By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Trading journal psychology has a well-documented problem: most journals are kept faithfully for months and change nothing. The entries are honest, often insightful, and frequently very well written. The behaviour they describe continues unaltered. Traders who notice this usually conclude they are journalling…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The neuroscience of trading under stress has become the most confidently cited body of science in an industry that rarely reads it. Three claims do most of the work. Your prefrontal cortex shuts down. Your amygdala hijacks the decision in milliseconds. Cortisol makes…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Tools to track emotional trading patterns are usually chosen from a feature list, before anyone has settled what actually needs to be captured. The result is predictable: a complete record of trades, no record of behaviour, and a conclusion two months later that…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Pre-trade routine trading psychology suffers from a specific problem: the routines being published are all the same routine, and they are aimed at four different traders. Breathe, review the plan, check the levels, set an intention, note your state. Five to seven steps,…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The question what is trading psychology usually arrives from one specific moment, and it is rarely the loss itself. It is the moment afterwards, when you can explain exactly what you just did. You know it was revenge. You know the size was…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Emotional discipline in trading is almost always prescribed in the same form: you need more of it. The advice is delivered to people who have already tried. They have written the rules, made the commitment at eleven at night, and broken it at…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com A trading journal for emotional traders fails at a different point from a journal kept for reviewing setups, and choosing the wrong method is the commonest reason the habit does not last a month. Setup review needs detail: screenshots, annotations, market context. Behavioural…
