By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Nobody decided, as an adult, that money is dangerous, or that wanting more of it is shameful, or that it disappears the moment it arrives. Those decisions were made much earlier, by someone much younger, and they’ve been running the portfolio ever since….
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Every trader has been told, at some point, to “just be rational.” Behavioural finance for traders exists precisely because that advice has never once worked. Standard financial theory assumes a version of the investor who doesn’t exist: someone who weighs every option with…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com A blog post can show you the shape of a bias. A course can actually teach you to catch one before it costs you money. Reading about loss aversion and recognising loss aversion mid-trade are two different skills, and there’s a real ceiling on…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com A crash isn’t the market failing. It’s thousands of nervous systems arriving at the same conclusion within minutes of each other. Market crash psychology rarely gets the headline. Every crash gets a different explanation instead — a rate decision, a geopolitical shock, a liquidity…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com The plan said wait for confirmation. The account said enter now. Guess which one won. Emotional trading rarely looks like what the word suggests. It doesn’t feel like an outburst — it feels like a decision. A gold position gets entered fifteen minutes early…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Four winning trades in a row don’t make the fifth one safer. Your brain disagrees, and it’s very convincing. Something shifts after a good week. Position sizes creep up. Setups that would have been passed over a month ago start looking obvious. Conviction…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer thewealthmirror.com The trade was fine four seconds ago. Then it wasn’t — and your finger was already closing the position before your mind had time to ask why. Gold drops thirty pips in under a minute. No warning, no clean explanation yet — just a…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com. The chart shows the trade. It never shows the nervous system that’s about to decide what happens to it — and that’s the part most worth training. Meditation apps for traders are an unusual recommendation from a trading psychologist, and a deliberate one….
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com A journal that only records what happened on the chart will tell you what you did. A journal that records what was happening internally will tell you why — and why is the only part that actually changes. Trading journal psychology starts from…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The account grows, and so does a quiet discomfort that has nothing to do with the market — a sense that this much success isn’t quite allowed, or isn’t quite safe. Money and self-worth psychology rarely gets discussed outside clinical or self-help contexts,…