state with its own physiology. Ask a trader what “being regulated” feels like and the…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com “Gold” is doing exactly what you said it would. And you cannot move.This is what dorsal shutdown trading looks like from the inside — not fear, not a lapse in discipline, just a sudden and total absence. Watch the price approach the level….
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The body doesn’t wait for the analysis to finish. By the time a decision feels obvious, something underneath has usually already voted — and it voted first. Somatic markers trading — the idea that physical sensations carry real, usable information about a position…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com A chart has no opinion of anyone. The reaction to it is where the person actually shows up. Money psychology self-awareness starts exactly here: not in the chart, but in the specific, repeatable way a person reacts to it. Gold moves the same…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The plan said one trade today. The account shows six, and the sixth one started thirty seconds after the fifth one closed. Trading addiction psychology describes exactly this: not one dramatic decision, but a string of small ones that quietly add up. The…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The position is exactly the size the plan called for. The anxiety about it is not the size the plan called for. A trade opens correctly, sized according to the rules, thesis intact, nothing unusual about it — and yet the checking starts….
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Every losing trade follows almost the same emotional script. Recognising the script is what shortens it. The entry felt clean. Confidence was high, the setup lined up exactly as planned, and for the first few minutes, everything about the trade felt correct. Then…
