By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Once the chart stops supporting a position, what keeps it open is usually the fear of what admitting-wrong would say about the person holding it. Ego in trading psychology rarely gets discussed as arrogance, even though that’s the version most people picture. It…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com This is the neuroscience of trading under stress: the brain isn’t making worse decisions by choice. It’s making different decisions, using a different system, because the part built for nuance has been temporarily deprioritised. A setup that would normally be assessed calmly —…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com You can feel the pattern before you can name it — the tightening right before you break your own rule again. The problem was never that you don’t notice. It’s that nothing has ever written it down. The search for tools to track…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com The trade was working. The exit wasn’t a response to the chart — it was a response to how unbearable it felt to keep holding something that could still be taken away. Exiting trades too early psychology starts with a specific anxiety that shows…
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 & Behavioral Finance Writer| thewealthmirror.com The loss already happened. What happens next is being decided right now, in the space between the loss and the next trade. A big loss doesn’t end when the position closes. It continues in the hours and days after — in the hesitation before…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Selective evidence doesn’t feel selective from the inside — it feels like the chart finally making sense. There’s a particular feeling that arrives after taking a position: the chart starts looking different. This is confirmation bias in technical analysis at work — the…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The platform isn’t neutral. Every blinking number, every red flash, every push notification is a design decision — and some of those decisions are quietly working against your nervous system. This kind of overstimulation is exactly what precedes dorsal shutdown — the freeze…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com The analysis stopped supporting this position days ago. What’s actually keeping it open is the fact that closing it makes the loss final. There’s a specific kind of stillness that happens when sunk cost fallacy in trading behaviour takes hold — when a…
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…
