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 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 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 & 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 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 & Behavioral Finance Researcher | thewealthmirror.com What looks like a discipline problem is often a nervous system doing the only thing it knows how to regulate itself: taking action. Understanding overtrading psychology starts with this: there’s a version of overtrading that looks productive. The charts are open, the trades…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Every article about trading psychology tells you to control your emotions. This one won’t. Because that premise is wrong — and it’s costing traders more than any bad setup ever will. What is trading psychology? Not what you’ve been told. If you’ve been…
