By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer Trading while tired is usually treated as a minor inefficiency — slower reactions, a missed level, a sloppy order. The more expensive effect is harder to notice from the inside. Fatigue changes which outcomes feel likely, and it shortens the interval between a market event…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer Trading decisions under market stress are not weaker versions of ordinary decisions. They are produced by a different process — faster, more habitual, less sensitive to what the screen is actually showing — and the written plan can be sitting a few inches away and…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Ventral vagal trading is difficult to write about usefully, because the regulated state is defined mostly by the absence of things. No urgency. No narrowing. No sense that the outcome must be settled today. Described that way it sounds like a mood, and…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Dorsal shutdown trading is the only nervous system state that gets mistaken for good trading, which is why it does so much damage before anyone examines it. A trader in a mobilised state is visibly agitated — fast entries, oversized positions, obvious to…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioral Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Somatic markers trading advice divides neatly into two camps, and both have misread the same body of work. One camp says trust your gut, on the grounds that the body knows before the mind does. The other says never trust your gut, on…
