By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Every losing trade follows almost the same emotional script. Recognising the script is what shortens it. The entry felt clean. Confidence was high, the setup lined up exactly as planned, and for the first few minutes, everything about the trade felt correct. Then…
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 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 & 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 How you arrive at the chart matters as much as what you do once you get there. Most traders skip the arrival entirely. There is a specific kind of trading session most experienced traders recognise immediately: the session where everything goes slightly wrong…
