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 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 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 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,…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Ask someone their risk tolerance on a calm Tuesday and you’ll get a number. Ask them mid-drawdown and you’ll get the truth. Risk tolerance psychology starts with a simple observation: most standard assessments ask the same handful of questions — how would you…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com You didn’t come to the market neutral. You arrived carrying every belief about money that was handed to you before you were old enough to question it. Every trader has a relationship with money that predates any chart. This is the foundation of…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Intelligence and clear execution under pressure are different skills entirely — the market only pays for the second one, and plenty of very smart traders never learn that. Intelligent investors lose money — not through ignorance, but through the very patterns that intelligence…
